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Author Romie Stott, who is the same person as filmmaker and musician Romie Faienza. Poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Texan in Massachusetts. Capisco italiano un po. ⚥ Sign up for my mailing list at romiesays.kit.com.
comrades, there is a thing called brain water
IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org · 2d agoThis #wearable wireless patch tracks your brain’s cleanout process as you sleep. It uses near-infrared light to detect brain water, which is what your brain’s cleaning mechanism uses to move cerebrospinal fluid around to clean up. spectrum.ieee.org/sleep-monito...
A wild and vibrant stranger set itself up in my yard and volunteered to be beautiful.
It's FRIDAY, and we are in love! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 91% funded with just 5 days to go!!! WE ARE SO CLOSE, SPACE UNICORNS!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
[In a conversation with a friend. Mark Zuckerberg is there. He has his arm around me] MZ: “So, your friend just spoke—now you can say something too, as a reply🙂.”
Alert: This is basically your last day to vote for this year's Hugo award. Get your votes in! My left-field plug is that I'm rooting for Alex Brown for best fan writer. I'm a fan of that fan!
My own reaction to Nolan's Odyssey is that my full attention was on Himesh Patel once again Going Through It, and how much I wanted the movie to be from the point of view of his character (who we will rename Ancient Times Jeevan) Samantha Morton can come too
Just got to have a "yes it's within my technical and artistic capabilities, but it would be illegal" conversation with an enthusiastic dream-struck hopeful who is not aware of international copyright law. Been a while.
Even if you've already read the poems and decided on your vote, it's worth clicking through to read Holly's reviews of each - explanations of why they work and what makes them distinct. There aren't a lot of poetry reviewers out there, and this is fantastic analysis written approachably.
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 3d agoHere is my round-up of the poems nominated for the Hugo Award in 2025 and 2026! magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/award-winnin...
After a long stretch building in private, Holocene is starting to take shape. We're a virtual cinema for international and independent film, where films screen as events instead of sitting in an endless catalogue. Eight titles are already confirmed with more coming. Launching this autumn. #filmsky
No kings! In 2021 (pandemic) I recorded a talk about pre-modern democracy movements (republics, anarchists) because I was tired of Game of Thrones fans telling me anti-authoritarianism was ahistorical. For America 250, I've tidied it up and added graphics. youtu.be/QWDB8cIlshU?...
Hidden Pasts: Old Democracies and the Cycle of Forgetting
YouTube video by Romie Says
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No kings! In 2021 (pandemic) I recorded a talk about pre-modern democracy movements (republics, anarchists) because I was tired of Game of Thrones fans telling me anti-authoritarianism was ahistorical. For America 250, I've tidied it up and added graphics. youtu.be/QWDB8cIlshU?...
Hidden Pasts: Old Democracies and the Cycle of Forgetting
YouTube video by Romie Says
youtu.be
Here’s a SECOND poetry reading from Offerings for Ordinary Gods (originally appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social & was edited by the incredible @omgjulia.bsky.social). My collection is available worldwide! If you loved it, review it! #PoetsOfInstagram #Poetry #SFF #AliTrotta #WritersOfInstagram
The thing that always keeps me grounded is remembering that grizzly bears have enough bite force to crush a bowling ball. I'll never be able to compete with that, so why define myself by such standards?
Bakotsu says his skin is our skin by Betsy Aoki art by Romie Stott "The secret of what a horse knows still bubbles and screams inside me." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
If I go back 100 years (great grandparents) I'm a nurse, a journalist, an architect, or a grower of prize strawberries as big as a teacup. I possibly start a radio station. we've kind of been gentry for a *while*
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2w agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
My adaptation of "Sleepy People" departs from the original text, which already exists and was not destroyed when I made the film. People suggest I should adapt my short stories to film. My short films would differ significantly from the stories, even though I wrote both. Different medium.
🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽@romiesays.bsky.social · last mo.It's Tuesday, so I uploaded another of my old films to YouTube. This one's an adaptation of a Jonathan Lethem short story. It's slipstream absurdist science fiction semi-romance. It's workplace comedy in a pharmacy. It's the sudden surreal arrival of United Nations peacekeepers. youtu.be/ftbs023IuGQ
Strange Horizons invites you to read administrative and poetry editor @romiesays.bsky.social thoughts on internal AI policy in the supplemental issue. "Our process does not require consensus. The submissions guidelines of each department are different." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Imprisoned Lightning: Trust and AI-Generated Submissions
People keep asking for our AI policy. One editor points a finger at the moon.
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good thread. the rumi poem "god turns us from one feeling to the next so we will have two wings to fly, not one" evoked here. once each wing starts commenting on the other, it's a tailspin. sweet or salty? yes time-based art or static art? yes inspiration & practice > formal constraints, imo.
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
I feel like a lot of people in my country don't know where Greece is, geographically, what coast it's next to
Cillian Murphy in the cinematic adaptation of Seamus Heaney’s STATION ISLAND
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2w agoStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Today I read these delightful poetry chapbooks by @romiesays.bsky.social, which Romie gave me at Readercon.
spent the day teaching myself how to color grade in DaVinci Resolve, color timing a 6 minute video with about 50 shots, then writing and recording the first minute of the score left shoulder busted even though I wasn't using my left hand mostly at all, wtf eyes falling out at least makes sense
Looking for someone to take a hotel room #DragonCon off our hands. It's in the Omni Atlanta at Centennial Park, and since Alyc and I aren't going after all, we'd love to transfer this to someone who will use it. Any takers?
The "Me" is right in the name! And *still* the whole thing still got male-gazed until it had a male protagonist. Pathologically unable to believe women. Women don't have perceptions or biographies. They are inert, acted upon, sometimes unfairly dangerous like a nail on the ground.
N.S. Dolkart, vice chair@nsdolkart.bsky.social · 2w agoMeToo wasn’t designed to “get” powerful men; it was for raising awareness of how common, how everyday sexual violence is. It did that very well. “Getting MeTooed” was the twist patriarchy put on the hashtag, not its purpose. Sexually aggressive men got scared and made it about them and their fears
due to early childhood exposure i espouse the once and future king explanation for why iron interferes with magic; it's too newfangled for fairies, mercurial but rooted immovably in the long ago and far away, to get their heads around. which means modern fairies are warded off by plastic. wifi. AI.
It feels so great to be confirming film titles for Holocene's launch after such a long wait in development
