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Scott Steensma
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Librarian, writer, son of a cat-fancier. Published in Analog, Aurealis, ASM, Etherea, The Australian, The Age and elsewhere. Shortlisted for the Aurealis 2022 and 2025 science fiction short story awards. You can find me at stainlesssteelcat.com
If you're not on Meta (understandable) the letter is also on my website. Email me or message here to add your name. Thanks!
An Open Letter from members of the speculative fiction community to The Queensland Writer's Centre regarding the recently announced Aurealis Awards - Alan Baxter
Below is an open letter to the Queensland Writers Centre in response to their recently announced changes to the Aurealis Awards. We have collected a handful of signatories already and invite anyone wh...
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Alan Baxter@alanbaxter.bsky.social · 4w agoAussie spec-fic friends, please have a look here and add your signature if you agree. Thanks! www.facebook.com/alanbaxterau...
This is Mariner. He was born completely deaf, which means he gets to enjoy fireworks with all the sparkle and none of the boom. 13/10 (IG: real_marinertheseapuppy)
Peacock spiders are only 4mm long, but their courtship dance rivals any bird of paradise. Australia has over 90 species of these tiny, ultra-colorful performers.
I'm gonna be a fan of this anti-Prime promo every time Bookshop runs it! Each time, I've managed to get a few more of my #solarpunk books over on Bookshop (as well as secret #romantasy penname) Check out my shop with lists of hopeful climate fiction & non-fiction! bookshop.org/shop/BrightG...
Every night, my cat retires to his couch tent, where his loyal servants have placed a freshly-warmed heat pack. He is basically the pharoah of my apartment. #catsofbluesky #cats
It's all in a day's work in Matt Hornsby's fun new story “A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial. kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...
Satrapi is up there with Art Spiegelman as an artist who broadened the scope of what comics can do and who they can reach. What a loss.
Oh, bloody hell. Far too young. And it was such a intelligent, influential, and painfully honest book.
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died, her family said Thursday. She was 56.
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Big congrats to all the 2026 Ditmar winners, including @trnapper.bsky.social and @pamelajeffs.bsky.social along with double winners @kaaronwarren.bsky.social and @tanaudel.bsky.social - bloody well done and well-deserved! #ditmars #writing #awards
This would spark a riot in New Zealand. Seen at a Melbourne market. $7.24 nzd, a piece. #feijoa #fruit #nz #scandal #australia
My Top Five Favourite Subgenres 1) Cyberpunk 2) Grimdark Fantasy 3) Hardboiled Crime 4) Students booing boomers who praise AI during commencement speeches 5) Time Travel
Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.
NEW EPISODE ALERT! We're doing A Scanner Darkly (2006 but talking extensively about the 1977, too) soundcloud.com/wyrdsignalpo...
episode - 042_A_SCANNER_DARKLY - Linklater (2006)
Lucy and Sean RETVRN to the airwaves and to the year 1994 of 1977/2006 by way of the interminable, kaleidoscopic present to talk about Richard Linklater's (literally) dizzying digitally rotoscoped ada
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...you know, if I'd realised this would be my most popular ever skeet, I'd have put on a book link or something. "While you allot 20% of your attention to getting through the pointless guff in the video you don't want to watch, why not read a gay historical romance?"
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
I got long listed for the Peter Carey short story award! As a huge fan of his work I'm beyond stoked :) www.moorabool.vic.gov.au/Services-and... #writing #scifi #shortstories
Peter Carey Short Story Awards 2026
The Peter Carey Short Story Award returns for 2026, opening for entries on February 2 and closing on March 12. The award is for short stories between 2000 - 3000 words, and is open to all Australian r...
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We can’t afford to take any chances. It’s time to sink the hantavirus ship, and all other cruise ships. No survivors.
Starting to think this guy might be some kind of huge moron 🤔
Alex Shultz@alexshultz.bsky.social · 3mo agoFun start to cross-exam. OpenAI attorney William Savitt asks about Musk's earlier testimony, when he said: “No, Tesla is not pursuing AGI. It’s literally trying to make a car drive from A to B.” Savitt then showed Musk an X post from a month ago: "Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI"
Congratulations to this year's nominees for the #DitmarAward those who are on @Bluesky include @kaburgess1.bsky.social @scottsteensma.bsky.social @emmikhor.bsky.social @adamrichard.com.au @roannelau.bsky.social are Bluesky users #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028
Maybe it’s just me and my feed, but I haven’t seen enough chatter about the discovery of this marble statue of Athena in Turkey, specifically Laodicea.
Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.
“I enjoy watching the TV show The Pitt” - this is what all you The Pitt fans sound like 🙄
