Share a sci-fi or sci-fantasy movie that starts with the letter A: A is for… Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924)

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 9h ago

Share a sci-fi or sci-fantasy movie that starts with the letter A A is for… La Antena youtu.be/dMs0n0qUMUY

I don't like to be a conspiracy theorist, but I do wonder whether part of the AI push is the tech oligarch class deliberately accelerating climate change. Every time we reduce emissions, they invent some new thing that needs *even more* power that *has* to come from fossil fuels.

Eniko Fox@enikofox.com · 23h ago

if you're a slopper you're complicit in this shit futurism.com/artificial-i...

if you're a slopper you're complicit in this shit futurism.com/artificial-i...

New Data Centers in the US Set to Wipe Out 15 Years of Greenhouse Gas Reductions

If the AI industry has its way, US carbon emissions will rise 42 percent by 2030, a new Sierra Club analysis found.

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Don’t tell me autism didn’t exist in Ancient Greece and Rome, someone had to remember every line of the Iliad and it sure wasn’t Pliny the Neurotypical

Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew@amandasmith.bsky.social · 5d ago

I could remember all the basic trigonometry functions, but instead, I remember every lyric to sugar ray’s “fly”

It is the most wonderful day of the year (reduced-to-clear Halloween mini-candies in stores)

Literally just a DDoS attack on the concept of anything good existing.

Dan Johnson@coil.bsky.social · 2d ago

Shot, shot, shot, chaser

Shot, shot, shot, chaser

itch.io@itch.io · 2d ago

The number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months

The thing I love about this scene is that at the time it looks like he's seizing on an excuse to get out of an awkward party, only later in the episode do you realise that no, he actually is a horse nerd.

jude paw picture diary 🐱@judepaw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism

"Anthopomorphic version of the thing that eats the thing" is always a disturbing genre of product mascot but I think this ginger chew packaging takes it to a whole new level. Look at this Jabba the Hutt-ass bastard. He knows he's a cannibal and he loves it.

Going into Starbucks wearing a featureless mask in order to see the non-personalised menu, the IRL equivalent of visiting a website in incognito mode.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d ago

Starbucks CEO says the company is planning to focus more on AI and tech, including a adding system that would recognize customers as they arrive in stores to "present personalized digital menus."

Foolish Earth Creatures dev diary: I've finished my massive fight scene and I'm now writing a sci-fi horror tinged chapter where you're menaced by mutants. blog.spacegoblingames.com/foolish-eart...

Foolish Earth Creatures: October 2026

This month I've finished the "Action Hero" chapter I talked about last month. This took longer than most chapters: as well as turning o...

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I don't normally get broken up about celebrity deaths but Patrick Stewart's has hit me hard. Watching Star Trek: TNG every week was such a big part of my childhood.

The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 5d ago

Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.

Patrick Stewart elevating some fantasy RPG dialogue in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1M...

Oblivion Remastered | Emperor Uriel Septim (Voice Lines) Patrick Stewart

YouTube video by ComfyTTS Studio

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · 5d ago

Quote tweet this with your favourite Patrick Stewart performance that isn't Star Trek or X-Men.

Amazing how powerful acting can be that millions of people's first inspirations about what it means to be an effective, humane and ethical leader came from a middle-aged British guy shouting on a fake ship in the middle of a soundstage. 86 years. May we all live and prosper for that long.

re: a twitter post speculating "space opera faction with the common stahlhelm+red goggles natzee-coded aesthetic, but they're actually a fairly reasonable center-leftist democracy" Would take a lot of work to clarify, no, their mission statements actually *aren't* euphemisms for atrocities.

Hasbro execs: I sure hope the people who make Dungeons and Dragons don't get any ideas about working as a team, gradually getting more powerful, and eventually standing up to bosses.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news · 6d ago

Responding to union concerns, Hasbro CEO says "the greatest form of job protection any team can have is to expand the business they're working on"

🧵This Molyneux quote has filled me with existential dread ever since I read it. It reminds me of one of my favorite collaborative moments working with @threeohfour.bsky.social. We were about 1/3 through Unavowed production. I asked him if he could animate some kind of idle animation for Eli.

One of the things I miss about working at a games studio was regularly working with concept artists. Every single time, they'd come up with something that met my needs but looked better than what was in my head.

Prediction is hard. Especially about the future. That Yogi Berra gem proves that you don't have to be a sf writer to get irritated with people insisting that you must know what's going to happen tomorrow, but (as a sf writer), I can tell you that this is one of our main occupational hazards.

I didn't enter a game into this year's IFComp, but the two games I helped playtest ended up in 1st and 2nd place. Am I some kind of...secret IFComp kingmaker? ifcomp.org/comp/2026

IFComp 2026

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Ming the Merciless is empathetic, creative, and an animal lover.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · last wk.

Bane is empathetic, creative, and an animal lover. Who else is empathetic, creative, and an animal lover? I would like to hear of others who are empathetic, creative, and an animal lover.

online today, magazine, imagery (1987) archive.org/details/onli...

So I've been re-reading and thinking about the 1950s Dan Dare comics, and I've decided to start a very nerdy blog where I write commentaries/analyses of the stories... write.as/dandare/ #DanDare

True story: I was confused by Lovecraft's descriptions of alien architecture until I learned that "cyclopean" meant "huge, as if built by giants" and not "having one eye"

Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · last wk.

Lovecraft: It was indescribable Me: OK Lovecraft: I shall proceed to describe it, using a lot of words ending in “-ness” and “-ish” Me: Fine Lovecraft: I don’t know what cyclopean means Maybe it’s not indescribable maybe you just suck at writing

NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

RT if you don't use AI for coding

The music in these games is so beautiful and this concert looks like it was amazing, wish I'd been able to see it... That said I'm not going to listen to this in full until I've finished Hades II because I don't want even musical spoilers!

Supergiant Games@supergiantgames.bsky.social · last mo.

🎼Just in time for the anniversary of Hades II's launch, feast your eyes and ears on this full-length video of our Ballads of the Underworld live orchestral concert! Featuring songs from Hades II and all our past titles. We hope you enjoy it!🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGS...

More than a million of you watched our live orchestral concert, BALLADS of the UNDERWORLD, featuring music from Hades, Hades II, and more!🎼 It's now available as a full album on Spotify, Apple Music, and other services! Thank you for listening.🎵🙏