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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:14 UTC

… do it … … dooooo iiiiiitttt …

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

Ominous shit from Sonia Sotomayor.

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

All of Lower Decks season one is up for free on the P+ YouTube for a limited time (USA).

A great way to intro a friend to the Cerritos!

youtu.be/jTQnkijDtRQ?...

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

If you would like to be part of the primary selection process in 2028, including: - running as a delegate to your state convention to select - delegates for national (or running to be one) - campaigning for your preferred primary candidate amidst real primary voters find your local Dem party now!

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 07:49 UTC

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading and finishing the great Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What are you reading at the moment?

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 10:19 UTC

Also: the act of reading compresses the act of writing temporally. I mean, we typically read at 200-400 words per minute, but we create at more like 1000-2000 words per day: 5-10 minutes' reading. That hour you spent sweating over a paragraph? Is just 30 seconds to your reader.

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[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:49 UTC

"Pacifism and the true effects of war" @reactorsff.bsky.social has a really good write up of @premeemohamed.com's superb The Siege of Burning Grass.

reactormag.com/book-review-...

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 03:41 UTC

📣 We've just hit the magic figure of $10K, and can release a magical new short story by @premeesaurus, By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars --

strangehorizons.com/fiction/by-s...

We're now getting closer to hitting our base goal of $13.5K. To help us reach it:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

author interjects to claim that she, too, was thinking of many of the good parts of being in NYC

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[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:37 UTC

What strikes me about the Foundation novels is how pedestrian friendly Trantor is. Gaal Dornick arrives by spaceship, but mostly gets around the planet on foot and elevator. In the prequels, Hari Seldon takes public transit everywhere. (It's a stand-in for Asimov's experience of New York City.)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 00:09 UTC

Have been struggling with a blog post about this book. There’s so much to say, and I want to offer a perspective that’s more nuanced than “this book is just so fucking good.” I feel unable to write a review good enough to be worthy of the book it’s reviewing.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📸📷🚀 @princejvstin.com
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

Oh hey @hugobookclub.bsky.social

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Bsky Kreuger @lammatic.hellthread.vet
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

Like 3 Mexican cartels agreed to a temporary ceasefire this year because they were all mourning the Dragon Ball Z creator This is a real thing that happened

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 13:37 UTC

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[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

The second book in this trilogy is one of my personal favourite fantasy novels ever published. Cannot wait for the third.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

When you gaze into the Borisabyss, the Borisabyss also gazes into you.

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

I literally don’t know anyone who wants this.

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[ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

Is it too early to start talking about what we’re excited to put on our #HugoAward ballots in 2025?

Our working list of what we're thinking of for our ballots next year: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2024/03/open...

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] May 10, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

Updated our list of labour unions in SFF with some more classic examples.

Always looking for more examples to add to the list!

List on the blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga...

List as excel spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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[ View ] May 11, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

This one is a bit of a hot-take about minority language rights in SFF that I sort of know some folks might strongly disagree with or even take umbrage.

But we're generally interested in other perspectives and arguments on this matter.

Blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2024/05/put-...

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[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

Close Encounters of the Butt-Sex Kind

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 13:04 UTC

hollywood is already censoring itself in fear of reprisals from a second term president trump www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/o...

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:32 UTC

There isn’t a Worldcon in Ny right now. But with more states bringing in these dumb bans, I just want to get ahead of this. As an example, there was a Tennessee bid a couple of years ago.

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:17 UTC

Look. All I’m saying is that someone I know is a messy bitch who loves drama, constantly subtweets and tags people into threads in order to start arguments. I’m not going to say who, but their name rhymes with “funsy”

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

My opinion carries little weight. I’m just a blogger who tweets a lot. But to be clear: if anyone accepts a GOH spot at an anti-mask Worldcon, I will never read any of their work again.

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[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

Worldcon should never take place in a jurisdiction that bans face masks.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

The anxiety around AI and the backlash to AI-generated products is strong enough that even corporations like Dove and Discover are declaring their human-first bonafides and creators and startups are making "No AI" pledges

A '100% LLM-free' consumer trend is here

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level. Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

Featuring what is definitely the *weirdest* story I've written to date (and my first-ever novelette): "The Limner Wrings His Hands."

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[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

Whatever you want to say about #TheBoys, this is ridiculously great marketing.

Link: partners.time.com/partners/pri...

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[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

This is clearly a subtweet of @munsi.bsky.social

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2023 at 21:23 UTC

kind of like a bluesky icon early warning system

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

The future is always much stupider than anyone expects.

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

The future is always much stupider than anyone expects.

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

This is just more efficient. In fact, we have such low voter turnout these days, maybe it's time to allow AIs do do the actual election day vote as well?

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

Somehow latest polling has third-party candidate COLOSSUS beating both major-party candidates!

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[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

Four books this year from Adrian Tchaikovsky, have read them all and can attest to the fact that each one is a unique and lovely little gem of a book.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

My climate sf (with a touch of horror) novella - out July

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 14:14 UTC

… I don’t want to give away the skittering surprise.

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[ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 13:50 UTC

Saturation Point by @aptshadow.bsky.social is a visceral, compelling, and harrowing vision of one aspect of our #ClimateChange future.

It’s legitimately great, and I sincerely hope that as many people as possible pick this one up.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

LOVE this term. Let’s run with it LOUDLY.

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

The media is still in denial about what Donald J Trump really is. The Canadian Government still hasn't begun to trust the relationship with the USA that Trump destroyed. Pretty high probability of Civil War in the USA

www.rawstory.com/american-civ...

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[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

Starting to think that The Siege of Burning Grass might be one of those books we’re still talking about in 10 years, 20 years, 40 years.

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[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 23:03 UTC

ZAR DOZ (and then cut off each pinkie so that I have the right number of knuckles for this important message)

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

Zachary Taylor found a bowl of cherries and cream to be too spicy.

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[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 21:55 UTC

Herbert Hoover. Dude was a world traveller who immersed himself in local culture & learned fluent Mandarin (as did his wife… who stood on the battlements with a rifle during a rebellion).

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Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

"The Year Without Sunshine" is just a lovely story about mutual aid in a crisis.

We've had so much apocalyptic fiction that depicts people turning on each other, and @naomikritzer.bsky.social rebuts that by arguing that people will band together and form community.

I love it.

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[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

Or Mandy?

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