Paul Evanby

Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)

The opening paragraph of There Used To Be Peace by Margaret Killjoy.

Do you ever read a story that just makes you go "fuuuuuuck that is so good"?

There Used To Be Peace by @margaret.bsky.social in "Amplitudes" is one of those.

Amen.

(Though Github -> Microsoft -> “AI”, but there are alternatives.)

Wilhelm von Gloeden?

A stone gargoyle is lying on a pallet in a yard, waiting for a buyer. People are milling about in the background.

Several pallets in a yard behind a garden centre, loaded with architectural elements extracted from a cathedral tower during its restoration.

The tower in question. The gargoyles are visible just below the top of the lantern. (original image by Massimo Catarinella, Wikipedia)

Anyone in the market for an ex-cathedral gargoyle? Slightly worn; expectorative functions in full health.
#DomTower #Utrecht #ForSale

YouTube video by TopPop Kayak - Ruthless Queen • TopPop

I was never a fan of this particular song, but he had a great voice. Effortlessly rendered Scherpenzeel flourishes there.
#Reekers #RIP #Kayak
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yii6...

Amplitudes: 9781645660866 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. USA Today Bes...

And then, of course, my most recent story is published in that horribly queer anthology AMPLITUDES, edited by Lee Mandelo.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770919...

Book cover: SYSTEMS OF ROMANCE by Paul Evenblij & Paul Harland.

Hard to find by now, but my first (collaborative) collection from 1995 is still atrociously queer.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

Photo of part of the monumental façade of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Top left, a banner containing the words “RIPUDIAMO! A sostegno di una Palestina libera e autodeterminata”, under a European, an Italian, and a Florentine flag. Lower right: a statue of a nude man (copy of Michelangelo’s David) is guarding the entrance to the building.

Peak Italian.

technologically advance a band

Taylor SwiftUI

Visionary composer, polymath and ‘true cosmopolitan’: Greece finally pays tribute to Iannis Xenakis National museum in Athens mounts major retrospective for pioneer of avant-garde music and apprentice to Le Corbusier who was sentenced to death by the military

Shame on me for seeing this only now.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Precise & well-considered review.

Colleeage
Colleaugue
Colleauge
Collugae
Coworker

Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title

Tom Clancy’s First Epistle to the Corinthians

So if I mute mentions of that murdered Nazi, I won’t get to see any posts about the captain of the Enterprise either. Good or bad?

The words “54% funded, only 4 days left” against a distressed background, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Michael Lipsey aka stoic mike

How did another great auteur put it again?

“An insult to life itself.” - Hayao Miyazaki

John Cage, one of the most innovative composers and thinkers of the last century.

Happy Birthday Mr. Cage
#JohnCage #BOTD

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones".

this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore. There are so many histories of the future. Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

We’re fine. It’s fine. The activation codes were lost when someone took the Hermetic Football to a friendly match on the beach.

What are the odds he’s just pulling a Putin?

Ouch

Just waiting for the day they find out that they can put “AI” in front of it.

Ruin a movie:

Paris, Île-de-France

Saw Tokyo-Ga just yesterday. “Trains, trains”, Werner Herzog and all. Brilliant.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

I always thought it was mostly cheap cigarettes, booze and a horrible childhood that made a writer.