Jay B. Manipal

I assume this is like baby clothing - blue for boys and pink for girls.

New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.

Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.

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Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Happy Monday! Today's Classic Cover is the 1970 edition of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, originally published in 1926. This cover was illustrated by Gervasio Gallardo, who also created covers for Peter S. Beagle and William Morris.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

From the transgenderUK community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community

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Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

Nine square biscuits arranged into a square to look like a panel of old tiles. The biscuit set features an array of designs in shades of blue, green, red, and cream. On the top row, there are: a striking blue deer with purple-red spots; a symmetrical leafy design with a vivid blue flower at the centre; and a glazed relief of a lion and a lioness facing in opposite directions against a patchy rust-red background. The middle row includes: a stylised green line drawing of a galleon ship on choppy waters; two flowers on a rich blue background; and a design densely filled with small green leaves and pomegranates. The bottom row features: a monochrome design with small red leaves and flowers; a symmetrical design with spirals, leaves, and flower shapes in shades of blue; and a glazed biscuit with a Tudor rose and leaves in spruce green against a rich blue background.

William De Morgan was the Arts & Crafts movement’s most brilliant and prolific ceramic artist.

This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by some of his many tile designs. 🍪

Yes I would but that's because I happen to think the Ring novels are a real slog. They bored me as a kid and are, charitably, not my cup of tea as an adult. I vastly prefer the movies, which I think work better as vehicles for the story. This is, I acknowledge, a controversial stance.

My spouse wonders why it’s impossible to spook me.
I grew up with cat/s. My first thought at a strange sound is always, ‘where’s that damn cat’ and not ‘is that a poltergeist’

I forget this often since my bookshelf and Bluesky are largely filled with this. I’m only reminded when i walk into a bookstore or a library

I get that the idea is for everything in a book to either further the plot or illuminate character but I have no problem reading sections of novels that are there for elegant ornamentation or 'just because'.

I like books that meander into culs-de-sac as long as I enjoy the trip and the language.

You need to rub oil on your fingers to wash off the stickiness! Just can’t.

Jackfruit. It’s sticky and too sweet and just tastes and smells weird to me.
Jackfruit chips, jackfruit papad, raw jackfruit dishes are great but the fruit itself is a no-no.

Love the title and will pre-order as soon as you have them! Many congratulations!

Just submitted the first draft of a new novel to my publisher so maybe I’ll finally be able to start posting here regularly

Post by @dduane 💬 0  🔁 5  ❤️ 59 · Hello Ms. Duane I hope you're doing okay today. This is a very personal ask and if it's too much and you need to ignore it I totally understand! I was just wondering how you are…

Status report: Off a Tumblr ask: "How are you coping?" *Warnings for:* Relatively unfiltered mental-health reporting, discussion of travel as therapy, upcoming convention attendance, and turning into trees. www.tumblr.com/dduane/78552...

You don't even need to translate the message to understand the video. 🥰

HOW is that a kitten!

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Could we—for fun, for science, darlings take your pick—but could we talk about what we’re doing in a geeky joyful nerdout way even if it’s small or is that too much like bragging or some inscrutable social code i don’t understand

things that please you inordinately. I got to try olive oil soap! 🤩

A friend wrote a handwritten letter to me and it brought me such joy that I bought some fox-themed letter paper, filled up a fountain pen and wrote back. I’ve also recruited some other friends to join me so I’m going to write a bunch of letters this weekend.

The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.

There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.

"Curious. What ritual is this?"

"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"

"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

As a SFF writer who is very interested in religion, in fiction and in real life:

Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO.

I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."

Hahahaha I need to figure this out 😅

:( Learnt it the hard way when I sent someone the nohello site and they were offended I didn’t want to greet them. I realised I needed to mimic the human ways better.

I have a notepad file saved with small talk that I paste onto chats like, ‘I am well, and you?’ And then before they ask me about my weekend I quickly ask, ‘How can I help?’

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

blue sky with wispy grey clouds between two vertical rocky hills covered in green moss. Text in black in the middle reading “the heartfelt emotion of Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers series and the worldbuilding and deep ethical questions of The Terraformers by Analee Newitz” — Publishers Weekly

The ebook of LOKA is on sale in the US this month for the super low price of $1.99. Snag a copy today!

Publishers Weekly says it has “the heartfelt emotion of Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers series and the worldbuilding and deep ethical questions of The Terraformers by Analee Newitz."

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15M people on Bluesky!!! 💫

The Verge beat us to our own announcement — that's the beauty of an open network with public stats!