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My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.

I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.

Das Thema Umfragen, wie sie aufgesetzt sind, wie damit umgegangen wird, was daraus gemacht wird, wann sie Aufmerksamkeitsverschaffer sind, wer nicht genau hinschaut, ist ein riesengroßes. Das ist auch systemisch verankert in Strukturen, Workflows. Meine Haltung: überfällig, dass das angepackt wird.

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

Mind boggling and amazing!
As a lifelong origami enthusiast there may be some bias, but I highly recommend checking out this article.

hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Shadow Over Me.

#MAKIMA #ANIME #HAYSEYDRAWS

■▹ 𝙳𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑 ◃■

Let's say I want to make a ranked list of "Illiad" heroes.

If I use the recorded 1 vs. 1 duels and the Chess ELO rating system, I get this result.

Is there an alternative method that accounts for the data being censored (ie, in most duels the loser no longer appears in the data).

Creatures of the Night A game jam from 2025-10-20 to 2025-10-24 hosted by Kitfoxgames, Squamous, DPh-Kraken & DikbutDaGrate. Welcome to the first edition of the Dwarf Fortress mod jam! This mod jam’s theme is ‘Creatures of ...

Ive been going insane with excitement over this and now it is finally public. Dwarf Fortress's official modjam is coming soon!

itch.io/jam/creature...

I'll be one of the organizers and will be helping people with submissions and getting things set up. I can't overstate how cool this is.

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hornet drifting over clover and grasses

a spider can fly on a current of air

Heeey! Yes, this is out.
I made the cover!
Finally some new art to share.

A headline reading: "You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish"

The paper: the genetic program that enables digit formation in limbs is derived from the system that drives cformation of the cloaca.

Me, the headline writer:

3,800 years ago in Peru flourished “one of the world's first great civilisations….the Caral people adapted to climate disaster without turning to war….a society built on trade, music, ritual and consensus….living in harmony with nature and relating to other cultures with respect.”

Little flowers 🌸 #Silksong

Hornet
#silksong #art

yum yumy #goldenkamuy

On the tension between liberalism and animal rights My friend and comrade Jonathan Birch has gifted me with another guest post. The first of his, which I also enjoyed, can be found here . I ...

A genuinely wonderful guest post by @birchlse.bsky.social on the tension between liberalism and animal rights, and what sort of social order might be called for if one were to take the suffering of animals with all due moral significance it deserves.

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-t...

"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive In April 2009, a Sega fan decided to look into emulating the Mega LD, a quirky and little-known hybrid of Genesis and LaserDisc. This week he finished the job.

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles.

Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

I love this so much. I just bought a bundle for my friend. What a great gift from @marthawells.com to the world, in more ways than one. @wck.org couldn’t be a worthier cause.

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

‘Ten Martini’ Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals | Quanta Magazine The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures.

A great story from @quantamagazine.bsky.social about the 50-year effort to understand the physics and mathematics of the Hofstadter Butterfly.

www.quantamagazine.org/ten-martini-...

On a row boat are 2 otters looking at an otter holding on to the side of said boat. on the stern of the boat sits a man holding a fishing rod.

Taking your otters out to fish wit you! #animalart #furryart

At the bottom of the sea, a gigantic structure lay sunken. That place had become a vast dwelling for fish and now resembled a thriving city.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls

The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.

Cover to my first art book collection Carbon Based. Hoping people will dig it & hoping it’ll allow me to catch up on some things & hopefully seek relief for my back problems I’m always whining about. Thanks guys! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni...

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.

This seems kinda significant.

The image shows a room with tall windows and stairs leading to a bathroom below. There's a woman with red hair reaching towards a dollhouse. The woman is an original character of the commissioner. On the right side from the window there's a wall with decorated arch around it and some paintings hanging on the wall. On the first level there's a bathtub with a man laying in it. The bathtub is partially covered by a divider. The artwork is mostly pink and mint with lots of patterns.

Commission for Anqi on rednote of her beautiful OC, Colette