Hinse Mutter

Dat SF kan helpen actuele onderwerpen voor het voetlicht te brengen, bleek al uit het meesterlijke ‘The Ministry for the Future’ van Kim Stanley Robinson. De bundel ‘Shine’ met optimistische SF-verhalen inspireerde mij om ook klimaatbundels samen te stellen: www.uitgeverijmacc.nl/product/welk...

Hold hands, read this story, and pick up a brick.

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

There is no such thing as too much German expressionist art 😊

I liked the idea more than the flavor of the chocolate back then, I think. Over here the paper wasn't edible though... 😬

ARC readers wanted for my dark fantasy love story featuring star-crossed lovers, political intrigue and Slavic folklore.
Sign up here: forms.gle/8RmTuGW5EQCH...

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps.

now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

Been hearing from agents that the wait times for query responses have become so brutal (or non-existent) bc of the HUGE influx of queries in their inboxes due to AI slop.
So a hearty F*CK YOU to AI sloppers for making the jobs of Literary Agents (who work on COMMISSION) & debut authors even harder 🫠

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

My Top 10 African Short SFF Stories of 2025

Hey y’all! If you've been following this blog you probably know exactly what this is. At the start of every year, I make a list to highlight the African speculative fiction short stories I read and enjoyed the most from the previous year. This year,…

a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is saying thank you Alt: Mr. Smith says 'thank you'.

It happened! My partner asked where to go and I said "The door on your left." She walked to the right and I said "No your other left."

#MatrixGoals #CoupleGoals #ThankYouBabeForMakingALifelongWishComeTrue🖤

Photo by Alexandre Debiève A motherboard (from the inside of a PC, seen from close up, above to the side. It's almost like the view of a bird as it swoops over a scifi city.

misread glitch as glitz
good thing the glimmers and gleams
still crashed the mainframe

#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku

prompt: glitch

fell victim to one of the classic blunders (opening threads) and was immediately subjected to whatever the fuck this is

People, for my Visit to the Backlist project, I feel I have a bit of a gap. May I ask you for some recommendations of SF, Fantasy or Horror novels published in English between 2007 - 2023 that you think are worthy of mention?

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Yup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.

For your February reading pleasure, free sci-fi and fantasy stories: books.bookfunnel.com/scififantasy...
#booksky #freereads

a little girl is sitting in the back seat of a car saying yes lord Alt: a little girl is standing in the back seat of a car saying yes lord

Yes!!!

This post is a direct personal attack on me! 😅

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.

#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Wily coyote who swam to Alcatraz gets ‘much fatter’ on prison island diet Officials are monitoring if the canine is preying on the island’s seabirds.

Imagine being a 400th generation rat, thinking you are the apex predator, and then along comes fuzzy Godzilla.

sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/c...

A generated picture that looks nothing like me at all, it kinda of looks like a pug in human form WHICH I DO NOT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

I DON'T LOOK LIKE THIS WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANY ACTUAL COMMERCIAL SITE MAKE AN "AI" PICTURE OF ME WHEN THERE ARE DOZENS OF PICTURES OF ME AVAILABLE ON STOCK ART SITES AND EVEN SOME GODDAMN CREATIVE COMMON PICTURES FOR FUCK'S SAKE THIS PERSON LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BOOGER

DON'T FUCKIN' USE "AI" Y'ALL

Fine @cstross.bsky.social, I'll look up 'Tzompantli'. How much worse than the Tyburn Tree could it possibly be?!

Oh... oh....

Silly me. Forgetting for a moment the boundless creativity and cruelty humans can put on display 😬

moody black & white image of an empty hallway with the text: fall 2026 submission call submission period: feb l-mar 15 seeking: horror short stories and poetry by Igtqia+, neurodivergent, bipoc, disabled, women, and gender-diverse writers we pay our writers and never charge sub fees SCRAWLMAG.COM

SUBMISSION CALL!

submissions are open for (s)crawl magazine's fall 2026 issue (issue no. 02)

see submission guidelines and submit your work on our website: scrawlmag.com

#horrorlitmag #litmag #diversehorror #horrorfiction #horrorwriters

So an 11 then

A field of human bones under a bleak sky. Smoke rises up from among the bones.

sentient cult bots
on religious program loops
raking through our bones

#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku

prompt: 'bones/fossil'

Photo by Yusuf Onuk, via Unsplash. A field, covered in orangy yellow grains and grasses. A dark dog stands in it, half of it swallowed up by the stalks.

a house made of bones
lonely on a dead prairie
good boy heaven

#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku

prompt: 'fossil/bones'

Escape for a moment

My commiserations!

*refrains from uttering Basilisk jokes