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Ruth 🏳️‍🌈 @paintedpigeon.bsky.social · Apr 6

As it's International Asexual Day, I'm promoting my resource guide to ace sci-fi again! Contents and resource key are below, come take a look at this link! And Happy Ace Day!
works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...

Contents
Introduction (about this guide, audience, glossary, resource key)
About asexuality (resources regarding asexuality itself)
Asexual creators (a selection of asexual creators)
Non-fiction (non-fiction texts and other media about asexuality in sci-fi)
Fiction databases (compilations of sci-fi media containing asexuality)
Fiction (fictional sci-fi media containing asexual characters)
Writing asexuality (for creating and writing your own asexual characters)
Writing sci-fi (for creating and writing your own science fiction media)

[There is an asexual flag border, and an asexual flag at the bottom of the page with a black silhouette of a futuristic city overlaying it)

Resource key:

Academic article
Book / book chapter
Comic / webcomic
Course
Flyer
Podcast
Spreadsheet
Social media
TV show
Video
Video game
Webpage / single blog post
Website / blog
Zine

[Each resource name is accompanied by a corresponding icon in purple]

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 1h

D&D for kids update:

You may recall that for spring break camp I had a player character convince himself that his chicken was a god so I ended the campaign with her ascending.

For our school year campaign he’s playing a goblin child who is a cleric of Helga the God Chicken

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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 1h

Wait. What! OMG! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @dilmandila.com.web.brid.gy

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2h

Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon

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Jo Walton @bluejo.bsky.social · 1h

Kickstarter for a great new anthology of fantasy stories using Welsh folklore in the present day

www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3h

Oh my gosh??!!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 3h

Yes this novella is so great and I am thrilled to see it recognized by the Ignytes!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com

2025 Winner Outstanding Novella: LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, hello

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 2h

out of all the sff/h awards that exist, the ignytes and the ursula k le guin prize consistently have the most interesting and unpredictable winners and i love them very much for it

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, hello

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2h

Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

2025 Winner Outstanding Short Story: WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ by Caroline M. Yoachim

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 2h

"Search African Futurism authors" just popped up at the top of my Instagram app.

I took the time to coin and define africanfuturism yet people can't spell it. The spelling of the term is PART of the definition! Now it's been gotten wrong so often that AI have picked that up. Mscheeew, exhausting.

Africanfuturism (being African-based) will tend to naturally have mystical elements (drawn or grown from actual African cultural beliefs/world views, not something merely made up).
Lastly, africanfuturism is spelled as one word (not two), no hyphen and the "f" is not capitalized. It is one word so that the concepts of Africa and futurism cannot be separated (or replaced with something else) because they both blend to create something new (just like the word "Naijamerican"). As one word, it is one thing and no one can change the subject without starting a different conversation. Like the terms
"science fiction" and "fantasy", africanfuturism is a neutral word, therefore it is not capitalized.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 8h

Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 8h

I've had that discussion before. Told them Biden wasn't POTUS until January 20, 2021. "Nuh-uh! He was elected in 2020!" Told them to check the Wikipedia article on Biden or Trump to see their in-office dates. "Wikipedia is fake news, it's run by Libs."

We live in different consensus realities now.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 8h

You wouldn't call this unbiased reporting by The Times. The OfS might lower fees for institutions that are not Gold, Silver or Bronze rated for teaching, but are categorised as "Requires Improvement". OK: but literally *no* UK unis are in this category ...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 8h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

buff.ly

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 8h

The ICE attacks have been going on for months and we’ve seen a bare handful of examples where local cops go “Whoa, not in my neighborhood!”

Masked men dragging people out of their locked cars is a crime. Shooting peaceful protesters with *anything* is a crime. Cops are not on our side.

urnotkelly.bsky.social @urnotkelly.bsky.social · 8h

This is why I am confused when people don’t understand why the local cops are not arresting ICE for doing a bunch of illegal stuff. Because ACAB and they support it, are helping it and wish they could do more things like ICE gets to. The police have never been your friend or on your side.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 7h

Another thing AI art has robbed from us - the "Graphic design is my passion" website. They used to all look weird and awkward in their own ways.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 7h

This. This exactly.

A lack of interest in prioritizing goonerbait characters is (correctly) interpreted as an acknowledgement of the widening of the audience for video games, and "gamers" don't want anyone else's wants or desires to matter. Only their own.

Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 16h

This isn't about porn or gooner brain or whatever, it's not even about looks, this is about power. They don't want to see beautiful women, they want all women in media to be nothing but objects for the pleasure of (white) men.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 9h

To celebrate the UK release of @isabelcanas.bsky.social's 3rd standalone Horroromance - THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ - UK readers can grab her second book - VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE - for just 99p for a limited time!

Snap it up now from Kobo, Apple, Google & Amazon! geni.us/VoEN

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 13h

Presumably the U.K. Government will be urgently introducing domestic legislation to overturn the erroneous interpretation of the Equality Act reached by the U.K. Supreme Court in ‘For Women Scotland’?

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 13h

UK government flat out lying to the UN here

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 13h

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 12h

This very weird and short story is free for a few days on kindle because we don’t like Columbus.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 12h

It does sometimes feel like publishing is becoming worse and worse for most authors.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 20h

We're okay for ridiculous vet bills this month (more are coming with senior checkups for two cats at the end of the month and probably more for Shawn) between my savings and generosity from folks for my birthday, but Shawn has a wishlist just in case.

Check out my list on Amazon

www.amazon.ca

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 22h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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