Derek Kunsken
@derekkunsken.bsky.social
Scifi author. Stories in Asimovs.com, Clarkesworldmagazine.com, Analogsf.com. Asimov and Aurora Award winner. Agented by Kim-Mei Kirtland. He/Him.
The House of Saints: https://geni.us/TheHouseOfSaints
Web: derekkunsken.com
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Web: derekkunsken.com
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Derek Kunsken
@derekkunsken.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Introductory post, Part 5: Lots of my short fiction is online read or listen for free. The aliens in "Schools of Clay" use time travel to the future as part of their life cycle. First at @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, then Starship Sofa (16:05) www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2014/11... 1/9
Rick Astley - Everlong (Foo Fighters Cover)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Wow. This seems to be a great policy to support women in the workplace. I saw in the comments that Kenya does this too?
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Post from BBC News - YouTube
The southern Indian state of Karnataka, which is also home to some of the world’s biggest IT firms, has become the first in the country to offer paid menstru...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wow. This seems to be a great policy to support women in the workplace. I saw in the comments that Kenya does this too?
youtube.com/post/UgkxEga...
youtube.com/post/UgkxEga...
I very much appreciate Cookie Monster's damn-the-torpedoes commitment to his passions.
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"C" is for Cookie
YouTube video by Cookie Monster - Topic
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November 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I very much appreciate Cookie Monster's damn-the-torpedoes commitment to his passions.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=wyE_...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=wyE_...
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My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
In the Zone - Lightspeed Magazine
As her head hit the pillow, Yadira felt exhausted and relieved. Exhausted, because she’d worked on a very large collage almost the whole day straight. Her shoulder blades ached from hunching over her ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
Except it's been cloudy for 12 days...
Aurora Borealis alert
WOOOOOW
THIS IS A HUGE SIGNAL, GET YOUR CAMERAS READY!
THIS IS A HUGE SIGNAL, GET YOUR CAMERAS READY!
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Except it's been cloudy for 12 days...
Same. Never used it.
Never used it either
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Same. Never used it.
Good grief. I only knew that he'd cut Rosalind Franklin out of credit for the discovery of DNA. I had no idea Watson was so multi-dimensionally horrible.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Good grief. I only knew that he'd cut Rosalind Franklin out of credit for the discovery of DNA. I had no idea Watson was so multi-dimensionally horrible.
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We want to bring Worldcon, the World Science Fiction convention, in 2030 to ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), more commonly known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Yes, Edmonton.
@edmontonin2030.bsky.social
You can support us, and get involved, here:
www.edmontonin2030.org
Yes, Edmonton.
@edmontonin2030.bsky.social
You can support us, and get involved, here:
www.edmontonin2030.org
Bidding To Host Worldcon in 2030 | Support Our Bid
We are bidding to host the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in 2030. Looking forward to welcoming the science fiction fandom world to Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton).
www.edmontonin2030.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We want to bring Worldcon, the World Science Fiction convention, in 2030 to ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), more commonly known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Yes, Edmonton.
@edmontonin2030.bsky.social
You can support us, and get involved, here:
www.edmontonin2030.org
Yes, Edmonton.
@edmontonin2030.bsky.social
You can support us, and get involved, here:
www.edmontonin2030.org
@siennatristen.bsky.social hi Sienna! :)
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
@siennatristen.bsky.social hi Sienna! :)
I like many of Storm's costumes, but will always love the classic original that Dave Cockrum designed.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I like many of Storm's costumes, but will always love the classic original that Dave Cockrum designed.
I'm fortunate to live in Quebec where daycare has been close to free or free for 25+ yrs. It's a good policy with lots of benefits for families.
If New Mexico can do it, any state can.
New Mexico becomes the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I'm fortunate to live in Quebec where daycare has been close to free or free for 25+ yrs. It's a good policy with lots of benefits for families.
Only until January.... then the days will start feeling longer.
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Only until January.... then the days will start feeling longer.
I am unironically, earnestly, and joyfully teaching my toddler that this is a Frankenstein, and that several together are called Frankensteins.
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I am unironically, earnestly, and joyfully teaching my toddler that this is a Frankenstein, and that several together are called Frankensteins.
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Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto!
Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!
Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto!
Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!
Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!
Bakka-Phoenix has a bunch of my books recently signed when they were visiting Ottawa! If you're in Toronto on November first, check out my favourite #scifi/#fantasy specialty bookstore! 10% off...
We'll be closed all day Sunday November 2nd for our semi-annual inventory count. We'll be back open for our regular hours on the 3rd.
On a totally unrelated note, on Saturday November 1st, all books will be 10% off!
(Please buy everything in the store, that way we don't have to do inventory.)
On a totally unrelated note, on Saturday November 1st, all books will be 10% off!
(Please buy everything in the store, that way we don't have to do inventory.)
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Bakka-Phoenix has a bunch of my books recently signed when they were visiting Ottawa! If you're in Toronto on November first, check out my favourite #scifi/#fantasy specialty bookstore! 10% off...
For work today, I have cracked open my psychedelic rock playlist.
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
For work today, I have cracked open my psychedelic rock playlist.
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It cost tens of millions of dollars to get autoroute runoff out of our drinking water. It should never have been built that way in the first place. So much bad design from that era that later needed fixing.
As I said above, Montreal still healing from "autoroutification", where highway-style interchanges were believed to be the solution for unusual urban intersections, prime example being the Pine-Parc interchange.
Look at that monstrosity, impossible to cross on foot.
Pic on right is the replacement.
Look at that monstrosity, impossible to cross on foot.
Pic on right is the replacement.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It cost tens of millions of dollars to get autoroute runoff out of our drinking water. It should never have been built that way in the first place. So much bad design from that era that later needed fixing.
Finally! Thank goodness. The various simulation ideas were never persuasive nor my cup of tea.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation
It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically pr...
phys.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Finally! Thank goodness. The various simulation ideas were never persuasive nor my cup of tea.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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our parents had to work with "formerly" racist democrats because that was the best the system had to offer.
but if thats STILL the case, an entire 60 yrs later!, then there's a serious issue with the entire system & simply accepting a reformed racist as an option - today - just isnt gonna fix it.
but if thats STILL the case, an entire 60 yrs later!, then there's a serious issue with the entire system & simply accepting a reformed racist as an option - today - just isnt gonna fix it.
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
our parents had to work with "formerly" racist democrats because that was the best the system had to offer.
but if thats STILL the case, an entire 60 yrs later!, then there's a serious issue with the entire system & simply accepting a reformed racist as an option - today - just isnt gonna fix it.
but if thats STILL the case, an entire 60 yrs later!, then there's a serious issue with the entire system & simply accepting a reformed racist as an option - today - just isnt gonna fix it.
Ooh! I'm on that streak too.
I may actually be boycotting a lot of movies!
I may actually be boycotting a lot of movies!
Guess I'm gonna continue my streak of never having seen a Scream movie, easiest boycott ever
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ooh! I'm on that streak too.
I may actually be boycotting a lot of movies!
I may actually be boycotting a lot of movies!
In a parallel universe...
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When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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October 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In a parallel universe...
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youtube.com/watch?v=S1yY...
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Folks who are at @canconsffh.bsky.social : if you would like to find the panelists, vendors and volunteers on here, behold a starter pack for just that purpose: go.bsky.app/UXVrVHZ
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Folks who are at @canconsffh.bsky.social : if you would like to find the panelists, vendors and volunteers on here, behold a starter pack for just that purpose: go.bsky.app/UXVrVHZ
Starting today and running all weekend! Canada's premiere literary #scifi and #fantasy conference with editors, writers, sometimes literary agents, readers, and other excellent creators! Also lots of stuff for sale in time for Xmas :)
It is #CanCon2025 Eve, which means leaving out a plate of cookies in case @derekkunsken.bsky.social visits in the night and getting ready to hang stockings on @brandoncrilly.bsky.social!
We are so looking forward to seeing you this weekend! A few last minute reminders!
We are so looking forward to seeing you this weekend! A few last minute reminders!
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Pssst... hey... fellow white people
We don't get to say "Let's not make this about race"
We literally made everything about race
From the get go
That is literally why this conversation is happening
Because we made marriage, education, voting, policing about race
for CENTURIES
Fix it or shhhh
We don't get to say "Let's not make this about race"
We literally made everything about race
From the get go
That is literally why this conversation is happening
Because we made marriage, education, voting, policing about race
for CENTURIES
Fix it or shhhh
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pssst... hey... fellow white people
We don't get to say "Let's not make this about race"
We literally made everything about race
From the get go
That is literally why this conversation is happening
Because we made marriage, education, voting, policing about race
for CENTURIES
Fix it or shhhh
We don't get to say "Let's not make this about race"
We literally made everything about race
From the get go
That is literally why this conversation is happening
Because we made marriage, education, voting, policing about race
for CENTURIES
Fix it or shhhh