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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 1h

Happy Publication day!

PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social
NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social
GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social

A stack of hardback & paperback books published today, floating against a grey background

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 48m

Brought to you by the same author who complained about "It's All Chick Lit And BookTok Slop" when shown a shelf full of female fantasy authors, they are now complaining about fantasy TV being "homogenized", then promotes his book by comparing it to D&D, Forgotten Realms, & Dragonlance.

John A. Douglas first tweet: "This is from four different TV shows", showing 4 screenshots of different TV shows w/ a diverse cast of characters/party members.

Their second tweet reads: "Corpo tv fantasy is a wasteland of homogenized, Modern Audience flavored characters.

My epic fantasy The Black Crown is classic D&D style fantasy inspired by works like Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms..."

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 56m

@kyliu99.bsky.social happy book day, good luck w/ the book promotions

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Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social · 4h

It's publication day for #AllThatWeSeeOrSeem, the near-future thriller from the award-winning author of the #DandelionDynasty series, @kyliu99.bsky.social

And the first day of the #BlogTour (09/10 to 18/10)

Grab your copy today: https://geni.us/ATWSOSorgsoc

A book titled "All That We See or Seem" by Ken Liu is displayed on a gray surface, with a bookmark and a facemask that reads "Is all that we see or dream but a dream within a dream?" placed beside it.

Promotional image for Ken Liu's book "All That We See or Seem" featuring a book cover with a starry background alongside a schedule of a blog tour with various Instagram handles and dates listed.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 1h

terrifying.
it doesn't mitigate the terror, but let me just note this paragraph from way at the bottom of the article: more people signed the petition against this comemierdería.
the comemierdas are in the minority.

"A rival Change.org petition began circulating on Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence and promoting hate speech. As of Wednesday, that petition had about 1,800 signatures, several hundred more than the original petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing."

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1h

Sadly, Luna will not be joining us for the launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social tonight 7-9pm. But you should come along and I will sign your book(s)!

A poster. An impossible shape against a starry sky. Gravity-defying cats wander around it. Below is the following text:
PHYSICS FOR CATS
Science Cartoons by
Tom Gauld
GOSH Comics Present a LAUNCH PARTY with Tom Gauld on
Thursday 9th October 2025 from 7-9pm
1 Berwick St, London, WIF DR
goshlondon.com @goshcomics

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1h

It's PHYSICS FOR CATS publication day!! Luna has her copy: do you? www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

A black cat sits on a wicker basket reading the book PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld... Ok, so she's not really reading it. She's not even quite looking at it to be completely honest. But it is possible to imagine that she is reading and thoroughly enjoying it.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

3c) Want to take the opportunity to share this great article from @truthout.org about racism/fascism and The Punisher character

Marvel’s “Punisher” Was a Hate Symbol Long Before Police Co-opted His Character

The Punisher has long been embraced as a classic superhero, but his comics spread reactionary ideology.

truthout.org

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Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 1h

DO BROS KNOW IT'S DAYLIGHT SAVINGS HAVE A MORNING READING FOR ONCE anyway I'll be there

Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 2h

The International Court of Justice, #ICJ, will deliver an Advisory Opinion on "Obligations of #Israel in relation to the Presence & Activities of the #UN, Other International Organisations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory" on 22 October @ 3pm.

Press Release 👇

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 2h

My hands are shaking a little as I type this but...ITCH! IS OUT TODAY!!

I'm finally a big 5 published author!

Feminist, formication folk horror with creepy crawlies, ancient traditions, unsolved murders, weird processions, masks, an old pub and an excellent dog.

www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma...

Gemma Amor dressed in pink holding a copy of ITCH!

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 3h

Ah we're back on FB serving me ads with "omg you use chemicals to clean your house", please use those clean vegetable products instead
1. There is a use for chemicals
2. Vegetable products include castor oil and cyanide so no nature isn't automatically better
3. "Enzymes" isn't a magical word

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2h

I feel like this is a PSA but: most soap doesn't kill bacteria, it's just mechanically removing it from your skin.
What it does do is bond to grease which is why it's a good solution to remove, say, cooking oil or similar
(Depends on what's in the soap obv yadda yadda)

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 3h

I’m teaching a seminar on “Constructed Languages in Fantasy Fiction” in a couple of weeks, in which #Tolkien will feature heavily, for a course in our new Masters in Global Communications. This is for my students + everyone fascinated by conlangs + artlangs!
dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/creating-i...

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 5h

incredible investigation by @972mag.com
– and an indictment of western media outlets who have disseminated fictionalized visualizations created by the Israeli army in order to justify the destruction of civilian infrastructure

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 4h

@johnchu.bsky.social good morning

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 4h

@fluoritewitch.bsky.social konbanwa

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 4h

Sending pens if wanted

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5h

This is a perfect description of @jedediahberry.bsky.social's wonderful book The Naming Song.

A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 21h

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 21h

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 23h

Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 2d

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 6h

Hahahhaaa awwww

Nicholas Whyte @nwhyte.bsky.social · 6h

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

www.bbc.com

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 8h

Was reading about the invasions of Portland and Chicago today and it caused me to remember this panel from a Walt Kelly Pogo strip.

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 11h

Not only have editors prevented me from showing my ass in public, so has hiring sensitivity readers. I’m a big fan of both. Having someone be honest with you while also keeping your best interests at heart is something to be valued not dismissed

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 8h

And then AI is how you get Animate Dead 🤣

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