Agnes Kormendi
@tapsiful.bsky.social
Used to translate books, now a manual software tester. I write sad poems in English and sff stories in my native Hungarian. I make Celtic knotwork inspired animal drawings and take too many photos of the same hills and vales. Trans rights are human rights.
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I spent three days last week putting together an eligibility MEGA POST for @strangehorizons.bsky.social, with all the people and work within it that's eligible for awards in 2026. I hope you'll check it out, click on some things, and consider putting your faves forward 🥹 Thank you, and here's to 26!
For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility
For your consideration: a complete list of Strange Horizons works and staff eligible for various awards in 2026. Happy reading and listening!
strangehorizons.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I spent three days last week putting together an eligibility MEGA POST for @strangehorizons.bsky.social, with all the people and work within it that's eligible for awards in 2026. I hope you'll check it out, click on some things, and consider putting your faves forward 🥹 Thank you, and here's to 26!
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
Science e-Books - NASA Science
From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.
science.nasa.gov
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
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Be one of the first 100 civilians to remotely drive a rover on the moon in 2028. Or, give the opportunity to a friend or loved one.
open.substack.com/pub/kschroed...
open.substack.com/pub/kschroed...
Put Your Own Boots On the Moon
Using your smartphone, you can drive a rover on the moon in 2028.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Be one of the first 100 civilians to remotely drive a rover on the moon in 2028. Or, give the opportunity to a friend or loved one.
open.substack.com/pub/kschroed...
open.substack.com/pub/kschroed...
YES!!! I've been waiting for this since last December!
Experience the Winter Solstice at Newgrange live from home on Sunday 21 December at 8:40am. csalert.ie/3M7ekrr
Watch Newgrange Winter Solstice Live from Home on 21 December
Experience the Winter Solstice at Newgrange live from home on Sunday 21 December at 8:40am. Watch on RTÉ Player, gov.ie/opw or heritageireland.ie.
csalert.ie
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
YES!!! I've been waiting for this since last December!
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
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I would love to run a Vampire AP set in Dublin. However if that was a thing there would be no masquerade! Everyone in Ireland knows everyone. If a hunter went into the local pub saying they're looking for John the barman would immediately reply "Do you mean postman Johnny or vampire Johnny?"
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I would love to run a Vampire AP set in Dublin. However if that was a thing there would be no masquerade! Everyone in Ireland knows everyone. If a hunter went into the local pub saying they're looking for John the barman would immediately reply "Do you mean postman Johnny or vampire Johnny?"
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Post the good news when you see it…
By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K
go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K
Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.
go.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Post the good news when you see it…
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Two men take a narrowboat holiday and pick up a mysterious passenger.
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Two men take a narrowboat holiday and pick up a mysterious passenger.
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
The river grows darker, the air colder & the map no longer makes sense.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Three Miles Up
#AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social
Read it here: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...
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Big Jim's bike trip to Braemar.
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Big Jim's bike trip to Braemar.
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge
September 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of UN Messenger of Peace Dr. Jane Goodall.
Her life’s work championing conservation, humanity and the natural world leaves an enduring legacy.
Our condolences to her family, the Jane Goodall Institute and all who draw hope from her example.
Her life’s work championing conservation, humanity and the natural world leaves an enduring legacy.
Our condolences to her family, the Jane Goodall Institute and all who draw hope from her example.
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We are deeply saddened by the passing of UN Messenger of Peace Dr. Jane Goodall.
Her life’s work championing conservation, humanity and the natural world leaves an enduring legacy.
Our condolences to her family, the Jane Goodall Institute and all who draw hope from her example.
Her life’s work championing conservation, humanity and the natural world leaves an enduring legacy.
Our condolences to her family, the Jane Goodall Institute and all who draw hope from her example.
Sometimes you learn in life and sometimes you get drunk instead
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sometimes you learn in life and sometimes you get drunk instead
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
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We want to attract top quality authors to our new anthology. You can help by adding to the bizz for the Kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com/...
September 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We want to attract top quality authors to our new anthology. You can help by adding to the bizz for the Kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com/...
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“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Iain Banks: the final interview
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
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Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??
🦑 🌊 🌿
🦑 🌊 🌿
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??
🦑 🌊 🌿
🦑 🌊 🌿
It's 1 am. I just bought 4 bottles of Italian wine. I was planning to buy them and they were 25% off, but why can't I just buy stuff at a normal time? (Also, how did I escape impulse buying chocolate cakes and lobsters and whatnot, 1 am is hardly the right time for willpower and self restraint.)
September 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It's 1 am. I just bought 4 bottles of Italian wine. I was planning to buy them and they were 25% off, but why can't I just buy stuff at a normal time? (Also, how did I escape impulse buying chocolate cakes and lobsters and whatnot, 1 am is hardly the right time for willpower and self restraint.)
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Love how he just didn’t give her a chance to a spout A Line about keeping politics out if the arts (as if!) or whatever.
Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.
September 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Love how he just didn’t give her a chance to a spout A Line about keeping politics out if the arts (as if!) or whatever.
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Mi homenaje a Federico García Lorca; el cual dedicó gran parte de su obra a Andalucía y al pueblo gitano 🌿☀️
Esta pieza forma parte de mi proyecto personal en el que he estado trabajando a principios de año y que presentaré en pocos meses 🎨
#illustration #humanart #lorca #andalucia
Esta pieza forma parte de mi proyecto personal en el que he estado trabajando a principios de año y que presentaré en pocos meses 🎨
#illustration #humanart #lorca #andalucia
August 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Mi homenaje a Federico García Lorca; el cual dedicó gran parte de su obra a Andalucía y al pueblo gitano 🌿☀️
Esta pieza forma parte de mi proyecto personal en el que he estado trabajando a principios de año y que presentaré en pocos meses 🎨
#illustration #humanart #lorca #andalucia
Esta pieza forma parte de mi proyecto personal en el que he estado trabajando a principios de año y que presentaré en pocos meses 🎨
#illustration #humanart #lorca #andalucia
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A beautiful arche shaped iceberg that we found in Disko Bay early August during one of our late night sailing.
To give you an idea the mast of the boat is around 30 meters high 😵💫⛵️🧊… This piece of ice was massive.
To give you an idea the mast of the boat is around 30 meters high 😵💫⛵️🧊… This piece of ice was massive.
September 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A beautiful arche shaped iceberg that we found in Disko Bay early August during one of our late night sailing.
To give you an idea the mast of the boat is around 30 meters high 😵💫⛵️🧊… This piece of ice was massive.
To give you an idea the mast of the boat is around 30 meters high 😵💫⛵️🧊… This piece of ice was massive.
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QRP With an artists that inspire you!
QRP com um artista que te inspira!
I absolutely love @thewhalergirl.bsky.social 's work. Go check her out!
QRP com um artista que te inspira!
I absolutely love @thewhalergirl.bsky.social 's work. Go check her out!
August 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
QRP With an artists that inspire you!
QRP com um artista que te inspira!
I absolutely love @thewhalergirl.bsky.social 's work. Go check her out!
QRP com um artista que te inspira!
I absolutely love @thewhalergirl.bsky.social 's work. Go check her out!
The only reason this doesn't feel like screaming into the void is that I use chrome in light mode and the void is supposed to be dark.
August 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The only reason this doesn't feel like screaming into the void is that I use chrome in light mode and the void is supposed to be dark.
just what the fuck. destroy this fucking thing.
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
just what the fuck. destroy this fucking thing.