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Software developer and consultant, mostly in film/TV. Reader of science fiction & fantasy. Guitar & drums.
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Wow, the new Spiritbox album is so good! 🇨🇦

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Check out Navigational Entanglements! A great novella from one of my favourite writers.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

If any Hugo Awards voters enjoyed Lower Decks, it would be very cool to get a nod! Thank you for your consideration. This is our entire campaign. đź––

submitted 92 days ago • 73 comments

Since I am 1 week away from unemployment, if you or someone you know needs a music video this year... please ask me. I enjoy it and I want to do more of it. Also I need to prove to the bluesky libs that I'm not a radical leftist TV writer... I also make films

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

The Hugos have a *Best Series* category and Between Earth & Sky is eligible this year. (Black Sun, Fevered Star, Mirrored Heavens.) I'd love your nomination if you're into such things. Nominations open today!!

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

I have a story in this but I’m just getting to read my author copy and it’s a real treat. An absolute smorgasbord of the weird and the fantastical.

submitted 107 days ago • 6 comments

In today's post, I talk about one of my favorite shows to air in the last 20 years... the show that my own daughter asks to see the most... and convey why you (yes you!) should watch #StarTrekLowerDecks

submitted 112 days ago • 5 comments

Rhys is the #1 hype person for this series and it always makes me so happy. They both came out in the pandemic and so they were challenging releases, but I love our angry, stabby queers in space. They deserved more flowers. I wish more people knew about them.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Elder Race by @aptshadow.bsky.social is on Prime Reading at the moment, so I borrowed it on a whim, and it was lovely. A great blend of epic fantasy and sci-fi, and a great story about language (including a great little segment of direct "translation"). torpublishinggroup.com/elder-race/ #booksky

submitted 136 days ago • 6 comments

Very much enjoyed In The Shadow of The Ship, a new novella by @aliettedebodard.com subterraneanpress.com/in-the-shado...

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Read all of Stormlight Archive for the first time last year. Enjoyed the series but it took up a _lot_ of reading time. Looking forward to reading more widely this year. Next up is @aliettedebodard.com’s “In the Shadow of the Ship” from the great Xuya universe.

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

Haven’t seen enough talk about Alien Clay by @aptshadow.bsky.social so, let’s talk. ✔️ Limits of academic dissent ✔️ Trademark themes re: empathy as a biological imperative ✔️ Nuanced ecological speculation in a thoroughly alien biome ✔️ Superb audiobook performance ✔️ A 2024 fave #booksky

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

“Wrap your tool in a game, make it fun to play with, and shield players from the kind of people who enjoy holding others to strict standards of Excellence. Present your creation as an Excellence-Free Zone, a safe space for glorious trainwrecks.” mkremins.github.io/blog/creativ...

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

Oh hey here's a reminder I have a book out -autistic MC -space jellyfish -mismatched crew trying not to kill each other -sapphic shenanigans -found family -martial arts in space us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

submitted 207 days ago • 2 comments

Over on Tumblr, another post about recent books that deserve more attention. This time I'm going on about how much I like @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's Unconquerable Sun and Furious Heaven: www.tumblr.com/crudely-draw...

submitted 637 days ago • 1 comment

I work in visual effects. We work crazy hours under difficult conditions for movies that make billions and yet we are “ruining movies” with our work. I went on a YouTube show to illustrate the human side of our work, that computers don’t create visual effects. People do. youtu.be/QbkTu7ejJ-o?...

submitted 638 days ago • 7 comments

Bluesky hasn’t seen this yet! Lovely words from Martha Wells. Publication date for The Blue, Beautiful World is 29 August for the US edition, 31 August for the UK edition. Busy fortnight ahead!

submitted 649 days ago • 2 comments

Sorcerer is fucking insane do NOT watch this movie on weed you will die and go to truck hell

submitted 656 days ago • 8 comments

A slightly meandering but fun WIRED article on local-first software and CRDTs, also featuring Strange Loop and the St. Louis City Museum, Marc Shapiro, PvH, @expede.wtf, and others https://www.wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a-prison-can-the-local-first-software-movement-set-us-free/

submitted 660 days ago • 0 comments

The Japanese cover to The Kaiju Preservation Society is pretty fuckin' rad, actually

submitted 664 days ago • 26 comments

The Peripheral was a fantastic book, and the TV show is a fantastic adaptation that becomes its own thing in a really thoughtful manner. I recommend it like heck.

submitted 665 days ago • 1 comment

A great read!

submitted 667 days ago • 0 comments