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annaleen.bsky.social
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers bylines: New Scientist, Washington Post, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
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The killer app is fraud.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

Authoritarianism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Join us to hear voices from the future, discussing their experiences in Hong Kong, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Ukraine, live on Wednesday or watch the recording any time~

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Best song of 2025 so far

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Hey Oakland! Are you queer and into gaming? Don't miss this free event on queer worldbuilding, this Friday at @mademuseum.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-worl...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 1335 comments

Our absurd and violent era requires a new kind of dystopian storytelling. In the latest episode of @ouropinions we talk about Severance and more. Plus, science journalist @carlzimmer.com tells us about what lives in the air we breathe. ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/severance-an...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I was one of a few journos inside the Columbia encampment last year. a new documentary focused in part on Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner, the expelled student union president, was released in theaters early, after Khalil's abduction. my interview with a director and student organizer @teenvogue.com

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Honestly I think almost every day about how T rex might have had a really soft nose and we will never know

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Ahhhhh Murderbot trailer is giving me so much happiness right now. The tone feels just right. AND THERE IS SANCTUARY MOON OMG www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEio...

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Meet Ariel Loh, the first Asian-American trans woman to win a Grammy. (She was the one who flashed a phone case with "Protect Trans Kids" on it.) @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transworld.bsky.social www.them.us/story/ariel-...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Our latest episode is about the second season of Severance -- is this show holding up? Plus we talk about a host of new TV shows about corporate dystopias. Meanwhile, we talk to science journalist Carl Zimmer about our new age of airborne diseases. ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/severance-an...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

I’m reading @annaleen.bsky.social’s The Terraformers which is a deep and rich delight, with awesome world building, and just guffawed in the middle of the restaurant where I’m waiting for my curry on reading this: “Looking out over the tables Sulfer could see… 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Podcast alert! I talked about AIR-BORNE with Nature & with @charliejane.bsky.social & @annaleen.bsky.social on Our Opinions Are Correct. Listen here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... & ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/severance-an...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My whole entire feed is filled with posts from marches from across the nation. However, it's yet to really break through on the main national newspapers. Nothing on the NYT homepage, one story on the WSJ homepage, and then this story on the WaPo homepage:

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Prof. Sherrilyn Ifill's thoughts on how Blacks survived the first Nadir could offer guidance for surviving the current Nadir. @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transworld.bsky.social www.queerty.com/professor-sh...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

@annaleen.bsky.social on The roots of techno-authoritarianism. Does the spirit of the "Futurist" movement live on today in the likes of Elon Musk and America's intrigue with techno-oligarchs? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Need to bring your stress levels down a couple of notches? I just started playing "Going for a Nice Walk," which is an incredibly soothing game where you go for a walk and look at pretty things. It calmed me down at least 20% today. tombattey.itch.io/gfanw

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Our 100th issue of Pasts Imperfect is out! This week the folks at @peoplingthepast.bsky.social discuss recovering overlooked parts of the ancient past. Then, questioning the source of medieval pigments, DOGE cuts at the NEH, new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social, & much more.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I am having a blast this week doing a residency with Yale's Planetary Futures Initiative. Today I talked to environmental studies students about science fiction and green infrastructure. I'm glad that @wanderism-travel.bsky.social included my shoutout to @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social in her notes!

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Oh yeah? Well I'm putting tariffs on Gallifrey.

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

Occasionally I get asked whether my science fiction has led to the development of some kind of product based on one of my ideas. And I've realized that, probably unconsciously, I've chosen to write books that contain literally nothing that can be monetized at this point.

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

Read @ariberman.bsky.social on why the election happening today is referendum on whether or not Musk can just buy any election www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

If this were a thriller movie, somebody inside Google would be threatening to release or sell all this national security info being sent via gmail. The plot basically writes itself. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

This Saturday: TRANS NERD MEET UP! It's just what it sounds like. If you are gender non-conforming and like to geek out, you are welcome. @zeitgeist_sf from 12:30 until whenever. Please forgive the terrible flier I made! <3

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments