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Fan Writer Editor at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social More pieces at Journey Planet, @skiffyandfanty.com @reactorsff.bsky.social @file770.bsky.social and elsewhere! Podcaster. #photography I'm just this guy, you know? He/him.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · Nov 7

Hello new followers! I am Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer. I'm an SFF fan writer, podcaster, Gamer, and an enthusiastic amateur at #photography . I write at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social , @skiffyandfanty.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social @file770.bsky.social and more.

I'm just this guy, you know?

Nepal, including a view of Mount everest

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 3m

#waterfallwednesday #photography #paulinthepnw

I've shared a different composition at this waterfall before...

Close in and highly stylized waterfall shot.

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) 🔜 Can*Con @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 27m

Holy shit, @canconsffh.bsky.social is this weekend!

When I'm not running around as vice chair / keeping tabs on @gianttourtiere.bsky.social, I'll be launching CASTOFF, talking collaboration and finally getting to take part in our annual Advice to Aspiring Authors panel. Can't wait!

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 4m

Oh that is a conversation that I wish I could attend!

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12m

And while I'm on the subject of appearances, where I'll be tomorrow night, with Kim Stanley Robinson, in San Francisco:

www.jccsf.org/event/john-s...

JOHN SCALZI & KIM STANLEY ROBINSON – THE SHATTERING PEACE

Two masters of sci-fi take the stage for a thrilling conversation where imagination meets urgency, and the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

www.jccsf.org

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 8h

THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR's evil AI Max goes worldwide in this anthology of 13 horror stories set across the globe!

Featuring James Lovegrove, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, James Goss, MK Hardy and many more, including me! Coming from Rebellion Spring 2026; cover by Sam Gretton.

But wait, there's more...

Cover of the anthology THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR; an evil stylised face in red and black jagged lines, against a fiery background.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 11m

ooo. this sounds interesting

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21m

JD Vance will say literally anything that he thinks will get him more power. He is the platonic ideal of the soulless politician. No morals, no values, nothing but a yawning void that will never be fulfilled.

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 38m

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 15m

YES

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2h

NoaF needs more contributors. Maybe that could be you?

If not, we'd really appreciate a share, or if you fancied passing the link across to someone who might be interested, so we can keep on covering as wide a ground in SFF as we can.

Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 6h

Contributors Wanted!
Do YOU want to write for Nerds of a Feather?
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cont...

Contributors Wanted

Do you want to write for Nerds? Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together is looking for 3-5 awesome individuals to join our team of regular contri...

www.nerds-feather.com

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 16m

A new #TheBlackCompany RPG!!

Chris Spivey (Author) ➡️ Gamehole Con @darkerhue.bsky.social · 2d

I’m gearing up for #TheBlackCompany playtest & it’s almost go time! ⚔️💀 We’re aiming to kick things off next month, & I’m putting together a crew of folks ready to dive into the grit, the shadows, and the moral gray of Glen Cook’s world.

Want to get in on the ground floor? #ArcDream

The Black Company playtest with character sheets near a large Delta Green coffee mug that is filled.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 19m

Its about appeasing coal and oil industry workers, and old industrial manufacturing workers outside of the sunbelt.

Its an energy policy for dead enders.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 48m

VARNEY: Do you want to cancel that huge solar project in Nevada? I think it's largest one in the US

BURGUM: We're taking a look- there's been no cancelization of Esmeralda yet

V: Is it your intention to get rid of wind and solar power completely?

B: It's about making sure we have a secure grid

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 34m

Reminder that the Supreme Court is an anti-democratic institution dominated by liars who literally made our racist, fascist president a monarch untouchable by law so

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Marjan Knippenberg Photography @mlknippenberg.bsky.social · 32m

Autumn in the dunes of Egmond and Castricum, the Netherlands.

#photography #nature #autumm #landscape #EastCoastKin #egmond #castricum #dunes

Two rusty brown Scottish Highlander calves behind the branches of an oak tree, grazing in a meadow full of tall golden-colored grasses. In the background some darker colored vegetation and a small part of a green grass field of the far left. The sky is completely clouded. Love these colors ♥️.

A very pale light green plant that looks like a cabbage, but with soft leaves where drops of rain or dew are kept on the velvet like surface.

Three mushrooms that look like pancakes hanging on a pole on their centre. In the background some green vegetation and bushes that are losing leaves. The sky is completely clouded.

A far view on dunes covered with green and brown grasses in the left. On the right some leaveless trees on top of a hill that still has some vegetation with small with flowers. Part of the roof of a house on the right of the trees. What magnificent views they will have from that house. Do they still appreciate it? The sky is completely clouded.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 33m

I've now heard a couple of versions of this story, from works by Ada Palmer and Jo Walton.

The Greatest Practical Joke ever played

www.medievalists.net/2024/04/grea...

The Greatest Practical Joke Ever Done - Medievalists.net

Did you ever believe that you were someone else? There is a story from medieval Florence about a practical joke that must be too crazy to be true.

www.medievalists.net

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 35m

It's Book Quote Wednesday and today's word is 'gold' #BookQW

In the throes of her possession, Rachael is helpless against the demon's assault on her mind ... She parted her lips, but the daemonium sensed a shift in the power. It slithered through her memories to distract her, firing a montage of images into her brain. Helpless against the onslaught, all she could do was ...
… remember …
Her father stood in her bedroom door, a swath of moonlight illuminating his naked body … she burrowed beneath her covers and feigned sleep, but his hand found her breast and … Tanith came close, whispering of traitors and monsters in the night … do not fear them, they are not here, but … Mastema’s eyes are full of poison, don’t look in his eyes, never look in his eyes … where cracked mirrors fell from the walls, shattered and broken like her faith … and John stood over the Eucharist, stained-glass light bathing his robes in shades of azure, crimson, and gold … and he spoke of God, of God, God, God, God …

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 36m

You'll see me at Worldcon Montreal, and yes, I will be masking!

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 56m

"History doesn't work like a story. It rarely wraps up satisfyingly. It's full of perpetual loose ends and dangling motifs that any writer reading it immediately wants to tug on and tie into bows."

OR WHAT YOU WILL, Jo Walton

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 18h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 4h

Coming in October, the first of a brand new series by Chaz Brenchley. Read a review by KJ Charles here: www.goodreads.com/re...

And then preorder: wizardstowerpress.co...

Cover of Of The Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley. Art by Ben Baldwin.

Image is of a young woman in a long pale dress stood outside the gates of a large, wooden mansion. The word ‘Verantha’ is written on the gates. White birds fly above her.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 3h

If you want to read a book that grips, for better or worse, with a near future world full of AI, @kyliu99.bsky.social 's ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM is here for you

My review:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book...

Book Review: All that We See or Seem, by Ken Liu

A challenging novel that fearlessly faces a world full of AI Julia Z is a hacker, and a good one. She has a mysterious past, but now, with t...

www.nerds-feather.com

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 3h

This line is subtly dystopic in its first two words

"For now, humans still want to read content that is written mostly by humans."

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 3h

"New articles generated by AI briefly outnumbered those written by humans online, but the two are now roughly equal"

The article doesn't seem to realize that a world where half the web is written by AI is also terrible.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 14h

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 3h

Life finds a way. In our oceans' deepest reaches, on towering mountains, in searing deserts, in frozen worlds, life finds a way. Ever so briefly, an ivory gull rests on a cathedral of ice before it flies off, the astonishing beauty gone, perhaps forever. Greenland.

#photography #bluesky #birds

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 3h

A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility, which has recently become a site of daily clashes between federal agents and demonstrators.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.the-independent.com

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Rina @rina2012.bsky.social · 3h

Hey little bird, why are you so shy?

#BirdofTheDay #BirdinABush #photography #wildlife #birds #onlybeautifulthings #photohour #nature #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

This image shows a female blackbird (Turdus merula). She is sitting on a branch amidst green leaves in a bush and looking to the right out of the frame. The background is blurred.

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