Carl Rigney
@carlrigney.bsky.social
Sysadmin & SF reader interested in OODA Cycles, 4GW, and role playing games. (he/him) Also at @[email protected]
@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Nearing Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today?
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Nearing Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today?
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Spotted Inventing the Renaissance by @adapalmer.bsky.social in the non-fiction list :)
It's that special time of the year... CPL's 2025 Best of Best lists are here! Best of Best compiles 2025's top reads for kids, teens and adults.
Check the thread below to see CPL staff's top 10 favorite books. #CPLBest📚🏆
View the rest of the lists: chipublib.org/bestofthebest
Check the thread below to see CPL staff's top 10 favorite books. #CPLBest📚🏆
View the rest of the lists: chipublib.org/bestofthebest
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Spotted Inventing the Renaissance by @adapalmer.bsky.social in the non-fiction list :)
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Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
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A little treat on my day off, because I deserve it 💚
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A little treat on my day off, because I deserve it 💚
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THE YEAR WITHOUT SUNSHINE by @naomikritzer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
THE YEAR WITHOUT SUNSHINE by @naomikritzer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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Uncached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @byharryconnolly.bsky.social's The Way Into Chaos: Book One of the Great Way, which I have and have read and have given away before and do recommend. I am doing this specifically to encourage people to buy more of his books.
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Uncached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @byharryconnolly.bsky.social's The Way Into Chaos: Book One of the Great Way, which I have and have read and have given away before and do recommend. I am doing this specifically to encourage people to buy more of his books.
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
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There is a story of a widow woman & her daughters, Snow White & Rose Red, the most darling little girls who had ever lived.
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
There is a story of a widow woman & her daughters, Snow White & Rose Red, the most darling little girls who had ever lived.
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today?
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Midnight hydration check! Have you had tea today?
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I'm holding a birthday bundle! Girl Frame, This Night on the Rooftops, Nights at the Demon Club, Apprentices of the Magere, and Haven: a Game of Witches
I'm holding a birthday bundle! Girl Frame, This Night on the Rooftops, Nights at the Demon Club, Apprentices of the Magere, and Haven: a Game of Witches
Birthday Bundle by anxiousmimicrpgs
A bundle by anxiousmimicrpgs, $10.00 for 5 games
itch.io
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I'm holding a birthday bundle! Girl Frame, This Night on the Rooftops, Nights at the Demon Club, Apprentices of the Magere, and Haven: a Game of Witches
I'm holding a birthday bundle! Girl Frame, This Night on the Rooftops, Nights at the Demon Club, Apprentices of the Magere, and Haven: a Game of Witches
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Tachyon Press are having a year end sale for the rest of 2025, 30% off sitewide with the code YEAREND30 tachyonpublications.com including wonderful books by Theodora Goss, Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, me, Peter Beagle, Michael Swanwick, James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, etc
Home - Tachyon Publications
Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is an award-winning publisher of smart science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more. We're saving the world, one good book at a time.
tachyonpublications.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Tachyon Press are having a year end sale for the rest of 2025, 30% off sitewide with the code YEAREND30 tachyonpublications.com including wonderful books by Theodora Goss, Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, me, Peter Beagle, Michael Swanwick, James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, etc
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Oh hey, we put up the dozen Core Playbooks, if you want to check them out. I'll talk about them a tiny bit in the thread below.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Update 7: Preview: The Core Playbooks · Apocalypse World: Burned Over
Preview: The Core Playbooks
This was supposed to be update #1, but you all blew us away. Now we're playing catch up!Click through to download the core playbook PDF set.As always, please ask any quest...
www.kickstarter.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Oh hey, we put up the dozen Core Playbooks, if you want to check them out. I'll talk about them a tiny bit in the thread below.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Reactor
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets her replacement.
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
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This PDF is designed to print on Avery 5263/5163 (2x4" shipping labels); there's 10 labels per page. I do not currently have any of those labels in the house so I haven't proof printed them: do one sheet first to check your settings are correct.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f744r...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f744r...
www.dropbox.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This PDF is designed to print on Avery 5263/5163 (2x4" shipping labels); there's 10 labels per page. I do not currently have any of those labels in the house so I haven't proof printed them: do one sheet first to check your settings are correct.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f744r...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f744r...
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I've seen a bunch of people sharing leaflet and postcard-sized versions of the GI Rights Hotline info, but I haven't seen any templates designed for label printing, so 30 seconds with the Avery template maker made the simplest possible version with the absolute basics (to be seen from a distance).
June 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I've seen a bunch of people sharing leaflet and postcard-sized versions of the GI Rights Hotline info, but I haven't seen any templates designed for label printing, so 30 seconds with the Avery template maker made the simplest possible version with the absolute basics (to be seen from a distance).
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Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
It is a bit alarming, when rereading Machiavelli's The Prince, that it lands as reportage rather than political theory. However, I find great comfort in the fact that they are really effing it up.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
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Fun fact: the r/math subreddit had a huge problem with math crackpots popping up so they created a honeypot subreddit, r/numbertheory, to collect all those cranks.
Look at the sub description.
Look at the sub description.
January 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Fun fact: the r/math subreddit had a huge problem with math crackpots popping up so they created a honeypot subreddit, r/numbertheory, to collect all those cranks.
Look at the sub description.
Look at the sub description.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
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Ted Chiang called LLMs a blurry jpeg of the internet, which I think is a great metaphor
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ted Chiang called LLMs a blurry jpeg of the internet, which I think is a great metaphor
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I was reading the Negotiator Trilogy to get them sorted for release later & chapters 17-25 of HOUSE OF CARDS are one of my favorite bits I've ever written 🥰 & I decided I COULDN'T STAND IT & have MADE THEM ALL AVAILABLE NOW!!! #booksky #urbanfantasy #romantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTFYJHH...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTFYJHH...
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I was reading the Negotiator Trilogy to get them sorted for release later & chapters 17-25 of HOUSE OF CARDS are one of my favorite bits I've ever written 🥰 & I decided I COULDN'T STAND IT & have MADE THEM ALL AVAILABLE NOW!!! #booksky #urbanfantasy #romantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTFYJHH...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTFYJHH...
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Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.