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Cora Buhlert

@corabuhlert.bsky.social

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Writer, teacher and translator from Bremen in North Germany. Three-time Hugo finalist and 2022 Hugo winner for Best Fan Writer. she/her

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · Jan 1

A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2024 corabuhlert.com/2025/01/01/a...

A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2024

I never felt particularly comfortable with eligibility posts, but I posted such an overview for the first time in 2016, when someone added my name to the Hugo Nominations Wiki. Eventually, it paid …

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Emma Gledhill @linguistforsail.bsky.social · 4d

Language is one of humanity’s most complex capabilities yet people still think they can just click a button to substitute one word for another - & the AI companies would love everyone to fall for that misconception

Language = communication = psychology = human understanding = complexity

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Emma Gledhill @linguistforsail.bsky.social · 4d

Folks @ciol-linguists.bsky.social and #translators #t9n we have a real problem if an Oxford academic (Fabian Stephany) has no idea what we do and is advising MSM such as @skynewsrss.bsky.social incorrectly like this. I just hope he’s been misquoted 1/2

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 3d

Same here. I've also only used the 116 117 service, when there was no way to get myself or my parents to the doctor.

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softlabhennef @newsforfuture.bsky.social · 4d

"Ganzes Leben steht Kopf": #Antifa -Forscher verlässt nach Morddrohungen USA www.n-tv.de/politik/Anti...
"Es ist besonders einfach, mich in eine Schublade zu stecken - den Kerl, der das Buch darüber geschrieben hat"

Antifa-Forscher verlässt nach Morddrohungen USA

Morddrohungen zwingen einen US-Geschichtsprofessor ins Exil. Mark Bray, bekannt für seine Forschung zur Antifa, sieht sich durch Trumps Politik und rechte Aktivisten in Gefahr. Seine Familie sucht nun...

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4d

The first time I ever called 116 117, because my Mom had what turned out to be a gallstone wedged where it shouldn't be, the young doctor who came to see her said, "Oh, but this lady is really sick." - I said, "Well, why do you think I called the emergency number?"

Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4d

There's a reason the 116 117 medical emergency number is popular. Because they will send a doctor to your house. I've only used it for cases where my parents or I were unable to get the the doctor otherwise. But some people also use it as a doctor on demand service.

Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4d

Mom's doctor did a house visit once, when both my parents had come down with the flu and I had no chance to get them to the doctor's office.

Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4d

I can imagine.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4d

The weird thing about the Hotel New World disaster is that I didn't hear about it until I was an adult, even though my Dad worked in Singapore in 1982/1983 and his office was near Serangoon Road, so we must have gone past the hotel lots of times.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4d

Worse, then once a year or so, the doctor's office refused to issue more prescriptions, unless we brought Mom in to see the doctor, presumably to check if she'd undergone a miracle healing. Which meant that my Dad or I had to take the morning off work to haul my Mom in her wheelchair to the Doctor's

Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 4d

It was a real pain with my disabled Mom who had several different medications she needed to take for the rest of her life. And every three months, someone, usually me or my Dad, had to go to the doctor and get a new prescription, since Mom couldn't.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 5d

Did you know there's a Clark Ashton Smith conference happening in January? Learn more about the event, and the group behind it, here: www.thesmithcircle.net

A photo of Clark Ashton Smith sitting in an armchair. The text along the top reads: CLARK ASHTON SMITH CONVFERENCE. A celebration of local weird fiction author, artist, and sculptor. Sat Jan 10th 2026. Auburn Carnegie Library. 175 Almond Street Auburn California

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preternia @preternia.com · 5d

New Mattel Masters of the Universe Origins are up for preorder on Amazon:

200x Beast Man - buff.ly/l867l2J
200x He-man - buff.ly/o9sqhST
200x Stratos - buff.ly/qPKPth2
200x Tri-Klops - buff.ly/W3Lbt9B #ad

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 6d

I'm at Galactic Journey, reviewing some truly crazy books: [October 8, 1970] It's All Connected – A Feast Unknown, Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin by Philip José Famer galacticjourney.org/october-8-19...

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 6d

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 7d

@corabuhlert.bsky.social has got a Farmer #ScienceFiction trilogy that combines, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and... genitalia. It needs top be read to be believed!

galacticjourney.org/october-8-19...

Covers for The Mad Goblin and Lord of the Trees (fuller alt-text in article)

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 10d

I love the concept of Autobahn chapels and churches. Medieval roadside shrines updated for the modern day.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 10d

Nowadays, I usually make a photo of a favourite building or tree or statue, because sometimes a building will be torn down or refurbished beyond recognition and there won't even be a record of how it looked like.

Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 10d

Lots of beautiful 19th century buildings in that neighbourhoods.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 10d

But then, many people never even look at the buildings. When I was eight, my parents sent me to stay at my grandparents, because they were at a cruise. And I apparently stunned my grandmother by stopping at every second building on her street to admire it.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 10d

I fully understand. In Antwerp, people were just walking past some incredibly beautiful buildings to go shopping at the same chain stores you find everywhere else.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 10d

In Germany, you have a plaque on your car which shows that you're allowed to drive into a low emission zone. I have the plaque, but it's not recognised in Belgium.

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Cora Buhlert @corabuhlert.bsky.social · 10d

Though curse the otherwise lovely city of Antwerp for implementing a low emission zone, which requires online registration that is nigh impossible for foreign drivers to use, especially if you don't know it exists.

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