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Stephen Granade
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Science presenter, robotics researcher, fiction writer, interactive fiction person, award-winning Virgo. Co-editor of @smallwondersmag.com SFF magazine.

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · Aug 22
i summarized my story for you, your welcome
A @dril tweet re-written to say “TELEPORTING may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,”
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Buncha slop-brained people who think building company towns in Sim City makes them ready when it just invites bear attacks. newrepublic.com/article/1596...
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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me watching the new Matlock: what a wild law case, I’m sure it won’t thematically tie into the interpersonal conflicts of the main characters
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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From the editor's mouth the contract theoretical launched the ended contract possible
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d
How are 'taken by surprise' that she did the thing which she is most famous for?
Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair Will Part Ways
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:
Eating the Sun - Small Wonders
The rest of her broodmates had already left for ascension. She needed fuel for the journey. She needed to eat the sun.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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My nibling is composing music for a video I’m putting together & dang!! Turns out when you get a professional to do a job for you it turns out amazing. I CANNOT wait to share it!! #DrownedBookProject
#MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtBook #Collage #AbstractWatercolor
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I regret to inform you that it turns out that Olivia Nuzzi’s book has anti-science communication. This actively sucked away what I once knew about black holes.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d
1. Why is there a long description of black holes in your book about sexting an anti-vaxxer.

2. That is not what Hawking radiation is.

3. lol what
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Given my ADHD-driven rejection sensitivity, it’s keen that I think writing short stories is for me.
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Today's poem is a quiet moment that bridges the personal and the celestial, "Your Mom, The Space Sailor" by @pamyve.bsky.social:
Your Mom, The Space Sailor - Small Wonders
I am a speck / of stardust / dutifully folding / fitted sheets and galaxies / at their dubious corners.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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abolish the cop in your mind, cup holders can hold so much more.
granades.com Stephen Granade @granades.com · 5d
car coffee holders can hold more than coffee, like one (1) costco muffin, I am reaching my final dad evolution
A car’s center console with two coffee holders. The left one has a big coffee thermos. The right has a chocolate Costco muffin.
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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car coffee holders can hold more than coffee, like one (1) costco muffin, I am reaching my final dad evolution
A car’s center console with two coffee holders. The left one has a big coffee thermos. The right has a chocolate Costco muffin.
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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If you need a book for your Christmas list or for the artist in your life, I can't recommend "We need your art" highly enough!!
Book Review: We Need Your Art
If you need a book for your Christmas list or for the artist in your life, I can't recommend "We need your art" highly enough!!
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December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It's a new story day today! This is one of my most personal stories—a meditation on queer bodies and unconditional love that I really hope you enjoy. 🛸
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The heart knows what the heart wants, and today: it's the alien. You'll fall in love too with "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing In The World" by @elijah.mea.rs:
Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World - Small Wonders
You had no idea if the alien was your kind of guy (or even if it was a guy at all), but sometimes Cupid has a funny way with those arrows.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - OCTOBER 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - October 2025 | Charles Payseur
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November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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We’ve long argued for the power of poetry but, uh, poems that trick AI into telling you how to build an atomic bomb wasn’t exactly what we had in mind.
rachelhands.com Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 7d
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Defector out here doing the lord’s work.
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This is why non-romance people need to read more romance, honestly: will-they-won’t-they is fine but it is not the same narrative as “they did and then they did again and then they keep going but eventually someone’s gonna find out and then they’re REALLY fucked.”
jenreadsromance.bsky.social Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 7d
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
There’s a way of spacing out the storytelling here that could have pushed Heated Rivalry forward as a will-they-or-won’t-they relationship drama stretching at least through the first season, building up to perhaps a chaste kiss in the first season finale.
November 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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As someone who had one of Those Guys as a prof in grad school, I appreciate this list of prideful sins in R.F. Kuang’s “Katabasis”.
A Kindle page showing text from RF Kuang’s Katabasis. A sentence is highlighted: “‘Now, *that* one kept saying he went to school in Boston and expecting everyone to know what he means.’”
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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He is risen indeed.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Trapped with your terrible family today? Not cool enough for the cousin walk? Try text adventures! Text adventures: they let you ignore people you don't like!
Tower Behind the Moon
You are already an archmage–can you become an immortal? Use magic and cunning to thwart rivals, fight demons, and outwit gods so you can join their ranks.
www.choiceofgames.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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all the workaholic dads racing to the store, frantically buying a card and bouquet of turkeys
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I’m to the glamor shot portion of this project and I’m not mad at my results.
#DrownedBookProject
#ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook #Collage #CollageMaker #AbstractWatercolor
A photo of my open “Into the unknown” book on a wooden plank table propped up on some drift wood. There are some sand dollar pieces in the foreground and a shell-shaped bowl behind the propped up book. The ocean is visible off in the distance. The book has a piece of abstract painted canvas in teal and magenta on the left and some abstract graphite marks on the right.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM