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Is it too early to start talking about what we're going to nominate at NEXT YEAR's Hugos? The ones in 2026?
#HugoAwards @laworldcon.bsky.social
The beginnings of our annual list: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...
#HugoAwards @laworldcon.bsky.social
The beginnings of our annual list: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...
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Don’t make me tap the “the answer to a lack of media literacy in the general populace is not to continue dumbing down your work” sign again.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Don’t make me tap the “the answer to a lack of media literacy in the general populace is not to continue dumbing down your work” sign again.
If Roy Lichtenstein wasn't a plagiarist, point to one painting of note that he did without tracing someone else's work?
It would be one thing if Lichtenstein had ever acknowledged his sources, but he didn't.
He repeatedly lied and claimed that Russ Heath's work wasn't used.
It would be one thing if Lichtenstein had ever acknowledged his sources, but he didn't.
He repeatedly lied and claimed that Russ Heath's work wasn't used.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If Roy Lichtenstein wasn't a plagiarist, point to one painting of note that he did without tracing someone else's work?
It would be one thing if Lichtenstein had ever acknowledged his sources, but he didn't.
He repeatedly lied and claimed that Russ Heath's work wasn't used.
It would be one thing if Lichtenstein had ever acknowledged his sources, but he didn't.
He repeatedly lied and claimed that Russ Heath's work wasn't used.
I feel seen.
Emotionally Distant Husband Would Rather Watch ‘Stargate SG-1’ Than Have Honest Conversation About ‘Stargate SG-1’
BOSTON—Describing the behavior as an avoidance strategy used to ignore difficult subjects, local woman Sophia McKabe told reporters Thursday that her emotionally distant husband Doug seemed to prefer ...
theonion.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I feel seen.
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The idea that Elon doesn’t have the comedic chops to come up with good insults on his own is one of the most pathetic facts.
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
www.newsweek.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The idea that Elon doesn’t have the comedic chops to come up with good insults on his own is one of the most pathetic facts.
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
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This essay is well worth a read. It neatly addresses the aesthetic argument advanced by the Sad Puppies – which is a difficult task because the Puppies themselves struggled to explain it.
The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction.
Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism.
Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism.
Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
August 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This essay is well worth a read. It neatly addresses the aesthetic argument advanced by the Sad Puppies – which is a difficult task because the Puppies themselves struggled to explain it.
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The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction.
Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism.
Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism.
Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
August 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction.
Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism.
Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism.
Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
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Sidewise Awards Welcomes Three New Judges
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November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Sidewise Awards Welcomes Three New Judges
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Pixel Scroll 11/24/25 Beta Pixel Has Seven Files To Scroll
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Pixel Scroll 11/24/25 Beta Pixel Has Seven Files To Scroll
(1) SFF WRITERS’ BETTERMENT IDEAS. Register at the link for the Zoom webinar “What is Fiction’s Role in Imagining Better Social Policies?” Science fiction often concerns itself with gra…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Pixel Scroll 11/24/25 Beta Pixel Has Seven Files To Scroll
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Sidewise Award Judges Announced locusmag.com/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sidewise Award Judges Announced locusmag.com/2025/11...
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So you know if you live in another country and plan to visit national parks in the U.S. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
U.S. to slap big surcharge on foreign visitors to national parks
Foreign tourists visiting U.S. national parks including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone will now pay a hefty surcharge, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
So you know if you live in another country and plan to visit national parks in the U.S. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
“I did fight that wain clown, Erin, and I’ll fight that wain clown again if I have to.”
#WelcomeToDerryGirls
#WelcomeToDerryGirls
a group of students in school uniforms are walking down a hall
Alt: a group of students in school uniforms are walking down a hall in the show Derry Girls.
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“I did fight that wain clown, Erin, and I’ll fight that wain clown again if I have to.”
#WelcomeToDerryGirls
#WelcomeToDerryGirls
It’s the platonic ideal halfway in between sandwich and soup.
What’s casserole?
Seriously, I’ve never eaten one in my life.
Is a lasagna a casserole? How about a shepherd’s pie?
Seriously, I’ve never eaten one in my life.
Is a lasagna a casserole? How about a shepherd’s pie?
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It’s the platonic ideal halfway in between sandwich and soup.
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Membership rates are going up on January 4th, you can lock in today's rate and pay over time with our installment plan.
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Membership rates are going up on January 4th, you can lock in today's rate and pay over time with our installment plan.
The gun is good, Charlie Brown
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, Charlie Brown.
I Like Me, Charlie Brown. My Wife Likes Me.
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The gun is good, Charlie Brown
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In a thread of roast like insults about Space Karen, this is by far the most brutal lol
Elon Musk’s favourite Star Trek movie is Section 31 because “it was so badass.”
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In a thread of roast like insults about Space Karen, this is by far the most brutal lol
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Elon suffers from a sclerosis of the imagination, his ability to think new thoughts is atrophied, his puckered little butthole of a mouth good for excreting nothing but pre-digested slurry of words bereft of even kernels of insight.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Elon suffers from a sclerosis of the imagination, his ability to think new thoughts is atrophied, his puckered little butthole of a mouth good for excreting nothing but pre-digested slurry of words bereft of even kernels of insight.
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Elon Musk’s inability to come up with insult comedy on his own is evidence of a emotional defect, and his insistence on outsourcing creation to a banal plagiarism machine like Grok is the product of a slaveholder mentality that wants the end product of creative labour without the process or joy.
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Elon Musk’s inability to come up with insult comedy on his own is evidence of a emotional defect, and his insistence on outsourcing creation to a banal plagiarism machine like Grok is the product of a slaveholder mentality that wants the end product of creative labour without the process or joy.
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My eligibility post is really simple this year:
Project Hanuman - an SF novel about building community after disaster with weird (real) physics, diverse characters, explorations of the meaning of survival, immortality, intelligence and hope.
If you've enjoyed it please consider nominating it!
Project Hanuman - an SF novel about building community after disaster with weird (real) physics, diverse characters, explorations of the meaning of survival, immortality, intelligence and hope.
If you've enjoyed it please consider nominating it!
Project Hanuman - Angry Robot
Blending Indian mythology and classic space opera, Project Hanuman is a bold new science-fiction novel from Stewart Hotston, perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky.
angryrobotbooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
My eligibility post is really simple this year:
Project Hanuman - an SF novel about building community after disaster with weird (real) physics, diverse characters, explorations of the meaning of survival, immortality, intelligence and hope.
If you've enjoyed it please consider nominating it!
Project Hanuman - an SF novel about building community after disaster with weird (real) physics, diverse characters, explorations of the meaning of survival, immortality, intelligence and hope.
If you've enjoyed it please consider nominating it!
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Elon Musk is so lonely he spent half a billion dollars on building himself a friend, and even Grok turns out to hate him.
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Elon Musk is so lonely he spent half a billion dollars on building himself a friend, and even Grok turns out to hate him.
The idea that Elon doesn’t have the comedic chops to come up with good insults on his own is one of the most pathetic facts.
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
www.newsweek.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The idea that Elon doesn’t have the comedic chops to come up with good insults on his own is one of the most pathetic facts.
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
Elon is what gonnorea would be like if it could talk.
His picture is in the new edition of the DSM under the entry for “tech bro.”
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-to...
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What six living American graphic novelists should be on stamps? (Assume they do the writing and the art themselves.)
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
What six living American graphic novelists should be on stamps? (Assume they do the writing and the art themselves.)
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KATE! BEATON! ON A STAMP! Plus many other Canadian artistic worthies!
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
KATE! BEATON! ON A STAMP! Plus many other Canadian artistic worthies!
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If you're coming to LAcon and want info about accessibility, email me at the address below! I'm not going to spam you!
Are you interested in getting emails from LAcon V about accessibility offerings and other support for members with disabilities? Please email [email protected] for more information.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
If you're coming to LAcon and want info about accessibility, email me at the address below! I'm not going to spam you!