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Scott H. Andrews
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Writer, editor, chemistry lecturer, guitarist, builder, connoisseur of aqueous solutions of malted barley.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Enjoying National Cat Day:
"That was the fox"
October 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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mercwolfmoor.bsky.social
I'm extremely grateful for patient editors like @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social — I have almost (!!!!) finished edits for an R&R and yes it has taken me months; this is due to my brain, and you know, the world being on fire etc. But srsly, Scott's comments are consistently solid and so, so helpful. <3
September 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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scottedelman.bsky.social
Scrolling through @michaelventrella.bsky.social's Capclave photos, I stumbled on this one of the crowd on the patio late Saturday night eating my donuts and drinking @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social's stout, and it made me quite happy. I'm feel so privileged to have all you wonderful people in my life!
Three black metal tables pushed together on the Capclave Hotel patio, on which are split open boxes of donuts plus bottles and cans. To the left, hotel windows; to the right, the parking lot. Several dozen people surround it all, sitting, standing, talking, eating, drinking.
September 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
Tech bros running the billion-dollar companies cramming genAI down our throats forget their positions could also be outsourced to AI. In honor of this fact, @apexmag.bsky.social and I present my humorous story "How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO." 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
"How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO" by Jason Sanford
In this tutorial we will learn how to install generative AI on a zombie CEO. Please note this tutorial is for “educational purposes” only. Despite our sarcastic air quotes, this tutorial does “not” en...
www.apexbookcompany.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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theotherjustin.bsky.social
New cursed magic item:

Skull Lyre

www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
human skull with antelope horns and stringed crossbar to make a lyre from skin stretched across the skull
July 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
Visited the ancient Roman walls of Lugo, Spain, yesterday. Built over 1700 yeas ago to defend the then Roman town from various European tribes, the walls are in amazing shape. Loved walking where people have lived for so many centuries.
Base of the ancient Roman walls of Lugo, Spain. Om top of the Roman walls of Lugo, Spain, with a mural of a local tribeswoman the walls were built to keep out Roman walls of Lugo, Spain
July 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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cmcevasco.bsky.social
The 2025 volume of BASFF once again features some great stories! Full disclosure: For the past 6 years or so, I've been @johnjosephadams.com's assistant editor for these annual anthologies.

Do check out the full list of Notable Stories too: tinyurl.com/3rswhjes

#ScienceFiction #Fantasy #BookSky
May 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
scott-h-andrews.bsky.social
Enjoying the solstice heat...
June 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
scott-h-andrews.bsky.social
I'm also nominating @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for editing F&SF and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social for running Mo Con. And Glen Cook for lifetime achievement (The Black Company started the whole grimdark mercenary epic F thing, in 1984).
scott-h-andrews.bsky.social Scott H. Andrews @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social · May 30
Pls DON'T nominate me for World Fantasy Award (Special Award Non-Professional). I'm honored to be 9x finalist & 2019 winner! I've recused from nominations. Consider other editors & people who deserve it too. (I'm nominating Jeanne Cavelos for 25+ yrs teaching & running @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social.)
bcsmagazine.bsky.social Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · May 30
Nominations for World Fantasy Awards close 6/1! 2 of 5 finalists in each category are fan-voted; make your voice heard! Members of WFC 2023 Kansas City, 2024 Niagra Falls, 2025 Brighton can nominate. Rules and ballot here, in WFC 2025 Progress Report PDF: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/wp-content/u...
May 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
scott-h-andrews.bsky.social
Pls DON'T nominate me for World Fantasy Award (Special Award Non-Professional). I'm honored to be 9x finalist & 2019 winner! I've recused from nominations. Consider other editors & people who deserve it too. (I'm nominating Jeanne Cavelos for 25+ yrs teaching & running @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social.)
bcsmagazine.bsky.social Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · May 30
Nominations for World Fantasy Awards close 6/1! 2 of 5 finalists in each category are fan-voted; make your voice heard! Members of WFC 2023 Kansas City, 2024 Niagra Falls, 2025 Brighton can nominate. Rules and ballot here, in WFC 2025 Progress Report PDF: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/wp-content/u...
worldfantasy2025.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Reminds me of the time we had to create a counter-program item because a convention decided it was time to feature "the good things." Had to dedicate the first question on ours to correcting things they said. (Among them, correcting a false statement about my guidelines & AI.)
May 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
Deadline for World Fantasy Award nominations is June 1st. If you're a member of WFC 2023, 2024, or 2025, you received a ballot in March via email. If voting, Northern Nights is eligible in Best Antho category, and all the stories from it and issues 8 & 9 of Weird Horror are eligible in Short Story.
May 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
scott-h-andrews.bsky.social
I don't get why cons for readers & writers give air to genAI; platforming its 'benefits' or 'showing both sides'. That's mainstream chat; not discussion for creatives & attendees come to see them. Treat genAI like the environmentally destructive inaccurate plagiarism machine we creatives know it is.
May 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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reckoningmag.bsky.social
New podcast episode! Produced and introduced by audio editor Aaron Kling, @andrewkozma.net reads his story "Exit Here" from Reckoning 3, in which a team of scientists pour their hearts (literally) into detoxifying a poisoned lake: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
Podcast Episode 42: Exit Here | Reckoning
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: It's the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to introduce the reader ...
reckoning.press
May 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.

AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row
OpenAI and Google have objected to Labour’s proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let AI software use copyrighted material free
www.thetimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Happy to once again be a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form. Congratulations to all my fellow finalists and thank you to everyone that nominated me!
April 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
More dreaded marketing.

We really do count on our readers though.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Read. Enjoy. Subscribe. Go on, take that final step. We count on readers like you.
May 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?

It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!

Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!

(Info in thread)
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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kerstinhall.bsky.social
UNEXPECTED NEWS.
May 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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wizardsvslesbians.bsky.social
What we have here is a well-paced and entertaining fantasy novel which moves briskly from one compelling set piece to the next. This is such a rare quality that it doesn't need any ideas, so it's cool that it has some anyway.
Wizards Vs. Lesbians: ASUNDER
What if the dude who is possessing you is actually a nice guy? And what if you're the kind of gremlin who can only be fixed by a live-in boyfriend, and by "live-in" I mean in your actual brain?
wizlez.libsyn.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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kerstinhall.bsky.social
The eternal question: has the quality of my writing dramatically improved, or am I just reading it in Garamond?
May 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM