Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄

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Reviewer at Hugo-winning, Ignyte-winning blog Nerds of a Feather. Longlisted for the 2022 and 2023 Best Fan Writer Hugos.
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THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a Le Guin Prize finalist! This is its seventh (!) award nomination. What is even happening &c. Also look at this incredibly stacked shortlist! I am so delighted to be among them. vajra.me/2024/07/16/t...

The Saint of Bright Doors is a Le Guin Prize Finalistvajra.me THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a Le Guin Prize finalist: its seventh award nomination!

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Choosing What You Won't Regretgenderidentitytoday.com Ask 'Will I regret not taking this step?' and feel confident you're making the best choice for yourself.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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🎃 Quick intro post since I find these helpful. I write books & movies. Best known for WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING (probably). I run Ghoulish Books with my wife (both a small press & bookstore in SATX). I recently came out as nonbinary. My next novel is I BELIEVE IN MISTER BONES. I love dogs. I’m 31. 🎃

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Amazon Prime Day is a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers, Senate review says

Amazon Prime Day is a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers, Senate review saysapnews.com A report released by Senator Bernie Sanders says Amazon’s popular Prime Day sales event has been “a major cause of injuries” for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the company's facilities across the U.S.

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This was one of my holiday reads. If you're in for Trump 'because crypto' you fit very well into that right wing extremism camp ever before you go near any of the other problems with the 'Orange Shitgibbon' as @cstross.bsky.social accurately called him. Short 100 pages and worth a read

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

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AWAKE BUT AT WHAT COST

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The author, considered as a helix of social media posts.

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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil a book by Ananda Limabookshop.org Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry--Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima. "Remarkable and memorable." --OLIVIE BLA...

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Please, please take a minute to read this. It got around on The Bad Place - but we'll need to do some outreach/education here on Faked and Cruel "nature" photos. www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

You didn't know that you needed a picture of a tiny frog riding a giant beetle, but now you do.

When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seemswww.pbs.org This photo looks cute, but it reveals the cloudy intersection of wildlife photography, animal welfare issues and photojournalism integrity.

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Always fun to note that everyone is aware of how much Zaslav sucks at his job.

Bank of America Analysts: Warner Bros. Discovery “Is Not Working,” Should Explore Strategic Optionswww.hollywoodreporter.com A team of Wall Street pros throw kindling on the speculative M&A fire, suggesting that the David Zaslav-led company should spin off its linear TV brands into a new company saddled with debt.

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Get ready for The Anvil! On August 10th, we'll be hosting a virtual (un)conference for creatives of color with programming based around what attendees want and need! Register now at dreamfoundry.org/the...!

The Anvildreamfoundry.org Visit the post for more.

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YOU TRULY LOVE TO SEE IT: “In a precedent-setting contract negotiation, the editorial union for Mashable, Lifehacker, and PC Mag has successfully bargained for protections against generative AI.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/mash... #1u #unions #labor

Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contractwww.niemanlab.org Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.

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“The Star Trek Universe — Cosmic Thoughts” with Ted Peters, David Brin, and others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuhS...

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next election we switch to fuck/marry/kill ranked voting

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For Tough Times Tuesday, we go through recent news out of West Africa, and reflect on how democracy lives or dies by the strength of our regional alliances. Even if you and I can't reach those suffering in this region right now, we can pay attention to causal factors and apply those lessons broadly.

On the New Military Junta Confederacyopen.substack.com And what we can learn about peace, democracy, and power from West Africa

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Further, mentioning climate change at all in a movie about weather events is not inherently about a message. It's about being the least bit informed.

"I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented," the director said... right on the heels of a Rare analysis showing how including climate in TV and movies "increased support for governmental action on climate change and boosted several hard-to-move attitudes on climate justice."

‘Twisters’ chose not to mention climate change. Here’s why | CNNamp.cnn.com The summer blockbuster puts nature’s ever-more destructive power in the spotlight. But like the titular twisters, there’s a hole at the center.

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#SDCC attendees! I will be on a panel with @drerinmac.bsky.social about where science and science fiction converge on TV shows on Saturday @6:30PM! Hope to see you there.

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My latest for @thenation.com looks at the death of an incarcerated woman at the Central CA Women's Facility during a week of ~110 degree temperatures & the lack of heat mitigation efforts throughout the nation's 2nd largest prison: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Scorching Temperatures Are Turning Prison Cells Into Furnaceswww.thenation.com As the death toll due to extreme heat rises, incarcerated people are concerned that their cells could become their coffins.

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Review: Fantasmas A loud, cheerful satire of the roles the world demands we play @carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2024/07/revi...

Review: Fantasmaswww.nerds-feather.com A loud, cheerful satire of the roles the world demands we play From the same mind that produced the horror/comedy show Los Espookys and the...

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Along with Westland Books, delighted to announce the open call for our inaugural speculative fiction anthology. Send in your stories and novelettes! Details + submission portal in the link just below below, and a brief summary in this thread. 🧵 sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

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We absolutely live in the Upside Down

Fascinating. "...the government affirms that climate change is real, that it’s destroying God’s work and that those in the world who reject the truth of climate change need to get on board. The Taliban has asked imams...to emphasize during Friday prayers the need for environmental protection.

Taliban tries reconciling science and religion in facing climate changewww.washingtonpost.com Afghanistan’s rulers, cut off from foreign assistance, are tackling climate change on their own while debating whether it is God’s doing or a foreign plot.

Re: the proposal to use human rights scores to vet Worldcon candidate cities, here's my response to @camestrosf.bsky.social.

Sure, But Who's Counting?paper.wf On Worldcons and moral judgments For context: several draft amendments have been proposed to reinforce the WSFS Constitution against pot...

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I talked to @shwethasrikanthan.bsky.social for @himalmag.bsky.social's Southasia Review of Books! We discussed THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, RAKESFALL, fantasy, fasciscm, tescrealism, history, ideology, and gender, with a ton of book recommendations. www.himalmag.com/podcast/vajr...

Southasia Review of Books podcast #06: Vajra Chandrasekera on writing fantasy and science fiction from Sri Lankawww.himalmag.com A conversation with the Colombo-based writer Vajra Chandrasekera on the current moment of Southasian speculative fiction

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Loved this opportunity to rave & froth about Fellman's remarkable DEAD COLLECTIONS; Roseanna has tons of good recs and observations. Take a listen:

you can listen at @ancillaryreview.bsky.social, or wherever you find your podcasts. Notes & links here: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/07/15/a...

A Meal of Thorns 02 – DEAD COLLECTIONS with Roseanna Pendleburyancillaryreviewofbooks.org Host Jake Casella Brookins talks to critic Roseanna Pendlebury about Isaac Fellman's DEAD COLLECTIONS (a novel about a trans vampire archivist) and how it addresses grief, portrayals of bodies and ide...

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This is the last week of Hugo Award voting and we would like you to consider Nerds of a Feather for Best Fanzine. www.nerds-feather.com/2024/04/than...

Thank Youwww.nerds-feather.com The finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards have been announced and for a seventh time nerds of a feather, flock together is among the shortliste...

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Strange Horizons do amazing work and bafflingly have never won a Hugo for it. I really hope we can change that this year - they would absolutely deserve it.

This is the last week of Hugo Award voting and we would like you to consider Strange Horizons for Best Semiprozine. For over 20 years, Strange Horizons has been publishing weekly issues filled with new stories, poems and non-fiction. Here are some more reasons you should vote for us below!

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This is the final days of Hugo voting. I would be honored if you voted for me for Best Fan Writer. Not because of what happened in Chengdu, but because I think my oeuvre & output make me worthy. I also think our team's work at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social is worthy. www.patreon.com/posts/2024-h...

2024 Hugo Finalist! | Paul Weimerwww.patreon.com Get more from Paul Weimer on Patreon

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of America's first great writers, but he also was one of the first (after Mary Shelley) to give readers an idea as to what scientists in science fiction would even be like. sffremembrance.com/2024/07/15/t...

The Observatory: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mad Scientistssffremembrance.com (Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Charles Osgood. Circa 1841.) (Contains spoilers for "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," and "The Artist of the Beautiful.") Sorry I missed last month's edito...