Aliette de Bodard

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Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/Her 🏳️‍🌈 Loves tea. Profile:
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I think that actually counted as work. If you appreciated my thoughts on this today, you can help me stop using a dorm fridge. You can also print my work out if I have enabled that. No NFTs, no AI training, I howl into the wind. ko-fi.com/karidru

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You look like you're either about to release an album or possibly start a knife fight.

Butch phase: ongoing

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"We did this with photography and digital art, AI is no different". People keep saying this, without having any idea what they are actually saying. I'm going to elaborate on this, from an "I actually studied art history" standpoint.

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As I wait for my noodles to be done, let’s talk about Snow as Soft as Feathers, the novelette. It’s a sapphic ace romance and retelling. It comes with warnings for abuse, but like most all my works it’s more about healing and finding safe spaces. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9DNVJLC

Amazon.com: Snow as Soft as Feathers and other stories eBook : Cooper, S.L. Dove: Kindle Storewww.amazon.com Snow as Soft as Feathers and other stories - Kindle edition by Cooper, S.L. Dove. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Snow as Soft as Feathers and other stories.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Good things that have happened: There was a pancreatic cancer breakthrough. www.msn.com/en-us/health... A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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Yayyy another lovely review of A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience! I was so happy to see this - and you can preorder the ebook now to have it in just 2-1/2 weeks! books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience

Contains NAVIGATIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS (ONLY 14 MORE DAYS AHHHH) "If you’re not already reading Aliette de Bodard, what is wrong with you. I mean that in a loving way. Imagine me gently holding your face in my hands while I demand to know why you’ve let this masterful writer slip by your notice."

Alright here we go! Here are my highlights for the season in SFF/H, including 30 exciting titles I hope you'll check out reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...

30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2024 - Reactorreactormag.com Just a few more dozen upcoming releases to add to your TBR lists...

Hey Bluesky I found out Netflix has games? Any recommendations? I've found Hades, cozy grove, spiritfarer, death's door but am open to good suggestions!

Coming soon is a gorgeous new physical edition of ON A RED STATION DRIFTING.... More soon (will do a proper reveal when everything is properly online).

Yeah, the medical applications are huge.

Definitely useful in Radiography. Some studies say better at picking up anomalies than human.

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THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE is the very first SFF I've ever read to accurately describe what's it like to go to a gay circuit party. And even more accurately describes what it's like to be a gay man going to one for the first time. It's the small things where rep really hits hard I think.

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I used to work in imaging science. AI is great for learning how to spot tumours so the trained professionals can go straight to looking at the right bit of the imaging scan. Imaging advances are saving lives every day

Staring at the discourse. Sigh. I think I'm going back to bed (Yep, social media moderation uses machine learning algorithms in order to help human moderators and also prevent them from burning out/being traumatized. Yep, it's a similar-ish technology to generative AI. No, it's not evil)

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Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

I’m actually still very angry about this and I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with it, but absolutely none of my coping strategies will include bullying white marginalized people because I’m actually interested in progress

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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I am genuinely finding it hard to express how I feel about finding SOME DESPERATE GLORY included in the shortlist for the LeGuin Prize. It’s an honour, is the short version. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...

Announcing The Shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction - Electric Literatureelectricliterature.com The $25,000 prize celebrates a book-length work of imaginative fiction

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Casual reminder that I've been a cover artist for more than a decade. Hire me! aisha-o.com/book-covers

Also going to gently say that we should all get paid fairly for our work and that includes writers and artists and cover designers etc etc

Aisha Akeju — Book Coversaisha-o.com Aisha Akeju has almost a decade of experience in art and design, offering a variety of services including book cover design, logo design, and illustration.

Me carrying 6kg of water and realizing boxing really helped my upper body strength 😻 (I mean also my endurance but that's always been pretty good)

Update: a scientific process has established it's the water (yet again)

Attempting to brew green tea in Brittany. It's not going well.

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ICYMI in 2015 and subsequent years.

Realised I've shilled DRAGONERS here but not my novel THE DEVOURERS. This one's for the sickos (& Romantics), a dark queer mythic realist fantasy; a pack of immortal shapeshifters migrates from Europe to the Mughal Empire in the 17th c, & the snarling wake of their arrival ripples into modern India.

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Depuis le 1er janvier 2023, les plateformes de démarchage peuvent utiliser uniquement des numéros commençant par 09 48 09 49 01 62 01 63 02 70 02 71 03 77 03 78 04 24 04 25 05 68 05 69 Vous saurez quand ce n'est pas la peine de décrocher. Source: www.quechoisir.org/actualite-de...

Démarchage téléphonique - Interdit à partir de numéros de téléphone mobile - Actualité - UFC-Que Choisirwww.quechoisir.org De nouvelles règles relatives au démarchage téléphonique entrent en vigueur le 1er janvier 2023. Les plateformes commerciales ne pourront plus utiliser de numéros mobiles (commençant par 06 ou 07). El...

Update: bottled water with a low dry residue has been acquired

Current stage of figuring out what's going wrong: not the teapot, not the tea infuser. Could be: the tea (it's a bit old) or the water (my privileged hypothesis).

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Hey @readercon.bsky.social attendees, somebody I had unmasked contact with at the con has tested positive for Covid. I'm testing negative so far, but if you had contact with me please test!

Also going to gently say that we should all get paid fairly for our work and that includes writers and artists and cover designers etc etc

Talked to several designers for book projects and they've all been hit super hard by AI Anyway if you have a cover project consider a cover artist

Current stage of figuring out what's going wrong: not the teapot, not the tea infuser. Could be: the tea (it's a bit old) or the water (my privileged hypothesis).

Attempting to brew green tea in Brittany. It's not going well.

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It’s finally here! For years, @roseveleth.com has been working on an epic series about elite runners who’ve been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. TESTED is their story, & the story of sport’s history of dubious sex testing. Ep 1 is now online! link.chtbl.com/Rose_

Testedlink.chtbl.com <p>Who gets to compete?&nbsp;Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female ...