Sandstone

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Programmer and SFF reader. Sega fan. Asexual and otherwise queer. She/her. 📚

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My air conditioner has broken during an extreme heat warning, which is not ideal! If you'd like to help me out AND get some great art, I'm running a sale on my shop right now with code "HEAT" (25% off your order!) The discount applies to mini commissions, prints, and originals! eiffel.art/store

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This contains a fascinating peek into what went wrong with the French, German, and Spanish localizations of the original FFVII!

Interview: "The S**t Hit The Fan" - Ex-Sony Producer Talks PlayStation & Final Fantasy VII's Localization Nightmare

Interview: "The S**t Hit The Fan" - Ex-Sony Producer Talks PlayStation & Final Fantasy VII's Localization Nightmarewww.timeextension.com Martin Alltimes worked as a producer at Sony from 1994 to 2001

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I'd say knocking a lot of doors canvassing here in VA over the past 20 or so years cured me of this. Huge variation in what's on people's minds, but most people think of politics very very little and also often have very weird ideas of how politics connects to their life.

I think a big mistake liberals make is constantly making up an imagined "normal voter" in their heads to triangulate their opinions around. NO! What do YOU THINK? What do THE PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY KNOW BELIEVE?

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Don't give them ideas 😭 I'm expecting a commercial where he uses a flamethrower to torch an engineering textbook or something any day now

Goodness this is a lot of rain today...

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Northern Nights, the all-Canadian anthology of dark and strange fiction, is now up for pre-order. (Oct.1.) Behold the amazing ToC. It'd be a "prime" day to pre-order from your fave indie. Thank you! undertowpublications.com/shop/norther...

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New blog post time! This week's game is Hana Taaka Daka?!, a PC Engine cute 'em up that's about a tengu going up against a whole lotta tanukis. I'm not a fan of all of its mechanical choices, but it's so aesthetically on point that it's hard to complain:

Hana Taaka Daka?!ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com Hana Taaka Daka is a game that’s impossible not to root for even if you disagree with some of its choices. I’m not a big fan of the focus on charged shots, the big/small mechanic doesn’t add much, and...

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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Happy pubday to @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social's THE SPICE GATE, a sweeping epic w/ a frisson of tension between its richly imagined world & ours, rebuking easy orientalist exotica for a S. Asian fantasy that mirrors both the polyphonic beauty & appalling inequities of the cultures it's inspired by:

The Spice Gatewww.harpercollins.com Delve into this debut fantasy and journey through the Spice Gates as Amir, a young man born with the ability to travel between the eight kingdoms, unravels the power that keeps the world in balance, p...

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Noooo :((

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Magic Under the Big Top is up for pre-order in e-book! books2read.com/magic... Run away to the dazzling world of circuses, where the line between reality and magic blurs, with this spellbinding collection of short stories.

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Happy happy book birthday to @carolinecarlson.bsky.social's Wicked Marigold! I absolutely adore this book, and so does my 11-year-old. You can read my rave review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Stephanie Burgis’s review of Wicked Marigoldwww.goodreads.com Oh, I loved this book! I read it out loud to my 10-year-old daughter, and it was just the most delicious fun to share it together. We were both laughing SO HARD at various points that it was difficult...

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My Birdverse novella YOKE OF STARS is officially out today!! tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke... Please spread the word if you are so moved.

Yoke of Stars - Tachyon Publicationstachyonpublications.com “Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, Yoke of Stars is essential reading.” —Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart In the School of Assassins, Stone Orphan waits for a first ...

Out todayyy, go get it!! tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke...

Win a copy of YOKE OF STARS, the new Birdverse book by Nebula Award finalist @rblemberg.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/gi... "Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, YOKE OF STARS is essential reading" @izzyxen.bsky.social #LGBTQ #goodreads #giveaway #usonly@rblemberg.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/gi... "Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, YOKE OF STARS is essential reading" @izzyxen.bsky.social #LGBTQ #goodreads #giveaway #usonly

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Isn't that great :/ At least he's apparently been taking a hit in the polls over it, one doesn't even always expect that these days no matter how egregious Republicans are

> Republican primary candidate for Missouri governor Jay Ashcroft says he's an engineer > He's not a licensed engineer, it's legally dubious at best to say he is, an actual engineer files a complaint > Ashcroft suggests abolishing engineer licensing altogether in Missouri as unnecessary "red tape"

Missouri governor hopeful Ashcroft knocked off balance by complaint about use of ‘engineer’ • Missouri Independentmissouriindependent.com Jay Ashcroft’s use of the title "engineer" and whether he is using it honestly has become a flash point for his campaign for governor.

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We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors! The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...

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Give all of your education money to rich people and suddenly you have no money to pay for not only public education for everyone else, but a lot of other government services? Who could have seen that coming?

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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Friends, this sci-fi anthology is SO CLOSE to hitting its goal, with 3 days left. I've backed it and I hope some of y'all will too. Their tagline sums it up: "Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent."

The Spacefunk! anthology kickstarter just hit 64%. But there’s only 7 days left! This is a once in a lifetime anthology—50 black science fiction writers and poets writing the Black Fantastic. It’s an incredible opportunity to support black writers and publishers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

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Okay I think I have *finally* managed to get a stable solution for my newsletter? At last? Anyway I'm writing an update as a test message and if you would like to join my newsletter, here is the link: (alt text for img: a photo of my books. Even Though I Knew The End is open to page 58-59.)

Would you like Intermittent and Irregular Letters from C. L. Polk Delivered to Your Inbox?sendfox.com C. L. POLK NEWSLETTER I HAVE WORKED MY BUTT OFF MAKING THIS NEWSLETTER STABLE SO I CAN WRITE TO YOU. Hello, Friend! Here's where you can join my email list and get letters from me where I apologize ...

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Third Monday, so here's a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter! gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. - Open call for a new Indian SF anthology (details inside). - @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social debut novel out this week. - work by Mukoma wa Ngugi, Bécquer Seguín and others.

Words for Worlds - Issue LXXIVgautambhatia.substack.com Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter! Right, so the big news up first: for Westland Books, as part of their SF imprint IF, I will be editing an anthology of ...

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Stretched and sleepy 😴

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I made swatches for all of the free CSP brushes linked in my lettering tutorial 👏 github.com/saraoswald/l... I hope this saves someone else a lot of time in the future

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The splash screen of Hulu had a news special on this past weekend's events tonight also FYI 😩

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This is a *great* alternative to doom scrolling, omg. Go find something new and lovely to read.

If you're looking for an alternative to doom scrolling, you could add all the 2024 SFF books/short fiction/fanwork you've loved so far this year to the Hugo Rec Spreadsheet! Thinking about art you love AND sharing it with others? Win/Win! 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Hugo Awards (2025)docs.google.com about Hello! 1. This sheet is currently OPEN to public contributions. 2. Please check out the RULES sheet, with organization guidelines and category explanations. 3. To see all the categories use th...

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We are due for some this week down here, looks like we might some from the front you all are having overnight >.<

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Noooo, I hope your new one makes it through! >.<

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🌪️ PSA: A tornado WATCH means a tornado may be forming soon and you should prepare, whereas a tornado WARNING means it’s here and you need to take cover *now.* To help remember the difference: if it’s a tornado WATCH, you’ve got TIME ⌚️

Stay safe, Chicago area friends, looks like some nasty weather you're having up there! :(

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I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.