Author, editor, and book coach. Named after a Star Trek actress. 🖖 She, her, hers. Resident of Colorado, USA. All photos posted are my own, except for those I boost. No AI is used in the production of my creative work. All people deserve love, respect, and equality regardless of color, gender, body type, or any other difference.
The horrors persist, but so do I. Profile pic is resistance lark bunting.
If anyone wants one of my books free of DRM, please DM me.
Call me Esther, Aesthr, or Æ if you want to be extra.
Artist, photographer, writer, psychology student, luddite, paladin
Living in Berlin
sfnal reviews, oddities, translations, fandom
I write science fiction and science nonfiction. Author: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers. Bylines: Flaming Hydra, New Scientist, etc. Pod: Our Opinions Are Correct. Sometimes a professor of media studies. I love noodles.
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#Hike, #backpack, #computer #geek, former search & rescue, #4x4, #F1, #geocache, hobby #blacksmith, #scifi, #fantasy, #ttrpg, #hamradio, #Maker, #3dprint, props, former navigation instructor. Now with lemon-fresh borax! Mastodon noob November 2022. Fanboy of #TheExpanse. Ninth House. #BG3. #Fallout. 2026 EFF Member.
Almost all posts now auto-delete after 6 months.
@proprietor is the Administration and moderation account for Wandering.Shop.
Getting an Invite: Look for folks with FrontOfHouse on their profile, or ask any user on our server.
Community/Moderation:
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Avatar: "Pachyderm Monday" by Christopher Michel is lic. under CC BY 2.0.
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To understand Jess, you only need to know five things: Family. Writing. Jewish community. Activism/education. Tikkun olam. These are the heart of Jess Mahler. The rest is details.
(Occasional bad puns and obscure references at no extra charge.)
Posts include kink and lewds, all under content warning.
Formal pronouns: they/them
White settler on Lenape land
Avatar is a harris hawk + cougar gryphon
Header is same gryphon walking the mountains.
Gryphon by @amaranth@weirder.earth
Canadian Geek. Ph.D. in Chemistry. Plays tabletop RPGs, video games and board games. Aspie & ADHD.
Not a geek in a can.
Queen of Lasers and NYT/USAT Bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, The Past Is Red, & more. Any/All
Wandering.shop admin. Writer of fiction, code, and campaigns.
Parent and partner, socialist and humanist, lover and nerd. I'm queer and genderqueer and disabled.
No GenAI. It's bad for the environment and society and you.
Unsupervised online since c.1992 and making it your problem.
I'm available to be your Internet Dad if you need one.
They/them, Canadian by way of Ireland and the Netherlands, on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek
History PhD. Defender of the Liberal Arts. History of Leftist Thought. Joachim Boaz (he/him) maps the topography of science fiction before 1985. No AI. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: sciencefictionruminations.com
Future-focused fan of #SciFi and #SpeculativeFiction. Wondering where everything is going in general.
Scottish resident SF/F author (he/him/they/them). Three times Hugo Award winner, 30+ novels in print. Does not play well with Nazis. Abolish the monarchy!
Born in a world with 320ppm atmospheric CO2, 3.3 billion people.
@cstross.bsky.social on Bluesky
blog at: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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Writing Speculative Fiction to help people feel more human. Has given up touching computers after 40+ years on moral grounds.
Masking in public 😷
Dramatis personae:
H……Partner. Brilliant, kind, fierce. Known each other all our lives.
G……H's adult son. Is amazing. Transgender, has a limb difference and mobility issues. We support him unquestioningly. 🏳️⚧️
Profile picture: A middle-aged, masculine, bald person with glasses, with an orange tabby cat on their shoulder.
Writer/narrative designer. Author of Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games. Credits and signed scripts found at https://www.christymarx.com
Servant of the Moggy Horde. Currently owned by 3 cats: Kelly, Ozzy, and Tuxita.
She/her Living on Wintu lands
Essays @ http://tor.com. Ursacki winner. 6x Hugo finalist. Editor, 6x Aurora-nominated Young People Read Old SFF. CSFFA Hall of Fame nominee. Perennial Darwin Award nominee.
That's all folks...
