Robin Kay

self-styled influencer
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[Robin Kay @robinckay]

I'm taking on The Push-Up Challenge to push for better mental health in Australia. You can push for better mental health too by donating to my fundraiser for The The Push For Better Foundation: https://t.co/l35CBkccH2 Any donation, big or small, is really appreciated!

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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160 push ups today because 1 in 6 Australians report feeling lonely. @pushforbetter

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

10 Best Hard Sci-Fi Books Of All Time https://t.co/2nNc9sPrGT

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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I’m doing 130 push ups today for the 1 in 3 people turning to AI for mental health or wellness support. (My tip: don’t believe everything ai says) Note: the first $100,000 donations today will be matched by NSR. @pushforbetter

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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Today’s target is 170 push ups for the 1 in 7 school age students experiencing mental illnesses each year. Note: the first $100,000 donations from 10am AEST tomorrow will be matched by NSR. @pushforbetter

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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After week 1, I am feeling stronger, looking forward to today’s push ups. 140 of them because regular movement is associated with a 14% decrease in distress. @pushforbetter

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

Week 1 down, three to go! I’m doing 3,307 push-ups this month as part of The Push-Up Challenge for better mental health in Australia. This represents the 3,307 people who died by suicide in 2024. You can help by donating at https://t.co/ptCtbhnFQn @PushForBetter

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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Today I’m doing 150 push ups, for the 1.5 million Aussies living with mood conditions including depression. Actually I would think the real number is higher than that. @pushforbetter

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

Colin and Rowena play a game where a quizmaster asks Colin to fill in one COLUMN of a 3×3 grid with three 1s or -1s whose product is -1, then asks Rowena to do the same for one ROW with three numbers whose product is 1.

If they agree for the square in common, they win one point.

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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Today I’m doing 120 push ups, representing the minutes of REM sleep each night. Feel like I could do with a few more tonight. But the push ups are getting easier. @pushforbetter

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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Today’s push up target is 72, for the percentage of men who don’t seek help when faced with mental health challenges.

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

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I’m in training for the push up challenge starting 3rd June. Currently, I can do 35 in a row. From experience I know that by the end of the challenge I’ll double that. I’ll need to. The biggest day will be 229 push ups. All for a great cause.

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

Literary Hub » In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction https://t.co/sIYdbIs9DA

[Ron Howard @RealRonHoward]

The Psychedelic Puppet Treatment for A Manic Episode https://t.co/6SYsYFbigi via @YouTube

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.

I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.

[Robin Kay @robinckay]

@gregeganSF I thought it was just meant to be an absurd joke. The tone, especially the humour, is all over the place but I still find the main plot intriguing. Could have done without the OTT incompetent agent.

[metachirality @metachirality]

@flawedaxioms greg egan has written fiction taking place in a universe with 4 spatial dimensions and 0 time dimensions and a universe with 2 spatial dimensions and 2 time dimensions
https://t.co/KWfeJwvIw2
https://t.co/rTTd8P2Rip

[Maurizio Manzieri @MManzieri]

Announcing the anthology "THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION ON EARTH 3" edited by Allan Kaster! It includes stories by Greg Egan, Cory Doctorow, Nancy Kress, Pat Murphy, and many others. (Art by Maurizio Manzieri / Publisher: Infinivox SciFi / publication date: Nov 21, 2025).

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

A huge, beautiful library of tessellated materials in biology!

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

If you missed my story “Death and the Gorgon” from 2024, it’s reprinted here along with 15 other “concept-driven, near-future ideas about people interacting with technology”.