squad goals

Would just like to say that I was always Team Brian on "My So-Called Life" and now that Jordan is grown up I rest my case.

Waiting for a reboot of The Omen where Thiel fights Yudkowsky, hopefully with breath weapons and maybe like lasers that shoot out of their fingers www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It was a good song

I like how every protest quickly develops a weird and delightful meme about itself.

Vote for the iconic New Scientist podcast for Signal Listener's Choice awards! I write a monthly column for @newscientist.com and they are a bunch of lovely nerds who want to make you smarter and teach you a few dad jokes along the way.

Here's a super thoughtful take on "One Battle After Another" from @davidjroth.bsky.social ... he puts it in the context of 1970s thrillers whose style informed the film. Then he identifies what makes it different. And maybe more hopeful. Only on @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

I can't wait for @litquake.org, the SF Bay Area's iconic festival for people who love to read and write. Check out @coyotemedia.org's guide to what's happening -- I hope to see you there!!!

A bittersweet series about what we have lost, but also what we could regain if we lived in a country that supported basic research again.

Dear [Author], Your book [Title] is wonderful. I had painful urination and blood in my urine for years, until I read [Title] and now there is a clear golden stream. [Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cyber-turtles can post honest reviews and raise your Zoob ranking, for a modest

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

"One Battle After Another" was so good. I keep thinking about it. The perfect combination of satire, tragedy, and hope.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

So excited for my first resistance studies class with Prof. @karenattiah.bsky.social ... it's about to start!! ✊

@georgejohnston.bsky.social hey George I'm writing an essay for Flaming Hydra about the history of review bombing, and I'm arguing that your successful Google bomb is a key part of the story ... any chance I could ask you a couple of questions by email/phone/whatever you prefer?

On @ouropinions.bsky.social this week, we've got pumpkin season book recommendations and an amazing tale of science, hellbenders, and predator-phobia.

Apropos of nothing, I would like to point out that large companies whose business model is "serve words to the public" will typically pay between US $.10 and $3.00 per word. So when you give words to a company for free, you are in fact paying them a LOT of money.

Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11 artsatthearmory.org/events/bill-...

i personally prefer not to marinate in bot driven hate speech & science denial journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... and i hope bsky does not succumb to the forces that degraded most maybe all other social networks

Jello has collagen in it. That is why jello wrestlers look so young.

You're taking major Ls when the people who have literally worked T&S before stop having your back because you've gone beyond the best practices that still unavoidably piss off users, to pissing off users unnecessarily. There's a difference!

Articulate, informed, and measured in the face of masked, lawless enforcers with guns and teargas. THIS is politics done the right way.

OK, have spent second half of my day reading while travelling from Whitley Bay to Stockport to be on caring duty for weekend and while I didn't know I needed *cosy sci-fi* about robots starting a noodle restaurant in post-civil war San Francisco in my life Automatic Noodles very much hit the spot

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

The renaissance of the jello dessert is yet another sign that our culture is in a seriously bad place

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]

This is tonight!! In Berkeley!!! ⚡📚

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Some terrible identity thief used my email address to vote in Fat Bear Week! This is shocking and now I have to use somebody else's random email address to cast my own vote. Will the corruption never end?

STARRED review in Library Journal for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social and me! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

every trans person in the US has a line. it's different for everyone but it exists. it says, "across this line i need to flee the country." a set of conditions where existing here is harder or more dangerous than leaving. the worst part is that most of us won't be able to when that line is crossed.

I've been hearing from a lot of booksellers and readers that Automatic Noodle is sold out in stores. We have a 2nd printing in the works! In the meantime, please backorder the book from your local indie so the publisher knows you want it. That helps me and the bookstore! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years. The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

These researchers are still looking for lice from a few more mammals, if you happen to have any that meet this description. NGL I really need to know more about aardvark lice.

and to also tie this to the longer history of astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology (since @chanda.bsky.social is a cosmologist), astronomer Frank Kameney was arrested in the 1950s during a similar operation at a San Francisco bus station, which prevented him from working with the space program

This DTES non-profit that helps people get jobs is on the brink of closing. Here's how you can help

One of my favorite writers needs your support to write more of their goddamn amazing books. Please help out if you can.

Winston-Salem! This weekend! Come say hi and meet a bunch of nice authors (including me)!

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance theconversation.com/from-anime-t... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social

Got to talk about ~hot historical gossip~ with @annaleen.bsky.social on this week's Weirdest Thing! Also: skate park archaeology www.popsci.com/science/arch...

This is going to be so hot it will burn your cerebral cortex off, then replace it with an upgraded cerebral cortex that works at twice the speed but makes random errors thirty percent of the time. Which is totally worth it.

Very important question: If I write :) instead of 😀 do I look cool and retro or anachronistic and indecipherable?

We would also appreciate $20

Of course this is happening

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

Hey just finished “Automatic Noodle” book by @annaleen.bsky.social and it’s delightful. I feel it’s part of a new sci-fi genre that focus on place and cozy belonging like the books by Becky Chambers. Different, wholesome. Fun read. I can recommend.

What would you do with large rice? Slice it open and stick some cheese inside, then grill it? Sort of a rice pupusa?