Super interesting discussion about rereading Tolkien, especially fun to listen to now, in the time of alllll the Tolkien rereadings.

Everything Trump Touches Dies

Fuck yeah Pittsburgh

This whole thread, but especially this part....

"Patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent."

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Omg this is exactly how it happens

I'm seated.

Excellent thread on how Google is driving enshittification of the web...

And now, your moment of Zen...

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Fascinating, stunning, and perfect in every way. #Birds 🫶🏼

✔️ Eldest ✔️ Fatherless ✔️ Cavorting weirdly ✔️ Spouting madness-inducing gibberish ✔️ Trod the shores of Lake Hali ere the bleak obsidian monuments of Carcosa were raised

I was explaining to someone recently that they really do not need an LLM to edit their writing. "That's what a human is for. You could hire an editor. You can join a writing group. You can send it to a friend.."

Everything about this story is awesome

If gender is something that can change, it is much harder to use as a chain. The promise of making all women slaves again is what keeps the gender panic factory in business. (me adding hot sauce to Charlie Jane's already spicy newsletter)

Guess I'm buying an X-Men title again...

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had

😭😭😭

100% pure unadulterated realness in this skeet

I am proud to share the website my students and I collaborated on this term showcasing UCLA's Ainu-related collections! ✨ Together we researched holdings of the library, Special Collections, and Fowler Museum to document and enhance catalog information on their materials. peopleofthenorth.github.io

Been while since I did a #LastFourWatched for ##LetterboxdFriday...

The single thing that costs conservatives the most artists by far is homophobia. There’s simply no building a parallel culture industry of cishet people & hoping for success

Too real

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

The extroverts are at it again.

Suzee discovers fresh catmint... #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky

Damn. A seminal talent in the J-horror field whose unique, genre-blending imagination will be much missed.

I would expand on this a little. Short thread on de Camp and his complicated legacy.

Such an important distinction for dismantling the societal myths that disguise the very real impact of privilege on "talent."

Your 9 o'clock photo is actually a video and your 77 seconds of nature zen. If a loosely defined meaning of zen includes a deafening roar. Anyway, Horsetail Falls, Oregon's Columbia River Gorge, 4 May 2026. Toward the end I look a little bit downstream and you can see a bit of the bridge.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Sometimes you are ready to face the work day and sometimes you are down a rabbit hole looking at 2,000 BCE Japanese pottery that looks like Snorlax before 8AM.

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

the Sacramento zoo has 6 BABY CAPYBARAS

You’ve been blessed by the Good Morning lemon shark 🥱🍋🦈🌞 #lemonshark #sharksofcoralcity #goodmorning #shark #coralcitycamera

Why everyone and their brother wants to beef with the dictionary, I will never know 😂

Mother used to say burial was a form of forgiveness. Take something precious, something once cherished. Give it to the soil to do its work, without rancor. Forgive it, and yourself, the loss. Let the beloved go to be made anew in the long forge of nature. Walk free without it.

kaiju (but make it haiku) the moth i become grows tangential to your flame my wings blot the sun

Share a gif from a Western you love...

God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth

Looking forward to Hegseth completing his arc wherein, following a miraculous near death experience, he realizes his life of violence is antithetical to the will of a moral universe and so he gives away all his money and walks the Earth seeking divine interjection. You know, like Caine in Kung Fu.

guys, this is how you lose the time war

I agree that people shouldn't be negatively polarized into treating the Catholic Church as a net good in the world but if you're pretending it's not funny that the pope saying "bombing schools is bad" made our government invent Anglicanism from first principles, you're just a buzzkill

Hello, Hailstorm, my old friend.

@katiecampbell.bsky.social of @kuow.org just posted this terrific short interview with @stephengrahamjones.com on The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and on how horror helps us stay alive. Very thoughtful questions from Katie! I learn something new with every SGJ interview. www.kuow.org/stories/step...

lol wut