Finally, Doc Brown will be able to fuel his Time Machine without having to work with terrorists. This is the future we were promised.

gender of the day:

Good news everyone, the German word for a Roomba is "Saugroboter" which means "suck robot"

I'll be in conversation with @edenrobins.bsky.social, and if you haven't read her book yet it's written all in obituaries and was a finalist for the LeGuin. I cannot wait for this!

We asked 100 people what is a good name for a man

there’s music for literally every activity

One of the funniest things to me about living in this small town is that when the cops catch someone with drugs or guns or both, they make a little photo tableau of their haul - a still-life, if you will - and post it to their Facebook page.

Gold Coast Chicago Tesla, the midwest hub of Tesla protests, is gone.

A Very 21st Century Tale of Insomnia: waking up at 3am to the whirring of your robot vacuum, and then staying up with anxiety that your town could turn an empty mall into a data center

If mayonnaise was a podcast

before and after smoking a big explosive cartoon cigar

Good shirt tbh (benefits @psabortionfund.bsky.social)

After reading the comments and quote posts here, now I really want to know *every* job's realistic percentage breakdown of tasks!!

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing a tale of bad weather, monsters from beyond the reef, vengeance, murder, friendship, magic, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Happy 9th anniversary to my letting sexy lady Tom Holland live rent-free in my head forever

I call this piece, "I Have a Book Coming Out"

I hope this email finds you when you’re not looking.

This appears to, uh, still be happening! Plus the paperback is also like 3 bucks!

I never met Tony Stella, but he illustrated my spaghetti western essay at @brightwalldarkroom.com (he loved those movies too!) and I literally could not believe my luck. I mean look at this. I have admired his art ever since. What a loss. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/06/29/m...

Another way to support authors is by requesting public libraries to purchase books they don’t have on the shelves. My library allows up to 3 purchase suggestions per month per user.

Millennium. Milennium? Millenium? Willennium.

To find out the answer, pre-order @megelison.bsky.social’s new book Foundling Fathers, out this July. tachyonpublications.com/product/foun...

HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth and GPS technology. Hell of a lady.

AI technodeterminism is just the same old tired story of manifest destiny. Because powerful white men like it and it enriches them, it is therefore not only inevitable, but natural, even holy

My god, this sounds AMAZING #Booksky

First trade review for DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY (by me & MW Garguilo under the top secret pseudonym @birdiehorne.bsky.social)... and look! We didn't get eviscerated by Kirkus!! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Please sign and share this necessary letter to the Jewish Book Council! "We are Jewish authors who believe in Jewish books, and for whom Palestinian liberation is a moral imperative." lithub.com/an-open-lett...

Watched a movie from the 80s last night in which a woman's face was physically able to frown and was like whoa!! remember when we were allowed to do that

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Hannah Einbinder is a Real One.

Living in a Make-A-Wish simulation for one demented pedophile stinks.

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

I don't know about you, but I do not think that our nation's worst representatives in congress should take the role of our community's school boards in deciding what is best for each community. Creating a mandate like HR 7661 to remove whatever books some kook in DC doesn't like is wild

If you're saying to yourself, "you know what my spring is missing? a novel about death" then have I got good news for you. Remember You Will Die ebooks are $1.99 for all of April! Stock up your cellar for summer! www.amazon.com/dp/B0CS1GV1TY

Just a little informal poll - did you know that the "G" in G-spot stands for... "Grafenberg"? Ernst Grafenberg was okay, as far as those guys go, but like why did he get to name a body part Anyway, happy belated International Women's Day

Recent pick -- I really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Less recent? SO BIG by Edna Ferber

Please buy my books so I can buy more books, thank you for your attention to this crucial matter

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

You can't have a creative life without failure, sorry!! So why not develop a benign relationship to it? Join us tonight for a little taste of how to make that happen!

Never thought I'd spend so much of my time on this planet reassuring computers that I'm not a robot

Living under capitalism is like being forced to play a board game you dislike where the rules are boring, unfair and nonsensical but which the winners, who started with an advantage, keep explaining are excellent, and if you try improve the game you’re “cheating” but if you stop playing you’ll die

I don't know if it's just due to delirium from being at the airport for 4 hours, but it appears a young kid is helping another young kid put on a giant inflatable dragon costume with no adults in sight

Digging into the phenomenology of cheeseburgers is the sort of thing that keeps me coming back to the internet, despite everything

First up, a book I read all the way back in January, and which came out in 2024. I am so glad it made the LeGuin shortlist, because until that point, I was distressed how little I'd seen it being discussed for how /interesting/ it is. It is Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins.

Remember You Will Die by @edenrobins.bsky.social is an alternate history sci-fi told entirely in obituaries. I can't remember when I've read something so original while also taking big formal risks. A triumph.

Well! This was a nice surprise!! Remember You Will Die is Google Play's favorite sci-fi read of 2025! play.google.com/store/books/...

this is so real