A lot of people are saying you can't make it good until it exists, and this is true. So I'm not gonna add another one of those and instead say this: Even if it's not ever as good as you want it to be, it will exist, and it will almost surely mean something to someone.

I just finished Paladin’s Faith (by T. Kingfisher), and I am going mildly feral over that epilogue. Now to wait for Judith’s book…

A morning with shower writing revelations is always a good morning. It would be helpful if the shower revelations were related to either of the short story deadlines coming up, though.

“Smartphone adoption took years!” Yeah because they were ludicrously expensive. Nobody was breaking into our houses and leaving smartphones on our tables.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

I love writing code at 5 am

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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The most-downloaded book on Project Gutenberg yesterday was The City of God by St. Augustine of Hippo. What a time we live in.

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

It’s actually a promo sticker of the @duckprintspress.com mascot redesigned as my book’s main character, mid-transformation. So, a different but of course very accurately drawn bird. Alessa Riel is the artist, but I don’t think she has a bluesky.

I, personally, am melting down, though as someone with this @ellisjrosen.bsky.social comic on my kobo case, I’m probably not a representative American…

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

“…agents at the airport drove Batra to ICE’s field office in Harlingen in an unmarked van. She had been there many times… Office staff recognized her as she was being processed. Agents posed for photos with her handcuffed, which they said was for ‘social media,’ according to the habeas filing.”

Witch Hat Atelier night overlapping with Make Some Noise night means I might actually start looking forward to Mondays

So excited that there’s going to be a sequel!! I love this story

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

Rem’s books are GREAT! Go check them out!

Reading three Singing Hills books and finishing the latest season of Frieren was a very appropriate pairing this weekend

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

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Calvin Duncan, a man imprisoned for 30 years before he was exonerated, won an election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him Now, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in

ME TO CAT: You get fed every day at 6 CAT: Cool, cool cool, I'll start howling at you about it at 3:45 so you don't forget. ME: I've literally never forgotten. CAT: So the reminders are working...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities..labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it..with fifteen political appointees” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

ICE thugs kidnapped & deported 2 Durham Public School students—aged 6 & 11 I know someone whose grand-kid goes to a DPS school & the kid is seeing a therapist because they’re suffering severe anxiety *about their school friends being kidnapped* ICE can’t be “reformed” www.wral.com/news/local/s...

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

Naming characters is always hard. Trying to find an old-school British name for the villain in my WIP presented a new challenge: every time I hit a name and went “Aha, that could work!” I realized it resonated because it was the name of a villain in another fantasy series.

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

Artemis II has brought joy for me this week. I love this patch and its representation of indigenous art, knowledge, and lifeways. Did you know that the expertise and craft of Navajo women in New Mexico were critical components for the success of the moon landing? www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW US electricity data ⚡️🇺🇸 In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

concentration camps

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

When a robber holds a whole bank hostage, but then decides to free them, he still goes to jail. Just saying.

We didn't deserve this day.

Ali Ghamsari, a musician, on Monday in front of the Damavand power plant!

The Five Calls app now has a script for you about not committing genocide in Iran. Please call and leave messages to your Reps and Senators. 5calls.org

I am deeply jealous of UK residents for being able to read this book already—every fantasy fan in the UK should take advantage of this (and read the first if you haven’t already)

"They should impeach him!" Articles of impeachment against Trump were introduced *yesterday* www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”

This is something that affects all women - trans, cis, intersex - and people who refuse to accept that are a part of the problem. While 'gender criticals' focus their attention on other survivors such as trans people, male violence and patriarchy continues to increase.

The Vegreville Pysanka, or Ukrainian Easter Egg, isn't just a very famous roadside attraction, it is a true marvel. It influenced the design of the Space Shuttle. It was a notable first in computer modelling. Oh, and it is also a weather vane! This is its story. 🧵 1/8

Just saw over on Instagram that @firestorm.coop, a really awesome worker-owned radical bookstore and mutual aid hub in Asheville, NC, is struggling financially and needs support to stay open. I highly recommend buying books from them, and becoming a sustainer on Patreon if you can!

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

This is the original, before brightening in post processing, from NASA’s twitter, for those confused about the light source.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."