Wishing everyone a Happy Pride from Boston!

Want to read a review about the Masters of the Universe movie from a Hugo Award winning fan writer who has passion and depth of knowledge about the verse? @corabuhlert.bsky.social has you covered: file770.com/masters-of-t...

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

This book absolutely owned. A very loose retelling of Cinderella that is told with strong prose from the perspective of the stepmother. An incredible debut #booksky

“Opposition to data centers is NIMBY-ISM” must go so hard if you rent out the empty space between your ears for storage

The wait is over! 🎉 The #CuldceptTheFirst demo is now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3825600/... Experience the beginning of the legendary card-battling board game series for yourself. And tune in to the live stream featuring Andyman as we explore the demo with @clearrivergames.bsky.social !

The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) announces its semifinalists for year #5! Congrats to those still in the running and thanks to everyone who takes part.

Reporting on how Talarico is reaching new people with his relatively run-of-the-mill mainline Christianity really shows how the media and political dominance of right wing evangelicalism has constrained the American religious imagination.

Team ZAPS Semifinalists!! Yes, it's that day!! The day we announce our semifinalists! While we have attempted to read in full nearly every book allotted to us, sometimes it's impossible. It becomes pretty obvious at around 10% to 20% mark if a book is for us or not, and since we had at least two…

I had a special moment with a painted bunting perched and singing just feet in front of me. I guess I do wild bird portraits now. #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

Happy #pridemonth !! This very rare but I have all my pride products 20% off, just for 1 week If you want to support an actual🏳️‍⚧️queer🏳️‍🌈 run business! here u go ✨ www.alieninajar.com 👽

Looking for a banner to throw on Facebook for trans pride (as support). Bing image search is all AI slop. Anyone have one you’re willing to share? #transpride #pridemonth

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

thinking about this a lot today

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023 in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride. you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/sho... you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/...

Strawberry economics (part 2):

Google had perfected something to the point that its brand name became a common verb and then they decided, wait, let's fuck that up completely.

These are now my favorite things.

I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened

Tried to figure out which elected officials in the U.S. have the largest constituencies. (Inspired by a @taniel.bsky.social post!) www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

“Church is the church of sinners and not of the righteous.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (DBWE 15:445) #bonhoeffer #theology

I’m starting work on my fourth book with St. Martin’s, about megalodon this round. I said I’m going to be queer and violent and awestruck again and they said hell yeah, when can you have it in, and I feel pretty proud about that - and the T. rex story I have coming out this year.

Shocker.

True elegance in the kill: blue heron vs. baby alligator. An incredible photograph by Matthew Blake.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

Dickens’s criticisms of society are still relevant today. And that’s pretty rough.

**blows the dust off**

I know it’s a drop in the ocean, but compositing is so satisfying and makes you see how much waste you’re not passing on.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

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.”

Lit mags are like trees, the best time to support them was a year ago. The second best time is now.

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

A MEDICATED WARRIOR IS A LETHAL WARRIOR.

One of many failed attempts futurism.com/robots-and-m...

I’ve gotten so used to playing as Hive in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era that I accidentally ran all my ranged units toward the enemy. Ranged units? What a novelty. Hive!!!!

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

✨ Our new website is now LIVE ✨ After 10 years of celebrating the best in African speculative fiction, we’re proud to launch the new home of the Nommo Awards: 🌍 nommoawards.org #NommoAwards #AfricanSpeculativeFiction #AfricanSF #Afrofuturism #AfricanFutures #SpeculativeFiction

“The Count of Monte Cristo” “The Dispossessed” “Shadow of the Torturer”

I mean… Vash isn’t the worst choice! #Trigun

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is insanely good. Based around a critique of unfair court systems, it led to reform of the English courts. The critique feels relevant to this day. And Dickens’s humor and attacks on inequity remain as fresh as ever. #booksky

the FBI as make-a-wish foundation except instead of going to Disneyland it’s just the stupidest and most disrespectful bullshit anyone has ever come up with

Welcome to #TransTuesday! Let me tell you about TRANS PANIC It basically goes, "I didn't know she was trans and I panicked and assaulted her!" And the vast majority of our country has said yes, this is a valid legal defense in court. It's HORRID.

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.

Thanks to Katie Carr on Threads, I just learned: in 1996, the cast of the newly-launched “Star Trek: Voyager” got together to do a feature for Parade magazine about the power of late-’90s technology. Behold its fabulously unhinged glory. 1/