Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

The Batte Man doth knowe the trouthe

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

Tune in right here on April 21 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time to find out who the finalists are for the 2026 Hugo Awards for Science Fiction.

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

Played the demo for this and it absolutely rocked. #indiegame #RPG #strategy

BRENNAN: Did they mine the strait? Because Trump also said they might not have TURNER: You'll have to ask the president BRENNAN: That's the point. Congress hasn't been briefed TURNER: It's his tweet B: You're a member of oversight and armed services TURNER: You'll have to ask the president

What is with the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal calling less than a day of discussion “marathon talks?“

How the fuck is the president and Secretary of State at a UFC fight in Miami while war negotiations affecting the world economy are falling apart. And I know that MFer isn’t going to try to play golf tomorrow too.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

I'm usually too slow to reviews arcs! Not the case for @richardswanauthor.bsky.social's new and incredible Spy-Fi The Infinite State. Here's my seditious findings... The Infinite State, Decurion saga book 1 by Richard Swan fanfiaddict.com/the-infinite...

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

You're a foreign official campaigning in a foreign election for one preferred side, JD. Think about it. Take all the time you need.

From April 10, 1988. Hard to believe FoxTrot is 38 years old today...

Hummingbirds are tiny, yet have such presence.

Why does this happen? Two candidate mechanisms: 1) AI resets your reference point for how long things "should" take. Unaided work suddenly feels harder than it actually is, -- a kind of hedonic adaptation. 2) AI removes the productive struggle through which you learn what you're capable of.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

A STONE IN HEAVEN (1979) Acrylic on Masonite Most of my early assignments for Ace were on reprints of classic paperbacks that already had covers by luminaries in the field like Kelly Freas and Ed Emshwiller. 1/3

The novel It destroyed its cage Yes YES The novel is out Published today: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I miss mass market paperbacks. #booksky

Apparently my phone now thinks it is acceptable to add whole phrases into my texts without me asking it to. This “AI assistance” garbage has to go. If I wanted to write that phrase, I’d have done so!

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"You did it! You crazy son of a bitch, you did it!" An essay in which I write about James Gurney's illustrated utopian adventure fiction novel DINOTOPIA: A LAND APART FROM TIME and tell you why it's pretty fucking awesome. Plus, images of lots of Gurney's art, including his sff covers from the 80s!

🚀🚀🚀 The BSFA Awards Shortlist is available to view now 👇 Congratulations to everyone shortlisted 🌟 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

"Translation is essential to the growth of science fiction as an international literature." - Dennis Kratz in Neil Barron's ANATOMY OF WONDER, 4th ed. (1995) #sff #SFinTranslation #translation

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

Few things are as satisfying as crawling under a mountain of blankets on a cold evening knowing you can sleep 8 hours.

It’s #IndieApril! What are some recent indie sci-fi/fantasy novels you’ve read and loved? #booksky

Maybe the best development on the internet in recent years is our collective acknowledgement that April Fools Day sucks assssss.

Doing our darndest over here at Brackenbury Books!

YES! HA HA HA… YES!

Hey Congress, Any President, regardless of political party, who threatens to order the United States Military to commit war crimes needs to be impeached immediately. If he does give these orders, he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court.

Absolute Wonder Woman was amazing. This “Absolute” line from DC has been incredible. #comics #booksky

Art by Martin and Roger Dean and Richard Clifton-Dey originally intended for Jeff Wayne’s 1977 War of the Worlds album, but never used.

Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"

Really bleak stuff here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

I just finished this #indie book: "The Last of the Wild Days: Book One - Spring" by Daniel J. Loney. It's a dark fantasy that (adult) readers of Redwall will absolutely love. A few foibles about editing, but this indie novel is spectacular. And look at that cover! #booksky #indiebooks #books

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

Who counts. Who gets to call herself a woman. If a DNA test says something they don't like, you're out. Born female, raised female, lived your whole life as a woman. Doesn't matter. You're out.

“I don’t need to worry about missiles because they’re not in the Bible?” See how this gets ridiculous quickly? Literalism is a disaster. Evangelicalism is a disaster. Inerrancy is a disaster.

Luthen is possibly my favorite character on screen ever.

Andor.

At a church in 2022, DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin defended hitting kids with a belt: “We must be willing to discipline our kids too. …I was raised by the fear of a belt. …The discipline was just, wasn’t overreacted. …So I learned respect from the discipline.”

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

I’ve been reading a lot of indie sci-fi and fantasy recently and running into many good books. It’s wonderful to find indie- and self-published authors out there not using AI and making wonderful stories. #BookSky