Not just in the area. There's one more virtual con coming in may before WisCon returns to in person again, and even then there will be plenty of volunteering that can be done from afar.

Heidi Waterhouse posts about 3d printing whistles, as people with sewing machines made masks in 2020. But it doesn't require as much of your attention, so people with access to *farms* of printers can do it in bulk. heidiwaterhouse.com/political-wh... for info on distribution once they're made.

What's your sign?

My Somerville city council endorsements, hopefully not too late to be useful to someone at least. TLDR: Istvan, Klekota, Spicer, Wheeler. totient.dreamwidth.org/199180.html

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. I always think of the witty rejoinder in the moment and never six hours later.

What perfect album came out when you were sixteen? (Not politically perfect, just musically.)

For the last almost three months at my new job I have been figuring out who I needed to talk to and scheduling meetings with them to do so. Just now I got a meeting invite from someone who had figured out that I was who they needed to talk to.

More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.

You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? My first double feature is going to be in 70mm. Which you'd think would make me say The Searchers (1956) and Hateful Eight (2015). But no. Tron (1982) and Akira (1988).

After the panel on interiority trails off, Erin Roberts breaks the silence with "Interiority is what we're doing right now". #readercon34

"If we have to follow rules, then what's the point?" -- Shariann again. #readercon34

"Also, human adults only have an 11 second... um... uh... ... attention span." -- Shariann Lewitt #readercon34

"I don't write short [fiction] because I don't have time to do the complexity you need." -- Andrea Hairston #readercon

"Can it be Jello wrestling?" -- Cecilia Tan

"It's like Rick and Morty with characters you can give a shit about." -- Charlie Jane Anders, describing _The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy_

"I tend to write bisexual heroes. Of course they want to save the world with their bisexuality!" -- Cecilia Tan

From a panel on incoherent SF: "It works because Harlan is Harlan" -- Richard Butner

The next time I am at a place where Nick is signing things, remind me to bring a weapon for him to sign.

Readercon quote: "Recent future SF" -- Marianna Martin, not on purpose

This sounds fantastic.

Went to the farmers' market for collards and the post office for stamps before they went up. Stopped at two lemonade stands on the way home. People criticize the educational value of lemonade stands as unrealistic, but isn't late stage capitalism all about externalizing costs and evading regulation?

The meltdown is because the Dems can no longer ignore the choice in front of them between standing up to fascism or splitting the party, and they don't want to stand up to fascism.

If you think a group of workere should strike (or not strike) it’s very simple. 1. Get a job doing that work 2. Organize your workplace 3. Convince your coworkers to do that thing 4. Do it your self (together) Until you do all that, don’t tell other workers they should strike

THIS IS THE BEST ONE MAMDANI GET TO WORK

Carl Sagan called the phone for the SETI lab I worked in. He asked if my boss was there. I said "yes" and went to get him.

A month in, and the new job has already knocked a lot of rust off of my bug hunting skills.

I was looking to see if QUIC cited my work on packet reordering (not directly, but it cites RFCs that cite my work). Along the way I found a literature review that calls the paper in question "seminal". I'll keep avoiding that word on my resume, but maybe add "highly influential" to "widely cited".

Get Ready for WisCONline 2025 on Memorial Day Weekend file770.com/get-ready-fo...

Our current cultural moment is the Brood X of our puritan origins. All our worst beliefs re-emerging from the dirt to haunt us, just when we thought we were past it

What. Next they'll be saying libraries are unethical. The real question has become, is it ethical to continue linking to New York Times articles, or has it become harmful to keep treating them like they're still a real newspaper.

100% agree with this. I don't want popes campaigning against the legality of abortion or gay marriage. And, criticism of Pope Pius XII for his silence during the Holocaust is absolutely valid.

This is tomorrow! It looks like folks are gathering for the 3pm Meletharb stop.

Someone with better skills than me (that is, any skills) put the Pope in the back seat please.

Dreamwidth is the new Harvard?

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Tau Oh wait someone beat me to it.

And, importantly, art. Art is currently not dutiable into the US, Japan, or the EU. US based international art shows can continue as they have been. Art from Canada, Switzerland, and some other places is still a pain to bring into the US but that is a function of those countries' laws, not US law.

A week from today, as is my custom, I will be cycling my age in miles. I'll be stopping at Meletharb in Wakefield for ice cream as I pass by it both outbound and inbound, and I'd love company for that.

Somerville Open Studios is this weekend. I am showing in the basement of Mad Oyster Studios. So far it is going well.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

This post pretty much sums up the culture here.

I know the point of memes is you're supposed to come up with your own version. But this one is already perfect for me, no notes.

Part of me wants to to back and watch Babylon 5. Part of me *really* doesn't want to go back and watch Babylon 5.

I have zero patience for accelerationism. But since we are here, I admit I didn't account for the increased visibility for all the terrible things that were already going on. Might as well reinforce that new awareness and try to get some leverage out of it.

Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs.

If anyone is going to redefine where the aisle is it's going to be AOC.

So many. Dim sum at Ocean Star in Monterey Park. Iruña in Harvard Square. A little Korean breakfast place in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The tuna melts at Emma's in Kendall Square. Egyptian Pizza in Baltimore. Dozens more I'm sure.

How I arrived on Bluesky

The Papal Tenenbaums