“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

My daughter misheard this Christmas classic one year and, well.

this is exactly why Mark Kelly et al did that spot telling military and intelligence officers they can refuse illegal orders — there's no way Hegseth or Trump will EVER accept blame for them

Just emailed Grove Atlantic with info and documentation on this scam, about which I've gotten two recent reports. It's being run by publishing scammer WestPage Press. Impersonating publishers with fake contract offers is a very common ploy for this type of scam.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books of 2025 100scopenotes.com/2025/12/01/t...

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

A little over six years since I began writing it, and probably about nine years since I started thinking about it, The Wolf and His King is out in the UK and Ireland today! finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news: They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

In English, someone who is being persistently annoying can be referred to as a “pain in the arse.” My favourite German equivalent is Nervensäge, which means “nerve saw”

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Check out the must-read short fiction of October 2025 if you: - are a short fiction author - love reading short stories - could not be located at 12:35 AM on Wednesday, April 4th, in 1945

This is amazing. Colorized pictures from queer/trans history. We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Incredible story of tracking down the real human behind AI slop stories, by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social

this is how you lose the dish war

It's that time of year

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

This is what country music is supposed to be.

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.

this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Why pay an artist when AI can provide something heartwarming like this?

“ABC11 spoke with Lori Lober, a study participant. Initially, she was given a grim prognosis, with median survival rate of less than 2 to 3% for five years. However, the trial at Duke Health gave her new hope. She has remained disease-free for 24 years.” I could cry.

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

billboard seen in London.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

New Trek film - YAY Not connected to other Trek - BOO The guys who are helming did Homecoming and Dungeons and Dragons - YAY I'm...hmm. New video en route! #StarTrek @trekculture.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/11/star...

Did you know Makary is using 45 year old, 34 year old, and 29 year old observational studies to spread disinformation about MHT? Ignoring newer, far better quality data is misogyny open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

I loooove hearing happy news from writer friends! 🥰🥰🥰 #writesky

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

Tonight was a very bad night.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

A *million* people. Lawn darts were banned forever in Canada after like 50 people got injured. Any company not run by absolute ghouls would shut this thing down. Governments should be banning the fuck out of it.

“Roem…says targeting trans children is a losing proposition. “’The Republican Party is simply wrong about this. People don’t want their politicians signaling out and stigmatizing the very people they’re elected to serve.’” @nbcwashington.com #Virginia #vagov www.nbcwashington.com/news/politic...

This one for me, just because I believe so strongly that AI does nothing good for the arts and harms creatives. (Not to mention those who aren’t creatives but whose livelihood is directly affected by the arts) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

HOPESCROLLING IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOIS

listen, if you're ever despairing about your art or whatever, just ask yourself "is anything i ever make going to be as stupid as a cybertruck?" ✨

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

how the hell did these hackers get in? they must be good...

“...an animal that lives for centuries, in our own world, not in a fantasy novel, really is amazing.” This week's SFF Bestiary celebrates an ancient wonder, as Judith Tarr discusses the Greenland Shark! reactormag.com/oldest-of-th...

New awareness campaign