This story by @librariangoblin.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social from last year is a delight. Fun riffs on everything from Borges to Thoreau to Gödel.

Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. - J. Adams

The Strange Studies podcast, Kenneth Hite, baboon commentary, and one of the all-time great Conan stories, just in time for a holiday weekend? Keep your treasures, O mines of Ophir! For all the lucre I need is here.

Happy book birthday to Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, the rerelease of my Nebula and Philip K. Dick finalist novel about the human-AI hybrids who are judges & executioners in the far future. Thanks to @apexmag.bsky.social for bringing out the new edition! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

20. Cheese Map of Europe, by the fine folks at Hog Island Press. www.hogislandpress.com/product/the-... #MapMonday

Alas, no whimsy-filled poems, but there is a story: "The Princeps, after witnessing the debasement and massacre of those his whimsy touched, was polishing off a plate of peacocks’ tongues and listening to an old song about the Phoenix." "The Hunting of the Phoenix" by @slharris.bsky.social

If there's one thing I'm more certain of than the outcome of the governor's race, it's that the bird situation is going to end really well for everyone.

Small Wonders is a treasure.

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If the tablet won't come to the CT scanner... (gift link)

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My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Duran Duran: “I’m hungry like the wolf.” Dad: Hi, “Hungry Like The Wolf.” I’m Dad. buff.ly/mbwlQPg

A Red Letter Day for #Tolkien readers! Newly-public Tolkien letter solves old mystery about what Sam's cousin Hal saw beyond the North Moors. Please, come enjoy all the details in my new blog post! www.miriamellis.com/post/new-tol...

Feeling and thinking a lot about the semiquin, after so many years of investing in 250 programs across many institutions. This article is a great reminder of the very local very specific very expert work that it’s bringing forth.🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/t...

John Crowley, Daemonomania (2000).

Turnip snowman

Showing the Lord of the Rings in 35mm and handing out free tree saplings at said showings seems like a trap designed to lure me, specifically. musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

I really can't recommend this collection highly enough. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy!

Great find and writeup

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

Enter your name into this NASA image generator to have it spelled out by various rivers and landmasses. You can refresh 🌎🔭🛰️ science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

I've come to love cooking baby bok choi which means that I spend approximately 60 hours a week cleaning dirt out of baby bok choi stems.

Chicago, I’m pleased to inform you that your juneberries/serviceberries are either ready or almost so.

There’s no player I’m rooting for harder to get another callup then Rikuu Nishida.

The White Sox have played their last three games against the two best teams in the sport and won them all. Are they convincing the rest of the league that they're legit? "It doesn't matter what they believe. We stay with us. We believe it." soxmachine.com/2026/06/whit...

The only marketing hype I approve of is for vegetable seeds. Mortgage Lifter? Kentucky Wonder? Best Boy? Better Boy? Ozark Giant? Millionaire? Keep it coming.

All these bells and whistles on kitchen appliances when what I really want is a toaster that pops the toast comedically high so I can catch it on a plate in the nick of time.

Clarkesworld is a perennially excellent showcase for some of the best speculative fiction being written today. A subscription is worth every penny.

What a piece.

These days the Two Wolves inside me are the middle-aged dad wolf interested in heirloom fixtures and finishes and the middle-aged dad wolf concerned with practicality and economy of installation and repair.

Do you want to read the newest Nebula Award-winning short story? Well you can! Congratulations to author @effies.bsky.social, as well as to everyone at @diabolicalplots.com. This is the second time a DP story has won Best Short!

I think about Robert McC. Adams’ “Strategies of Maximization, Stability, and Resilience in Mesopotamian Society, Settlement, and Agriculture” at least once a day. www.jstor.org/stable/986687

An incredibly well-preserved sieve funnel from Neolithic Bietikow 🇩🇪 used for making cheese #NationalCheeseday 🧀 Its location west of the Oder river suggests those living on the periphery of Linearbandkeramik society produced lots of dairy! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

My affection for the Obama Center’s architecture has gone up now that I imagine it as a friendly cartoon whale popping up above the Midway.

Cool virtual exhibit on textiles from early Islamic Nahal Omer, from the Silk Road Virtual Museum.

"Screw it. Not only will I buy the snacks, but I’ll also buy the massage chair just to prove to you that I wasn’t pretending to look at it in order to be first in line for the snacks earlier."

Great chance for the independently wealthy among you to own a considerable percentage of the AD&D polearms list.

This story is really good, and I think you should read it. Gnomes are also great but I did not spot them in this story.

I know there’s probably a natural explanation, but this felt very #fortean. Saw these tadpoles today swimming in a vast circle (bonus photo of mass of tadpoles that look like a giant tadpole @forteantimes.bsky.social

Super cool

Always love to see an archaeology hut

You’re welcome.

This is ripe for a game of Fiasco

Great list of stories, both the TOC and the Top 80. Lots of favorites from last year in there!

Samtskhe-Javakheti a remarkable archaeological landscape - excited to see this paper.