So basically the education secretary—who's nomination the legislature didn't want to approve, but who somehow got job anyway—forgot to put a reading program in the budget she submitted, and is now trying to blame the legislature for that. #vermont

Audubon Vermont wants your Golden-winged and Blue-winged Warbler sightings. 🐦 #Vermont

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

See you same time Saturday 😎

Nice video by fudefan about Mark's EDiT Notebooks which have fountain pen friendly paper comparable to Tomoe River.

You know, the Secret Service really suck at their jobs.

why does Iran need nukes when they can just switch the strait on and off whenever they want

Found by our delighted son, not sure where.

His audiobook narration for Sabriel by Garth Nix is amazing.

A passage from Timescape by Gregory Benford that I probably would have just breezed past, other than to make a joke about nerds needing pocket protectors, before I got into fountain pens.

I am frequently wrong about women's basketball, but I am never as wrong about women's basketball as Jeff Pagliocca is.

The spare jersey is 26 because it's 2026, Rebecca Lobo. #ncaaw #wbb

Someone sent me this picture from Killington Mountain today. Hope everyone is OK, but the metaphor is good.

Before the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire select their initial rosters on Friday, we explain all of the rules and look at who might be available to select. Newsletter by @richardcohen.bsky.social: herhoopstats.substack.com

CLINCHED.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CUPSET ONTO THE SECOND ROUND ALLEZ LES VERTS

A nice video about why we should remove the names of assholes from bird names.

No, Phil. The road rule is an important part of Act 250. The only people who don't think so want to build multi-million dollar single family homes in isolated areas, which will not solve the housing crisis. #vermont

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

My Venetian fantasy Everybody's Perfect comes out at the end of June. There's a Goodreads giveaway of 50 copies and you can sign up at the link. Also, look at the great cover! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Joss Whedon: greetings whedonistas and whedonistos! Clive Barker: who're you? Whedon: i'm Whedon: i'm joss whedon! Whedon: c'mon, you remember me! Whedon: i was everyone's woke 90s bae! Barker: hm doesn't ring a bell

Bari Weiss must have been asleep at the switch to let Talarico go on CBS Mornings and tell people we shouldn't be blowing up school kids with health care money.

A library book sale find. Today I learned this is a Michael Whelan cover.

A thought I've been having: Is it a good idea to normalize kidnapping and killing world leaders you don't like when you are being protected by an agency barely competent enough to save you from a kid who stole his daddy's rifle?

Hegseth on TV telling us how we have warfighted in the most warfighty way that any warfighters have ever warfigthed int he history of warfighting. 🙄

So I am hearing that Rubio's case for the war to Congress is that the US had to make a preemptive attack on Iran to protect ourselves from the retaliation from a preemptive attack planned by Israel. Doesn't that make Israel the threat to US national security?

I do love a Dominique Malonga dunk.

You mean WarGames (1983) was a lie?

Grilled peanut butter and banana sandwich? Why yes, I think I will.

Big news from @katiebarnes.bsky.social this morning: For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with its players. Teams will receive $8 million to disperse among players, the union said. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Someone tell T-Spoon she can play Saniya Rivers. #Unrivaled

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

B1s? Shouldn't they be blowing up fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico?

NBC doing an exclusive interview with Trump in the middle of their Superbowl pregame programming. Get fucked!

A we mourn the ravaging of the Washington Post, it's a great day to subscribe to your local newspaper or another regional paper. Local reporting has a huge positive impact on local rights & justice, & we are seeing local papers shut down at devastating speed Democracy dies in darkness is still true

Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! 💜 Here’s to celebrating the women who lead and inspire us today -  and the next generation who will continue to push sport forward! #NGWSD2026

When you can answer people's fountain pen questions, but their comments are locked.

You know what? Those elastic band holding some notebooks and journals closed? I just don't need them. Zero value added.

I don't know. Pretty sure the first amendment allows me to call ICE, Gestapo kidnappers. Pretty sure even this shitty Supreme Court wouldn't rule against that.

From what I've seen, 90% of fountain pen users self report having terrible handwriting but only 20% of them are right.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.

The funny thing is that the special forces guys who captured Maduro probably traffic more drugs than the entire country of Venezuela does. Source:

“Does the Great Auk really need—“ “EXTINCT BIRDS STILL SHIT SVEN”

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant What are you calling it? The Noodle Zone

I got myself a Peter Pauper Press brass fountain pen with a mushroom design. A surprisingly smooth writer for $20.

LOL @ Stefanik! 🤣

This sucks. 😠