A surprisingly high number of Discworld readers completely miss the blatant, obvious, and intentional Jewish-immigrant-experience allegory in the depiction of dwarfs. Sir Pterry was like “Oh you think your coding is so subtle, Jrrt, just wait, my dwarfs have haredim, Lilith magazine, and genizas”

🗃️ You’re mad that Nolan’s Odyssey includes people of color. I’m mad that Nolan’s Odyssey doesn’t include the insanely tacky rainbow of colors that were used to paint everything in Ancient Greece. We are not the same.

This may be a hot take but I generally agree. As a creative obviously I appreciate fans and they make my work possible! But like, people should be fans of LOTS of things. Your identity should not depend on some specific creator or property; it's a recipe for disaster. bsky.app/profile/aste...

People keep falling into the trap of thinking that reddit discussions represent real mass opinion, and it's exhausting. Arguably ruined GoT. (Among other things.) The self proclaimed super fans don't matter and never have in terms of overall success.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

don’t

My gift to you for following this account

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.

Everyone thinks they’re too good to be a party hack and it’s unironically both a real problem and a byproduct of democrats being generally smarter and more principled. No one wants to be the party-line slop merchant.

Let's not forget

Kinda tired of the "historians will say they're close friends" meme. Babe, we've been screaming about how gay everyone is for *decades*. Funding for history keeps getting cut as a result. There are entire moral panics about it. You just haven't read any history since highschool.

really liked this piece foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/01/x...

Despair Is Not Wisdom

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

hawks will be like "you really believe in negotiating a joint comprehensive plan of action with Iran? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning a war of regime change" and then not win a war of regime change

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This time of year is always an amusing time to be a New England apologist for the Revolution All the non New England states are like “spring 1775! Yeah! We formed some companies and did some stuff and yelled a lot!” Meanwhile, New England is like “yeah, here’s an entire fucking field army”

So yeah: don't do crimes. We're going to win this through elections and then legal accountability. Vigilante violence only empowers the fascists. Do not give them the street violence they want - give them the non-violent resistance they are incapable of coping with.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Literary writing famously attracts well-adjusted extroverted people who just love spending large amounts of time in the public eye.

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

*mutter* That annoying discovery that one of your own character would be tapping his foot and looking down his mask at you.

“Oh my god… It’s glorious… they should’ve sent a poet…” - Deng Xiaoping

for those of you who haven't experienced this gem:

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

Evening sketch

I’ve been overwhelmed and thrilled by the response to this! I’ve also gotten a lot of questions asking how I did it. So, this weekend I sat down and wrote a detailed narrative documentation outlining how, exactly, I built Mr. Chatterbox: www.estragon.news/mr-chatterbo...

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

Ancient worlds carved and shaped by a long lost civilization.

Just finished @tkingfisher.com 's Wolf Worm, and absolutely top notch gothic horror novel. Also, I would absolutely buy a TTRPG bestiary from Kingfisher. Warrenminds, teeth-in-hole things, sentient colonial jellyfish, vampires with pharyngeal jaws, freaky bee golems... seriously, take my money!

Wikipedia has higher standards than what university admins want their professors to enforce. WIKIPEDIA.

the funny thing is this also seems to have been true of Patrick O'Brian.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

at every event, someone (usually a woman, usually a parent) asks me how I do it. this is why I'm very, very clear that i have a career for the same reason most men with kids do: my spouse keeps me and my children alive.

Dominus tibi benediCat. Amewn.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

trouble brewing in the scriptorium (commission)

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

My "Ask Me Anything" about white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity is Friday at 9AM EDT on www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori.... Hop on and ask a question! (engagement drives the algorithm to make the post more visible to more people so it really helps!)

must be terrifying to be Jewish in America watching even Liz Warren affirmatively endorse a man with a literal Nazi tattoo (that he applied coverup to only after challenged) for the literal United States Senate after the Obama boys ran interference for him against the woke antinazi scolds

Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.

This is a good question to address, actually. There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work. But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.

Actual section numbering in a brief I'm reading: I. A. B. C. II. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. B. C. a. II. c. 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 2. D. 2. E. b. f.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

'claude can now research like a phd student!' bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning