very frustrating to be someone whose baseline “talking about the events of the world” is Too Intense for most people in person. i can slather on softer tones or frame it as broadly as I want, but any honest answer gets me relegated to the Weirdo table. and even (especially!) with professionals.

26 people are in critical condition after plunging off the NLDS rankings. #SFGiants 🥃⚾️

pour one out for a real one

LIRR workers make $136k a year!! Why that's... the median income for Long Island households. Can't they just be indentured servants who sleep in coal chutes instead? www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary...

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

Please share or give. When Aunt Priscilla and my mother were jailed in 1960 during their historic Jail-In after their arrest at a Woolworth lunch counter, baseball great Jackie Robinson sent them DIARIES. Here are some excerpts from her diary!

But also this is about blaming a woman right? And also raging, which for some reason seems to entertain people (I don't have energy for that those days. Life's too short)

(the article in question: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... )

I got to roll some dice with the kids today. We finished a heavily modified version of The Doom of Daggerdale today. Took about 3 sessions for them to defeat The undead bad guy, Mage Lord Calderon. Next session will involve traveling into the Underdark and mixing it up with some Drow.

Right now I’m listening to the audiobook version of this wonderful novel for the third time. And I’m SUPER picky about audiobook narrators, so that tells me they picked the right reader. 🤩

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

brush experiment with Xenes :) shared early on the kofi. want to try holo prints maybe 🤔🏃 #zerothslaw #ocsky

If you're worried about "population decline" and also think of yourself as some kind of leftist, I'm going to assume this is some kind of pregnancy fetish thing - which is fine! It's just not appropriate for policy proposals

"The Past is a foreign country"?? Nah, the past is a whole different planet. Especially once you get back anything more than like 300 years. If we're talking thousands of years? Perceiving them should be bewildering in different ways. And even if that weren't true Take A Fucking Swing You Coward.

We know Nolan isn't going to take any fucking swings with The Odyssey. These mythological figures of ancient song should be like aliens to us. But Nolan is incapable of being weird enough like that. He's too "smart" in all the dumbest fucking ways.

If you *don't* want to see guys fighting in this for a change you're absolutely a loser

Right I've still got tons more art from my games to post. @annazee.bsky.social did the interior artwork for my first ever game, Gambler's Heart, and a huge amount for ECOPUNK too! I love how vibrant all her work is!

My annual reminder that #Eurovision was instigated by the same CIA team behind the 1954 animated version of Animal Farm.

give us costumes that are METICULOUSLY ACCURATE yet STUPID and BIZARRE and "AHISTORICAL-LOOKING" TO THE MODERN EYE and also give us costumes that do not give a Shit about accuracy, but are wildly inventive & impeccably suited to the vibes of the movie

point absolutely taken, agree, "accuracy" is just a smokescreen for racist cruelty and hysteria, but, um, I do. i would go absolutely fucking apeshit for something like this.

Listening to guy slag on a book to try and impress the girl he is on a date with is absolutely hilarious. Working hard to just ignore him and not interject. #BookSellerLife I try to give grace because they are actually on a date in a bookstore, but I think it might have been her idea. LOL

Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny Babel by R. F. Kuang

BLACKBURN, Bradley Denton BELOVED, Toni Morrison THE BUTCHER IN THE FOREST, Premee Mohamed, I guess technically a novella but shut up also apparently my brain likes B-titles right now, wtf

Reuters thinks that amplifying inbred MAGA dolts helps Trump so he has a soundbite for his next raging gaggle on AF1. In reality, Trump lost the inflation voters that swept him into office long ago and this does nothing but further bury dirt on the corpse of Reuters as a media outlet

*ranting and raving in anger in public health/social worker*

Cannot get enough of The Reformatory, if you've never checked out her work please do.

I have a suggestion open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...

@bskyplays.bsky.social Zork

Soon Curve of the World launches: @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social's final novel of Minoan adventures with mummies and kraken. I'll be singing excerpt-appropriate Joni Mitchell. That's Saturday May 16, free and online: www.clarionwest.org/event/the-cu... Also starring @timmi.bsky.social + Debbie Notkin!

Me: I'm sorry. we only carry SF/fantasy, mystery and horror. Them: Oh, okay. Do you have *If Cats Disappeared from the World*? (Good Reads meta tags really aren't helping anyone here) #Booksellerlife www.goodreads.com/book/show/40...

Today’s vibe: #Bookselling #Borderlands

“It was a grim and Presbyterian thing.” The description of a funeral in @nghivo.bsky.social’s amazing novel The Chosen and the Beautiful. Go buy a copy and give it a read. You will not be disappointed!

Frances Perkins was a central architect of the New Deal: ✅ Social Security ✅ Unemployment insurance ✅ Minimum wage laws ✅ Child labor limits ✅ 40-hour work week + overtime ✅ Workplace safety protections And yes, she’s also why we have illuminated EXIT signs. Her legacy is everywhere.

Proud ‘Terf Island’ flags at the Unite The Right March.

A) Sorbo whining about desecrating Greek myth is indeed incredible. B) I remain very proud that he once blocked me for telling him that he seemed tense and watching Xena always cheered ME up.

I also recorded a panel ("The Forest is Weird and We Are Gay") with Nino Cipri, Alexis Henderson, and Yah Yah Scholfield that folks can watch if they register for the virtual events. Lastly, I'll be participating in the big signing event on Friday 6/5 at 5pm. See some of y'all in Pittsburgh!! 🖤✨️

Catch me alongside Dave V. Riser, Jamie Flanagan, Bitter Karella, and Rath Mercury at StokerCon 2026 talking about trans horror history on the panel "We've Always Been Here: Transgender Imagery and Characters Throughout Horror History." I think it's gonna be a fun conversation!

a neighborhood dad apparently told his poor kid, who told my kid, that "nonbinary is fake." not sure id be throwing that word around, if i was a fucking chiropractor 🤷‍♀️

So the Canadian minister of AI and Digital Innovation is BASICALLY saying that it's not only that the government can't stop people from infringing copyright laws... they just don't wanna. COOL. Cool cool cool.

Give this role to Lupita too and maybe the right people will complete their total breakdowns

in Stars Without Number today the crew realized my character (the captain) doesn't have any hobbies, and so now they've gotten him into the in-universe version of Stardew Valley he is not good at gaming but he is enjoying himself

D&D, Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, GURPS, Pathfinder and Mothership

Fighter, Cleric, Thief, Magic-user, Demihuman, and Tiefling

Lupita for James Bond. Let's fucking go.

Found on a bookshelf in my office. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. I didn’t but I did buy it and read it because of the cover. And amazingly enough the story exceeded the cover. A genuinely idiosyncratic, weird af novel. Both the story and the cover are never too far from my memory.

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

The Lincoln Project was started by anti-Trump Republicans, and they’re still conservatives. They’re just not MAGA. There are better choices running for that New York seat than a moderate conservative, even one who doesn’t like Trump. The actual Democrats in the race don’t like Trump either.

I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.

Hypothesis: Hack wringing hands over government-provided diapers for poor people as an abuse of taxpayers has defended Trump’s ballroom Methodology: Search Conclusion: yeop