The minimum word requirement for the Hugo Best Series category is 240,000. Has anyone tried to estimate when On the Calculation of Volume becomes eligible? I don't think it is on the basis of the first three vols; but maybe by the end of this year, when there are five?

Iconic quote.

Washington Post being run by the guy who ran tumblr: sure. Makes as much sense as any fucking thing. Why not.

Expired dicks for my family

me and who

The city of Portland routinely acts as if sheltering our unhoused population, and creating affordable housing is an insurmountable task; I suppose it is when you’re sitting in $106 MILLION DOLLARS that is earmarked for just that. Fucking despicable.

Most direct example I've seen of the AI data center boom complicating the energy transition. Amazon just outbid a Washington state electric utility for one of the nation's largest solar projects: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I'm having a very hard time not indulging in conspiracist thinking abut this. Fucking enraging.

Congresswoman Dexter was brought into power in part because of a huge glut of donor money driven by AIPAC. Notable that even their preferred candidate is now working to see the release of Diana Crespo-Gonzalez, kidnapped with her family as she was being brought to the emergency room.

A lot of you could learn something from Alex’s bravery.

"...due primarily to preschools not being able to hire all the teachers, assistants, cooks and bus drivers they needed" let me help troubleshoot! what were the starting salaries www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

buying this at a home supply store is so fucking funny to me

Multnomah County would be inarguably better off in this moment were Mike Schmidt still the DA

ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ

What happens when we define pain as any state that keeps you from being able to focus on a book.

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

The “all straight men talk and think about women like this” trope is not only gross, not only untrue, but also just very sad. Imagine being so panicked about gender you read caricatures of masculinity as normative

You’ll be shocked to hear that these emails about a Portland woman Epstein paid to have treated by a local would-be-celebrity psychiatrist open with a description of her body.

To me, he’s Normal Sized Bill Haywood

As a billionaire myself, I have to say I can’t think of anyone I know personally who doesn’t just get all their news from Chris Rufo group chats. If I’m not reading the paper, surely nobody is?

ICE just released new detention statistics. As of January 25, 2026, ICE is detaining 70,766 people across the United States. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

How dare you talk this way about the guy gavin newsom is going to go full aipac to try to out-centrist immediately after the midterms

Pulled the car over and walked back to take a photo of the best art I’ll see this month.

Walser did it better.

“The 7-year-old Gresham girl who was detained on her way to see the doctor last month is only eating bread with mayonnaise and her family has to purchase water because the water provided at the Texas detention center where they’re being held is undrinkable.”

a sudden powerful longing for these pencils full of little stones they had in the Boston museum of science.

25 tanukis,

Re-sharing this today! I wrote about an emerging millennial poetics of work, as represented through three great poetry books. fencedigital.com/2026/01/30/c...

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

‘Can this bucket of hog semen do origami?’ I dunno man, anything’s possible I guess.

Just saw someone use the word ‘kompromat.’ Our long 2016 marches on

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

This feels Joe brainard-ey to me

If you as a public figure ever find yourself endorsed by a police union, I think it’s probably time to rethink things* *ie which woodchipper you’re going to throw yourself into

My 14 year old and hundreds of other kids were among those tear gassed by ICE yesterday in Portland.

Our statement on today's Labor Says ICE OUT rally and the brutal gassing of unionists, families and children by federal forces.

Thousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.

A judge had to issue a court order to ensure ICE provided seizure medication to a detainee, and that detainee still didn’t get their medication. ICE enforcement is a disability justice issue. They’re a eugenicist movement. They want the “sick and weak” to die:

all that poor child wanted to do is show support for her friends and neighbors threatened by fascists and they tear gassed her for it

> dozens of unions show up with their families after hearing rousing militant labor speeches. > the regime gasses their children

I saw it too:

An SEIU member describes getting gassed #Portland #ICEout

Oh there are children and gentle people sauntering with hands in pockets on a stroll to show solidarity? Better light them the fuck up!

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Shout out to the ice officers in Portland for trying to tear gas my seven year old today. Big brave boys! Warfighters!

Suzana Vuljevic reviews THE OLD FIRE (@summitbooks.bsky.social) by Elisa Shua Dusapin and translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins. Vuljevic explores the depiction of silence in the novel and considers how we become disconnected from the people we love. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

“we know you’re eating a hot dog”

Hey sincere post for a sec, I'm involved in union organizing around AI and my media employer is planning layoffs. If you know people especially in nonprofit newsrooms who have dealt with this kind of thing @ me or DM me