HOLY MOLY ITS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND. Come out and visit us in the vendor hall for BETWEEN TWO CONS this weekend because the other parts of the convention are sold out. My good buddy will be running my vendor table but I'll be running around and also selling the official Between Two Cons MERCH.

This weekend is Between Two Cons! Badges are sold out but you can still visit the vendor hall! Cairn Press will be there, selling first and third party modules. If I seem even more "extra" than usual, I apologize in advance. I'll be busy! See you in Portland. tabletop.events/conventions/...

why did i laugh out loud at this

A nation coming together as one to say: Alexi Lalas please shut the fuck up.

saluting the oregon city municipial elevator in honor of @spicybigdad.bsky.social

the context is a story I wrote so I am thrilled lol

A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.

my new favorite person in Portland is the wonderful butch at my local dive who found the last quarter of that game on the lone TV for us and then, when the Knicks took the lead, deadpanned "I'm just glad Timothée Chalamet is happy"

I had some questions about worms. With a guest appearance by this guy. Send it to your favorite worm. Send me a worm poem. Wriggle about it.

“There’s just something so beautiful about a mother and son working together to root out a long, squirting pink worm, using the sharp blade of a shovel to cut it out of its secret burrows and hold it exposed to the world.” open.substack.com/pub/dustinku...

That's also evil. We count those.

A Chassidic Rabbi's site leaning heavily into AI illustration. Sure. inner.org

You can’t say she’s not very funny.

The Michigan "I Voted" sticker contest is back, and this is one of my favorites, just for the Pure Michigan-ness of it: www.michigan.gov/sos/election...

Milkweed list has been killer lately. New Beth Piatote and Gary Paul Nabhan in one season! milkweed.org/book/water-i... If you haven't encountered Nabhan, he's one of the greatest I've read about desert ecologies and related foodways.

French, Korean, and Spanish #SFinTranslation dominate 2026 so far:

In which Kendall compares Bataille and Wendell Berry of all people.

Let's Dismember Some Guys: defector.com/the-universa...

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And the Kawakami in particular I would love to get more attention - released way back in Jan 2025, after a US autumn 2024 release, which puts it fully out of sync with most of SF's recognition mechanisms. A chilly book in some ways but one that has stayed with me. locusmag.com/review/under...

When I was 13 I wore a ton of No Fear shirts, but you know what? I had an abundance of fear

We've become an unserious society because unserious people flood the zone without shame and wash out the serious people, who can never hope to keep up

"In this strange little gem, Waldrop captures [a] shining light and the shadows it illuminates with a powerful and understated magnificence." —Eric Banks on Keith Waldrop's Light While There Is Light at 4 Columns, which will stop shining its own light very soon. We will miss it.

Poster for Berlin's Johannisthal airport (Germany's first commercial airfield) – designed in 1908 by graphic artist Julius Klinger, who was born on this day (22 May) in Vienna in 1876 🗃️

Excellent book.

... that's kink

Upholding my promise to my three [3] wealthy constituents to keep things bad and, wherever possible, make them worse, wondering why I’m not the most popular member of the Portland city council

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JUST TELL ME THE FUCKING POST OFFICE HOURS JESUS CHRIST

BEAN YEAR FEATURED @meghanmccarron.bsky.social talked with @billhookunion.beanyear.com for @gourmetlives.bsky.social gourmetmagazine.net

There were three children named Dustin in my graduating class

Cellphone face

do you think they'll invent any systems that aren't predatory any time soon or nah

Mr. Rogers or Mr. Hussein? Bird's eye or bionic eye? 90210 or 911? SimCity 3000 print advertisements, 1999.

Shocking: if you post a picture of a cool rock you found on this site you get rock cops in your replies telling you you can't keep it.

most romantic band in history

Maile Chapman is ridiculously good.

Great @unhappinesspod.bsky.social episode. Key takeaway: if I ever tell someone I’m proud of a joke I told and their answer is “oh, okay” I’m killing myself then and there.

A fun question. Probably worth remembering that men do want to kill the Father. Urges to despoil the Mother might have worse environmental consequences! But Fathers? We do kill those.

ok, here's a little something I made for bluesky users who are interested in exploring the newly launched cooperative music platform subvert.fm — it's the subvert.fm feed, featuring links from here that point to there. enjoy and please share! bsky.app/profile/did:...

My face when you decline to court my daughter but instead fall for one of your analysands, then ask me to analyse her, making me somewhat complicit, then eventually marry her newly-widowed mother.

I'm roughly as mad about this as I am about my kid having an elementary principal married to the portland cop who famously built a weird shrine to SS soldiers.

It's like inviting pharma reps to pitch cancer patients while they're in the chemo chairs. And they're kids. And your pharmaceutical plants take 40GW to run.

PS: per my kid, it was a school-wide assembly with the CEO of the AI company and the Superintendent of Portland Public Schools, giving away free stuff and telling them this would help "unlock their creativity." To a bunch of middle schoolers.

Feel like I could read forty books about the phenomenon of the Priss. @davidjroth.bsky.social please send over a syllabus when you can.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser dating sim

Archipelago offering 40% titles right now. Worth a peek. archipelagobooks.org