This is very fun!

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

THE OFF SEASON by @peterclines.com

THE FLOWER COURT a sapphic romantic fantasy in which a clever young scribe infiltrates the imperial consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman, only to find herself forced to work with the Dowager Empress’s loveliest & most condescending servant Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125....

When you have a toddler you realize that, yes, you really DID choose the form of your destroyer.

Listen, I doubt anything will ever quite top "pre-Madonna", but I just ran across another gem in a student essay: "Now and days, you can walk by a beautiful view."

With this kind of enthusiasm, you know it HAS to feel good!

'God's Junk Drawer' by @peterclines.com is enormous fun - really, really enjoyed it and burned though it in no time. It is kind of a fantasy/sci-fi/adventure story with a bit of Journey to the Center of the Earth DNA but it is totally its own thing. Recommended.

Shoes retailed in London, made in France, 1900-1920. Via The Met.

I read a couple of things when I was on vacation that I don't want you to miss. First up, @franwilde.bsky.social 's ferocious mermaid poem in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social took my breath: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-me...

Celebrating the WNBA season opener by once again sharing my favorite sports graphic of all time.

You know, suddenly some of those weirder Doctor Who villain designs are making a lot more sense.

It's amazing that I spent months trying to get some students to care about their grades, they didn't seem bothered at all, but now we're in finals week, it's really all over and they've failed, and suddenly they care SO MUCH about their grades and I'm being emailed by their fucking mothers.

I know we all say "death cult" a lot, but... shit like this honestly doesn't even make sense unless RFK Jr. either gets cash kickbacks from viruses (which, not sure how they get cash), or the man is literally attempting to kill millions as part of some apocalyptic disease death cult shit.

They are back in stock again!!! This time I painted SIX OF THEM, so let's see if we can keep them in the shop for more than 15 minutes this time. LOL I love having my carpal-tunnel free painting hand!!! thebrokencircle.etsy...

Oh my god yeeeeeeeeeeeees. Also, swear to god, I will vote the fuck out of anyone who promises to prosecute ICE agents and up the chain. I want so many prosecutions that Nuremberg Trial historians are like, "DAMN, that's a lot of prosecutions."

The amount of AI slop this semester has been utterly horrifying. I'm so grateful that the whole thing is almost over, but it's so hard to motivate myself to read the pile of essays that I need to correct before the end of finals week, because I feel that at least 60% are fully AI.

hark! a vagrant is really one of the greatest comics ever created, my favorite is still an outraged sasaki kojiro holding up a list of necessary components for a duel that just says - dudes - swords

Out today from @idwpublishing.com: Issue #1 of Sleepy Hollow: The Witches of the Western Wood, a 5-part miniseries that goes hand in hand with the movie! Art by Jose Jaro, colors by Xenon Honchar, colors by @lettersquids.bsky.social.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

The group noun for tough edits is "a murder of darlings."

I mean, it's really a universal experience.

Potty Training: When for two to five months, the cure is worse than the disease.

White House architect: So, should we put a ballroom in here, maybe? John Adams: WHAT KIND OF MONARCHIST BULLSHIT IS THIS! ABIGAIL! ABIGAIL! White House architect: oh noes, please, not your wi-- Abigail Adams: (running in with pail of water) DID I HEAR THERE'S MONARCHISM HAPPENING HERE?

a troubling trend: when my mother's face is behind her hands, it no longer exists. yet when she moves her hands, her face is born anew

I've decided there is one more Omelas take I would read and it's one in the form of an Isaac Chotiner interview.

Confectioner disrupters move fast and bake things.

In 1972, a crack beaver commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These beavers promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade, to the Los Angeles Underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

I did want to offer up a chance for any reviewers on BlueSky, who might want to review one of the reissued Los Nefilim books that'll be coming out soon. I've got a few of you who follow me here, who weren't reviewing when the books first came out. Hit me up if you're interested.

About 70% of the books I read in the last 12 months (106 books) were because @stephenblackmoore.com enshilling!! Just throwing out fantastic authors and books. Found so many awesome authors and reads. So I made a list so other can enjoy. app.thestorygraph.com/tags/4f534b8...

Oh god it's just the worst.

The 1st Amendment wasn't written so we'd feel free wishing each other a happy birthday. It was written so we'd feel free saying sharp and difficult things, such as stating plainly that the president of the United States is a convicted felon who is trying to destroy American democracy.

And 9 seconds later … www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT NEWS IF YOU WERE BORN IN THE 80s. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i...

🧵 Superb.

medieval fanboys be dropping into your margins like 'optime dixisti sancte ieronime dulcis' ('you said it best, sweet saint jerome!')

OH HEY IN CASE YOU MISSED IT This weekend we revealed the cover for my upcoming book, THE OFF SEASON. It's about a small town with a big secret that's, well, not actually all that secret... I also found out it's already up for pre-order everywhere! Call your local bookstore or hit up Bookshop.org

Post something you're proud of. I'll start. evilhat.com/product/fate... Think Lovecraftian Terminator. I think we did a really good job with it.

The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies. n.pr/4d0E5EA

This was a pretty amazing interview to read. Dan Reed absolutely is not one to shy away from an issue or mince around what he means.

RAM prices got me like

I am correcting my students' research papers, but before I can read the papers I have to go through all of their citation sheets and confirm for myself that they were using real sources. This seems like a low threshold. I'm just looking at citation sheets and copying and pasting links. And yet.

I think @kameronhurley.com wrote that book, actually! But with extra parthenogenesis.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 Catalina told generals off, mocked ambassadors and ran Savoy while surviving 9 births 😳🔥 Hear her fierce story with Magdalena Sánchez on History Rage 🎧 Listen now pod.fo/e/401d94 #WomenStrong #HistoryRage #HabsburgWomen #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

WHOA. @charishkristi.bsky.social @lishmcbride.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

As a reminder, ai cannot have the em dash

Big Naomi Wolf energy