I'm still not entirely sure what I'm getting out of this childcare FSA thing. Theoretically I'm saving on taxes? But it's opaque and a pain in the ass.

“Though this reservoir posing as a lake would not survive the removal of the Shasta Dam, there is an ecology here. I am not an ecologist, but what I can report is that, like they said in Jurassic Park, life finds a way.” wildhunt.org/2025/12/memo... #pagan #witchcraft #whiskeytownlake

Share Your Experience with Religion and Works of Fantasy! (...if you're Christian, because as we know, "religion" = "Christianity".) No offense meant to McGrath or to the researchers - I do think this is an interesting topic - but the headline annoys me.

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

"If Paganism is a threat to fundamentalists, it’s because we have a path, a tradition, and a practice that’s meaningful and helpful to an increasing number of people, and they don’t." (@utaodruid.bsky.social in his blogpost www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...) #pagansky #witchsky

LeMonde said, not on our watch

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

These things must be done delicately, or you hurt the spell.

Elite free speech discourse has culminated in state action to compel labor

My SF short story “Root and Branch” came out in Baubles from Bones #6 in August. It’s a weird, quiet story about humanity and slavery and revenge and gender and love, and I’m extremely happy it found a home. www.baublesfrombones.com/root-and-bra...

Me napping after a Yule feast:

Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture

Wait, I thought Marty Supreme was a Scorsese biopic

“Last of the Cigarette Gremlins” appeared in manywor(l)ds #9 in August. I’m told the genre of urban fantasy gets a bad rap, but I can’t think of a better descriptor for this flash story. Horror? Dark fantasy? It’s a damn cryptid sighting in a dive bar, iunno, you tell me.

KeMonito springboard moonsault #CMLL

Every year we watch this movie and every year we find a new joke.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Pottersville.” - @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social

This sounds so dumb that I had to look it up sn explanation. The movie was based on a short story, "The Greatest Gift," which was copyrighted separately. The company that produced the movie secured the film rights for it, obvs, but this was a time when copyright had to be actively renewed ...

I want to go back to the traditional America of It’s a Wonderful Life, where we look out for our immigrant neighbors and help them buy a nice house for their family and goats.

“Hot Teeth” appeared in June 2025’s anthology “Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before” by Space Wizard. It’s a zany heist story, and it might be my favorite thing I’ve ever written. www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbian...

IT CRIMMAS. MER CRIMMAS.

Make a Bond movie academic: “Doctor?” “No”: The Outcome of My Dissertation Defense

Ron Wilson and Frank Giacoia covered Marvel Two-in-One Annual 7 (1982). Happy #BoxingDay to those who celebrate!

Every year, after months of lethargy, I am seized by Reading Madness in the week between Xmas and New Years. ...possibly this indicates that the thing interfering with me reading more is, uh, going to work.

It’s a big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it

From the bottom of my Heathen heart: fuck off with this shit.

My Xmas Eve present to myself was finally finishing @sarahebond.bsky.social’s STRIKE: LABOR, UNIONS, AND RESISTANCE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which was super educational and will provide me with plenty of historical anecdotes with which to annoy my union members at trainings in the coming year.

Not a sitcom, I suppose, but "The Husbands of River Song" is one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes.

With apologies to JM DeMatteis and Mike Mignola. "Pain. Pain is like love. Like compassion! It is a thing only for lesser men. What is pain to TINY TIM?"

Hell, this made me cry like a child.

“The New Sound,” my third story of 2025, is a relatively traditional sci-fi short story published in Saros #3. It follows Kath, a trans woman who’s built her life around making music with a cutting-edge aural implant that’s now falling into obsolescence. sarossf.com/issue-3/

If you’re going home to folks who want to talk diets all through the holidays, this one’s for you. 💊

If you're killing random Jews at a festival in a Australia in the name of anti-zionism, that *is* an attack on Jewish people as a group, because you've decided that Jews and Zionism are synonymous and killing the one is a blow against the other.

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

Wrapping my kid’s presents. I thought buying this many train tracks was supposed to be subsidized by the infrastructure bill.

What, THIS grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore?

Since it’s official. Thanks 🙏 @newyorker.com. This feels pretty surreal.

I can't stress to you all enough that Baris Weiss, who just killed a report critical of the Trump regime, once opened a college to teach "verboten ideas" that are unacceptable to mention in the mainstream. (transphobia/racism/conservativism)

"Bubbe Hates You" was published in the Punch A Nazi anthology, a benefit for the Trevor Project to support LGBTQ+ youth. We raised over $800 before the benefit ended, but you can still read the story and see the collection of fiction and comics on my website.

The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

Toddler, pointing at plate: “What’s that?” @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social: “That’s soup. It’s called kjötsúpa.” Toddler: “kotezuppa! I love kotezuppa!” (Toddler proceeds to ignore the kjötsúpa)

This is my favorite article that I published this year. What can I say? I actually got to go to an event and interview Pagans in person, and it tied into a larger discussion of how Pagan and Heathen events approach being anti-racist at public events. It was great. wildhunt.org/2025/08/midg...

"I didn't write much this year," he said, before scrolling through 24 articles under his byline

CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…

Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing “free speech movement” was actually about free speech.

Above I said "no religion is immune to fascism." This is *not* an anti-religion statement, and I've as little time for that kind of flat and essentialist thinking as I do for Christian or Hindu nationalism. Fascism is like a black hole: it exerts a terrible gravity on all things.

It is awful how many actors from the Wire are dead so young.

the vice president is a klansman

“This is the solstice’s quiet gift,” Its power isn’t in revelation, but in the small, stubborn persistence of light. The sun returns not with fanfare, but with a flicker — a single flame that dares to whisper not yet done.” wildhunt.org/2025/12/the-... #pagan #witchcraft #wintersolstice