Just put out a new epic saga and slap EPISODE IV on the first installment

If I ever write a big Epic Fantasy series, there will be no Book 5. Book 4 will end on a huge cliffhanger, followed by Book 6. Book 6 will be packed with oblique references to what the heroes did, but the heroes are glad they erased the old timeline because what they did must be kept secret.

Your annual reminder that the Tonys are spelled just like that: the Tonys. No apostrophe. Just the Tonys. (The Tonys won by Tony Kushner are Tony's Tonys. The Tonys won by Tony Kushner and Tony Shalhoub are Tonys' Tonys.)

😍😍 #skybrarians #edusky

The longer I’m a librarian, the more I am completely comfortable with the lesson plan for the day being ‘find something great and read it’. Yes there are other things I teach – but kids need time to read. I am more than willing to give it to them and lucky to have admin support.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

How to spot an Evite phishing scam. www.evite.com/blog/etiquet...

Question for Gen X and older Millennials: Did folks post big CONGRATULATIONS signs outside their houses for high school graduations when you were young? Or even college graduation? Trying to decide if this is a regional thing or a generational thing.

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

By law, Russians are prohibited from publicly calling the war a war rather than a “special military operation,” and Putin has urged them to believe that Ukraine started it. Still, the national capacity for self-deception has its limits, and recent developments suggest that Putin has found them.

I have one real and one fake author invitation in my inbox and it strikes me how different they are, as genres. Real invitations never tell you about your own book's themes, for ex. I wonder how much of it is targeting and how much is just because LLMs write everything like a sycophantic book report

Using the word "power" to describe what's at stake is deeply misleading. It's very possible -- perhaps even likely -- that the Maine senate race will determine control of the Senate and, by extension, multiple SCOTUS seats for the rest of all of our lives. We need to be honest about the stakes.

Cynically: It's easy for hospitals to pledge all this money for free care for detransitioners. They know there's basically no demand for it. It'll be a clinic on paper with no patients.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

Happy Pride to queer authors.

Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

You left off one of my favorites: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (2014). It's not a belter or a big dance number, but it's elegant and delightful. youtu.be/VtlcEvPDkfM?...

NEWLY UPDATED: To help ramp up for the Tonys on Sunday, here are videos of the 40 greatest Tony performances of all time. Enjoy and share widely! The youngs must know! www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

sending love to all the other lesbians who thought Giles was the hottest man on this show does everyone know the story about how the musical episode came about because he randomly just did "Rocket Man" at Joss Whedon's living room piano one night at a party and the entire cast lost their minds

Really awful. Write to American Diabetes Association CEO Charles "Chuck" Henderson at [email protected] and Chief Scientific and Medical Officer Rita Rastogi Kalyani at [email protected]. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

Let’s all take a moment to remember Anthony Head wasn’t just in Buffy, he was also part of the horniest coffee ads ever created (non-sibling division) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

I have an interview in this month's Clarkesworld magazine, which you can read here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_inte...

The June 23 performance will welcome several guests, including domestic worker Lizeth Palencia and @nilc.org president Kica Matos. “We at Lincoln Center Theater are profoundly honored to celebrate the immense contributions immigrants have made to American culture.” #ImmigrantHeritageMonth

hey philadelphia if you need a sewing machine repair or tuneup please go see this guy who i met today and he told me “that’s a great model, it should last you another 30 years” and then tested it and said “it’s perfect, i can’t improve it but i can clean it if you want” www.desortesvacandsew.com

RIP to my all time favorite TV dad, and blessed be Anthony Stewart Head.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Like all of Naomi's work, OBSTETRIX plays scrupulously fair and allows what happens to hit with their full emotional weight. Also, I will be at one of the events! June 18 6pm at Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis!

I read this a couple weeks ago and I'm still thinking about it. I love that Naomi wrote a non-SFF book that shows the power of SFF stories to inspire us to keep fighting and not give up.

I put up a blog post about my BOOK TOUR so check it out if you'd like to know where you can find me! naomikritzer.com/2026/06/05/o...

ICIRR posted an alert of confirmed reports of ICE this afternoon at O’Hare.

Genuinely life-changing trick for keeping mosquitoes away that I discovered by accident last summer: run a bubble machine.

I don't think I've ever seen a judge refer DOJ counsel to a discipline committee like this. These lawyers are destroying their careers to go after trans youth.

Extraordinary Letter to Senate Intel. Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger. "The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr."

… this has happened, if you didn’t see.

Friendly reminder that scientists confronting this regime have incredible power, they strike fear into the hearts of Battacharya et al. with their actions. I hope they organize a press conference and protest tomorrow

JUST PUBLISHED: Trump's slush fund is dead. Long live Trump's slush fund! The great @annabower.bsky.social and I explain the state of play and discuss how—even without a dedicated fund—Trump can still use your tax $$ to reward his cronies for their bad acts. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/is-t...

Another way to do this would be to obey the law as President

Against unregulated tech companies amassing $ to bribe and own our systems of capital and government to enshittify our lives.

It doesn't have to be society ending for us all to understand it's harming people and our social frameworks and what we need is robust oversight and regulation. I'm not against AI (I think it's mostly useful as a recent college grad assistant level and for code, not 9 figure valuations) but I am..

Couple things are true here. Anthropic CEO has been saying this for past 5 years (it's always 18 months out) and been wrong. LLM progress stalled until end of last year. The latest Claude version does seem a step change wrt code and finding security holes. But..

Mini Popehat Signal in MA: a defamation defendant is seeking pro bono advice and perhaps representation. The defendant described sexual assault by another person in their community, and that person has sued them. Middlesex County.

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Hey, UK readers! You can now buy The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Release day was actually yesterday, but I completely forgot to post about it. Also, @locusmag.bsky.social posted @niallharrison.bsky.social 's glowing review of my book. locusmag.com/review/the-s...

My friends, let me introduce you to the good news from @maxgladstone.bsky.social that everyone in Star Wars is a bee. reactormag.com/every-human-...

Fun fact! Most classic works of literature never specify that their protagonists are human: merely male or female. 😉 Romeo and Juliet may have been raccoons. Gilgamesh may have been a water buffalo. It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

So it looks like @djangowexler.bsky.social's finished posting the first book of his serial novel: www.patreon.com/collection/1... Which means I'm going to have to find or steal or make time to read it. (I'm not a good reader of serials when they're ongoing.) (How to steal more time?)

The main thing I am taking away from this is that Scott Pelley is not very well liked by these people

Hopefully Americans aren't too dense to realize this is just a full page testimonial ad for GLP1s masquerading as news. This is like the "Marty uses AI" story. We used to do this all the time at the ad firm. Pitch a fully 'reported' story to lazy writers who ran it as their own.