I think it's time to dust off the term "Robber Barons." Maybe with a little update. "Pedo Barons"

TODAY at 7 pm Eastern!

Tomorrow at 7 pm Eastern! I will be doing a little virtual book rec program for the Ashland Public Library where @methelibrarian.bsky.social and I talk about science fiction books! Sign up here! ashlandmass.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/vir...

If you need something to give you life, I recommend this short video series: Donald Trump's Ls for the Week. www.youtube.com/shorts/IyPO1...

Somebody put a quarter in my slot about AI swindlers this morning. www.patreon.com/posts/150409... (free to read for all but of course I welcome subscribers because we have a lot of pets.)

A certain category of my fellow white people (cough MAGA/white supremacists cough) are really 100% in the cut off own nose to spite face camp. There's a chilling case study on basically this in DYING OF WHITENESS by physician Jonathan Metzl, a book I think all white Americans should read.

You know, most of us learned, if somebody wants something valuable to tell an authority somebody else didn't commit an infraction, then it's a racket, in first grade.

Age verification? I still miss Marathon Bars.

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A bangin' list, as usual, from @geraldcoleman.bsky.social geraldcoleman.com/beginners-gu...

Wednesday night 2/11 from 7-7:30 EST I will be doing the first of a series of brief online gatherings with the good folks at the Ashland (MA) Public Library, where I will recommend some science fiction books you might like to read! ashlandmass.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/vir...

Scott and I watched Oppenheimer last night finally and it is very Christopher Nolan but also I am impressed. This is the first piece of film I've seen, including many documentaries, that gets the sound of an atomic bomb right.

This is a really beautiful visualization.

Award for best podcats.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "I hate transitions."

Okay, yeah, just stuck my nose outside and even by my standards, it's really quite cold. There's a chill radiating from the exterior walls.

Oh, well, there's always money in the emerald mine. It even scans.

Looks like I need to shovel. Had enough winter now; it can go back in the box.

Wait, there's some kind of cultural event on Sunday? Thank God it's going to be wind chill of -20 and I can just stay home.

OMFG Green's is now available online for free

Cats mortally offended to learn that the people food they are begging for is an orange.

Props to NPR for leading the newscast w/ the president's racist post. But, c'mon...they're not false narratives. They're lies. Words matter (Once again, don't give me the 'but we don't know what he knows or is thinking.')

Maybe I'm an outlier but I'm reasonably confident I'm not in the Epstein files.

Nihilism is easy in life as it is in art. It excuses one from trying and people tend to think it's more serious and artistic than pushing the boulder up, which is hard and frustrating and incremental.

Not a Christian but starting to believe there might be something to that whole Antichrist thing.

This one is for all the fantasy writers out there who have never had to contend with Actual Horses. www.instagram.com/reel/DT3NCae...

So it went past while my ears still didn't believe what they were hearing, but did I just hear a BBC news report that Alex Fucking Karp said that Spain's proposed social media limits for children would result in "a surveillance state?"

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Minnesota is a fantastic place full of wonderful people, some of whom are my in-laws and dear friends. Feel free to buy stuff from their fine businesses and support their cultural institutions. The seed art is gonna be lit this year.

That was 100% an episode of The Muppet Show but in HD. I'm not sure it will work for anybody who wasn't six years old in 1968 but I had a great time.

From Charlotte Clymer: Two tech-savvy public servants, and a team of contributors have converted the emails in the Epstein Files to a website that looks as though you’re in Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail account. They call it The Jmail Suite. It’s a great tool. Go to www.jmail.world

From personal experience as a caretaker, you know what makes a person smell like rotten roast beef and is linked to chronic venous insufficiency? Necrotic leg ulcers.

People want a magic button to fix everything when really there's just a whole lot of fucking patch cords and levers back here. So when you feel like saying, "It's not enough," remember it all adds up. And maybe think of one more small thing you could do.

Meet the six authors we've solicited to be part of WHAT ELEGANT FUNCTION 🚀

Every now and then I think back to that now-legendary Folding Ideas video on NFTs and crypto that explained how not only was pump-and-dump common in the crypto space but it was actually required by social etiquette and considered a faux pas to not do it, and that’s just like. the whole economy now

Happy Book Birthday!

Happy book birthday!

Running away from the Russians (Finland), running away from the Russians (Ukraine), running away from the English (Ireland), running away from the English (Scotland), and also a little Bering land bridge.

Accurate summary of the text.

This is a truly interesting fantasy novel that I very much enjoyed, and you cannot go wrong at this sale price. Go for it.

You know, while we're busting out the good old protest songs, here's a couple of classics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaje...

The Trump Presidential Library and Legacy is going to be a series of holes in the ground.

I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !

Help Eddie build out a longlist of queer SF novels from the Plague Year (part 1)!

Writing is a series of decisions. Setting intentions helps guide that decision-making process and gives you a satisfaction-based metric for success. I'm teaching on this topic tomorrow, 2/2 at 8 PM ET. Join via Patreon and lock in current pricing before it goes up in March. patreon.com/maryrobinette

Thank you so much, folks who have joined my Patreon this morning. It makes a huge difference.

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

Hey, the @locusmag.bsky.social annual Recommended Reading list is up for 2025! Which means voting is open for the Locus Awards! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

I just picked up our grain share for the year yesterday. For ease of storage, because we still have some left from last year, I opted for much more already-ground flour than I usually do.