Humanities professionals: You know that you can just add necro- to your specialty if you deal mostly with the dead, right? Be a necrohistorian, a necrogenealogist, a professor of necroliterature. Look, at this point it's not going to make you _less_ likely to get that grant, is it?

I was trying to remember the term “perpetual stew”, but all I came up with in the moment was “permanent soup”

Of course Dracula was actually the name of the scientist, you should really say "Dracula's Vampire"

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

Just slipped up and called Linkin Park “LinkedIn”, and honestly I’m not even sorry

ICYMI: (This time with the correct release date!) Weston Wei's delightful cover for my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space, animated! Repairing physics that has gone awry! Delicious food! Choices no one should ever have to make! Release date: 4/7/2026

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Slightly diminish a band: Fairport Meetup

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE won a Shirley Jackson! What an ending for the book @omgjulia.bsky.social and I thought up in our first interaction on a defunct social media site! I can't thank our amazing contributors enough. And our publisher @ericraglin1992.bsky.social. And our Kickstarter backers!

You heard it here, folks: WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology. Hugely proud of Nadia, Julia, and every single writer who made this book the spectacularly scary, dark, and stunning anthology it is!

My 11-year-old daughter, unhappy with the snacks and the long lines at camp, decided to start her own business with a couple of her campmates. I found this document on my computer.

Spent a couple of hours this weekend using synthesizers to make twenty two minutes of just the most awful droning noise, and unfortunately it turns out to be perfect for helping me focus. on.soundcloud.com/0vZBg7o0VTVR...

YouTube Music has importance updates for me

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Most of the court’s docket orders do not list who voted where, and there’s no way to know from the outside anything except “more than five” (or in the cases of cert grants, “more than four.”) This docket order happened to have writing that told you three of the people who voted for.

I’ve seen a couple of people say that the Supreme Court was 9-0 in Abrego Garcia’s case, and I don’t believe we know that. It was in regard to an administrative stay, and not an opinion of the court, so Justices could not have voted for the stay and chosen not to write a dissent.

Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

Just found this file on my computer from 2006

HOLY SHIT STRANGE HORIZONS FINALLY GOT A HUGO THIS IS THE BEST!!!

Never forget that the Michelin Man has a name and it is for some reason Bibendum

I’m rereading Murderbot again, and I’d just like to take a moment to appreciate the amount of world-building accomplished by the repeated use of the phrase “humans and augmented humans”. Just succinctly implies so much about the various fucked up power hierarchies of the Corporation Rim.

Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

Happy Caesar Salad Day! (www.npr.org/2024/07/04/n...) We are observing with a delightful homemade one. Photo courtesy of Moss, who is also the chef.

Just saw a six minute TikTok explaining the Hegelian dialectic and, like, it was a really good explanation, but seeing young people look seriously at systematic philosophies as a source for understanding of the world is frankly terrifying

make a band milder: one single gec

Really displaying my Gemini energy here with both Why Didn’t You Just Leave (horrifying) and Worlds of Possibility (uplifting) releasing today. 😅 Be horrified here: mybook.to/WDYJLebook Be uplifted here: www.juliarios.com/introducing-...

Happy “Pi Day” (March 15, or 3.15) to all the math heads who follow me!

What’s your sign?

This is a string of Shakespearean insults and nothing will convince me otherwise

American game show prizes: - a tropical vacation - a new car - $64,000 British game show prizes: - a special glass bowl - bragging rights - a fiberglass sculpture of a guy’s head, but it’s painted gold

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day, everybody! It's a great day to hug a non-radioactive loved one! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...