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Ok this is a truly great tweet

Where the tollbooth had been just the night before, there was now nothing at all. He searched frantically throughout the apartment, but it had vanished just as mysteriously as it had come—and in its place was another bright-blue envelope, which was addressed simply: "FOR MILO, WHO NOW KNOWS THE WAY"

Can't say whether Granta story is AI-generated or AI-augmented, but can say Pangram's tech is fallible, & policing em dashes, superfluous adjectives, & parallel sentence structures is absurd. Bros from across the political spectrum have started promoting themselves as AI sleuths. Fuck that copshit.

Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑

Never leave your kid with even the slightest doubt that you love them, no matter what else needs to be said. That love is strength.

Not to brag *too* much but my 15 year old regularly says “I love you” to both their parents, unprompted.

Kids are people, actually

"Generally speaking, I think it takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up." organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

So I’m clear: animals- not sentient. Fancy computers that destroy the environment- sentient if people are saying mean things about them, otherwise slaves. People- depends a lot on where they live, their skin color, and whatever else is most convenient.

If you want those singles they are 3 bob each. Subterranean Homesick Blues Maggies Farm Like a Rolling Stone’ I think that his latest is great it’s called “One of us must know” I have not got “Bringin’ it all back on Home” LP yet but I am getting it on Sat. See you Friday Trevor

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...

We will not prosper until we allow Black people to prosper along with us. None of us are free until all of us are free.

Day 1 of the yarn store being open is now in the books. Can confirm that knitters are great, they totally want to figure out if you know what you’re doing, and yarn stores are not get-rich-quick schemes.

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

Wow:

I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information

I could not be happier this is failing so spectacularly.

8 of our beloved Do-No-Wrong democrats decided they would rather put trans kids in harm’s way than fight for what is right.

6-year old was told they coukd stop eating dinner after 3 bites, but if they wanted to say that they didn’t like it, they had to get through seven. they’re digging in their heels to prove themself a true hater.

I really like doing spreadsheets and figuring out the value of solar panels and batteries in my house and managing them with Home Assistant and also totally agree with @volts.wtf guest that the grid shouldn’t exist for enthusiasts to take rents. overcast.fm/+AAoT_kftOgk

This thing is now out in the world! @drmrb.bsky.social & I wrote a book; I'm going through cycles of "literary masterpiece" and "wait, this is not academic at all, it's a stack of bear puns in a duffle coat". If either of those appeals to you, it's out/pre-orderable depending on where you are.

Excellent stuff. Camus was robbed!

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"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Channel 7! I was there when 24hr rolling news was first proposed"

As usual, all entries in The Great Tolkien Reread can be found at: wrongquestions.blogspot.com/search/label...

Large-scale energy storage is stunning. A sand battery!

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I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Voting for me is easy. You can write my name in the write-in box and then fill in the bubbles accordingly. If you need to pull out your phone to look up how to spell my name, that’s completely fine. I hope I can earn a first place ranking on your ballot. Andreaformaine.com

I will just add to this that, during the Biden presidency, I made a point of regularly calling out the good things the administration was doing -- which were continuous &, in aggregate, enormously consequential -- and ... none of that went viral. Very, very little engagement or amplification.

I love reading direct evidence of the President's blatant crimes and thinking "no one is going to do anything about that, including even mentioning it" and then going back to my emails. Been doing it for a decade

The legacies of slavery don't stop at the water's edge. Cuba is a Blackass country. "We're going to turn your entire nation into a humanitarian crisis until you give us the puppet government of our choosing, because we have bigger guns than you" is despicable. So many innocents being harmed.

the immense dangers and experimental nature of hrt is azeen ghorayshi's whole beat! can't wait for her to ruin cis men's whole career let's systemically review oh dear already we've got extreme gender ideology and uncharted, potentially lethal hormone levels. not off to a good start 😬

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

We’re probably going to be saying goodbye to one of my favorite sheep tonight. We’ve known it was just time (she got a special ride to the farm in my car when we moved because we worried about her health then), but it’s still sad.

This is a rallying cry that will move precisely zero republicans, while also reinforcing a general “the Senate is just a place for obstruction“ as a new norm and accepts things up to the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice in a few months as putatively normal and acceptable.

Lord of the Rings, Jemisin’s Fifth Season, Tombs of Atuan. Sure, that’ll work as a “quick 3”

Teenager and I were talking about odd stories about where Jesus turned up which of course led to William Blake’s “Jerusalem” and anyway how often to you just stop to think that Paul Robeson actually lived in this world?

There's a guy in Ireland writing African stories and publishing in Irish because "he knows colonialism and how important preserving language is" and we love to fuckin see it folks

BIRD RENDERS MAN using the only medium available to it.

Teenager and I were talking about odd stories about where Jesus turned up which of course led to William Blake’s “Jerusalem” and anyway how often to you just stop to think that Paul Robeson actually lived in this world?

I've been writing these short essays about reading and writing a lot as I try to work out how I actually think about these two basic and yet incredibly complex acts; here I go again vajra.me/2026/05/15/t...

Jo Maguire, a highly strung, underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecified pedigree—and rather unexpectedly becomes her guardian and caretaker. Now Jo must make a place for herself in a city few of us ever get to see... #Booksky #IndieAuthors #WebSerials #OneTrueOnly

I’m willing to stipulate that many things are complicated and social media posts sometimes lack nuance but I just saw a post that class is about internal identity and not material reality and what are we even doing here?

The Chief Justice and his wife took 20 million dollars from firms with cases in front of the court. A level of corruption no one expected from the nation's highest court

I need to make sure you all heard that right because this did not make enough noise the first time around—THE Crawford, Stoker, World Fantasy and British Fantasy award winning Usman T. Malik, who has published incredible short fiction for over twenty years, will have a DEBUT NOVEL out NEXT YEAR

Somehow just liking doesn’t seem sufficient.