Same. Also Mullet Legolas.

this is a thick bilbo household always has been always will be

This Reveal story on Minneapolis, starting with interviews with the postal workers still delivering mail through everything, is very good. overcast.fm/+ABI6arEafiQ

When I was employed: “I agree it looks like it should be easy to fix, but the system doesn’t work that way.” Now “thank you for using your words. I know [family member] is very frustrating.”

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

We’ve been freaking out about this over here. Not least because HOW they figured it out is so cool.

Imagine saying this about a random item at the premier event for spotlighting new innovations in sports cheating.

Periodic reminder that induction stoves are just better than propane. And there’s now at least one model with a built in battery, which I think makes both hookups and the “what about a power outage” concern easier.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 6th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 14 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

“Never once in the many years I have been reporting on Wyden have I ever encountered a warning of his to be hyperbolic, let alone baseless.” www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...

”what stood out to me as I listened to the recorded conversation between Nadella and Fink is that they have largely given up on organic adoption by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion.”

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

Ive watched this about 100 times. This is why the internet was invented. Right here. Peak content.

As a Quaker, I look forward to Mike Johnson leading conservative evangelicals into their Quietist period.

We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

!!! A new Renee Gladman book is coming in May!!!

This is really challenging my basic plan of not consuming any Olympics coverage

" – Hands of an Angry – " is up in its entirety on the website, which means there's now 28 novelettes of the epic up there for you to read, for free: thecityofroses.com/contents #FreeBooks #FantasyLit #PDX #GuidNeighbours

Highly recommend spending a few minutes here: www.eff.org/issues/privacy

(Really thought that early in the list of OPSEC basics was assessing what particular kinds of risks you need to worry about, but I guess everyone on Bluesky has the same threat profile, so its really useful to share your advice with everyone)

A List of Complaints from 1926 🧵

Murderbot Season One reviewed by Amritesh Mukherjee Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

War and Violence in the Epic Tradition Epic and Empire War in the Middle Ages Tolkien: Medieval and Modern Renaissance Epic (can’t remember the title of the SFF Survey class I took, but yes I was very predictable)

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

"stories in major outlets (e.g., The New Yorker, Clarkesworld)"

(here’s a link tho I think it’s on backorder) bookshop.org/a/118130/978...

This recommendation is just downstream of previous recs by @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social who we heard about it from. Ours is still too young to understand it but that hasn’t stopped them from demanding we read it to them at least once a day since, like, September

A small thing but for anyone with small children trying to explain what’s going on I would highly recommend the book “Noodlephant.” A fantastic parable about the power of community defense and mutual aid to combat fascism and racism, and the inherent violence of policing

damn this is coming just 3 days after an excellent interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore analyzing the state as it is today. can’t wait to listen to this. Death Panel has proven an invaluable political educational resource for me for years now, i can’t recommend them enough

Here's the really cool thing about this image: It contains, for now, the farthest known galaxy, ever. MoM-z14 is so far away, its light has been travelling for more than 13 billion years. We're seeing it as it appeared only 280 million years after the Universe formed. I mean, holy shit.

It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened

This is a long episode (normal by Death Panel standards) but I hope everyone takes the time to at least listen to @reallandsend.bsky.social’s opening monologue about ICE showing up to intimidate us and why the community response here made it impossible for them to do so

In addition to the below, the senior senator from Maine needs to find out what happened to 200+ of her constituents, how many of them were here with authorization, and work to free them if they’re being wrongly detained #mepolitics

The vast majority of human literature actually didn’t come out in the last 3 months and it’s deeply poisonous for art if we only focus on new and upcoming releases.

Feel sorry for Billy Bragg. Records a song about Minneapolis, posts it to Bluesky, everyone gets excited for two minutes, then Springsteen does the same and everyone goes absolutely apeshit.

It would be great if the take away here is that substacks are blogs and blogs are essays without editors and editors are important and substacks should be read with their absence in mind But alas, no, I don’t see that being the lesson learned

The Great Tolkien Reread continues with "Three is Company", "A Short Cut to Mushrooms", and "A Conspiracy Unmasked." In which the hobbits make their way to the edge of the Shire, the Black Riders appear, and we discuss Tolkien's unique use of foresight. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

tapping the sign

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

LTRY is also currently available at 20% off - www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special! 💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*. 📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

Beautiful!

For eight days the Balrog has climbed secret tunnels with Gandalf in pursuit. Finally they reach the Endless Stair of many thousand steps, which brings them to Durin’s Tower and a narrow ledge atop Zirak-zigil. The Balrog bursts again into flame. The Battle of the Peak begins.

Guys, the US economy is like the Edmund Fitzgerald. As big freighters go, it's bigger than most; probably some real good stuff happens to it in the third verse, I'm not sure

6-year old has gotten pretty interested in MLK, and distinguishing black people and white people, and how their biracial friend from preschool fits into this. I said that “black” (like gender) is less about biology & more about how society treats you, which she paraphrased as “the world around us”