It is that time of year again. The 2026 Pride Storybundle contains 16 DRM-free books which can be yours for just $30. And it contains a wonderful book by our very own Chaz Brenchley. Full details at: storybundle.com/pride. The offer runs from June 3 to July 2

Merge two movies: The Wizard of Speed and Time Bandits

Merge two movies: Secondhand Lions in Winter

Stroganoff for dinner again tonight. This time I got my walmart order on time! I know most people eat this over noodles, but I vastly prefer brown rice.

The May issue of Salon Futura is now online, featuring fiction by Martha Wells, Tracy Deonn, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Evangeline Walton and Mats Strandberg, plus Welsh poetry, Celtic Magic, genre interviews, the Hay Festival and Åcon.

We had ACTUAL EXCITEMENT today! I was leaving the building to pick up my car when the fire alarm went off. I turned around to go back to the apartment because my Wife can't walk enough to make it out on her own. We had 2 fire engines & a rescue squad (go Johnny and Roy!) but evidently no fire.

Here’s another view of the back garden, facing the other direction.

The prairie winecup flowered!

An updated shot of my favorite bed in the garden. It’s getting downright lush! I can’t actually show you how many pollinators are on it in a photo, but they’re swarming wildly.

IT FINALLY FLOWERED!!! WITNESS ME OR AT LEAST MY CACTUS! Hmm, maybe it’s time for a #Bloomscroll…

We do not help men when we take the hard work away to accommodate their comfort

We do not help men when we emotionally stunt them

YOU GUYS this is amazing - tracks ICE flights in realtime - lets immigration attorneys download flight records for filings - helps organize observations to counter blatant ICE lies So much work went into this. Lives will change because of this. Fighting looks like many things & this is one.

Tuesday is a BIG Election Day. California, New Mexico, Montana, New Jersey … there’s a ton happening, including plenty of intra-Dem battles between progressives and centrists. My guide walks you thru it.

I flipped an entire frying-pan sized potato and zucchini (courgette) pancake in one go! So proud of myself. The achievement of the week! (Our life is very uneventful. I savor what excitement I can.)

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

As I rank Finalists for the #HugoAwards I want to urge everyone to lobby for Ranked Choice Voting (or Instant Runoff Voting) in your elections. This means you can vote for ALL the candidates. The one you like best in 1st place, the next one in 2nd place place and the dangerous one in last place.

Reading pdfs on Kindle is an absolute pain in the ass. I hate it. And to add insult to injury, every time I turn a page I have to resize it. Gah!

Bread Pudding #ULTRARECIPES Found this at a colonial house in MA. 6 eggs 6 cups milk half a loaf of bread torn into small pieces 1 cup sugar rose water and ground cardamom to taste Mix together and bake until a knife comes out clean.

we now have a scientific name for maga

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Small Gods is a work of righteous anger, and is one of the best books in the entire series.

My Mom just called to ask me what my name is. Lol. (I legally changed it to the nickname everyone has called me since birth so employment records, IRS, Social Security, credit cards, license, and passport would match. But she didn't know what I'd done with my middle name. Still funny though.)

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Pollo a la Crema for dinner. With tortilla chips instead of flour tortillas. ohsweetbasil.com/one-pan-poll...

Nearly halfway to my goal! I need to sell around 11 pendants by Monday night to cover May rent and bills. There's plenty to go around - I just listed some more gemstone spirals: oishiny.etsy.com Each pendant comes in a gift box with free international shipping. #Handmade #Helpsky #💕💸

Horse running in a pre-Preakness race today named Napoleon Solo. Is there another horse from the same owner named Illya Kuryakin? #ManFromUNCLE Oop, nope. The owner just liked Robert Vaughn's character.

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

If US wealth were spread equally over all households, the poorest 50% of households today would get *$1.2 million* richer on average. The next-poorest 40% of households would get $300k richer on average. Only the richest 10% of Americans would lose any wealth, at all. Calculations and data source:

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 160 Active Redistricting Cases: 46 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 79 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 78 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 www.democracydocket.com

BEHOLD! It is beautiful!

Vote for who I get to hand a trophy to!

$46.00 for 10 gallons of gas. Thank God I rarely leave the apartment.

Finished reading one book (of sooooo many) for #HugoAwards voting! One down, dozens to go.

Voting in the #HugoAwards, as well as the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer is now open until August 8, 2026 at noon PDT. Votes can be submitted through our online balloting system, NomNom, or by mailing in a printable ballot.

Your vote Tuesday could help decide who controls Congress: Here’s who is on the ballot in NE Ohio: www.cleveland.com/news/2026/05...

Big Fat Nope. But I will regale you with a very nice clam chowder, courtesy of my mother #ULTRARECIPES Fry up 4 ounces of bacon, chopped, reserve 1/2 large onion, chopped 2 stalks celery, chopped medium Sauté in in bacon grease for 10 minutes Four large potatoes 8 ounces of clam juice 1/3

Australia's 'Payphone Tag' game is an excellent use of public infrastructure: aftermath.site/payphone-tag-a...

Are you a fan yet? Juliet E McKenna's award-winning Green Man series is hugely popular all around the world. The first in the series is The Green Man's Heir. wizardstowerpress.co...

There's an election this Tuesday a VERY swingy legislative district of Michigan. It could erase Dems' majority in the chamber, if GOP flips it.

call the bluff

Time for an experiment! You know those cute little roadside stands with honors-system eggs or produce? Look, I know I live in "big scary Philadelphia oooh 👻" but I'm gonna try it. What's the worst that can happen? Thieves create habitat for native bees? Jokes on them! I wanted them to do that!

Wife: Hiccup! Me: Boo! W: Hiccup! M: Boo! W: Hiccup! M: Boo! W: Hiccup! M: You do not have hiccups. W: --- How the hell does that work? It works almost every time, but WHY? HOW?

If we had taken all the money we put into AI and put it into trains, we would have such great trains. What a waste.

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Years ago Wife and I took a course on sailing Viking ships in Denmark. We fell into a discussion of Sutton Hoo with another student. I burbled enthusiastically about the chain for the large cauldron and what a master work it was. 1/2

The largest school districts in North Carolina are all shutting down for May Day at the request of the teachers' union. 1 million union members in New Jersey are backing a large May Day action. May Day is gonna be HUGE this year w/ strikes in at least 85 cities! paydayreport.com/n-c-largest-...

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa