TWO FULL YEARS of essays! Our very first essay was @cherylmorgan.bsky.social on fantasy and historical fiction: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-... January 2025 saw @nniskanen.bsky.social discuss how SF has looked at families of the future: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/famil...

What a beauty!

It's good that James Dobson is dead and let's use the occasion to say that it's bad to beat children, because he is one of the main reasons we have to say explicitly that it's bad to beat children

A travesty. Other places invest in education about bears and commonsense provisions. In Florida, intense habitat fragmentation leads to the deranged logic that "there are too many bears." Bears in Florida are not accustomed to being hunted. Most will just be shot crossing some asshole's backyard.

Jälleen todiste siitä, että konservatiivikristityt eivät ole sen kummempia kuin Talebanitkaam. Mitä enemmän näille antaa valtaa, sitä hullummaksi touhu menee. Ja tämäkin kannattaa todellakin ottaa ihan tosissaan.

Why is fridging still such a major motivator for male characters? Like seriously, we can't come up with something other than "your wife has been killed, now off you go to vengeance"? I don't know what else I expected of Gladiator 2, but I hoped for better.

I've been doing a lot more biking this summer and I've really been struck with how smart the biking arrangements here are. The bike lanes are well marked (painted red most places in order to distinguish from the walkways and roadways), generally follow direction of traffic etc. I love my city

"Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now." CNN is living dangerously. Power to their ink. www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...

Important story, written in Portuguese by our partner Jornalistas Pretos — Rede de Jornalistas pela Diversidade na Comunicação (Black Journalists’ Network — Journalists for Diversity in Communication) and translated into English by one of our @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social volunteers!

LLM’s literally can’t create anything new.

Reading Murderbot for the 1000th time in order to deal with fried-brain overwhelm, and reading Murderbot itself turn to Sanctuary Moon in order to deal with fried-brain overwhelm turns out to cause strangely circular feels.

how to seal a leaky bucket

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Or we can take climate change seriously. Which is better than lazy, empty gestures. Just spit balling.

Dragon blanket is finished! I've added the pattern to my Ravelry store in case anyone feels inspired to make one. 🧶🐉 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitting #bskyknits #dragons #dragon #blanket

From editors Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord, and Malka Older: WE WILL RISE AGAIN, Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope. It's never been more relevant. @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social Preorder now! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

Phrases that live in my brain rent-free. C/ @nniskanen.bsky.social's essay last year about the realities of container ships and how that could (should) translate to the space-faring version. Read it yourself by subscribing (AUD30!), or by buying the December 2024 ebook: www.speculativeinsight.com.

7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill: Cuts $930 billion from Medicaid 16 million lose health care Slashes nutrition aid by $186 billion Less income for bottom 40% of families Increases debt by $3.3 trillion $45 billion for immigration jails Billions for defense contractors

Come for the mockery, stay for the ALT-text.

”On selvää, ettei ’kivuttomia’ ratkaisuja enää ole ja vaikeitakin päätöksiä on pystyttävä tekemään, mikäli haluamme tulevillakin sukupolvilla olevan laadukasta terveydenhuoltoa, koulutusta ja turvaa elämän eri vaiheissa.” Siis harvoilla tulevien sukupolvien edustajilla, ei kaikilla. #politiikka

Tässä lukee niin, että yhdenvertaisuuden ja tasa-arvon tukeminen on presidentille riski. Minusta tällaisen mittakaavan suvaitsemattomuus, joka aiheuttaa presidentille riskin, pitäisi yhteiskuntana nähdä jo aika helvetin suurena ongelmana. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

Homeostasis asserts itself

A wise person knows that the best way to fight fascism is to fight fascism. Not to give into it piecemeal. The person who thinks that we just need to find the right sacrifice to feed to the fascists in order to appease them is, at best, a collaborator.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

This was such a fun essay to write! It gave me the chance to talk about my hang ups about Space Opera

This time last year, @nniskanen.bsky.social blew my mind with her essay about the realities of cargo ships, and how that should (but often doesn't) relate to cargo ships in space... and you can still read it by subscribing! AUD30/year gets you access to all essays! www.speculativeinsight.com/subs

PRIDE MONTH RECS - VELVETEEN VERSUS by @seananmcguire.bsky.social. The fantastic adventures of the bunny rabbit themed heroine and her queer crew of besties. beforewegoblog.com/pride-month-... #Pride #books #indiebooks #mustreads @bethtabler.bsky.social

Who doesn’t want to read about messed up deer? Help make this happen! 🦌

Now, for a little gothic romance, we offer a family of Ravens that are nesting in the facade of St John the Divine--the world's largest cathedral. Even though the three nestlings look nearly full-grown, they're still demanding to be fed! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

I am both delighted and my first response was 'These sociopathic c-suite motherfuckers better not fucking cancel this two seasons in.'

I hate that the American people never gave Biden credit for the things that he did extremely well under impossible circumstances. I hate even more that Trump will absolutely take credit for those things while simultaneously destroying democracy, proliferating corruption, and making the rich richer.

@lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social Due to urgent personal circumstances, I humbly ask for any support you may be able to provide. Even minimal help could have a significant impact. Further details are included in the pinned post. We are being exterminated bsky.app/profile/hope...

Really disturbing to see this framed as though it is unclear whether this is an abomination.

Really loving our new weekly national tradition of asking the Supreme Court "hey, are there laws?" and getting back "I guess," 7-2 with Alito and Thomas dissenting

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

let us not forget

It's crowdFUND Friday! Help a pair of nerdy #trans & queer horror enthusiasts bring our project to LIFE. :D @probablyharmless.bsky.social and I want this DEERLY — we have amazing stories already lined up & want to read YOURS. #TheDeerIsMessedUP 📚💙 #booksky 🏳️‍⚧️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'

Want to be part of the terror??? 👀 Help us reach our base funding goal so we can open to general submissions (in June) and read YOUR messed up deer stories!! @messedupanthos.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

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Sci fi / fantasy by Pacific Islander authors: Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach Lei and the Fire Goddess by Malia Maunakea Watched by Tihema Baker Mara Oti by Lani Young Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka

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The Most Interesting Squirrel in the World

Today's moment of calm, brought to you by a remote part of Iowa.

“Phone calls heard from under the tuins” — Death toll in Russian missile attack on Kyiv rises. www.kyivpost.com/post/51353

I really cannot stress enough that a Russian victory in #Ukraine would very greatly increase the risk of even more dangerous war in the future. Victories embolden autocrats. Who then tend to overreach. And the “peace deal” the Trump regime tries to force on Ukraine is practically a capitulation.

Every day on Bluesky there's a main character and the objective is to have already blocked them