I’m watching Face Off for the first time, and they just…they just take the faces off.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Ahhhh, Finding Mr. Christmas, the only show that I watch with complete delight, while also gleefully saying "omg this is SO STUPID" a minimum of once per episode

The best essay about this film that I've ever read, and I've not only read dozens, I've written a few myself. Hooray for Mary!

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Mumbling “Hill House, NOT sane…” to myself in the same cadence and tone as Gonzo in A Muppet Christmas Carol says “And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die…”

@marysoonlee.bsky.social We are doing the final wrap up post for our Sign of the Dragon Readalong today. It was so wonderful to reread this fabulous book. This feels like the right time to share a strange but relevant piece of personal lore that you might enjoy. 1/?

This is one of my favorite short stories published in 2025; particularly impressive considering I don't usually love flash fiction

You should take Vajra's advice and fill out SFWA's survey. But you should also read his entire thread. He has much to illuminate on how our field is being poisoned.

#poetry. Tar Vol reviewed "The Sign of the Dragon" on their website, where there are also reviews of many other speculative fiction books: www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/23/f... I don't have contact information for Tar Vol, but in case they read this: thank you!!! :-) 🐉

How a society should function, imo

If you find yourself with some time to read over the end of this way-too-long year, here are some of my favorite short stories from 2025:

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

When they ask me what radicalized me

ARAGORN: You have my sword. GIMLI: And my axe! BILL: And my saxophone! COUNCIL: …um. ELROND: Wtf, Glorfindel, you were supposed to be watching the doors, you KNOW how I feel about this guy

Remind me to repost this when people aren’t distracted by holidays, because The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee is not one to miss www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/23/f...

great news on this, cait from 11 hours ago

Friends, the Blog Without a Face have named their top 10 horror books of the year and @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS comes in hot at #8. theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Bari Weiss in tomorrow morning's emergency staff meeting:

hello skyline it is time to post the song of the season ~it's beginning to look a lot like FISHMEN~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTH...

happy holidays

I’m so glad we put so much financial and political support behind the tech industry so they can come up with amazing new ideas like charging you 23% more for the same groceries

#poetry. Joy! There is a lovely review -- by Kelly Jennings -- of "The Sign of the Dragon" in the Asimov's On Books column, which may currently be read at: asimovs.com/current-issu... (The column will update to the next issue's books in a couple of months.) ✏️📖🐉📖✏️

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

She looks like she gets on stage every night to sing a 45 minute medley that’s mostly the n-word

I mean, if you like series but don't wanna start one until you know it's complete, this is the first book o(of 4) of my Finder series. Gotta love an interstellar repo man with a trouble magnet: bookshop.org/p/books/find...

My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.

I'm so touched every year by how many people reread Sing for the Coming each winter solstice. It's such an honour to be part of your tradition. here is the Halsway Carol, the beautiful modern carol that inspired the story's title: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpww...

Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.

TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!

my name is cow and wen its nite and when a star is shiyning brite and three wise men give me the nod i walk up close I lik the God

Reading all of that and you get the feeling that the mistletoe called on its druid roots to apply the Final Nope.

Goldilocks waking up:

months of coverage like “mayor mamdani? some jews fear the worst” and my man is out there enjoying some latkes with inigo montoya

So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now: 1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

this is still my take on the Epstein files destroying what’s left of Bill Clinton, by the way

I find it so weird when people are like, "You're gonna regret this when your fave gets caught up in it." No I'm not. If someone I admire is actually a monster, I want to know that. I do not care who it is. There's no one I value more than exposing predators.

I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.

They totally threw Bill Clinton under the bus with photos of him being inappropriate with teenagers in the files. I'm a big fan of him being thrown under the bus I just think we all know there's a whole more folks who can fit under that bus.

If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.

40 minutes of transphobia, 40 minutes of ableism, 20 minutes of complaining that he's being canceled. It's all shot in a hospital cancer ward, and he's chain smoking the whole time. Anyone who complains has their gurney wheeled out and gets slapped by Joe Rogan

seem to recall aid to palestinian writers being so strangely sensitive that it required discussion and votes whether to have votes to even consider rule changes to descriptions of political activity. guarantee if LLMs had a fraction of that discussion this wouldn't have even gotten to proposed text.