📚🤔 My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social

Me, yesterday.

I prefer my magic systems in toast.

Just finished @fondalee.bsky.social ‘s latest, •The Last Contract of Isako.” What a ride. I can’t say too much about it without spoiling so many parts, but there are certain narrative choices that have this book bouncing between cyberpunk and sci-fi noir until it’s all blended smoothly together.

"Only an economy oriented around coveting and coddling losers would have let AI get this far."

Gee darn, one less toxic asshole.

Tell me again why we need to build reactors that leave poison lying around for longer than human civilization has existed? Batteries and Solar+Wind cost less to build, do the job better, and don't leave our children and their children dying of radiation sickness. Nuclear just isn't worth it.

When I count up all the novels (files or links to full novels via netgalley) in the Hugo Voter Packet this year... It appears that @seananmcguire.bsky.social has breached the 25% mark of included books (19 of 69, since it contains all of the October Daye novels). This amuses me greatly.

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

GNU sir pTerry

GOOD RIDDANCE #ffxiv #fanfest #evercold

23 de Abril - Dia Mundial do Livro

@diane.dianeduane.com 's Young Wizards should be the top of any list like this, in my humble opinion....

this would be dinner and a SHOW.

Based on @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s glowing recommendation, I just finished reading “How to Survive Camping: The Man with no Shadow” Somehow a gore splattered yet wholesome camping season with cryptids who are downright terrifying, and a major body count… it works perfectly. #books #booksky

I just DNF'd my first book of the year... well, audio-drama. It was extremely jingoistic, features military leaders barking orders and pounding the table a lot, and a constant scientific mistakes like "geosynchronous orbit over the south pole" which threw me right out of suspension of disbelief.

okay, @djangowexler.bsky.social , I'm invested in this silly steampunk alien world (and this absolutely bonkers pilots). Are we getting a squeal to Last Stop soon(ish)?

Every year, I put together a collage of the covers of books I read during that year. here's 2025: Too many authors to tag; Titles and Authors in the alt text. Favorites were written by @aptshadow.bsky.social, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, @travisbaldree.bsky.social, & @charliejane.bsky.social

Chuck's basic point about AI apologism demands that we accept the idea that "AI is inevitable" is correct. It's fundamental economics. Stein's Law: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." AI investment cannot go on forever. AI growth cannot go on forever.

Sexiest bookstore person in the history of the movies.

That alt text too....

Another day, another @seananmcguire.bsky.social preorder to be had. This time... Velveteen vs. The Consequences of Her Actions! I believe that makes.. five 2026 books up for preorder, now? Wayward Children, Incryptid, MTG: Strixhaven, Inkpot Gods, and Velveteen.

“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement. After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

@annaleen.bsky.social My almost 12 year old child is resisting going to bed. Tonight’s form of resistence is grabbing books off the shelf in my bedroom and checking what they’re about. Child stopped and opened “Stories are Weapons” and read for 20 minutes… I think it’s a hit…

my faded ass otw to the air fryer:

This is phenomenal.

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it…🤣

Just finished the latest October Daye novel from @seananmcguire.bsky.social , entitled “Silver & Lead.” As expected a wonderful outing, even if there were some events in the back half that made me wondering I was going to have to riot. Here’s hoping I get to see Toby and crew again soon…

I have finally finished reading @charliejane.bsky.social ‘s most recent novel, “Lessons in Magic & Disaster,” and I have to say: I think this is her best book yet. It is grounded, completely personal, and wonderfully whimsical. Worth your time.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

@repkimschrier.bsky.social Never misses an opportunity to disappoint. For someone who was voted into office in 2018 on the back of Indivisible as an anti-Trump candidate, she sure seems dedicated to giving the republicans and their dear leader *whatever they want.*

@eileengunn.bsky.social I hate to break it to you, but @scalzi.com is at it again!

Today, I got to work and had the "joy" of a coworker asking me to check his figures on something. The query he used to get his raw data came from ChatGPT and he didn't know how it worked, so he needed someone who actually knows SQL to figure it out. So I had to rework the entire problem.

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

Bucket was caught licking his chops today, and the picture came out better than I could imagine.

There is no ethical, legal, or moral difference between a missile strike on a civilian boat in international waters and a missile strike on a civilian vehicle on I-95.

I am watching the Thunderbolts movie. I am reminded that the original shooting title for The Avengers was “Group Hug.”

I've been binging Star Trek: Voyager in the evenings, and last night just finished episode 2.16: "Meld." I'm entirely amused by the solution to the episode. Vulcan Tech Support: "have you tried turning them off, and then on again?" Remember kids, reboot your Vulcan after a bad mind-meld!

There’s a clip going around of a 10-year old, talking about his experiences and his injured friend, taken after the shooting this morning. The majority reaction on that post is to chastise MSNBC for interviewing a child. It’s true, a kid can’t give good consent for filming. It’s also true that..

@charliejane.bsky.social and @asterolsen.bsky.social at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park tonight, reading from and talking “Lessons in Magic & Disaster.”

That moment where you notice Tony Shaloub in Addams Family Values.

@andypeloquinauthor.bsky.social I bought a book directly from you at WorldCon. Imagine my surprise when I received an unsolicited email. I respect that you've gotta hustle and sell books to people who buy them, but you should re-think pulling an email out of the buy order and sending a newsletter.

Okay, done with worldcon and home. I will now collapse into a puddle for the next two hours, then it’s on to the next thing. Gotta work tomorrow and life resumes.

Just @scalzi.com pretending to be @eileengunn.bsky.social ….

Chartruce Day

Lego enthusiast: we don’t WANT to think outside the blocks!

In video games, I have been able to afford multiple houses. In video games, health care can be found by breaking boxes. In video games, I can save money without inflation being an issue. In video games, people with ! over the head just hand our jobs after a brief interview process.