Rat King

Update: it was.

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

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We found a way to fauxtomate the dead internet. It's kind of amazing, really.

On the strength of this review, I put a library hold on Truth of Carcosa, and having finally gotten it, I'm enjoying it tremendously. Thanks, @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org!

Hargrave House is different from it's neighbors on Belgrave Square. It’s not just a residence, but a place of work… dark work. And some more of that dark work has just landed on the doorstep... #TheBetween #digitalart

One thing that I love about getting older is how I'm also getting better at reading stuff and watching things, just by sheer virtue of practice. It's so cool. I'm so excited.

pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral scene individable, or poem unlimited

I finished COE33 yesterday and immediately started writing. Very little has fired my imagination like that in a while.

What a delightful piece about having a job! (And also a genre-redefining fantasy series)

A totally average amount of whelmed #illustration

this is open to every american to comment on, and it only has 220 total comments! if we want to stop this we need a LOT more please share and encourage your cis friends to do the same, we need you!

god bless a man who had the gift of true righteousness. also a man who looked absolutely goddamn crazy just truly one of the weirdest looking guys god ever made

Here's this again for the morning! (Also that coffee was every bit as bad as it looked.)

I read so many books last month. Possibly too many? Most of them were good, too. www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/5/4/edgars-book-round-up-april-2026

Lesbian knights ⚔️

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

This one didn't fully come together, but I feel like I'm groping towards something substantial.

Back Pain.png #illustration #owouchowie

cherry season

Some really good stuff in this one, I think.

Got last month's reading rounded up: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/4/...

My friend is in a really tough spot. If you can help at all: venmo mx_vortex, cashapp ufohoax777

HELL YEAH HELL YEAH

I took too long to write my book reviews -- so there are many of them, including a lot of tech skepticism and a few rather wild books (image is Michael Cisco's 'Animal Money', which I spent the most time with.)

Twenty years of Neil banging out the tunes!

My friend is in a really tough spot. If you can help at all: venmo mx_vortex, cashapp ufohoax777

Wowwwww Kickstarter is borked right now. Please continue to look at the TTRPG Public Access because it is so seriously an amazing game, and you want it in your collection. Don't miss out!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

When I know it's definitely a trap, but I'm going anyway.

Sharing again for the morning crowd!

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Here's this on liminal spaces, including/excluding airports. www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/4/...

these paintings by German painter Markus Matthias Krüger are pretty much exactly what i envision the zelda 1 map actually looking like in practical terms

I love this ridiculous grocery bag. I can't help but read it as, "Eating organic is a political act, and brother, I vote three times a day."

Cool to see my novella TANTALUS (a standalone excerpt of my forthcoming novel GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE) is on the shortlist for the Novella Prize from @malahatreview.bsky.social

This International Trans Day of Visibility, we are asking you to help increase awareness of our free support line, so that no trans+ person feels alone or unsupported. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are on hand from 10am to 10pm, every day of the year. #InternationalTransDayOfVisibility #TDOV

Not knowing how bad things are for trans people is fine, as @mxthemfatale.bsky.social points out, that’s how privilege works Become informed. this tdov It is not us who should become visible but the oppression we experience

I'm not going to lie, but the ADD hit hard with this one: I wanted to talk about genre, but somehow ended up sprawled across political economy and epistemology. Send help.

I know I'm not alone in this, but I feel moved to note that neither TSA nor ICE should exist. I remember when they were instituted and I'm the same age as The Simpsons.

MY VOLCANO came out 4 years ago as of yesterday. Wild times. Find your volcano at www.johnelizabethstintzi.com/my-volcano

5 years ago!

Call your House Rep, tell them to OPPOSE HR 7661. ☎️ Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 (2/2)

My Work Is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti by me.

"Whistle (While You Work It)" by Katy Tiz was on the playlist at the retailer I worked at for a number of years and man, I resented it then and it seems cruel and unusual now.

I've posted this before for #BookologyThursday but I'll post it again: the Dragon in a 1958 edition of 'Beowulf' illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. #dragon #folklore #folktale #medieval

You've got to cite your sources, and you've got to check your sources.

Never related to a meme harder than I do with this one right now

TFW when you pay no heed to the ides... 2066 yrs ago #onthisday Julius Caesar was assassinated. Listen to Marc Antony’s speech over Caesar's body from Shakespeare’s play, performed with stupendous pomp by Harry Humphrey in 1914 publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... (Image: BLRoyal18EV) #OTD