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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

What we learn from the stories of ordinary people living through historical times is often most powerful for its ordinariness. Especially in the present moment, may we learn from this and related stories about the potential of ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Miss Gail’s 2025 Life Update: A Horrible No Good Very Bad Year

“I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.”

He was bound to drop that scarf in some time zone or other.

Right, I'm switching my KJC email to proton, just got to set up a custom domain...DNS...something something DMARC something...please can he just die already, preferably in a bizarre incident involving the heads of all the major tech companies?

From one of my talks with Ursula Le Guin, on Omelas: "You want to help the kid, but you can't. One reason it makes kids so angry is that it’s an arbitrary rule. And they don’t want to realize that most social rules are arbitrary."

This week: we execute a U.S. citizen. Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.” It's so transparent what's going on here.

Le gouvernement des États-Unis tue ses citoyens de sang froid (une femme hier), avec des justifications encore plus froide des politiques. Ce n'est pas nouveau ; ça existe en France aussi. SI l'extrême-droite passe, ces meurtres seront banalisés et légitimés ici aussi. Le fascisme tue.

📢 Tout comme nous, vous aimez les mangas, manhwas, manhuas ou encore les webtoons ? Alors aidez-nous, prestataires du lettrage, de la correction et de la traduction, à soutenir la création humaine face à la déferlante de l’IA générative #ComicsSansIA

The Truth about Venezuela.

Bonne journée à celles et ceux qui s'inquiètent de la montée du fascisme, qui refusent au quotidien les petites remarques racistes, antisémites, sexistes, ou homophobes, qui pensent encore au collectif et au sort de la planète, à celles et ceux qui, partagent, malgré tout, des valeurs humanistes.

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist.com

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

C'est le temps du Porcher, alors cadeau : J'ai publié sur mon site Politiser les Imaginaires un essai sur les imaginaires, leur production, leur poétique, et ce qu'on peut en faire. C'est lisible sur le site, et téléchargeable gratos (normalement, dites moi si ça bugue) link.infini.fr/3vzkLtXH

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Maduro's not a good guy, agreed. But neither is Putin, and Trump rolled out the red fucking carpet for him. It's not about dope, it's about oil (which kinda IS dope). Just when you think Trump has hit the gutter, he bounces lower.

Confirmation : nous sommes gouvernés par un lâche, une carpette, un paillasson. Ce président, qui a déjà trahi de nombreuses fois son peuple, se comporte comme le vulgaire vassal et collabo d’un dictateur nationaliste et violent.

It was clear to me that hitting kids was wrong when I realized people will hit their kids but not openly harmful adults. Anyway, funny how politicians scream about law and order when people march & protest but when politicians openly break the law we're not sure if law applies anymore?

So, America just unilaterally kidnapped a foreign leader because they deemed him an out of control dictator? Canada could do the funniest thing right now…

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Pierre Bordage est décédé. Je le connaissais un peu. Pas assez pour prétendre qu'on était proches, assez pour avoir 2-3 private jokes avec, de choses qu'on avait vécues ensemble sur des salons. Pour lui j'étais "la Morgan de Ploërmel," ville près de laquelle j'habite et où il a une rue à son nom.

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

The War Between the Land and the Sea 🤯🤯🤯

I loved this SO much.

This cartoon and two others are available now as prints here: www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025

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And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both. The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.

And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Since one should plug one's own books, here goes. Comedies of manners and murders, featuring a cinnamon roll dragon prince and his stab-happy Fallen angel husband. They try to solve crimes without causing more crimes. www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography... Tried to write cozy, there were murders

I don't want to say my cats think I have been gone too much recently, but I am saying this particular cat rather pointedly peed into one of my travel bags.

L'état de nos moteurs de recherche. 🙄 Ici, le premier résultat qui explique(rait) l'expression "génie sans bouillir"

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 86: You don't have to go far to get ideas. They're everywhere around you. What you need is to train your mind to see the familiar in a new and unfamiliar way. Change angles. Play with perspective. Take tired tropes and wake them up.

voile, une kippa, un t-shirt « Jesus est mon sauveur » ou « Le monstre de spaghetti est vivant » si vous le souhaitez. L’interdiction des signes religieux ostensibles dans les écoles publics n’est juridiquement possible que parce que c’est un MOYEN au service de la neutralité du service public et

La laïcité, désolé de le rappeler, ce n’est pas l’interdiction des signes religieux. La laïcité, c’est la neutralité de l’Etat en matière de religion, condition nécessaire à la liberté religieuse. L’espace public est, en France, laïc : ça ne vous empêche pas de vous y promener en soutane, avec un

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

Quand on est fan de BL asiatique et de K-pop, c’est intéressant de voir les échanges de culture pop dans l’autre sens. 😄 theconversation.com/le-fabuleux-...

D’ailleurs je voudrais un univers partagé où chaque pays serait défendue des démons par une figure représentative de sa culture : une lycéenne pour les États Unis, un groupe de KPop pour la Corée, une héritière qui n’a jamais eu à travailler pour la France…

me putting tea in my virtual shopping cart: yes, yes, and yes!!! me looking at the price tag: what the fuck, no.

by Yohann Schepacz www.artstation.com/a...

Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

Shakespeare would be proud x

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 154: Feed your writing daily. Feed it with fiction, non-fiction, news, games, theatre, films, art. Feed it with conversation. Feed it with experience. Feed it with curiosity. Don't expect to get anything out unless you also keep putting in.