A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

as announced via their sns acct: Shutaro Iida ("Curry The Kid"), director of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night & a key figure on Castlevania's Aria of Sorrow, the DS trilogy & Harmony of Despair, among other games, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on February 10 R.I.P.

Hi, I want this book to happen. Please make this book happen—back, hit repost, tell a friend. Four days to raise just over $3000, four days to bring more queer stories into the world.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

State supreme courts are a battlefield for pressing issues, from abortion rights to ballot access. But do you know how your court works? Our guide breaks down the structure and procedures of every single state’s highest court.

The SAVE Act is bad. While lots of people are talking about the ID portion, It creates a criminal cause of action to put election workers in prison for (even accidentally) registering someone to vote without ID. campaignlegal.org/update/what-...

thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao

The 3-Day Weekend Stretch Goal Surge continues, we might have to send out for more tea to keep it fueled. $344 to reach the first Stretch Goal of adding an additional 4-6 authors to the anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... Continued thanks bearing with us for these signal boost posts.

Thoughts on the first section of our reread of The Two Towers is now up, where we talked about narrative structure, a hero's death, Aragorn's leadership, how Tolkien talks about peoples as a whole, and the problems inherent in his portrayal of the orcs amongst themselves.

What would life be like if you moved to a city where plants carry magic like cables carry electricity in our world? What does a queer Arab fantasy world feel like? We’re making a solo-journaling TTRPG set in that world for zine month🐸 sliding scale PDF available! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sof...

Speak. The fuck. UP.

I wrote a novella called Death Valley Blooms about an aro/ace woman trying to break her family's curse--each of the women are pulled underground in Death Valley to feed the wildflower blooms in turn. a.co/d/08gVKP6j www.neonhemlock.com/books/death-...

Anyway, here's Roundabout

NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn) (1996) 3/3

NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn) (1996) 2/3

NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn) (1996) 1/3

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

I'm still plugging away at the novel draft I hoped to finish by the end of last year, then by the end of January... there always seems to be more to wrap up than I expect at the end, I know I'll have to tighten up a lot of this later but I also know I have to write it through the long way first... 😮‍💨

The thing that makes this extra funny to me is that I think the cat is about to say this is all moving too fast…

now that the anime industry is adapting old school shojo manga, i hope that folks will get an idea of just how varied series in that demographic used to be 30-40 yrs ago

Hey tabletop gamers, if you bought or were considering buying this bundle but got overwhelmed by the number of games to sort through, have I got the spreadsheet for you!! All 1,074 games tagged as "physical" sorted by play style, with language, engine, and genre notated to the best of my ability:

Every time you feel the urge to read the trending The Atlantic article of the day, go watch an electronic music tutorial by Bthelick instead: www.youtube.com/channel/UCaM...

Announcing Localization Lore, a new series dedicated to learning more about the history of video game localization! 🎉Featuring new interviews personally conducted by me, this first entry is on Ys 1 and the people behind its first three English translations. lizbushouse.com/localization...

Some of my very favorite publishers are included in this bundle!

Browsing used CDs online at a local record store... their website is like 20 years old and they have accrued some interesting genres in the search selection in that time, tag your favorite (I think mine is "Soundytrack," but I am also partial to "Folki")

RIP Hideki Sato. Former Sega President (2001-2003) and father of Sega's consoles, including my favourite one, the Mega Drive, has passed at the age of 75. The legacy he leaves behind is immense and cherished. 💜

I often see recipes with cocoa powder call for a little espresso powder to "intensify the chocolate flavor" but that gives a strong coffee aftertaste for me- I've started substituting black cocoa powder for the espresso powder called for and find it gives more intense chocolate with no aftertaste!

Game & Watch screens when you first put the batteries in:

Roses are red Stem held between teeth I ordered us takeout but it's

A new review - Hav by Jan Morris. I covered it in brief in my round up of books from while I was away, but there was more to it than a brief overview could encompass (shock twist, Booker judges knew what they were on about), and plenty more I suspect I'm not even spotting.

"Wow, there's a miraculous new vaccine with the potential to save millions of lives!" NY Times: Let's run a close-up of someone getting a shot "A contractor that runs ICE concentration camps full of kidnapped Latinos is letting people get sick and die." NY Times: Here's a cute picture of a picnic

learning how to needle felt, felt like a good place to start since Ive been enjoying Dragon Quest 7

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

(Sad trombone) truthout.org/articles/tru...

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:

St. Louis aldermen voted against introducing a bill that would have paused any data center development until new zoning rules for the projects are finalized.

Was Blue Prince as good as it was because of our vintage magazine subscriptions, where 100% of the proceeds benefit historical video game preservation? I'm not saying yes, absolutely, but I'm not NOT saying it. the-video-game-history-foundation.myshopify.com/collections/...

I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Check out what's new and keep sending your links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

Hello fans of nonograms/picross games!! Introducing my latest game, Walfie's Nonograms, a free Game Boy Color game featuring 150 puzzles! Play in browser, in a Game Boy emulator, or on a real Game Boy (via flash cart)!

Fresh from yesterday's raku firing, meet Perseus' Cloud. Born from fire and smoke, this raku vessel is inspired by the Perseus Molecular Cloud. This little fragment of the cosmos, imprinted by fire, holds echoes of stars long gone. Like us all, it is stardust. #space #ArtAdventCalendar #pottery

Since Harlequin is cancelling it's Historic Romance line, let's talk about my indie faves in the genre. #booksky #booktube #indiebooks

Fresh in my inbox, & I want to shout out @skyekilaen.bsky.social's newsletter. Not just a great list of new queer romance, but a really thoughtful explanation of how she dealt with some authors using AI. Writing (& maintaining!) book recs is a lot of work, and I really appreciate her approach to it.

I wrote about nation, nationalism and the agency of nature in fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin, Susanna Clarke, Hope Mirrlees, and T.H. White: patreon.com/posts/150679...

There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.

The ice skating animation is just really gorgeous in this also!

I’m doing two in-person events in Ithaca, NY in March: I'll be at Cornell talking about speculative fiction on Mar 19 and I'm joining Debbie Urbanski to read for the Ithaca Irrealist Readings (@irrealist.bsky.social) on Mar 20. Come say hi if you are Ithaca-adjacent! vajra.me/2026/02/13/s...

This was also my first Cherryh. If you've never read her work and you like sci-fi, space opera, or badass lion women willing to allow a strange, male human in their midst, snap this up! The alien cultures and politics yank you in, but there's also plenty of pew, pew, pew!

Valentines Day is tomorrow Placing romantic love above all others,

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