You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me. - #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn, 1972 Nobel Lecture

Is book banning contributing to declining literacy rates?

“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.

America 2026!

You know what to do...

You see a page from the past with a lasting impression: this manuscript page from the 1490s is made of parchment, and an #astrolabe that was included into the binding of the manuscript left this shadow of the astronomical instrument behind. 1/2

arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016 New preprint with @erikjbekkers.bsky.social !

Plans for tomorrow?

Was dying trying to dig out my truck when a nice guy with a snow plow offered to clear the street side. #randomacts.

Really powerful speech by Avgi Saketopoulo.

Made kale chips, mashed potatoes and chicken stock. Another day and there may be sourdough.

NYTimes analysis of the fatal shooting by ICE officers contradicts many statements from the administration. https://loom.ly/y12tEu8

It's time to primary these cowards

I posted something shitty. open.substack.com/pub/edwardig...

I sharpened my chef's knife. It worked. It is now sharp enough to cut through the pit of an avocado. While I'm holding it. cutting my hand. Be careful, there are consequences for doing your job well.

@katemanne.bsky.social's vital words: "The scenario is not so far from that deservedly famous line of Margaret Atwood’s: men fear women laughing at them. Women fear men killing them, because she dared to laugh at him." 1/2

In today's "something I heard that was too stupid to be true but, on my god, it is" I leave you with this. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Good morning What a great week. I'm doing great. You're doing great. We're all doing great.

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So the original Barbarella is free on Prime. Not a bad way to spend NYE.

Having not left the house since,Xmas eve, I am going out in search of supplies. Wish me luck.

Pull up a chair and pour yourself a drink (yes, we have ginger ale and Coke if you're alcohol-free). There's plenty of room at this inn.

Great lecture on the history of Hecate by Professor Ronald Hutton

TIL about the Hidebehind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBH_...

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Go learn the history of this day wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_to_End_Violence_Against_Sex_Workers And then go make a sex worker in your life’s day better. Clients and allies put your money where your mouth is!

@miriamanzovin.bsky.social I am saddened these depictions of Judith were left out of the last episode. Perhaps in part 2?

In honor of us having a delightful light snow day in Pittsburgh, here's a present for you. Open it right away. But alone. In a locked room. Soundproof if possible. Just be patient and listen to the pretty music. The real present comes at the end. #PulpSabotage

If clowns raped kids as often as preachers raped kids it would be against the law to take your kids to the circus. www.joemygod.com/2025/12/illi...

IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal. www.imls.gov/news/stateme...

Seems increasingly like a viable alternative ...

Great list. Ordering some of the fiction he recommends, as I've never heard of them and his descriptions of the thrill of reading them is the dragon I'm constantly chasing...

Happy Thanksgiving from #PulpSabotage

Opinion | When things begin to fall apart, some communities hunt out witches. Some target vulnerable populations. But some grabs their spades and get digging.

Just posted something on Substack that is not about Grackles. open.substack.com/pub/edwardig...

I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start. via White Rose Resistance

I suspected this might be coming because of her recent retirement... I knew she'd never lay down the microphone unless forced to. RIP to a giant of journalism, to a Founding Mother of NPR, and to -- I am proud and humbled to say -- my friend. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

Good morning and welcome to my eternal October dilemma

@rubyrapture.bsky.social @kiwicouli.bsky.social If you are going to go cow, commit.

What I dislike about CNN's headline: the story admits Trump didn't say how he would enact a tariff on films or who would pay it. Some say he may not have the power to enact it. So saying he "announces" it sounds more definitive than the situation. READ: https://loom.ly/4XmjZXg

@themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy has an excellent "from the Archives" today on the vampire paradox. The problem with change is that it is unknowable.

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Good morning A timely thought from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Really good video on the linguistic tools used by cults.

Good morning

Bamboo flowering death plant youtube.com/shorts/u2GZd...