That's silly. it's quite clear that you can only be a New Yorker if you've been bitten by a radioactive spider and understand, due to personal trauma, that with great power comes great responsibility.

Mr. Sherwood. Fifth grade. Black Jack in the back of the class when recess was rained out. Drilling multiplication tables til we knew them cold. A pile of fiction on a table that we all had to pick from. I got “The Runaway Robot” by Lester DelRay. The rest as they say…

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

I have downloaded my Hugo packet. There’s my accomplishments for the week sorted, then

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Peter Gunn Dick Van Dyke Show Mission: Impossible Star Trek Rockford Files Columbo M*A*S*H Carole Burnett Show Late Night with David Letterman Hill Street Blues Barney Miller Captain Kangaroo The Muppet Show Perry Mason Sherlock Holmes

Gerry Anderson's Project SWORD www.kickstarter.com/projects/tim...

bookshop.org/p/books/diag... Finished "Diagnosis: Impossible" by Edward D. Hoch. Impossible crime stories featuring Dr. Sam Hawthorne, set in the 1920s by a master of the mystery short story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_... #booksky

The four buildings on this street corner in Kingston, NY have stood here for over 250 years.

A very #booksky delivery today. Both @chanda.blacksky.app and @lollardfish.bsky.social have enriched my feed and taught me things. My daughter, a fourth grade English teacher, has expressed interest in quantum theory, so I’ll pass “Space-Time” (and probably “Scholar” ) to her too

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

first time really tuning into a war? welcome. Let’s go over some rules of how to behave. These are going to be especially important if it’s a war you oppose. 1. You are allowed an opinion. This is America. Whether you served or not. It’s done in your name so might as well speak up. 🧵

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

"I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." I think about that a lot these days. RIP Tracy Kidder

The only media outlet that I can recall to immediately recognize their staff union. I feel way too old realizing how long I’ve been reading Josh’s site. But you’ll usually be smarter if you do.

bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... Finished the first of @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social 's Starfarers. Complicated, messy, humans working hard to do the right thing in crunchy science fiction universe. The socio-political circumstances that drive the core conflict hit rather close to home. #booksky

“It’s not the load that breaks you, it’s the way you carry it.” I’d never heard that before and I kind of love that it was Jett Reno that introduced it to me

According to @shire-reckoning.bsky.social the fellowship is breaking up these days. And…I feel that, @shire-reckoning.bsky.social , I feel that

this is basically what every single bit of critical infrastructure looks like: someone you'll never meet in an office exactly like this ensuring that the shit pumps continue to move the shit away from your house.

Five women authors by whom I’ve read at least five books: - Jacqueline Winspear - Anne McCaffrey - Lois McMaster-Bujold - Madeline LeEngle - Barbara Hambly

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Books are amazing. If you follow the very detailed and complete instructions in this one, you will have a model locomotive that runs on live stream. I’ve a lot to learn before I can even contemplate the attempt, but it’s fun to have a destination in mind while I do

Age verification? I miss encountering squeaky wire racks full of paperback books in random locations. And paperback book exchanges.

You have always been able to just build things

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but…they just made the next episode of “The Muppet Show”

bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Finished "The Devouring" by James R. Benn, a Billy Boyle WWII mystery. A compelling mystery, with engaging characters, in interesting settings, this time in post-D-Day Switzerland. Intrigue and touch of pulp as befits the era. #booksky

Follow @mekka.mekka-tech.com , particularly this month. You will learn things you need to know

I would like a universe in which @pdjeliclark.bsky.social is able to write many many more things please. Thank you.

Hat tip to @geraldcoleman.bsky.social for doing The Work.

bookshop.org/p/books/guns... Finished "Guns of the Dawn" by @aptshadow.bsky.social I picked it up as part of a Humble Bundle and started here because it is a standalone. I'm glad I did. Interesting people and relationships amidst compelling cirucmstances. Honor, growth, and friendship. #booksky

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health. www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...

bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Finished "The Lady Chapel" by @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social Historical mysteries, with characters seeking good and the eventual arrival of justice, are restorative. Especially when they have excellent plots and deft characterization. #booksky

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Every weekend, hundreds of ham radio operators keep marathons, parades & festivals safe when cell phones die. The same guys & gear that run Chicago & Boston also saved lives in Helene & Maui. This is why thousands of men are getting licensed in 2025. ⚡📻 #HamRadio #PublicService #GetLicensed

Happy New Year folks

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

This. My daughter tested pos. For flu A the week before Christmas. She was vaccinated. One day of fever and feeling terrible. No fever the next day and “10x better”. Fully recovered for a lovely Christmas holiday

Belief in that lie is how we're bringing measles and polio back. Stop it. If something in government is not working, then you fix it. Choose better leaders. Don't replace its leader with an incompetent person, or worse, a dude that doesn't understand what it does, and so wants to destroy it.

Huh, I wonder what happened to the labor?

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Christmas is coming. These are for my daughters. The handles are turned from some yellow birch deadfall from my parent’s property in Maine. I like making things like this with meaningful bits of wood. #woodturning

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bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... Finished "The Blacktongue Thief" by @buehlmeister.bsky.social. Remarkable and intriguing world-building and clever wordplay. #booksky

Remember also that blocks are public on Bluesky, while mutes are not

bookshop.org/p/books/shar... Finished Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Trafalgar. My third or fourth fictional Trafalgar. These are a bit formulaic but enjoyable reads. Evocative of the period. I'm reading in internal chronological order, so Sharpe isn't quite _Sharpe_ yet. #booksky

bookshop.org/p/books/a-se.... Finished Craig Johnson's "A Serpent's Tooth. A perfectly Longmire Longmire book. Good if you like these, and I do. The stakes and consequences in this one are heavier than usual. #booksky