Recommend. Things get silly.

Dear @usatoday.com . They are not dire-wolves. Even the researchers who announced them as dire-wolves have admitted they're not dire-wolves. Stop calling them dire-wolves, fire the editor responsible, and issue a retraction. www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

Next year my vineyard will be a Mantis-filled hellscape for lantern flies.

Today in Nature Taking Care of Business – Mantis Munching on a Lantern Fly www.popville.com/2025/09/pray...

Enigmatic, I think.

This reminds me, with autumn officially here it's time to write my annual "War on Christmas" fantasy piece in which a rag-tag band of heroes battles the annual invasion of The Kringle and his dread elvish followers.

This is true. The stretch of tracks from NYC to Boston are in particularly bad condition.

DC is classified as an urban forest. It's always amazing when the neighbors come to call

Long day. Sleep now. G'night Blue

Re-reading "A Canticle For Leibowitz"

On the importance of daring the darker waters of story. jdpopham.substack.com/p/unsafe-spa... #writing #sciencefiction

I'm more interested in what seagull legislation riled the Scottish parliament to the point of a physical scuffle. Alas, it isn't mentioned in the story.

Must sleep now.😴

Hmmm. Maybe something from their cat(s) POV. 🤔

Essay: Sex and the Single Robot jdpopham.substack.com/p/sex-and-th...

Chicken stock season is upon us.

Current reads: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach "The Greeks" by Roderick Beaton

Essay: Sex and the Single Robot jdpopham.substack.com/p/sex-and-th...

Just so you know, I actually really love short novels: as a reader, as a writer, and as an editor and head of an imprint. I don’t believe in boxing people in for what they’re writing. I’m publishing all lengths at @starsandsabers.bsky.social, long & short. Different readers want different things.

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

O.o

Note to self: plant more milkweed.

I'm seeing a more Monarch butterflies than I usually do this time of year. A good omen in troubling times.

Statistically speaking, the majority of any given population is going to be mediocre. if only exceptional men can avoid being tarred as substandard, no wonder the dating pool for pop stars has grown so thin.

Always call for backup.

Waiting for Japan 's giant robot field tests. www.twz.com/sea/japanese...

Proposition: The Spanish reconquista is an example of a successful decolonization. Discuss.

Dear @washingtonpost.com Unintended outcomes that occur because policy makers can't be bothered to think cannot be labeled "unexpected". www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

Make science fiction nerdy again (in a good way) locusmag.com/2025/08/mind...

A thoughtful exploration on the utility of this class of tools for people in the creative fields. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

I respect obscurity as a gift.

If I understand correctly, if we arrest all the food delivery workers, violent crime in DC will fall apart. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“In Summer of Our Discontent Thomas Chatterton Williams, a journalist, explores how partisans of left and right stopped listening to each other and came to regard the other side as morally beyond the pale." www.economist.com/culture/2025...

Peach galette.

The inevitable consequence of the governed having no say in who governs them, no means of voting them out of office. #FreeNewColumbia @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @eleanornorton.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/white-h...

Trump has no cards www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Meanwhile, in occupied New Columbia. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

It makes absolutely no sense that, in #AlienEarth, Prodigy's search and rescue (SAR) team deploys in full combat gear with automatic weapons. Note they never encounter anyone in need of rescue, as that would reveal how useless their kit is in a technical #SAR situation.

Some of my friends are in a murder, others are in an unkindness. #corvids

[Pulls blue ray disk. Blows the dust off it. Smiles knowingly.] Physical media for the win.

ICE agents set up a checkpoint on 14th Street NW in DC, home to Michelin starred restaurants and happy hour/dinner destination for DC professionals. They proceeded to harass DC residents over broken tail lights and seat belt law violations. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Ah, yes. The National Mall. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. abcnews.go.com/Politics/gua...

Warns me when Godzilla is near.

Science fiction at its best dares the darker waters. It trades in unsettling ideas, gives witness to dangerous visions. jdpopham.substack.com/p/unsafe-spa...

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.