It is 2026. We have had one (1) president who was born after 1960. He left office a decade ago.

When I was young, I was very taken by surrealism as an artistic aesthetic. The more I've come to understand its uses and applications, the less I've come to like it.

Damn Widow’s Bay is accomplished work. Really enjoying this.

It seems to me that there is a link between institutional gaslighting by the alternative facts wing of the GOP and the rise of Luigi Mangione style political violence.

Since this topic is both hilarious and also really important, working on a piece headlined "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion." Naive realism like that of Dawkins and Daniel Dennett naturally ends up in philosophical dualism.

Okay, topologists. So my buddy and I have a disagreement about how many holes are in a t-shirt. He maintains that there are three with one stretching out to become the circumference of the object like a pancake with three bites taken out of the middle.

Or “How to Make New Mexico Healthier“ Do it, you cowards. Deplatform your platform.

They say that the two USAs live in different world. I have to think that’s true, because in my world, none of this shit makes any damn sense.

Every now and then, I remember the Futurama episode where everyone got dumb, and the back of my head shouts “Zoidy want to trade on margin!”

No one is above the law. Not Pam Bondi. Not Todd Blanche. Not Donald Trump. And certainly not the Epstein predators they’ve been shielding.

Martha is a delight as a human being and (obviously) a delight as a storyteller, so you should go see her on tour if you can.

I'm old enough to remember when bullies were the bad guys.

I am not a critic. Criticism is tough, tough genre, and most people who indulge in it wind up displaying their own shortcomings more than those of the subjects they address. I am just a member of the audience. It is, like "citizen," the highest office among my people.

But as a friend just reminded me, I hadn’t thought about the war or the price of gasoline for several hours.

Evergreen quote for everyone everywhere these days

Best thing I’ve gotten to do this month was interview Expanse writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck about how speculative biology, the politics of academia and a Bible story all shaped their latest novel, The Faith of Beasts. Check it out! www.importantnotimportant.com/p/the-expans...

Genuine question as i don't see everything: are we getting any of the "what trump/republicans need to do to appeal to moderates/independents" pieces. I haven't seenq single one

Would very much like another Cordelia Cupp mystery.

They really are capturing the “buy these ten issues of titles you don’t follow if you want the whole story” vibe that helped wean me off superhero comics when I was a kid.

Hive mind is, to me, one of the most suspect ideas in scifi. The idea that a subjective experience is generated by the interactions of a bunch of independent bodies isn’t what throws me. It’s that a consciousness built that way would be different or special at all. #HiveMindOfNeurons

There's a lot more code—but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

There’s a paradox facing journalism when the president says a bunch of stuff but doesn’t mean any of it a minute late.

So this is a thing if you're free later today. No trouble if you're busy. We've all got a lot on our plates these days. www.reddit.com/r/TheCaptive...

Oh man it IS lead poisoning that makes us GenXers so awful politically.

I mean, if anyone did, it was her.

Faith of Beasts. Officially out tomorrow, though a bunch of stores have let it slip out early. Just a reminder…

It is legit funny but it doesn’t change the fact that if your mayor went on FB tonight, said that the Pope sucked, and then posted an AI painting of themselves as Jesus Christ performing miracles, they would be removed from office in less than 48 hours.

I would l to have a president in the mode of NYC’s mayor who celebrates the common good that governance can promote. Clean air, clean water, safe food, healthy & educated kids, support in times of crisis. We deserve to have the government we pay for.

I am not a religious man, and I can see that this is blasphemy at a minimum. OTOH, congrats to the tech industry for debasing Christianity in new ways, I guess? Move fast, break spirits.

If you’ve got time to kill on Tuesday, Ty and I are doing a thing over on Reddit. Tell your friends and remind your enemies. www.reddit.com/r/TheCaptive...

The incredible @sarahexplains.bsky.social spoke with author duo James SA Corey (aka @abraham.bsky.social + Ty Franck) about FAITH OF BEASTS for @sciam.bsky.social to discuss their latest frighteningly realistic extraterrestrial invasion story! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Apparently there were some people who unironically thought the second Trump presidency was going to go well. I don't really know what to do with that.

"Easy as shooting fish in a barrel" is fine, but trite. The simile can be refreshed by the simple expedient of adjusting details. Gerbils, for example, would be equally unchallenging to shoot.

James SA Corey and books with aliens. Agree, disagree, discourse, ignore? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/b...

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

"You must be mistaking the Clan of the Pointed Stick for one of the _rational_ societies of paranoid, celibate martial artists!" -- Middleman

He’s crazy. It’s not you. He’s crazy.

I’ve written prettier sentence, but the one I return to is “My life has become the single ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.”

Wind & solar have been the cheapest energy for over a decade, we have ways to store it for nighttime & calm conditions, & we're still fighting wars over oil. It is what it is folks

It's been wild watching fancy political soothsayers insist "The next war will be fought over water, not oil!" for the last 20 years because they thought it was obvious that renewable energy would become cheaper than fossil fuels. They really underestimated how stupid world leaders are.

On to other clusterfucks: [Announcer voice] AI is a bad tool. arstechnica.com/google/2026/...

I am fully tired of living in constant exposure to a malignant narcissist. I assume you are too. You and me, we're like the two cousins texting each other at the Thanksgiving table while grandpa gets drunk shouting Rush Limbaugh talking points and gramma cries.

Feeling a lot of Delphic oracle energy with this whole "destroy a civilization" thing.

it's always "sacred geometry" this, "monumental architecture" that. how about "this is how you find out your neighbor moved the fence"

nothing like a installing irrigation lines (must do straight lines, strictly north-south & east-west) to make you go "yuppppp this IS why those mfs invented geometry"