additionally, this distinction between "scholarship" and "politics" is artificial. honest scholarship has political implications! both in the everyday sense — i read bernick, i translate him into arguments for a broader public, etc. — and in the larger sense of shaping the terrain of discourse.

I bought it on iTunes, lol

scorsese is famous for films like goodfellas, the last temptation of christ, the departed, and for prolonging the age of fire by linking the first flame

The Traveling Wilburys generator is a complete hoot. (Link in thread.)

Your phone must be really horny all day, if you're turning it on every morning and it doesn't get off until evening, if at all...

Fun book news, I have a poem in this forthcoming book, Brian Froud's Green Women! It will be published October 6th and it's full of work by amazing people, listed in thread

i’m listening to terra ignota again and dude i think my mind completely repressed the memory that the will to battle has a full on forcefem scene

I AM GOING TO BECOME THE JOKER

RIV Sora, you will not be much missed

I'm suddenly into getting a motorcycle now.

They have a working proof of concept but haven't gotten it long-lasting enough yet to take it to market, but what a cool idea!

Re: Hugo eligibility, here's my essay about how "Inventing the Renaissance" is an SFF-related work. Many have asked me if I think it is, and it was fun thinking it through! buff.ly/IbqEnn9 Another great "Best Related": Henry Lien's brilliant "Spring Summer Asteroid Bird"! buff.ly/bIejj1s

This post, also, has a natural (?) home here.

I'm back, motherfuckers. And I'm going to start things off by posting screenshots of some of my classic posts for the edification of the Bluesky masses. Hopefully this has been educational!

"how did you end up making this" just. it's hard to explain

My two favorite SFF authors have a book together??????? It's Christmas in March.

What the fuck is happening

Look, as an author, coming up with names is hard. But please have another try.

lol

Brice Sensabaugh now having two 40-point games in 2026 is very #TakeNote, tank or no tank. www.nba.com/jazz/videos/...

a lot of people are getting this twisted up in a way I really do not like: AIPAC spent heavily *against* Biss in IL-9.

this is so sad. alexa play the whiskey friday with tony dokoupil theme song

THEY HAVE RESURRECTED MY SON

Big day for people using gambling sites as sources of data to tell how a race is going

@grahamformaine.bsky.social blamed women for sexual assault, saying they should "take some responsibility for themselves" and "act like an adult." Here's what Maine women had to say about his words.

#SomethingBeautiful three angels with interiority from Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat

“It’s not really any business of the users if the app is open or not, and they definitely shouldn’t care about application state” was a dangerous choice for iOS and a genuinely insane thing for Microsoft to start leaning into with their unattended updates. I want to use a computer

Tim Hardaway when he realized he was wrong for being anti-gay in the past:

Shoutout to the Big XII court looking like it's trying to dazzle security cameras

Curtis managed to be a cryptocurrency grifter before cryptocurrency was invented

First three pages of the Urbit docs.

[crushing a watermelon I've taped a printout of Cate Blanchett as Galadriel to between my thighs] I was in love with the frisson of transgression. It felt tinged with gnosticism.

I mean, haters are going to hate but I'm glad *someone* said this because I attempted to watch the whole basketball game, and found it an extremely ugly basketball game. Funny that it's League of Legends guy though whose own game was kind of unaesthetic. www.reddit.com/r/nba/commen...

I'm just gonna start blocking people for taking Alex fucking Karp's word about what AI is and should be; there's a culture war going on within AI and posting like this is just wrecking your own side; this is so far beyond debate for me it's not funny, and kind of the final straw for a lot of people.

March 12, 1987: Navy's David Robinson finishes with 50 PTS (22-37 FG)/13 REB/3 STL in his final college game, a 97-82 loss to Michigan in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Robinson wouldn't play an NBA game until November of 1989, due to his post-graduation obligation with the Navy.

For the record, I'm also not Alex Karp. Like or redoot if you're not Alex Karp

Opus 4.6 really likes calling things "boneless"; it's gen alpha confirmed.

Apropos of nothing, it took humanity 2,700 years to finish digging the canal across the Isthmus of Corinth.

Supply and demand being mom/that harpy in HR coded because it ends up being a constraint on the ability to just run hog wild and break shit makes perfect sense in retrospect, but I have to admit I didn’t see it coming.

Biological life is a billion year effort to make water taste like things.

I am pretty confident that Kobe Bryant would not have wanted somebody to *stop* at 81 because of him.

“God is just the totalizing egregore over all persons, what’s the problem?”

March 11, 1979: This outlet pass from Washington's Wes Unseld to Kevin Grevey in Denver. Bullets 119, Nuggets 98.

Microsoft, of all companies, files amicus brief in support of Anthropic

I once put this exact joke in a sex story about a seven-foot tall alien woman with big muscles trying to take over Earth, btw. :3