"He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself."

“People have an incentive to say I’m wrong . . . and I feel, behind [closed] doors, people are more concerned about what I’m saying than they are in public.” www.ft.com/content/61ce...

Softbank sold all it's Nvidia stock (www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/s...) Michael Burry of The Big Short fame's stock portfolio is now ONLY short positions in Nvidia & Palantir (www.ft.com/content/7fe1...) Peter Thiel sold all his Nvidia stock (& 76% of his Tesla, but that's just deliciously petty) (👇🏾)

NEW: The Trump administration's brutal removal of so many workers is projected to shrink the nation’s GDP by as much as 6.8% — a deeper hit than the one sustained during the Great Recession. A.J. Schumann:

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

corrupt billionaires bought the government, loot the treasury, cut cancer research, got corporate welfare and bailouts for nothing while poor people work 2 jobs and starve but yeah man it's the poor who ruined everything.

"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."

It is time to do these now?

I am in a very critical situation and urgently need to rent a safe place after we were flooded by the rain before the end of the week. I still need just 2,000 to reach my goal.

Sequinned cushion in the Kino bar (2025) photograph by Anne Billson

why is Nvidia propping up a company that seems doomed? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Another day of suffering in Gaza. I was sick for days due to water contamination, and then my wife and children got sick too. Gastroenteritis has spread widely here. I hope you will help as much as you can, my friends. You are our only hope.

The situation is unbearable… the tents are tearing and the rain is flooding us 💔 We are living in the cold and fear, without shelter to protect my family. I need your help to build a simple shelter to protect us from this harsh winter 🙏 Show me your support ⬇️🫂 chuffed.org/project/157281

The Trump administration has reportedly recruited rapper and musician Nicki Minaj in an apparent effort to back its proposed invasion of Nigeria to stop purported persecution of Christians.

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Clarkesworld was one of the first online magazines I submitted to. They eventually published one of my favourite short stories that I've written (drafted over one night, not sure I can do that anymore), 'muo-ka's Child'. Help Neil keep the lights on at one of sff's best magazines:

The New York Federal Reserve says that delinquency rates of 90 days or more for mortgages, auto loans, and student debt have all increased over the past 12 months.

Two cities allowing voters to elect to leave DART in May have offered microtransit systems as an alternative. They're flawed.

In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers. 18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...

Started noticing the correspondents on the local npr affiliate now use a very intentional-sounding uptalk for their names when they're signing off. Is that new? Is it because they're zoomers?

'Prometheus' my ass these guys aren't stealing fire from the gods they're stealing money from the people and setting fire to the planet. All for Bezos living out the 'Olympians punish him by chaining him to a rock and having an eagle eat his liver every day' phase of a titan's life tho.

Billionaires per total population for anyone interested 🇭🇰 1 in every 113,000 🇮🇹 1 in every 117,000 🇨🇭 1 in every 214,000 🇺🇸 1 in every 450,000 🇹🇼 1 in every 450,000 🇦🇺 1 in every 500,000 🇨🇦 1 in every 636,000 🇩🇪 1 in every 670,000 🇷🇺 1 in every 1 million 🇬🇧 1 in every 1 million

Noticed this trend a while ago, but for the number of billionaires each country has bsky.app/profile/shou...

While last month's celebrations for the opening of DART's Silver Line have since died down, a number of cities are looking at ways to end service completely.

I hate those tropey arrows so much. Nothing puts me off so quickly. The best content in the world, whatever that might mean, doesn’t matter if the form, or sensibility, is bad. Writing lives or dies on the *writing.*

Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

⚠️⚠️⚠️ „Hi, I'm Sakher Yesterday, I posted a video from inside the camp where I live I showed how the rain flooded everything - the entire camp was drowning in water... My tent got soaked Everything inside was wet — the blankets, the clothes, even the ground we sleep on...“ ✅ gofund.me/f116bf44

Hard same. Extending the sentiment contained in this spam text to everyone who needs it this Sunday morning

I want to let you know that we’ve reached 99% of our campaign. Can you imagine? All this journey, all this effort… and we’re only missing 1%. this small piece that will end all this noise, close the chapter of exhaustion, and finally let me breathe. LET’S FINISH THIS TOGETHER. 💙

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

bluesky needs to find a better way to handle these things, but it's tough to see it treated like it's a social justice issue when there's so much real shit going on.

I never imagined I would reach this level of pressure… We’re only £100 short to complete this month’s rent. Please help me secure the roof under which my children can sleep safely… So their tomorrow can be a little less frightening, and a little more peaceful. 💔

AI Jesus

Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

Google announced a $40 billion investment in Texas in the form of three new data centers in West Texas and the Panhandle. It's the latest multi-billion dollar investment in Texas by tech companies racing to build infrastructure to support advanced AI.

Heavy winter storms flooded Gaza’s tent camps on Friday, collapsing shelters and soaking families already displaced by Israel’s war. Streets in Gaza City turned into rivers of mud and rubble as rain poured into... The full report by @AbdSabbah91 (X) in Gaza and @sharifkouddous (X) is linked below.

Read Michael Parenti!

One of the worst nights; tents were blown away, children were terrified, and tents were flooded.

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

It's that time of year again* *it is always that time of year

Liked this a lot when I first read it

A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥

Palestine-1 is out! If you’re a fan of speculative fiction from the margins pick up this anthology of stories shot the Nakba. commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

i'm sorry to have to relay this, but Leslie Lee III has passed away. if you can help with his family's expenses, please read on. they need the help right now.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Please donate what you can or share. Help Ruaa reach her goal

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

We obtained hours of body-camera video that give the fullest — and perhaps last — glimpse of Border Patrol Agent Isaiah Hodgson’s mindset when he became a flashpoint in the fight over immigration raids: lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...

NEW: Epstein's primary strategy for funding and hiding his crimes relied on tax avoidance techniques that the rich use every day. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-capita...

Wolff: I was trying to encourage Epstein to use what information he had—let Trump publicly tell a lie then expose the lie. Epstein was afraid of Trump. In the end, I think he was starting to get to this point that he might publicly talk about this relationship but then he was arrested and died.