It's the Glorious 25th of May!

No Kings, Los Gatos, California

Friday March 27 at 8PM ET, join @vheathmiller livestream on TikTok to watch his live narration of Chapter One of Endlords. We’ll be giving away three signed J.V.Jones hardbacks. #FantasyBooks #EpicFantasy @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

Still amazed that my AMA at r/fantasy got 73K visitors. It took me eight hours to answer all the questions. Should I do another when Endlords come out? www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co... #Endlords #JVJones @torbooks @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social @LittleBrown

You know if a Democratic influencer was assassinated under a Democratic President, the right wing would be saying it's a false flag attack.

Welcome to BlueSky @jv-jones.bsky.social ! Check out her classic Epic Fantasy series A Sword of Shadows

Endlords is done! And it's the best book in the Sword of Shadows series so far. @torbooks @orbitbooks_uk #JVJones #Endlords #SOS

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it". -Terry Pratchett

Jack White said it best!

Trump is trying to Sharpie the US Constitution: techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/k...

All I will say re: Epsteingate: It's not the crime, it's the coverup ...

Vladimir Putin must credit democracy with America's success as he has certainly expended massive efforts to subvert it.

Okay, it's too much bad news and we're just too behind on everything. If you want to help out and buy me a coffee (yeah, it's not going towards coffee (coffee hurts my tum-tum anyway)) that would be great! We're just struggling to get caught up and every little bit will help! ko-fi.com/quenbyolson

How many people realize that if we bring manufacturing jobs back to America in 2025, they will employ robots and not union workers?

March 15, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Latest action shot of Sara Niemietz - thanks to Ken Boundy in Wollongong!

Be the among the first people in the world to see The Fridays live: themintla.com/listing/sara...

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

Word of the day: Autogolpe open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

It's a Roman salute ...

TERRY GROSS: “I’m going to ask you for a little lesson in etiquette. Do I call you President Carter, Mr. President, or our former President Jimmy Carter?” JIMMY CARTER: “One of the nice things about our country is that you can call me anything you want to.”

“And here was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendship. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.” (1973)

We had a visitor that we can see from our kitchen window

Based on his own candidacy, I don't think Donald Trump understands that there are qualifications for government positions

The perfect album for now - deep, dark and Gothic. Robert Smith has taken the essence of 40 years of the Cure and poured it into 10 full length tracks. #thecure #robertsmith #resistance

Between here, Threads and Twitter - Twitter was way out front with news of Sinead O'Connor's death. Still the site of record

If I'm MIT, I'm suing :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System