review of C.J. Cherryh's Well of Shiuan: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/... this book rules. Morgaine forever.

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Feeling the need to post this spot on @michaelhobbes.bsky.social idea again. Don’t even give them direction, just fund them.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

whew

International book buying in 2025: it has taken me four months to acquire an actual copy of Portalmania, having reviewed it from pdf. But I guess its arrival is a good excuse to link to my review again! locusmag.com/review/porta...

Do you guys ever think about how if Keiko ever left him, he’d be Solo Dad O’Brien

be really wild if we're going through an equilibrium punctuator just so the next species can evolve the ability "nuance"

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week: personal essay recs, reviews, fun discussion threads, and a new column that @readingtheend.bsky.social is helping me launch: Bonus Track, for extra specialized rec lists. This time: SFF to read based on The Babysitters Club Super Specials.

Doubt everyone who should see this will, but: I want to personally apologize if you've been waiting on an email from me about reviews, ARB, the podcast, any of my projects- I've been skating close to burnout, too many travels, & too many communication streams going. I am sorting & catching up!

I frequently think about the community college intro to sociology professor I had, how because of him I majored in sociology at UPenn and went to grad school to get a PhD By the time I tried to track him down to tell him, he had passed away Don’t hesitate to thank people who inspire you

...my favorite book of the past two years is @vajra.me's RAKESFALL, so.

Trans comrades: they could not crush American Islam, Civil Rights, the American Indian Movement, and they will not crush you. You have countless allies and we are with you ready for anything. Their campaign of genocide will fail, and they will face justice in this life and the next for it.

Very cool study; I kinda want to track down the actual report and see if they considered extended proprioception or projection at all (which is why non-inverted always feels cuckoo to me)

the specific cringe of a poorly-aged synth-clap

"touch lichen" to indicate that someone needs to seek out symbiotic mutualism in order to break down and transform the dead rigidity of their surroundings

time for me to man up and fill this out

Oh! Kai Ashante Wilson fans, some news: www.patreon.com/posts/138033...

you are now afflicted with: Breaking News (curse) every time you check social media, receive 2d6 psychic damage and take -2 to all WIS and CHA rolls for 1 hour

good night, friends. A better world is possible, is plausible, is even probable.

It's always a bit jarring when I'm birdwatching and I spot a bird with tiny binoculars staring right at me crossing "big nerd" off his list.

finally sorting through some boxes that have been following me around

rinsing bottles for recycling, a cleverly hot-air-restraining layer of honey mustard exploded like a grenade

Oh this is a GREAT, insightful reading on what is, in my final analysis...probably the best space opera? Seriously, take a sec to read this, @gwenckatz.bsky.social gets a dissertation's worth of thought on gender in Chanur down to one tasty article. Bravo.

Like many days, today is a great day to watch Sneakers, whether you know it or not. Charmingly dated and weirdly prescient at the same time, sort of gently herding together comedy & parannoia & wistfulness. Runs on star power but doesn't blind you with it; what a picture.

okay I have finally read The Incandescent (really very good) and am having a lot of thoughts about Evil in fantasy lit; more specifically about a reticence of portraying supernatural Good. God is scarier than the Devil, in terms of engaging critically/fictionally, is my nutshell theory at the moment

a more efficient way to smell the city I guess

This thread is getting a lot of play. With the greatest respect, it is full of errors about federal criminal procedure, fanciful speculation about motions that would not actually succeed, and other things that a federal criminal practitioner would not say.

chuck's gotta go, man just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public

every two years The Game comes out. The Game has about 70 pixels. it seems to be about... childhood, maybe? or being trans? it has two characters, one called, like, Jake, and one called, like, Darkname. The Game consumes 30% of your friends for 6 months and alters them forever. you never play it

Hey everyone, the secret's out: I'm a part of this and truly had fun writing about the Concepción Sisters and their botánica

7) Maureen McHugh was one of the most vital SF writers of the 90s & its weird to me that she's not in the pantheon for more people. 90% of her career between '89 and '01, no short story or novel worse than "very good" & the best were superb. Folio society editions! Critical attention! Please!

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

Whew, bleak thought, brought to you by trying to have some civil discourse on FB (I know, I know): honest question, how many actual historical Nazis besides Hitler do you think the average American could name?

for real this might be the best joke

One big problem is that to truly understand what the internet is doing to people, you have to be on it too much to play any useful role in society

from my understanding of history, almost all assassinations are either "clearly done by a powerful group who aren't that shy about it" or "it would take so long to explain this guy's deal"

well,

Okay I'm losing my mind at the takes (made the mistake of checking on the ol' kith & kin on facebook); think I need a social media break to get some work done. Have a family event coming up and fear not, I will be polishing my "you know granddad got paid to kill fascists & was proud of it" zingers

doubt it convinces anyone but i like the pro-solar framing that it's better at converting energy than corn. fuck corn, we're kicking corn's ass now

Any analysis of our situation, & any future history, really can't skip the extent to which the paper of record created this moment by intentionally laundering & normalizing extreme bigotry & corruption; how that disinfo prevented a big percent of thr general citizenry from learning & acting better.

I have zero info here, I'm also worried about a conflagration, but: please be prepared with me to find it very funny if it turns out it was a registered Republican with economic or Q or less scrutable motives, and it suddenly drops out of the news cycle

inordinately fixated on the 67 pre-spheniscid bardo years

You can save the posts for the group chat, or keep it in your brain, it’s truly fine

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction