Why would it matter if it was drugs? If someone is having a medical emergency, you help them regardless of the reason +or suspected reason). How do so many people struggle with and fail at this extremely morally uncomplicated decision.

Rewatching Legend (1985) and I love how every single inch of everything in this movie is covered in glitter. The whole thing really holds up, visually, in my opinion.

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week I and several readers built a rec list of our favorite reads of September. Plus: lots of great reviews, author interviews, and award news.

If I was afraid of cities, I'd be so embarrassed, you wouldn't be able to torture that information out of me

The official position of the Republican party is that they are little babies afraid of cities that my four year old loves exploring

Rewatching the music video for Scandal's "The Warrior" (ft. Patty Smyth) and I will never not love how all the best 80s music videos are incomprehensible sci-fi mindfucks.

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding? why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you." ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

I'm so mad about how much I want these.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

"we are going to murder americans without due process" ~pam bondi, US attorney general

BREAKING In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Human rights are not conditional. Human safety should not be conditional. The ability of human beings to exist in conditions that permit their flourishing should not be conditional.

If we honor human life, we honor human life. If human beings are truly holy, truly created in the divine image, then genocide in revenge for slaughter is the opposite of justice. It's the most extreme misunderstanding of the significance of what was taken. To say the least.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

A lot of hard work is made *possible* by good luck. The good luck to be born to a good family, to have a talent, to meet a mentor, to get a good job or work at a good company or get the right promotion or whatever. The luck of having access to reliable transportation and technology to DO work. 1/4

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

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What a fucking dork.

Made a sort of chicken shawarma-inspired skillet bake for dinner tonight, with red onion and spinach and farro, and it was pretty darn tasty for some half-off chicken thighs I grabbed at work and some kinda random things I threw together because they were cheap/sounded good.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

It continues to be absolutely fucking wild every day to come home from my extremely Real and Normal job and reading about shit like this. What on earth are we doing here?

So, if I understand this correctly, it sounds like they're gutting farm worker wages with the plan of filling the jobs with guest workers? From WHERE? We're in the middle of terrorizing and expelling all the CURRENT guest workers in this country! Seems like a bad plan.

Love to discover my first undeniably gray hairs on the eve of my 43rd birthday. No, thank you.

stop drinking alcohol and switch to weed

"My famously beautiful wife is too horny for me" is a wild way to try and vilify HER for the end of the marriage.

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Personally, I'm just practicing cooking vegetarian. Meat is fixing to be unaffordable for many people, but prices of meatless products are likely going to keep coming down. Tofu is about $2/lb retail currently, and has already been dropping.

What was your favorite SFF title in September? I'm compiling a rec list for next week with all your favorites (and one of mine). Doesn't have to be a 2025 book! :D #booksky

all those movies about society refusing to recognize the humanity of robots but it turns out if you glue googly eyes to a roomba about half the country is ready to propose

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

The gender-neutral term for landlord/lady is "leech"

If Bluesky goes belly up I'm not joining Threads or whatever comes next, I'll get a PO box and start exchanging handmade zines with folks over snailmail.

We have allowed sociopaths and psychopaths to create a society in which only they can thrive.

Where did all this food go, if it didn't go to feed the people it was intended for? It's not as easy as just finding another buyer for stuff like this, since it's a system that connects farmers' surplus with local food banks. Did it just go to waste?

what if we all went goblin mode

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale. If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week: my favorite headcanons from other fans about The Murderbot Diaries and a call for your favorite SFF book from September 2025, so we can lovingly build a rec list together. 🥹📚

Pretty sure that the concept of virginity is even more stupid and meaningless when applied to non-human digital constructs than when applied to real people. Oh, this bot hasn't had sex? Because she's in fact fake and cannot have sex? Cool.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Every day, I go to work providing a real and useful service to my community, and on my days off I get to read about the unserious bullshit being done by people who are supposed to be making decisions that affect all of our prosperity and safety.

I've never been much of a patriot (the virtue of the vicious and all, natch), but there really is something awful about witnessing the absolute glee with which these people engage in the wanton destruction of everything that ever was good or worked even a little bit in this country.

Another reporter, Madeline Fening, had her trial postponed to January. Griffith was offered the extension but declined. The postponement arose from prosecutors admitting they'd offered to drop the cases if journalists essentially gave up the right to sue. That's unethical and unconstitutional.

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!