Some readers might enjoy Outlaw Planet as simple pulp entertainment, but it has much more complexity and depth on offer than might be obvious at first glance. We review @mrcarey.bsky.social's third (and best) Pandominium novel : hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild...

it's a engaging and immersive capstone to the series.

This strikes me as just a way to let LLM in the door over at SFWA. You do not a survey to craft a no generative AI policy.

Someone in the comments here genuinely saying 'But if it's banned people will just lie about using it' in the same week a multi million dollar game franchise gave zombie Santa six fingers and a gun with one barrel two and thought it's fans wouldn't notice. kotaku.com/clair-obscur...

A squashed perspective

Two killed in crashes on icy roads after freezing rain in southern Minnesota www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Mountain Perspective When I took this photo, the snowy ridges naturally pulled my eye toward Mount Rainier, with the forest and winding river below adding depth, and the layered clouds reinforcing just how vast this PNW landscape felt. What detail do you notice first? � #PNW

#artadventcalendar #rockintuesday Balanced Rock, Arches National Park

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles. Which we're getting from this juvenile common gull (which isn't that common) on one of the old dock pilings at Point Pleasant. #bids #birding #wandle #wandsworth #gulls

Day 23 of my advent calendar of random photos from my archive: This statue of the Bremen town musicians was designed by Gerhard Marcks and set up in 1953. In the background, you can see the Bremen Christmas Market. #CorasAdventCalendar2025

Not much changed when the Fire Nation attacked The Avatar saga remains faithful to its tried and true formula: visually breathtaking, narratively uninspired @carturo222.bsky.social has our review of Avatar: Fire and Ash at the blog www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/not-...

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at @dogubomb.bsky.social. It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

Easily one of my favorite pieces of art this year, in any medium. Blue Prince is one of gaming's deepest rabbit holes.

60 Minutes is dead and buried. Rest in peace. There’s no coming back from what CBS has done.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

This thread, especially if read past the end, is, as the British say, brilliant!

I began the walk in Lyme Regis, where I immediately met this gull who looks like he is being filmed by a TV camera while saying "JOIN ME ON MY REMARKABLE GULL JOURNEY HERE ON GULL TV". I also visited the grave of Mary Anning, the 19th century fossil collector and palaeontologist.

, of which landslips, and the geological history of the area, are an important part, and I felt the desire to put Mary in it, in some brief way. But how? Then, just as I was thinking about this, as I crossed Lyme Regis golf course to a quiet part of the woods, above Charmouth, I saw this statue...

We may uh want to have a conversation about the fact that the majority of popular gay male romance is written by and for women

TLDR romance is high fantasy. It suspends rules and norms as a means of escape from the disappointments of real life. It is, alas, not a roadmap to civil rights.

There's a rational explanation for this and no one is going to like it. Unless you have really outstanding insurance, therapy is functionally priced as a luxury good in the US. Weekly therapy can easily cost over $600/month and if you ask people to choose between that and food...well...

Opening in the fog… From a beautiful morning in the Écrins National Park, French Alps. #photography #nature #art #landscape #mountains

Nice light.

Today's #HolidayRobin is being quizzical in the copse on the Spit. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin

The Good Water Rim Trail in Utah is breathtakingly beautiful. Being there clears the head and uplifts spirits.

Solstice Sunrise from Yesterday #photography

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

From a while back, a gray jay sat on @marypcbuk.bsky.social's head at Paradise on Mt Ranier. #birds #birding #mtrainier #jays

Got any interesting facts about Nevada to share with the class? I’ll start! 👇🏿 #landscapephotography #photography #on1pics

“We need to rebuild a society where people who say terrible things experience negative consequences — loss of friends, loss of status, ... First, we gotta make the text back into subtext again. Then I hope we can erase it completely.”

He learns nothing and forgets nothing (as was once said of the Bourbons). Or, quoting Masked and Anonymous: "His appetite for retaliation and revenge is strong"

Some more Santa Steam Special pictures, from its second run through Putney. This time P1 No 61306 Mayflower was on the fast line, so more of a head-on view, with drivers looking out around the cab. #putney #steamlocomotives #railwayphotography

My first job was designing parts of over the horizon radar systems; this is categorically untrue. Windfarms are static objects that can easily be mapped out using signal processing. Your radar software is looking for fast moving objects and so even the spinning turbines would be ignored.

Some Trump Admin policies can be traced to long held goals of the right. Some to donor priorities. Other to culture war biases. This, the government suppression of an entire industry, is due to a property dispute the President had 15 years ago. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For the entire month of December, my homage to blood-drenched, determined cyborg-assassin motherhood (not to mention Westerns and manga), SHE-WOLF AND CUB, is a Kindle Monthly Deal at $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHL48T5C

2025 Grift Guide All Culture is Fast Casual Now Isle McElroy via @shaunduke.net thescoop1.substack.com/p/2025-grift... I disagree with the poster about Plur1bus, though

Speaking of great essays, The Full Lid ends the year on top form. I've been thinking a lot this year about how we romanticise pain to make it more bearable, how that's a trap that becomes a justification for hurt. Al uses three contrasting examples to skillfully pick that bullshit apart. Go read.

After the rain #photography #streetphotography #classicmono #EastCoastKin

Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

It’s not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box, these criminals need held accountable to ensure this will never happen again. Anyone asking for our vote needs to commit to prosecuting Trump and his cadre of corrupt conspirators for their crimes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/lock-them-...

If you say this word in front of me and don't immediately flinch and apologize, I am coming for you hard. Like, real hard.

Some years ago, one of the sad puppy authors was throwing around the r-word on Twitter. I saw that he followed me, so I DMed him and started up a conversation about it. Didn’t chastise, just said that I know he might not have realized. Told him I used to work at Special Olympics. 1/2

Weiss confirms personally spiking the 60 Minutes CECOT broadcast.

For the sapphic space pirate in your life seeking a plot-twisty adventure: THE TWO LIES OF FAVEN SYTHE by @meganeokeefe.bsky.social For the creative chef who loves cool worldbuilding and would totally survive the hunger games: CASTHEN GAIN by @essahansen.bsky.social

I cannot recommend these games enough if you like highly narrative horror games that are also about love, and where every decision matters

“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

Perry: The return of the r-word When slurs become acceptable, so do open hatred and bigotry. www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...

"It began with the Great Crisis. King Clinton's handpicked successor, Prince Gore, prevented from attaining the Platinum Throne of Washington following the intervention of the Supreme Council, who appointed King Bush II..."

And don't forget of course the Emperor (I prefer that formulation to Mad King)'s consort and her schemes. The Trump Administration as a evil modern version of the show KINGS (anyone remember that?) or, Crusader Kings 3

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books