Happy Fishing Opener for those who celebrate it.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism bsky.app/profile/eric...

I had such a great time talking shop with Nico and Gethin in this episode! Plus, if you want the 5-min pitch on Bastion of Hope, this is the place to get it.

Adding this game to my list

I'm seeing people post things like "things would be boring if Harris were president" and look, it would be much better if Trump weren't president, but posts like that are telling people that we are not in the fight of our lives, and that the end goal is complacency. That is how we got here.

Archaeologists pulled out mummies from a Roman-era tomb at Al-Bahnasa in Egypt, the ancient city once called Oxyrhynchus. Inside one mummy’s wrappings, the team found a scrap of papyrus carrying a passage from Book II of Homer’s Iliad. buff.ly/O5f35dq #ShareGoodNewsToo

Do you all remember how often I've said there's about a 1/3 of this country that want Black people to be enslaved again and about a 1/3 that don't care one way or another? The first are getting closer to saying the quiet part out loud.

I'd love to post the 500 followers graphic today. Grab the link, make a post, maybe you can make that happen. ❤️ A strong early start opens a lot more opportunities, and I could really, like, really, use some of that juice.

“A room without books is like a body without a soul” - Cicero

THREAD: A common claim I see is that the reason most of the photos we see from the 1960s are in black-and-white is because of some concerted effort to make events like the Civil Rights Movement seem more distant. While I understand the attraction to this idea, the reasons are simpler than that. 1/

19 breathtaking images from the Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2026 awards www.popsci.com/science/milk...

Dems running for president in 2028 should consider pledging to replace Trump's ballroom with a museum devoted to American democracy and all our struggles over it. For good measure, let's throw in an exhibit about Jan 6. END newrepublic.com/article/2101...

New Hope-Lambertville's Pride Parade celebration is the only one in the nation to cross state lines (Pennsylvania-New Jersey).

Chicago is on Fire! This morning's sunrise in the Windy City.

Let It Flow! This Saturday, Chicago's Buckingham Fountain will be turned on for the 2026 season. A sure sign that consistent warmer weather is on its way.

Happy 19th(!) Blogversary to @richardpf.bsky.social 's PAssionate Foodie blog passionatefoodie.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Oh gosh! I’ve connected with so many more readers here than I ever did on Twitter. By a big margin! And half the time it’s not even through promo.

Now that Balticon has finalized its schedule, I can reveal Eating the Fantastic's 10th Anniversary Celebration — which I started talking up long before the podcast's Hugo Award nomination — will be held in the Con Suite Sunday the 24th between 10:00-11:00 a.m. There'll be donuts and door prizes!

There are no good, clean hands options when the basic fairness & reciprocity of a democratic system have been undermined by a fascist movement in power

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

Everyone responding to this please collect your thoughts in a nice blog post and send it to me. 😂

The Italian Peninsula was united as a nation-state for the first time in 1936, for the record.

#TinyKoalas have travelled to Deepcon 26 in Fiuggi, Italy to spread the word @brisbanein28.bsky.social

'Eucalyptus? You gotta be kidding, more like!' #TinyKoalas have gone foraging in Fiuggi @brisbanein28.bsky.social

Author, bookseller, and publisher friends: Please keep posting your positive stories about selling books through Bluesky, and I'll package them up and show them to publishers so that we can get more book publishers and even more authors and book conversation here!

Just the two of us White Sands NM #BlueskyMonday #ECK #MinimalMonday

Speaking of #BookSky and shouting about good books, I keep meaning to talk about THE BOOK OF GOLD and THE LORE OF SILVER by Ruth Francis Long. Alternate Renaissance-era with magic and gods, but both have faded since their glory days, leaving mortals to scavenge the pieces.

Give me your favorite non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor:

The Seed Song

honest question: are the wall decorations alone not evidence of dysfunction ??

And we're live on the Twitch box, folks! Tonight, we're talking about The Ghost (Lo Spettro; 1963), coming out on a brand new and much more beautiful version from Severin! Come learn about the film, the new edition from Severin, and more! twitch.tv/alphabetst...

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Look at this canna ! I didn’t know the flowers could have spots

The water was flowing on Geyser Creek today. Spa State Park. Saratoga Springs, NY #scape

This is from December. I live in Blizzard Country. That's pretty incredible. #photography #BloomScrolling #roses #flowers #rain #gardening

JUST IN: Alabama files emergency appeal seeking #SCOTUS OK to move to 2023 redistricting plan a lower-court invalidated that would likely take state from a 5-2 R-D split to 6-1. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

The e-book of the short story "Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent," originally published by @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social , then published by Conversation Tree Press as a limited edition, is now out on Kindle and Kobo! Amazon US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZYBK64S Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Yeah, if they take away my brain meds, I’m sorry guys, but you’ve read your last T. Kingfisher novel. I will be too busy weeping uncontrollably in bed.

Trump called in as MAGA religious leaders dedicated the giant golden statue of himself at his Doral golf club

In March 2025, the Trump admin made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act. All they had to do was ask. And ask they did. What happened next 👇

Happy Friday! Here is another stunning view of #Chiricahua National Monument, for your enjoyment. #photgraphy, #arizona, #scape, #wilderness, #EastCoastKin

an ARTful story by Martha Wells, and a Hugo Finalist for best Novelette

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

East coasters! TriCon is in 1 week! You can find Stelliform Press all weekend in the Fabulist Fair Vendor’s Hall at NSCAD, plus join us Saturday for a Blue Pencil Cafe (sign up required) and Sunday for a conversation on taste, culture, and spec fic! Come say hello.

A final line of sunset across the mouth of La Concha bay, Donostia/San Sebastián

If you live near San Francisco, LA, Salt Lake City, St Louis, or Des Moines, I really, really hope I get to see you at one of my events next week. I want to celebrate this book with you, and talk about grief and change and fear. When else will we get the chance? us.macmillan.com/tours/sarah-...

MAKE ME BETTER is out on Tuesday!! I can't wait for you to read it. I'm so scared for you to read it. Hell, maybe you *won't* read it. But the truth is, this is a book about transformation - and writing it transformed me. If nobody ever picks it up, that transformation will have been worth it.

Why shouldn't Virginia Governor @abigailspanberger.com announce something like "the Supreme Court just ruled that state governments can redistrict, multiple Republican-controlled states already are, and the people of Virginia indicated they want us to, so that's what we're going to do," then do it?