Know this: There's a universe where Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the height of his popularity, was tapped for a late 80s Willy Wonka reboot solely so he could say "Come wid me if you vant a wuld of pyure eemagination." VHS copies of that movie continue to exist there. Vangelis did the score.

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

How to start a fight:

Sometimes you're the Orion, sometimes you're the Cardassian...

Get some tardigrade energy!

Some good news to close the year

When you do an oopsie and accidentally declared war on your own intra-military Nazis

keeping it in perspective

Speculative Poetry Month continues

yeah currently nuking my photos storage and kinda mad about the hassle to disentangle from Google. Think I'll be done with them by 2028 at this rate. 🙄

live your life

Yeah, I can see how you'd go there

Checks credits closely on GDT new movie 🧐

Who's stealing from the Freelancer's Bible

Actual quote and real mood 🤣

You know who you are

for those of you blanking out on your book dedication:

Good news everybody

That's the way you do it

As a reminder, it's also ok to help your weirdos out with their journey this holiday season

co-signed

If he's not called Jean Duck Picard I don't even know you anymore

From the Rodina to the Mississippi isn't as big a walk as you'd think

I'm not saying no, but I just want to see the marketing report that says this is what people want for the holiday season

I feel like we were promised way more trick shots in modern warfare than we got

Laopoetmobile V candidate? Maybe not

Man, American health care 🙄

I mean who wouldn't

Great museums of the Midwest

I probably have to come up with a snazzy graphic soon - But it's awards eligibility season. Wolf's Path - Best Collection. Cold Steel - Best YA novel. The Freedom - Best short story. (self-pub) Forest - Best flash fiction.

not interested in a kennedy heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a pelosi heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a cuomo heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a clinton heir for the same reason i’m not inter

New Review -today I am on the blog tour for #ProjectHanuman an excellent space opera by @stewarthotston.com with wonder, spectacle and an emotional punch that really worked for me - out now very strongly recommended! Thanks to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

Zadie Smith.

55 years ago today was an infamous attempt to blow up a beached whale. Please enjoy this piece about it by Andrew Thaler, which remains one of my favorite pieces of writing about science communication. www.vice.com/en/article/t... @drandrewthaler.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎 #SciComm

With alt text and a reminder to unfollow. They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.

This feels like one of those scenarios where if you can't figure it out on your own, reading an article outlining the obvious probably isn't going to help either.

Rude

Dumb question: Did we resolve the q a little while ago whether we've absolutely determined we legally have a right to access news, art & media including international writing or could our rights be restricted to approved US media sources & perspectives? Even non-citizens?

I mean, who hasn't had that problem?

It's hard to convey my disgust & moral outrage at Trump & Rubio for killing hundreds of thousands My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic. 1/n

making the rounds

For your consideration

Seriously

America, F* Yeah!

So a planet-eating planet that's a transformer is just casually walking the streets of some other planet. This is WILDLY stupid but strangely metal and epic as far as the cosmic weird goes. I'll allow it 🤣 "This place will take me aeons to eat! I'll get started after I'm done shopping..."

Just so you know

Great questions of the internet

For those who need the reminder

co-signed

52 years here, I'll allow it