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Is it a giant wooden horse

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Not saying food memories mean a lot to me but when I was 8, I went to Rhodes, Greece with my parents (my first trip outside Scandinavia) & at the hotel, they served this thick yogurt in terracotta bowls with a super creamy layer on top and I still think about that yogurt at least once a week.

This is going to be AWESOME! Join us!

A New Jersey lawmaker is facing an ethics complaint for naming her anti-ICE bill "“Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act"

If you enjoyed my essays "Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun," "Rabbits with Eyeliner: Gender and Prosocial Education in LEGO Sets," "Searching for the Feminine Grotesque," and more, consider subscribing to the magazine that made them all happen!

Nominating for Hugos? Deadline is Sat! Here's eligible BCS stories, category, links, and link to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts. (Pls DON'T nominate BCS for Semiprozine; we recused. You can nominate Scott for Editor Short Form if you find him worthy.) www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...

One of the things I wrote last year that I am SUPER proud of is this column from @strangehorizons.bsky.social - "A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives". So many great writers and great stories. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Paradise is messing with me in a very Lost kind of way right now.

After a record 450+ submissions, IT'S TIME! Click below for an alert the moment we launch the Kickstarter campaign for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 4 (Tuesday, April 7). Early bird backers (first 50 & 100) will be entered in giveaways! Pls SHARE WIDELY--thx!

Latest story, "Middle Song," now out in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social. Soldiers on a search for fugitives wander into a strange roadhouse. Standalone but loosely tied to a group of stories that started in 2022 right here in BP. Always glad to be back and in a ToC w/great fellow authors.

originals of recent works are available for sale on my ko-fi! snag a one-of-a-kind piece here: ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/sho... also still have some older original paintings and sketches for sale there, too!

Suddenly feeling terrible that I’ve never given my cats a tiny typewriter. Photo from my collection, 1966.

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

Going to repeat as PSA- try watching TRT, Al Jazeera, BBC, any European tv etc instead of US media. You will hear and see intl security experts, gov members, etc.

My GUFFAW just now was completely involuntary

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Thanks so much to Erin for hosting my essay! I talk about the challenges and discouragement I faced trying to find publishing opportunities in the late 90s/early 2000s, the women who inspired me to try again, and what SLEEP ALONE’s Ronnie and I have in common as women fighting for our place.

Conduit ✨ Another small #drawing for the #JordanCon #Art Show. #sciart #magic

"It is through writing that we remember freedom, as Le Guin puts it." Read @soniasulaiman.bsky.social's editorial in full here: reckoning.press/editorial-2/

New, special issue of @reckoningmag.bsky.social is here! IT WAS PARADISE, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, focuses on the environmental justice aspects of war and conflict: weightlessbooks.com/reckoning-it...

Clear skies are a premium on the Oregon Coast. I lucked out last night! I needed to get my astrojollies after 10 days of overcast. Here is M42 (Orion Nebula). 1.25 hours total exposure (450 10-second subs stacked). Seestar S50. #astrophotography

Children at an Edinburgh hospital painted pebbles for the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo and will be able to watch them choose and present them to their mates via livestream. #SundayMorning

Painted on a wee scrap matboard.

“The sanctions were necessary to stop Iran funding the war, but the war made the sanctions too effective, so the sanctions had to be lifted to fund the war effort against the country that no longer needs sanctions because the oil revenues that sanctions were preventing are now required to prevent…”

The Raid. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Why are settlers always surprised that Indigenous peoples did and still do things deliberately? www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy Sunday. Don't get bogged down by the bullshit. 🤘🏼

Trump “bragged on camera about groping women by the genitals … He is named repeatedly in the Epstein Files, which his Justice Department has worked overtime to hide. He’s a creepy old man who practically kissed Erika Kirk on the lips at her husband’s memorial service.”

Later that day the clouds came in and gave me some sweet light :) Stokksnes #Iceland

People will do anything to kiss a codfish.

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

This is dope as fuck!

borb!

Always love seeing good books at the library. Ping @madelineashby.bsky.social . 👀

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

If you are not impressed by the picture of a Black Hole, clearly you do not understand the gravity of the situation…

This is tragic, and we should be aware that masking can cause longterm psychological damage not only to autistic children, but to everyone.

TW for unaliving -- as someone who is AuDHD and did not understand how much higher the rate is for people with ASD to attempt or to do unaliving, this hits very close to home 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

The plant scientist who named this must have really really loved plants

The 87th Precinct books by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter) which was on my parents' bookshelf and I devoured. The one where someone is flayed alive still kind of haunts me.

"For kids who cope by masking, constantly deciphering and mimicking social responses is often cognitively and emotionally exhausting. “Masking is actually a risk factor of suicide for autistic people,” said Lisa Morgan, founder of the Autism and Suicide Prevention Workgroup, who is autistic herself"

CN: Suicide Please know that autistic children are at a higher risk for suicide than non-autistic peers, and “Even deeply attentive parents may miss signs of suicidal distress in autistic kids and teens, as they often differ from those shown by neurotypical youth.” www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.

Another lazy #Caturday

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