Recently finished @adapalmer.bsky.social’s brilliant Inventing the Renaissance. Just a joy to read.

Just back from seeing ice sculptures at winterlude in ottawa

The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, announced that they're shutting down their books section. We'd say "ironic," but... Keep supporting indie bookstores and public libraries over the mega retailer, aka the institutions that actually care about storytelling 💓

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

It's a myth remix where Heracles refuses to harm the legendary monsters and instead builds a found family out of them. Also, according to numerous librarians, it features the most sailor-mouthed Hera of all time.

As Bowie said They’re Putting out the fire with Gasoline.

Fuck you. I won’t do what you tell me. Stay till the end.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

This is what love looks like.

This one is even better, imo.

Wild stuff. "A Year Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.: Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s so, so grim right now for so many reasons. Canada managed to elect a very calm & capable banker who is wielding the soft power of the world’s polite neighbour to carve out a path to stability. I hate his austerity approach to public service, but having an adult in leadership is so soothing.

I would like to point people to this short story by @naomikritzer.bsky.social it really encapsulates a lot of the attitude we hold dear. I love it. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

"I hate how it ended. It's going to stick with me for a long time." An emotional Josh Allen addresses the media after the Bills' divisional round loss to the Broncos. 🎥 @jamespalmertv.bsky.social

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Some outstanding speakers at our local rally, too. I was moved by this statement from a member of the local congregation:

Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...

hey @thestar.com - can you please stop including X posts in your articles. we need to do everything possible to shut it down

my local Starbucks isn’t unionized but i’m still boycotting in solidarity.

The best world junior games have skill and speed and snarl and goaltending and just enough youthful idiocy that the whole thing tip into absolute chaos storms, and this is that plus a Czech team that clearly wants to punch Canada in the mouth plus a re-do on a penalty shot

Sorry, best I can do is the Western Grebe Baby Taxi Service. 🐣 🪶

Thanks to all the authors who produced so many great stories in 2025 despite everything else going on. Here are a few of my favourites: - Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social - Snake-Eater by @tkingfisher.com - Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social 1/2 #booksky

also, last SFF book of 2025 was LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER by @charliejane.bsky.social and it was so lovely! the A.S. Byatt echoes! the magic! the imperfect but loving family! not to mention the academia throughout reminded me of my favorite classes in college, which was a bonus.

Authors! Readers! The grand Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is now upon us. Use the code PREORDER25 to save 25% off basically every pre-ordered book for next year. Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!

This is a GREAT book!

make a Bond movie casual Live and let sleeping dogs lie

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

The more time goes by and every movie just is CGI and eventually AI slop the more I appreciate the filmmaking in Lord of the Rings going “you sit there, you sit there, you’ll be tall, you’ll be tiny”

red and green in the universe ❤️💚✨

TIMELINE CLEANSE. Please post your adorable getting into the holiday spirit. Molly is dallying in the Christmas garland.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

my cat approves of christmas tree lights. we’re a little scared to put on any ornaments though

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@wiswell.bsky.social has showed us that healing is heroic in Wearing the Lion! If you haven't already picked up this sotry that brings a humanizing and humorous touch to the Hercules story, what are you waiting for? 🦁🦁 buff.ly/6xB0q9V

"stay still on the ground for 20 minutes from a distance" remains an undefeated strategy for getting the cutest content on earth. We all deserve something cute tonight. So here you go.

Benoit Blanc always finds the one decent person enmeshed in some viper’s nest who deserves justice they can’t get on their own and who the police can’t or won’t help. in real life we don’t have easy access to people like that. that’s why so many of us find comfort in the murder mystery genre

I hate video. It's the worst format for technical information. You cannot copy & paste. You cannot re-read a paragraph but have to shift back. I can read twice as fast as probably anyone can talk. So it's a big waste of time, too. And reading comprehension > listening comprehension. WTF?

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

That scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-__d...

A lot of great Reiner movies but Spinal Tap being a parody of a particular style of music that thrived in a specific period of time and still managing to feel fresh and completely hilarious today despite there being a million things influenced by it is a real testament to how talented he was

When the mercury plummets to -40° (where Celsius and Fahrenheit finally agree), most sensible creatures burrow inward. But not in the Yukon. Here, in this land where exhaled breath crystallizes mid-air and exposed skin stings within seconds, I found myself moved to dance Bhangra.

The start of Covid’s 7th year is the perfect time to revisit the pandemic hobbies you have abandoned: you can get back to baking and puzzles, you can get back to reading and calling your friends; and you can even get back into doing what you can to protect other people.

Amsterdam guard company of Captain Reinier Reael, 1637. Gorgeous painting begun by Frans Hals. But sitters wouldn't come to Haarlem, and Hals didn't like commuting to Amsterdam. So it was finished by Pieter Codde.

"Good news, heaven," announces my dipshit husband, "I've made a new king of the mortals." -- possibly the best opening line of all time, by @wiswell.bsky.social

Just came back from seeing this. So much fun

Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us. From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe

Lessons in Magic and Disaster is one of the best books of 2025 according to Library Journal! www.libraryjournal.com/story/Editor...

I’m officially sick of Rizo but I’m not blaming him. I’m blaming everyone else on the beach that knows he has an idol and refuses to vote him out #survivor #survivor49