By the way, if I say this and you come in with your little “Oh, just now?” response, I will block you and wish you into the cornfield. WE DO NOT KNOW EACH OTHER.

Folks, I am literally begging you, if you're going to engage in, shall we say, alternative means of financial or other protest against this government, DO NOT ANNOUNCE IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. PLEASE.

This is not a day when I personally can handle incremental news. If you are the same, remember you can find reporting later that will tell you what you need to know.

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

Every time I see Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellan do something X-Men (or Star Trek / LotR) related I get mad at how the death of mid-budget cinema means there will never be a cozy old man romance movie starring two cozy old men who share an actual long-standing platonic love for one another.

I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour. I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.

If anyone in Portland Oregon would be willing to offer housing to a friend with Parkinson's who is about to get brain surgery, is on disability, can pay rent, and is being forced out of his current housing situation please reach out. This is time sensitive.

Comrade I'm a nearly 50 year old SFF fan, I don't think you can expect me to pick just one thing

This is the inspiration I needed today 💚

New Everina Maxwell! Yay!!!!!

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

In June I finished a poem about being suicidal and the tiniest things one can use as a carrot to keep themselves going, and here at the close of the year I am finally (mostly) ready to share it

While picking up KJ Charles' ALL OF US MURDERERS ($1.99), I saw that Annalee Newitz's AUTOMATIC NOODLE is also on sale today! $2.99 at B&N & Kobo. And now I have two new books. 😍

Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.

"Mentor's Advice" by Bobby LeFebre: www.instagram.com/reels/DQ5Lm2...

So a few months back, the Offspring was showing us around the game store where he would be doing a one-shot, and we were looking at the dice sets. I told him and the Spouse that in the Long Ago, when I gamed regularly, I did not have my own set, but had to use other players' extras.

@swantower.bsky.social Don't know if you've seen it, but the ebook editions of the first three volumes of the MEMOIRS OF LADY TRENT, plus TURNING DARKNESS INTO LIGHT, are on sale at B&N and Kobo right now.

Gender swapped, but still, how very dare!

When I flew back to say goodbye to Dad - let's just say that I didn't smile at random people on the 1 Line to the Mukilteo ferry terminal when I got home, but it was a near thing. (I live in a village half the size of my birth town - it's basically Cicely, AK with less snow but even more queer.)

The irony is, there actually IS one person I can think of who talks eloquently, and often, about how his faith informs him as a person and a citizen, and who does it in a way that even atheists listen to and respect. But CBS canceled his late-night show and it’s going off the air in May.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

Positively sickening when movement and stretching helps fix your problems.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

All right, folks, we're looking at round two of Blackout Boogaloo - do I try and get some of the cooking done now and pray that if we go dark I won't lose half the fridge contents (AGAIN) or wait until tomorrow morning?

Yes, I do sound like this if I'm on the phone with my mother for more than 10 minutes.

Sometimes you need to take what is left and build something beautiful, a little at a time. #knitting 🧶 #scrapdown #scrap #knitsky #keepgoing

favorite edit of the year goes to @ctrlalttim.com

Having taken my last meeting of the year, I have declared an emergency Little Cat Nap Time. The little cat has been informed and was last seen tunneling under the blankets. Goodnight to the little cat under the blankets. Goodnight to everyone

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

I am having a flareup, complete with fever, and there's a good possibility of ANOTHER bad windstorm Christmas Eve. I haven't finished hauling all the spoiled stuff from last week to the compost collection point. Is just going back to bed an option? Asking for a friend.

Like most things in life, doing holiday stuff is a choice. You don’t *have* to do anything & often the best thing you can do for the people around you is to give them permission to make the list smaller or eliminate it altogether. Rest, time, peace - they’re all great gifts 💝

Blessed Yule to all who celebrate. May the longest night of the year renew your strength and restore your peace.

Gather it. I don't care if it's spite, joy, anger, bile, defiance, loneliness, relief, sexual energy, humor, recollection, pride, confusion or infinitely reliable curiosity. Use it like a storm under your control, filled with lightning. Let bolts fly.

Adapting a deeply personal story in a way that makes the person who wrote it experience it all over again is a real kindness and a small miracle. There's been a lot of pain adjacent to this film, a lot of sad stories that touch it. But Reiner seems to have done his part with great kindness.

BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Washington approves over 99% of archaeological permits, records show As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to to stop development projects.

This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Juvenile coho salmon have been spotted in a tributary of the Russian River for the first time since 1991 apnews.com/article/anim...

Yeah. I don’t want fake AI to screw up a recipe for me. Or some asshole man size robot with white boy rhythm. I want a personal force field. And the medical tech used to replicate Worf’s spine.

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

The witch may walk the wood intending to brood, but she will often learn that the wood has other ideas for her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Dawn

The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...

I'm sifting through rubble to find you something beautiful. So far I've only found earthworms, but they're doing God's work.

First have your coffee time, then do your stretching, fight evil until lunch, then you can have a little nap; then you'll bring joy to the world, then cocktails.

When I volunteered at the Austin Nature & Science Center 300 years ago, this was phrased to me as "their heads are full of optic nerves & murder. There's no room for anything else."

Oh god I sort of covet this. #DoctorWho

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