NEW POST: Wicked Problems Story So Far Need a reminder of Wicked Problems before Dead Hand Rule? Well you're in luck, I've summarised the entire thing right here for you: www.thehiddenschools.com/articles/sto...

It’s coming up to 1pm in London, so I have searched Bsky for a capybara.

Philip K. Dick’s wife Tessa is in desperate financial straits and struggling to keep her home. If you can donate anything at all to her GoFundMe it would be great. gofund.me/ee00d19de

Florida faculty are being forced to actively censor their syllabi, and for those going through post tenure reviews can be fired for teaching ‘divisive concepts’

Yes. TAMU tape can be paired w countless memoirs of Red Guards calling out teachers for deviation from Great Leader Thought during Cultural Revolution catastrophe. "According to Our President, this is illegal." Cancellations at West Point (Tom Hanks!) and USAFA Cultural Revolution is the parallel

This family has been displaced over 15 times.

The unicorn has been unleashed! 🦄 House of Idyll is available today! All buy links here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790197... Signed edition at @booksamillion.bsky.social www.booksamillion.com/p/House-Idyl... Or ask your local indie bookstore!

The oldest known human structure is Tell Qaramel in Syria, built around 10,000 B.C. It predates agriculture, which was long thought to be a prerequisite for civilization. If someone gave you $1,000,000 a day, every day, since Tell Qaramel was built, you would get $6.6 trillion 6,000 years from now.

People say Boston is a white city because they don’t know Boston is a city in a majority minority metro where the Taiwanese American mayor succeeds in part because she campaigns in Haitian Kreyòl

Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.

DEAD COUNTRY is a Kindle Monthly Deal for September! Which means it should be $2.99 wherever fine ebooks are sold. For example, here: bookshop.org/p/books/dead... Plenty of time to read and join us for our discussion on r/CraftSequence later this month!

I was interviewed for this documentary project on Fantasy, & had the joy of introducing the filmmakers to Pratchett's Tolkien / Mt Fuji bit - anyway they're kickstarting the release! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

it is also beautiful to have a relationship where both of you are the second guy here

DEAD COUNTRY is a Kindle Monthly Deal for September! Which means it should be $2.99 wherever fine ebooks are sold. For example, here: bookshop.org/p/books/dead... Plenty of time to read and join us for our discussion on r/CraftSequence later this month!

critical support to the teens of dc, who i keep seeing filming tiktok dances in front of guardsmen until they abandon whatever post they are at

I know several folks on this list ( @crobertcargill.bsky.social @patguy.bsky.social @scalzi.com @gailsimone.bsky.social ) If you are an author, you might want to check. There’s a copyright settlement against Anthropic that’s going down. Go get what you’re owed: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Really enjoyed this article. His clarity on this point in particular is part of what makes THE KILLING FLOOR such a bracing read - one of those books where the outsider's perspective lets him shoot straight to the center of mass.

sleep on the floor dream about me

This is different from Saruman, who started visiting Nazi forums for "academic research" and then decided he agreed with the fash propaganda Deep down, I think that guy always sucked

My point is that the siege of Gondor would have gone very differently if Denethor had occasionally touched grass

If you spend all your time reading bad news, it's going to drive you to unwarranted despair, even if all the individual pieces of news are true. You'll never see the big picture if all you stare at is the darkness

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

FT has been vital reading for me in the last 8 years, and could use some help.

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are. I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

Not joking. Let’s go. If you can get the authors paid, drop me a line.

Still available:

an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound

www.youtube.com/watch?v=54aG... his live cuts are spectacular

I love that zoom on the watch. (Casio?) Not a status symbol - a working watch for a mayor who means to do the work.

Healey: Massachusetts insurers have to cover the cost of all vaccines approved by the state, no matter what the brainworm in chief says. This includes MassHealth and GIC.

Update on the Must Read Magazines contract situation from somebody on the front lines. tl;dr it's bad. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email

It's book launch week and that means I'm banging on about Angel Maker, my brand new Sapphic steampunk adventure!

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

Another "where's the AI code?" question: where's the shovelware? If AI coding is so hot, we should be seeing a flood of crappy little apps, and we aren't. mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the... note this post is from a huge AI bro too

GUESS WHO HAS TWO THUMBS AND A #1 NEW RELEASE BANNER!!! @matociquala.bsky.social absolutely killing it 💪💜🎊, go check out her new fabulousness!!

Library Journal has a starred review for DEAD HAND RULE! Join me on "a dizzying climb to the heights of the gods." www.libraryjournal.com/review/dead-...

It enrages me that major outlets won't talk about this. this is why the box office down. Sony’s mainstream movie divisions released eight theatrical films in summer 2013. They only put out three films the entire summer 2025. Combine that with Disney wiping out 20th Century Fox, that's why...

If you are 45 and under, go and get that vaccine now while it's still free, folks.

Most importantly, studios aren't releasing enough movies right now, as @lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social and @scottmendelson.bsky.social keep pointing out. Theaters are being starved.

Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…

Marketing, 2025 (Also this book is good)

Holy smokes, just saw that @pcgamer.com covered the Palestine games charity bundle too!!! Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...

Some days the work is clickerty-clickerty-clickerty, some days the work is pacing around your office while a buddy watches you go hmmmmmmmmm.... hummmm..... wellllll.........

DEAD HAND RULE is coming next month, and currently 25% off through B&N's preorder sale! Members get the discount with code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-hand-...

A reminder that "But what if people on YOUR side are on the Epstein list?" is a bullshit argument, EVERYONE who was raping children needs to get into the bin right now, that's the deal here and it ain't exactly complicated

ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!

An intimidatingly buff sort-of princess, a university post-doc, and a Camlaan Knight walk into a bar, make a deal with a zombie, and join a heist that takes them into a god-strewn desert that will almost definitely kill them. Meet Zeddig, Raymet, and Gal: www.thehiddenschools.com/articles/zed...

IT'S BOOOK DAYYYYYYY (and the crowd goes wild) A long-awaited return to Rapid City and the world of Karen Memory! www.patreon.com/posts/137115...