Everybody stop what you're doing! LEGO has just announced a Hubble Space Telescope set 😱 www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/a...

Not a parasite expert, but, every once in a while I think back to a conversation with older friends in rural Anhui about American food & their reaction to my description of a salad, which I remember as: "a bowl of *uncooked greens*? do you have a /death wish/? how are you /alive/"

this. #SignalBoost

Note to self

New Short Story Alert: Right now in the ebook edition of @lightspeedmagazine.com, you can read my "The Assumption of Maria". A maybe-next-week detective hunts for a vanished megachurch accountant. If you want to find someone in the LLM-poisoned Dead Internet future, you best lace up your gumshoes...

this will help

Don't much disagree but also I think media representations of sex & romance bear a bit of blame—though not in the way you're probably thinking. Teenage boys in the 90s/00s in particular were poorly served by exposure to a lot of great kisses in film & tv that only make sense b/c of cinema language

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Over 4,400 nurses & home care clinicians just walked off the job in Boston, launching the largest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts history. Mass General Brigham executives need to pay up. These heroes save lives every day—they deserve a fair contract, not corporate greed. Let's show our solidarity!🤦🏾‍♂️🙌🏾

lots of new people on my feed because of yesterday's jeremiad... and i feel some duty to give a little bit of a pep talk, because, yeah, i get it, that shit's kinda dire, so buckle up, here's the part where i tell you why it's worth it to deal with all the slings and arrows...

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Happy 4th. I will continue to pray that we realize the vision that has always seemed to hover past the true horizon of this country: a place where we work together to leave it better, more just, more caring, more wise than when we found it.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

a work of art

It's very much this

Also, worth remembering that the speech was written to be delivered aloud, and I think listening to it is a great way to engage with it youtu.be/H-cVwuMmylA

Trans rights are human rights.

you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.

This is very good advice for the folks incoming to @viableparadise.bsky.social this October. To the new cohort, welcome! To those who didn't quite get in, remember, many of the faculty never attended a student writing workshop in our apprentice years. :)

COURT REFORM NOW

Banger alert.

Ooooh get it

god this industry sucks right now. so sorry for everyone who are and will be impacted. keep an eye on our careers page, we're still growing, there will be plenty of varied opportunities, if not yet then soon www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

Empress of Forever is one of my favourite books. Highly recommended.

Dark City is a great movie. More people should watch it.

Great book!

Love love love this book. Named our cats after it, they're great cats, five stars.

Empress of Forever is $3.99 in ebook today! bookshop.org/p/books/empr...

Books like 'Dead Country' are why I'm glad I signed up to be a Hugo voter. Otherwise, I may never have encountered this gem. @maxgladstone.bsky.social 💙📚 #FantaSky #CraftWars app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b056...

Queer. Space. Pirates. And an incredibly unreliable narrator who was literally born yesterday.

That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue, coming this November!! Science! Sci-fi! Fantastic weirdness! Plus you can subscribe now to our podcast hosted by @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com!

A wonderfully fun book, afterburners on, perfect SF summer read, the kind of project that makes me yearn for a book-reader’s version of the phrase “a great time at the movies”, underpriced at $0.99 but thank Dog it’s not my job to price things

Do you have 2 dollars and 99 cents If so you can buy the ebook below AND join my Patreon for a month and download so many free stories help a girl out, this art can’t art itself Patreon.com/timpratt

Trying to do the thing again because this book held me up by making my cry on walks during COVID. Shout out to @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social

My head just snapped up like a seagull hearing a Dorito hit the pavement.

Hunter Biden gives his thoughts on last night’s elections in NY. What do you think?

DEAD HAND RULE...wow what a book! @maxgladstone.bsky.social how you managed to juggle everything while still delivering one emotional punch after the next. I didn't think the Craft world could feel anymore expansive but I was WRONG!

I saw him speak near a Kalachakra initiation once when I was young and went up after to ask if the books I'd spotted on his shelf in a video lecture were in fact the Wheel of Time paperbacks. They were. (He said his wife was a fan.) Nice guy, tolerant of a kid's odd question. RIP.

Sir Ian McKellen.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

I really love the point @maxgladstone.bsky.social makes here, about how we're almost never running the same race as anyone else (& I highly recommend signing up for his newsletter if you haven't yet!)

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

My friends, let me introduce you to the good news from @maxgladstone.bsky.social that everyone in Star Wars is a bee. reactormag.com/every-human-...

Tonight at 7: I’ll be joining Ray Nayler at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Palaces of the Crow! See you there, I hope

This Is How You Lose The Time War, the sequel @amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social?

i tell a secret i have never told about the origins of sublimation in this Big Idea post. just in case anyone wants to know my secrets.

Big ups to all the winners! 👇👇👇

I’m only about 10k in, but… The Encyclical for Best Related Work next year?