This is an interesting convo between @maxgladstone.bsky.social and @djangowexler.bsky.social about, among other things, the publishing industry, and it brings up an angle - the bestseller being a market correction - that is my personal explanation for the romantasy phenomenon. (1/2)

The mighty @maxgladstone.bsky.social is very smart about making things and you should read his newsletter. buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do? New at @startribune.com

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Today's Penny Arcade gets it

ahahaha make ‘em fucken miserable then don’t let ‘em drink about it 👏🏼 masterful

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

Bearing witness against ice with @bearingwitnessice.bsky.social, at the field headquarters behind the Burlington mall. 1/?

This took me 3 years, drew it as a teen, it’s 10 ft long drawn freehand (no rulers, I draw straight lines by looking at edge of the paper & pretending to trace it while my pencil is at a different coordinate— how I get symmetry too). Even if not eligible Im glad someone thought it was worth awarding

The Iskari Rectification Authority approves of this message. @maxgladstone.bsky.social

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it. A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

Love to take an invigorating nap by leaning back in my chair with my feet up on the desk, secure in the knowledge that none of the king’s prisoners (especially not the one with the oddly charming rodent confederate) will notice or attempt to misappropriate the ring of keys hanging from my belt

also my lede for tomorrow's essay

This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.

Did I mention that I have not one, but TWO stories releasing today on 2/2? Yeah, it's weird. And wonderful. My novelette "Mother, Darling" is now live @strangehorizons.bsky.social “Oh, Wendybird... you’ve finally come back to see what a little shit Pan is.” strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

The person to watch is David Rubenstein, who has poured millions in philanthropy into the Kennedy Center, is not going to be pleased about this, and has money, ego, and patriotism long enough to sustain a long-ass legal battle. Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

The @locusmag.bsky.social 2025 Recommended Reading locusmag.com/2026/02/2025... Works by @marthawells.com @matociquala.bsky.social @nnedi.bsky.social @franwilde.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @rfkuang.bsky.social

Temps in the low 20's-30's in the South and renewables holding it down again today: Texas (ERCOT) - ~50% solar! v. ~30% gas, with batteries dispatching earlier at ~ 6GWs #energysky

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

I don't think there are good arguments against this position

Just another constitutional crisis flashing by like a fucking cow beside the highway

Dem leadership is still sleepwalking and negotiating against themselves while middle aged working people freezing their asses off on the streets of Minnesota figured this out long ago and aren’t planning on standing down or giving an inch.

The "common knowledge" you acquired over the last 25 years includes some stuff that is, and I'm deliberately casting an epithet, DEAD FUCKING WRONG. Keep learning, and take the time to go back and double-check.

I was working on an app to sort dog photos by breed but it suffered from conformation bias

Make or break you say? Well...

It's STFU Friday. Refresh the script 👇

it's like the Vonnegut estate is allergic to making money

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

As Pratchett said:

I’m ensconced behind the blood drive table (in case anyone spills some)

On my way to Arisia! I’ll be hanging in the lobby to chat starting at 2 if anyone wants to say hi & wandering ‘round after that.

It would be easier to deal with giant spiders in a way, because you can point at ‘em, but the underlying obstacles remain and (some of) the forces pushing for climate change are at least as identifiable as a giant spider

On my way to Arisia! I’ll be hanging in the lobby to chat starting at 2 if anyone wants to say hi & wandering ‘round after that.

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

i am watching ken burns american revolution right now and this is literally what every letter from the era they read sounds like

Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc

What? The AI companies have misrepresented what they're doing and how it was done? That's unpossible!

I had the chance to read the first arc of this and y'all are in for a TREAT, Django goes *hard* in this. Page-turner, just-one-more-chapter fun. Send him good energy in the views and currency form so he writes arc 2 /faster/

hello once again I am miserably attempting self-promotion while the world is on fire but maybe you wil enjoy this story about being so queer you can kill god

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs