I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Friday’s review at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is from @erichendel.bsky.social, on Adam Oyebanji’s Esperance (@dawbooks.bsky.social in the US, @hachetteuk.bsky.social in the UK). It’s a novel, Eric finds, in which “alternate interpretations of the story emerge constantly.”

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Star Trek: TNG is maybe the purest human drama ever created. A man helps his robot son learn how to be human, and whether human is even a good thing to be, while being tested by the man’s best frenemy, God.

Yeah, even in my extremely white family, we refer to my father's cousins (so the children of my great aunts) as 'aunts.' It's generational signifier: kin of your parent's generation are aunts and uncles. I'd introduce my little one to my own cousins as 'Uncle [firstname]' and 'Aunt [firstname].'

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

I just remembered that I narrated Ur Fascism for my Radio Free Burrito podcast, about five years ago. Seems relevant, and worth resurfacing today. soundcloud.com/wil-wheaton-...?

“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children

The Wind is a cat That prowls at night; Now in the valley, Now on the height. It claws at the clouds, Till it fringes their silk; And laps up the dusk Like a saucer of milk. Then, under the stars, Preening its fur, Curls down for a nap And purrs and purrs. -Ariel

After the Usuals, clearly I am going to free the Muppets from their Horrible Oppressors at Disney in exchange for One Favor Thats right. THE MUPPETS' ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

Important content.

wizard frog is insane

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.

‘We offer our soldiers socialism to go abroad and defend capitalism, and I was too poor to say no.’ Great points, delivered in a blunt, articulate way.

Prediction: This one will blow the fuck up in ICE's face. Iowa doesn't often have its shit together, but they will on this one.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Emphasizing this excellent point: speaking only positively of any health condition isolates people who are really suffering. Even if it isn’t a policy, discouraging people from talking honestly about conditions, treatment, etc endangers people at the highest risk to protect people from discomfort.

It's not every day we get featured on the front page of Wikipedia dot com... And Happy 20th Anniversary to Myst V: End of Ages! https://cyan.com/games/mystv/

Disney plus more like minus Disney *a crescendo of strings. sunlight, breaking through dark clouds swollen by rain, illuminates my proud visage. the masses cheer; they weep and become inconsolable. “Enthrone him!” they cry in one great, thundering voice. I am enthroned*

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

they should invent a kind of news that is good

The US is imposing 1000% tariffs on ma, the concept of emptiness or negative space in Japanese cinema. From now on if a character quietly admires a river or sips a cup of tea, theaters will be taxed millions

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

@mollytempleton.com is always so good: "People seem to get it in their heads that criticism is a lot of things it isn’t (most of the time): a tearing-down, an act of jealousy, an act of ego. The criticism I love best is an act of curiosity. An investigation, an exploration. And an open door."

If we let them turn one group of people into a political football, they don't even have to move the goalposts. They can just call anyone a football.

#Banksy has just paid a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London. 🎯

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We shouldn't be intellectually ableist, AND Avoiding intellectual ableism also forces us to be more granular and specific about these sorts of phenomena. Usually the issue isn't inherent capacity.

Arguably the thing that people treat the most dismissively that would absolutely floor pre-modern people is clothing. I don't think non-historians understand how much human labor went into pre-modern creation of clothes and fibers. A single dress is the culmination of many many hours of work

It’s nice to hear a politician just…say the obvious truth without equivocating

I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

This is the essence of it to me. If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too

That's exactly what it is. Between this and Brazil, it seems that Trump is practicing a kind of authoritarian identity politics — going after any democracy brave enough to punish its would-be authoritarians the way the US tried (and failed) to punish him

Sound OFF for this one; it's all about the visual.