DON’T SIGN THE HC 5 feels like a viable slogan, maybe a sign

Live at 4 PM EDT/1 PM PDT at theincomparable.com/live: I guest-host with the regulars as we look back at the last wild three months of KPOP DEMON HUNTERS. Spoiler-free section at the top for the holdouts wondering if it’s worth the hype; we’ll help you decide if it’s not for you or if it’s golden.

I will be wearing my #RaiseUp Pride T-shirt to the Durham Bulls game tonight for no particular reason.

One of the most deranged quotes I have ever seen

“The real winners [will] be the same large tech companies that can afford licensing deals and that have the resources to navigate an increasingly complex web of access restrictions. The losers will be […] users, researchers, archivists, and […] creators who benefit from an open, discoverable web.”

Protect Seth Jarvis at all costs

macOS Desiato

Met the redoubtable @mrworkrate.com and would have told him, “I would like to subscribe to your newsletter,” but I didn’t, because I already do. And if you follow the Carolina Hurricanes, you should too. #RaiseUp workrate-hockey.ghost.io

The full review is even dumber than this paragraph makes it seem, because in the next paragraph the reviewer acknowledges that Del Toro's take is more faithful to the novel, but then gripes about how it still clashes with most people's understanding of the characters they got instead from movies.

Also if you loved James Gunn's Superman but want to watch something with your kids and Peacemaker and Creature Commands is a little too adult check out Justice League Unlimited. It's really good.

What it was, wasn’t football.

Ditto Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea…*most* of the time.

How AI is changing my teaching #NTPodShorts www.youtube.com/shorts/Cspt3...

It is worse because stage three was originally pumpkin spice seasoning NOT pumpkin itself. You know, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and allspice. Then confused people led Starbucks to add actual pumpkin. www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/his...

Nothing like watching Rod Brind’amour being interviewed (by @adamgold.bsky.social) to shame you into better performance at the gym. #RaiseUp #DearGodMyQuads

With respect to my acquaintances who are involved in Worldcon organizing, and my talented friends who have won multiple Hugos, [this piece](miribaker.com/2025/08/22/o...) is spot-on. The distributed culture means no accountability for making the NEXT con less embarrassing.

That moment when @thgyoutube.bsky.social shouts out the best PA in the biz, @wademinter.com (timestamped) youtu.be/WMAHje6gWew?...

How does this keep happening?!? I work at an announcer at skating competitions and they are filled with names that are unfamiliar to me and we have a plan to manage what is my deficit and the responsibility of the organizers. And it works!

No cheating, post the last pic of your pet. 

@lukedecock.bsky.social I’d love it if you’d ask them why Florida has the courage to have a Pride Night and yet….

Requiem for a basketball dream: For 52 years, any male student at UNC had at least a chance to be a small part of the basketball program by trying out for the JV team. As a new academic year starts Monday, that quaint anachronism has been consigned to history. www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...

Please help otherwise the things a lot of you like and a lot of things I try to make might be in real trouble.

Had a big long chat with former DWM editor Tom Spilsbury about the current and future state of Doctor Who.

Hey hey, myself and many other writers are in this here anthology!

As long as we're talking about fannish culture and its pitfalls, I want to talk about cliques and rejection and ostracizing. I amtalking about a particular generation of fandom; late boomers, early Gen Xers, which is to say, my generation. /1

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

“It was better when it was our little secret” is BS.

That the idea of ‘it needs a break’ reflects more on the speaker than the show. Self-renewal is built in to the format and chucking away a potential younger audience is rarely a good idea.

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

I have failed this city and must atone

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This is an absolute betrayal to people who faithfully served their country. There is not a single Republican on earth who gets to utter the lie that they “care about our troops” now

So now the problem we’re solving is “I don’t know how to tell my spouse I’m running late, that is too difficult.” This doesn’t even save time, what is WRONG with these people?

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

New at The Hockey Writers: Recently the Carolina Hurricanes’ defense has been questioned about being “possibly vulnerable” & not viewed as a Top 5 unit. However, it’s proven time & time again that it is Top 5. Guess what, the defense is fine. #RaiseUp Read: thehockeywriters.com/hurricanes-d...

via @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social : OpenAI is now apparently making users’ ChatGPT conversations GOOGLEABLE? According to this piece anyway, if you shared it with ANYONE, they’re treating that as you being happy for everyone in the world to see it. www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

#RaiseUp thoughts that kept me up last night: Would a shift to center put Seth Jarvis at risk of injuring his shoulder further? What could KK do over the offseason to improve his odds of retaining 2C? Are there specific, coachable things?

“…Now, Gandalf, you said that you had counsel to give, if I would hear it. What is your counsel?” “You have yourself already taken it,” answered Gandalf. “To put your trust in Éomer, rather than in a man of crooked mind. To cast aside regret and fear. To do the deed at hand.”

Feels like #RaiseUp West. I’m going to miss Trent from Kinetico.

Quoth @jesseblake.bsky.social: “EVERY TEAM tampers!” Arguably, if #RaiseUp had tampered more, GMET would have had a better idea about Rantanen’s mindset and maybe wouldn’t have triggered the trade? (Also, “Marner, why are you always the drama?” is :chefskiss:) youtu.be/4hO8Yad6OKI

Wearing my #RaiseUp socks today. They’re Socks of Defiance.

My sister-in-law races vintage cars and we’re celebrating her birthday and I think I’ve seen this meme before.

WIN the Jack Adams? Of course not. Not getting a single vote? That’s bovine excrement. #RaiseUp

Co-signed. #RaiseUp

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I’M EMOTIONALLY PREPARED FOR TONIGHT’S GAME #RaiseUp

I’m not sure I’m emotionally prepared for tonight’s game. #RaiseUp