The Misty Vale has its secrets--and it's time to discover them! Join @trendane.bsky.social, @taritoons.bsky.social, Undeveloped Bruce, and Croxxx at 12 p.m. EST for the premiere of Dragonbane: The Secret of the Dragon Emperor! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron

I am simply going to suggest everyone read @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social excellent book, A City on Mars. bookshop.org/p/books/a-ci...

That’s what’s up.

Fixing a problem that doesn't exist while making it more difficult for anyone with a changed last name to vote. Absolutely not, Mike.

I worried on Sunday night that the "oh your poor lost doggy!" veneer would be too attractive, but based on how it landed I'd guess many women immediately thought of how a stalker/abuser could use this and that every single person horrified by ICE terrorizing our communities did too.

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Living in Angus, we are surrounded by standing stones, Pictish art, and hill forts. So this book caught my eye #CarvedInStone #Picts carvedinstone.scot

About a year ago, I started to wonder what would happen if the Devil took a vacation in Washington, D.C. & realized that humans had gotten better at torturing humans than his own minions? Clearly, I thought, he would raise up a corner of Hell into the 'burbs to show his workforce how it's done (1/2)

President Trump has threatened to block the opening of a bridge between Michigan and Ontario. The Gordie Howe International Bridge has been under construction since 2018 and is due to open early this year, according to the organization behind it.

The US labor board is giving up oversight of SpaceX, abandoning a yearslong legal battle and handing a victory to Elon Musk.

Walking up to an open restaurant and pulling on the door before realizing it’s locked and you need to wait for someone to let you in. Pretty common experience the last 2 months around the metro. Minneapolis, February 2026

A negative-option requirement to *ask* not to give up your rights on submission, with the *possibility* of Red Ogre Review agreeing, isn't better! It's arguably worse!

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota has affected nearly every aspect of daily life, including the health of many residents. https://to.pbs.org/3Mwl4zu

"I think that the goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Purchasing and converting these warehouse detention camps will cost the U.S. government billions of dollars. So far ICE has purchased at least half a dozen warehouses at a cost of $70-$110 million each. It'll cost billions more to refit them into detention camps, and hire staff.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Michelle Yeoh will be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next week.

I'm working on what I am calling the Parthenogenesis Series; vintage sci-fi novels by different authors about Women Who Don't Need Men For Anything I'm producing e-texts from existing scans of the original publications and posting them on InternetArchive as public domain ePub files

I recorded an audio book of this story as well archive.org/details/virg...

We will be awash in sloppy nostalgic representations of the American Revolution this year. That’s why sharp careful analyses of the distance between those representations and evidence-based history is so important. Also I really appreciate @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social !

heard on Boston Public Radio that 23% of all the advertisements during the Super Bowl were AI That's Twenty Three percent too much

Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn't enough fuel for airplanes to refuel on the island, the latest step in its moves to ration energy as the Trump administration cuts the Caribbean nation off from its fuel resources. https://to.pbs.org/4chprZA

Prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly two dozen people arrested during a clergy-led protest outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall.

FBI documents show tech billionaires Reid Hoffman and Elon Musk exchanging friendly messages with Jeffrey Epstein long after his Florida conviction. on.wsj.com/4ahJ0OY

Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

AI has already killed people and it'll kill and disable more if we don't wise up. you've 👏 been 👏 had 👏

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

I am glad @ecbatan.bsky.social is reclaiming his old reviews from SF Site and republishing them, like this review of Jack Vance's EMPHYRIO rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/02/recl...

Name a book from a Black author: Death of the Author: A Novel, by Nnedi Okorafor. My review: skiffyandfanty.com/blog/death-o...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses:

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

We live in a world where there's a Wikipedia article for every obscure background character in Star Wars but not one for Marion Royce, who was the founding Director of the Women's Bureau, Department of Labour and at one point represented Canada to the United Nations and I am so irritated by this.

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

Apropos of the rights licensing discussion that has blown up here over the past day, I'm re-upping my blog post on some of the ways writers act against their own interests when faced w/ a publishing offer. It's about publishing contracts, but it applies to TOS too writerbeware.blog/2020/05/29/e...

Hideous licensing agreement from Red Ogre Review, but what really jumps out at me is the moral rights waiver

Alright. As is now tradition, here are my 10 favorite African SFF stories from 2025 📖 📚 Featuring tales from: @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omenanamag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @zamashort.com @khoreo.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social + more!

Auto dealers have done everything in their power to stifle the growth of a healthy US EV market for decades. This is the result. www.thedrive.com/news/u-s-dea...

J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

Join @sueburke.bsky.social, @andreahairston.bsky.social, moderator @pematson.bsky.social, and myself on Chicago A at @capriconsfcon.bsky.social talking Robots!

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

“The risk is not only that future models might train on AI-generated content, but that AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional." sbee.link/qy9w8e4xvh

Here's @princejvstin.com at @capriconsfcon.bsky.social ready to answer questions about the @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid to hold the 2030 #WSFS #WorldCon in Edmonton, Canada.

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.