The biblical passages that support the idea of “Hell” are very small in number, but all are emphatic and explicit and unambiguous in their soteriology. And EVERY Christian who says they believe in “Hell” because of these passages denies and rejects this soteriology. Every. Single. One.

If you drop people in a foreign country where they don't speak the language and have no way of housing or feeding themselves you're basically side stepping murder. If you're dropping them in prisons with no trial, that's a concentration camp you've outsourced.

At this point, those in charge aren't even pretending that they aren't trying to control what people say, what people watch, what people think. Authoritarians despise criticism and humor, unless they're the ones mocking disabled reporters or joking about killing innocent fishermen.

Oh, this is a good bit of analysis.

YAY MY STATE!

I can’t stop grinning, y’all.

Y’all y’all y’all I have the best medical news: I NO LONGER HAVE A THROMBUS IN MY PORTAL VEIN. IT IS GONE GONE GONE. It’s damn near a miracle for one to go away after such a length of time (7 years). 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@marthawells.com I’m reading The Wizard Hunters and just want to thank you for doing what you do. I can’t wait to turn a page to see what happens, but also don’t what to get through it too quickly 

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"Build Your Homeland's Future" — speculative whiteness in action

All good suggestions. Also, be willing to ask for help and accept correction. I normally end up doing this in my governmental space where I get the names at exactly the point I have to pronounce them. People sign up for public speaking slots at the start of a meeting, I get the list 5 min later.

Two thirds of Bsky discourse:

"Some of you might die in this new space race, and that's a sacrifice I am willing to make."

I wonder what would make a better story - Dead Poets Society set at Unseen University, or A Separate Peace set at the Hidden Schools?

Non-violent *resistance* works. Not only does it frustrate them, and make them use more cops for every arrest; they know it makes them look as heavy handed as they intend to be.

He has a mongoose in his sporran.

NGL, I'm getting really discouraged by lack of job situation. The job market is just abysmal. I don't think it matters how much I re-brand myself.

I want to just throw my resume into the giant pile that I KNOW that Accenture has for capital project work and there's no way for me to do so, GRUMP. Why can't I just put my info on file at a contractor website (I am also talking about KBR & Fluor, too).

maybe i'll just be a pirate on the river saskatchewan

I got my mammogram today and the tech commented on how enormous my chart was so I got to do the Short Version of Shit I Lived through and on the way out, I was called “Sir” by an old lady and it was like “Achievement Unlocked!”

It's always exciting when someone publishes a breakthrough in a cutting-edge discipline.

Okay someone please tell me how the fuck oxycodone is a “stronger” drug that MORPHINE? I’m watching the new Lynley series and that really rings a sour note for me. There’s a lady dying of cancer and why isn’t she on a drip I have no idea.

Okay, this is hard. But right now, at this very moment, it’s “Half a World Away.”

I say this as a former longtime employee of the Chicago Tribune: fuck ALL the way off with this bullshit.

Do you do reading wrap ups for the end of each month for your SFF reading? If so, I would like to see them. 👀

I would play this in a heartbeat. (Poor Murderbot.)

Ok, I know this is five years old, but I'm DYING.

The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction. Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism. Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...

Your context-free comic book panel of the day.

I got new key caps for my mechanical keeb. They're cat-themed and I like them very much.

I want to believe. (But I don't.) (But I want to!) (Mostly I want it to be true.)

this week I learned Chappell Roan did a cover of Heart's "Barracuda" and my life is richer for it, especially WITH THOSE GUITARS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIYf...

There is a job posting up at OldJob that would be a stretch but I could do it except it’s for the side of the company my nemesis works for and I’m worried I’d have to deal with her.

And in good news: my unemployment has started to pay out and I'll be getting three weeks total this week. 🎉

I wonder how many Allen wrenches IKEA uses per year. Also why are they called Allen wrenches and not "hand torture wrenches"?

Gonna go pitch a Minnesota Murders spin-off right now.

I have met this cat and she really is that round. But it’s mostly fur.

Ugh the first killer in Wire in the Blood is a transgender woman.

Seems on-brand.

Another excellent post inspired, in part, by the mispronunciation of names and omission of one of the finalists at this year’s Hugo ceremony.

Genuinely depressing to see that the GRRM debacle at Worldcon (where a fan asserted, to his face, that his looming death is a reason to pass ASOIAF to Sanderson) has revived the mentality of "fans should be on their knees licking GRRM's boots for the privilege of never getting an end to the series."

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS I expected better of you both, @ktempestbradford.com and @nisishawl.bsky.social

OK so is @ktempestbradford.com ever going to personally apologise for her part in that disrespectful shitshow of a Hugo ceremony or You butchered names and laughed about it. You skipped finalists and made people cry on what should have been a career highlight. And you have nothing to say?

Gosh, I hope he gets to room with Kissinger.

About time!

His current view.

World Con would be embarrassed if it had a governing organization that could be embarrassed but instead we have a bunch of clueless people in myriad cities fucking up annually in new and horrifying ways.

I just finished the Inspector Lynley show from the early 2000's two days ago. Today I find out that Britbox is going to running a new show, Lynley, starting in September. I know that fridging Helen is canonical, but it would be nice if they didn't.

Out of context Worldcon quotes. Matt Dinniman: “We probably won’t be talking about monster dick.”