just because people are saying this again: no, catholics are not less conservative than protestants, for both it depends on a lot of cultural contexts and in general if it is a majority religion in a country, it will tend to be a predictor for conservatism.

Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

If I were the Greenlanders, I'd check that hospital ship for Odysseus and his Greeks before letting it anywhere near shore, given that it's a weird creepy unnecessary oddly shaped "gift" no public reporting on what is happening in Greenland explains and Trump is Temu Agamemnon

PSA for Discord's new age verification! If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it. Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+ It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Wow.

The River Speaks My Name by Ocoxōchitl la Coyota is a visceral piece - stark and poignant. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

『 FEAR WILL ONLY KEEP YOU STARVING 🌿』 ─ ✧˖°

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

"The story of the Knight and the Witch always ends in tragedy." Tasha Suri's The Isle in the Silver Sea is a lush exploration of immigration, assimilation, and storytelling. Read @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's review:

Discord recently announced that many more users will need to scan their face or upload ID, verifying their age so they can continue to access parts of the platform. Someone quickly made a tool that they say bypasses it with a simple 3D model you control www.404media.co/free-tool-sa...

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

IMPORTANT READ, given our increasingly fractured reality. Watch out for: 1: Telling you the story before they know the story. 2: Telling you the story of what’s in someone’s heart or mind. 3: Amping up the story with big adjectives. shorturl.fm/xt5J6 via @nycjayjay.bsky.social

Some very good tips! This is why I often just post one image at a time, but two works for me often since the 1:1 ration is a pretty common crop. The rest are questionable for art and crop weird unless they're all landscape. This is exactly why I started creating a collage for my portfolio day posts!

Growl!

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

If you'd like a little break from the news, here's a happy story about bats (gift link 🎁🦇) via @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

People with trauma histories often interpret neutral cues as negative. "You can come if you want." sounds to them like the person doesn't actually want them to come. Affirming that you want them there helps remove any doubts.

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

I'm reading Going Postal right now and he explains why, in a world that includes magic, people do not use magic to do everything (or anything, for the most part) basically, it's inherently unpredictable and you know it will cost you but you don't know how or when

I was like “why is this trailer so much more amazing than it has any right to be” and then I got to the end and the credits said “screenplay by @clmazin.bsky.social” so, mystery solved youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

“Choosing your friends is an echo chamber,” the troll screamed miserably from outside the restaurant window at your birthday party-

AI imagery is the equivalent of Plato’s prisoner being bored of sunlight, clambering down into a cave, shackling himself to a rock to watch shadows cast by firelight and forgetting that the world above exists.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

It’s not every post that I can convince 16 to stop what they are doing and come look … but this one was easy.

Excited to announce that my next book, I AM THE NIGHT, not only has a great cover but is available for pre-order now: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.

Bring some animal magic to your RPG with 'The Delver's Guide to Beast World'. A full 5th edition D&D setting, available in Standard and Special Editions. www.thebookbadgers.uk/product/the-... www.thebookbadgers.uk/product/the-... @heartleafgames.bsky.social

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

『 ETHEREAL ECLIPSE 🌘 』 ─ ✧˖° commission for Risshou on toyhouse

haven't read yet but this looks really illuminating plus it is written by the great @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

The first from my mom's archives. This was taken in 1958 on a WV chicken farm. Minnie's fave treat was scrambled eggs directly from the farm. Despite the b&w, i'm told she was an orange fluff @catsofyore.bsky.social

Hey, critters. If you use Chrome, new update has activated robot. Use image below. You can kill robot.

Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression! A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!

An amateur wildlife photographer off the coast of Seattle captured the dramatic moment when a seal narrowly escaped a pod of killer whales by hitching a ride on her boat.

New Review -today I am on the blog tour for #ProjectHanuman an excellent space opera by @stewarthotston.com with wonder, spectacle and an emotional punch that really worked for me - out now very strongly recommended! Thanks to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

All Voice Actors on Blue! We’re officially casting the voice of Agent THUNDER (yes, this gentledog below)! Show us your stealth voice, your heroic bark or “I just stole a toy and feel fabulous” charm 😉 Audition lines + details👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1... #VoiceActing #VoiceActor #Casting

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Glowing bats may sound like Halloween decor, but researchers in Georgia have discovered certain species of North American bats that are capable of the unusual trick.

REQUEST: For my book, I’m looking to briefly interview 2-3 women aged 75+ about their lives, their loves and what advice they’d give to to their 50 year-old selves Send me your nice moms, cool aunts, groovy grandmas please ♥️