If anyone knows who to credit for this, please let me know!

I'd be delighted if you joined my patreon! July marks 10 years of monthly short stories. I'll have a brand new one there soon. And subscribers'll get an early peek at the next part of my serial novel, coming out on @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's chain story on 1/19! www.patreon.com/swankmotron

I am not into criticising modern players because they aren't players of the past....but there are at least three players I'd pay to see play T20. Here's one.

May every He-Man find a Courtney Cox who looks at him like this.

It is one of the very best movies, and also responsible for one of my favorite pieces of film criticism

Some thoughts to comfort my US friends right now- Hitler had Guderian and von Manstein. Trump has Hegseth and Miller. I wouldn't be too worried lol

Hey, @dreddieclark.bsky.social, I know you've recommended both Kalyna the Soothsayer and The Tainted Cup. Can I ask you, if I'm only getting one of the two this month, which one should I be reading?

I do not, in fact, want to ride my bicycle. However, I agree with your ideological position on females with adipose fundaments, Freddie.

I grow weary of fighting for my right to party, Beastie Boys. Please advise.

The wealthy are always so GD worried some poor people are gonna commit some small time fraud. Meanwhile, big corporations are committing HUGE afraid. Just look at defense contractors. Why? Because we have all been taught to see the wealthy as virtuous and to see the poor as lazy and unworthy.

Medieval legends warned that seeing too much invited blindness. To glimpse angels, fae, or divine fire meant risking one’s eyes. Sight was power, but also danger. #MythologyMonday Art: John Bramblitt

Keeping the social safety net as small and as punitive as possible helps to ensure that there will always be a steady stream of people for employers like Bezos to exploit--people in such a precarious position that have no choice but to take whatever underpaid, overworked job they can get.

Right. I have at least ONE THING to look forward to in the second half of this year (I heard @everinamaxwell.bsky.social mention this last year at Eastercon and I was sold even then): torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...

You cannot value the librarian code of ethics while also being pro-genAI. GenAI is a direct violation of our code of ethics.

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Until the USA gets a proper voting preference based voting system, people need 2realise that they either vote 4the lesser of 2 evils or they r complicit in the greater evil. Or do we still think that voting Kamala in wouldn't have been even slightly better 4the most vulnerable amongst us than this?

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Happy birthday J.R.R. Tolkien...and thank you.

One last blast from the past before we all get back to the present! Gustav and his love of breweries and tap houses. RIP wee bud! Happy New Year! #DogsofBluesky

Sounds like the title of a John D. MacDonald novel

I heard someone on a podcast say “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” about AI, and this is a large part of why that made me angry. The baby is some dumb shit like “it helps me brainstorm!” And the bath water is like 30 ways in which it’s destroying lives. I’d nuke that tub from orbit.

I once had a neighbor steal my paper and lie to me about it. So I taught another neighbor's dog to steal his by leaving treats in them. He wound up canceling his paper long before it was time. The lesson: if you're going to insult an autistic person's intelligence, be smarter than them or *move*.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Something a little different to start off the year....

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! May 2026 be a wonderful year for you and your loved ones - and may 2025 not let the door hit it in the a*** on the way out!! 🥃🥃❤️❤️🍷🍷💖💖🍻🍻🎉🎉🎉🎉🙏

I haven't been writing enough lately so I am bringing back a practice I call doomscrawling. Whenever I reach for my phone to doomscroll, I must first open one of my WIPs in Google Docs and write one (1) sentence.

Time for a rewatch of one of the greatest TV shows ever

Ekō is doing a petition to ban Octopus farming. You can sign below to stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of these intelligent animals. Here's an article about the planned farm: www.bbc.com/news/science... Here's the wiki page on Ekō: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SumOfUs #Ekō #BanOctopusFarming #Spain

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

"if all else fails, go bother one of the local apex predators and maybe they’ll fix the problem for no reason"

Ripper of an article. "But too often in history — and certainly in the here and now — Christians, despite claiming Jesus as their cornerstone, have acted in ways that are contrary to his teachings and, just as crucially, to his sensibilities."

Indeed

the perfect hanukkah movie though is the story of a small group of jewish revolutionaries who set out to liberate their homeland from a foreign invader. yes, of course I mean the Hobbit Film Trilogy

Happy Christmas to everybody who supports Ukraine ⛄🎄

Brilliant King’s Speech this year. A plea for not turning away the outsider, with a choir from Ukraine at the end.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. Happy Chinese food to those who don't. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻 🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄🧑🏾‍🎄 🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁 🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜 🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟

I'm not Christian, or any other kind of theist. But I have zero problem taking a holiday season that's sacred to others and using it to get closer and warmer with my fellow humans. Merry Christmas. You guys rock!

What Pope Leo said in his first Christmas message

A former employee who was Jewish wished everyone a Merry Christmas around the holidays. Someone asked him about it and he said why wouldn't I want you to have a Merry Christmas, wouldn't you want me to have a Happy Hanukkah? Great way to celebrate the holidays and he got a lot of Happy Hanukkahs.

I thought this was what democracy was all about...but I never finished high school, so what would I know?

I'm your dad today. Love you, I'm proud of you, and if anyone tries stopping you from being your most authentic, happiest self, I will destroy them. Merry Christmas.