Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. -G. Brooks

Ooh, there are artist gloves now!

The SAVE Act does one thing: make voting harder. More paperwork, more costs, and more people wrongly kicked off the rolls. This is not election integrity — it's voter suppression. That's why I'm a NO.

Time to call your reps! No matter where you are, no matter who your rep is they need to hear from you. Script is available at @5calls.org.

We've reached that turn in the year where we may find moss nests holding written wishes in our sacred spaces. The wise witch is secure in her sorceries. She shares the landscape with different folk faiths, enjoys a diversity of magics– #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky #Spring

If I were in charge of grocery store ordering and a company refused to do a recall when advised to do a recall, we would simply never order anything again from that company, ever.

I keep thinking about the Alice Walker poem/picture book "Why War is Never a Good Idea" www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...

Almost twenty years after the last helicopter fled Saigon, nearly two decades after the last domino fell, John Balaban reports, "Whatever we left, nothing remains." Try to imagine the countryside without gunships overhead. The bomb craters have been filled, planted with eucalyptus and bamboo. 1/

For those looking for Ryan Coogler's braider, here she is: www.instagram.com/tyzanna/

remains wild to me that the GOP is the party that's actually treating their opponents like they're an immediate and dire threat that must be eliminated at all costs meanwhile the Dems are like "hmm not sure I totally agree with all of this but let's hear these guys out, just in case"

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

I think having mines in a major global shipping channel is *also* something to worry about.

When you hear it said (and you will hear it said) that the number of people still wearing face masks in the year 2026 is genuinely concerning, kindly and firmly agree, for it is genuinely concerning in the year 2026 that the number of people still wearing face masks is so low

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

FUCKING WHY And why do I still have to pay taxes, then?

This is amazing. When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels. That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.

This is fecking great. you get to be human OR the "ai" youraislopbores.me

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people. If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

It took 12,000 years for us to give wolves anxiety, so I see this as a testament to the unrivaled creative power of the human imagination.

Team "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" here!

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

I try to preach the opposite of imposter syndrome to creative people. Know that you are literally the only person on the planet equipped to tell the very specific stories you have to tell in the way only you can tell them.

With the US military spending $1 billion a day on a pedophile's whims, remember that the UN estimates that it costs about $93 billion to end world hunger. The *first* 93 days of this decade+ war, could be spent ending world hunger, if anyone in power actually wanted to news.un.org/en/story/202...

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

I would absolutely trust a kid to know who they are better than, say, the doctor who delivered them as an infant & hasn't seen them since... 🙄

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

I think — it's up to us — to use it — — in an increasingly — unhinged manner — of course pre — empted — by its biggest — stan Em — ily — D—i—c—k—e—n—s—o—n

Spreading crushed silicate rocks like basalt on fields could remove up to 1.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year while increasing crop yields. Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...

As a parent of a school aged child this burns me up fortune.com/2026/03/01/a...

Somehow missed @pottedhistory.bsky.social's Bes pots!! (go have a look if this also happened to you.) potted-history.co.uk/collections/...

Apologies, my friend, but at a time such as this I do not hope that you are well, rather, I hope that you are angry and worried, rather, I hope that you are saddened and not numb, at a time such as this it would be strange to hope that you are well, but I hope that your pets are

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

Instead of this nonsense, fund actual research projects doing digital city reconstructions. Here is one I found useful when I was researching Mercutio: florenceasitwas.wlu.edu

Eohippus trinoceros!! 😆

Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon! This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun! #TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks

...I am not big on sex (gay or otherwise) in my fiction, but that's a heck of a premise! Might have to look it up anyway.

👇 The thing is, ai hallucinates which makes it super hard to predict its errors A human coder making mistakes doesn't randomly make them, there's a pattern and we can test against that pattern

Risk-based testing falls over when you can’t measure probability of error because the coding methodology is profoundly different.

That's weird, I didn't know about National Pig Day, but yesterday I was making these Roman pig rattles/whistles

Rozakis here! Get your fresh, signed Rozakis here!

Apparently it’s National Pig Day, which is all the excuse I need to re-post this adorable ancient Cypriot pig rattle from Portsmouth Museum.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

One of the things I like about @adapalmer.bsky.social is her sincere belief in the better angels of human nature.

Ditto this. We have time to find a candidate who doesn't tactically throw people out of their own coalition. How hard is it to accept people for who they are?

We are one week into the JANUARY campaign and it has been great. We are sending this to print immediately at campaign close and shipping once the books hit the warehouse(thanks, @whitesquirrel.com !), so you'll get this game real soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

The February ebook sale of DREADFUL is almost over! This is your last chance to grab an ebook of DREADFUL for just $2.99 on Amazon US or Bookshop.org! DREADFUL is a sharp-witted fantasy farce about an evil wizard who loses his memory and has to fake his way along with his own evil plan. 💙📚