I’m not saying I don’t love my country and am not willingto fight for it, but if any of my international folks find a job for a seasoned microbiologist PhD with tons of experience with meningitis, protein misfolding, antibiotic resistance, or the like, I could be compelled to leave.

I did a thing. I tried to bury it in an unmarked grave near the bogs, that the creatures there might find it and devour it before it could be loosed upon the world. Alas, it was found…. Thanks to everyone involved. It was an honor and an absolute blast. bsky.app/profile/pseu...

“The personal effects of the late Mr. James Courtney found their way to me some months after his passing” James Courtney Goes Home By Jamie Grimes Narrator: Dominick Rabrun Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2025/08/26/p... This is a PseudoPod original

The shortlist for this year's British Fantasy Awards for Best Audio are... Podcastle The Tiny Bookcase Breaking the Glass Slipper Pseudopod Jurors: Elizabeth Elliott, Marc Bitterli, Jo Ross-Barrett, Edward Partridge, Graham Millichap

This Juneteenth, go listen to Jesus Christ in Texas by W.E.B. DuBois over on @nightlightpod.bsky.social nightlightpod.com

To whoever had Roxette’s ‘It Must Have Been Love’ on blast near the White House at around midnight last night: I was trying to sleep, but goddamn that shit was hilarious.

Happy award season, my lovelies! If you like, please vote in the 2024 This Is Horror awards. This award is recognizing last year's best in Horror!!! 👻 You have until May 1st, 2025, to let your voice be heard. Get with it!!!!! 🧙‍♀️ www.thisishorror.co.uk/this-is-horr...

Somewhere between The Handmade’s Tale, Parable of the Sower, and The Stand is where we find 2025.

Whenever I see Vance, I wonder: Why would anybody put mascara on a toddler?

The thing about oranges is they’re one of the squishier fruits. Especially the thin-skinned ones.

The new regime's racism just helped inspire what I predict will be the Blackity Blackest Black History Month in a while. Reposting this photo to commemorate the festivities. Also, a whole mood. #LiftEveryChairandSwing

Special Submissions Call! Disability Pride & Magic! The Castle gates are open for an extended special submissions call from 7 January to 31 March, and we are looking for stories celebrating disabled authors, character and themes for this event. Details Below!

Hey y’all! Here’s a big mega list of 160+ Black Owned Bookstores all over the U.S. + a few other countries as well! U can filter it by state. I posted about this on the clock app today, but figured I’d share here too! aalbc.com/bookstores/l... Happy Reading! 📚💙 #Booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSky

Time to start campaigning: Paula Dean for surgeon general.

(2/2) Goodnight to the middle class making some gains. Goodnight nonbinaries and LGBTQs. Goodnight to standing in other folks' shoes. Goodnight to the miscarrying teenager hoping for care. Goodnight democracies everywhere.

Goodnight rules. Goodnight people bothering with rules. Goodnight rights and protections too. Goodnight Gaza. Goodnight Ukraine. (1/2)

The Big Orange One would be awful for America. The worst Grampa Joe would do is put a reverse mortgage on the White House.

News from the abyss: smaller child can hold a bottle of milk and concentrate her shits into diaper-obliterating concussive blasts. Larger child eats a week’s worth of groceries every day.

New Human is one month old today. We’ve entered the free-to-a-good-home portion of the parenting program.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: Carpenter Pharmacy manager Soldier SatComm Engineer Pizza place manager Social worker Dock worker Server

My wife is easily one of the most brilliant people I know. And yet she sends me into a bookstore for one book and is shocked when I come out with five.

Three weeks in with caring for New Human. Time comes and goes and comes again at odd angles. The poop comes from a more reliable source and in greater abundance.

Whelp. Here I am.