Here's something different! New Original MicroFiction! "Bookends, or Libromancy," by Seth Heasley, in both print and audio: hugospodcast.com/podcast/orig...

A federal ICE supervisor also testified he created and signed arrest warrants after-the-fact for people already arrested without warrants.

New story! "To Speak in Silence" by Mary Robinette Kowal! buff.ly/1FERBCe

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

@uncannymagazine.bsky.social I know you probably don't need more work to do, but I'd pay for a curated collection of works like The Year Without Sunshine; something to read to offset the darkness of the world and to be reminded that there's still hope.

I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.

Want to avoid AI writing? Turns out Wikipedia has the answer

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

It’s not clear if the feline slipped from the eagle’s talons Wednesday morning or was discarded simply because the big bird didn’t have a taste for it.

GOLD! Mosfilm has now made Solaris available in 4K on YouTube for free. Specialists from Mosfilm's Telecinema and Computer Graphics branch finished the restoration of the film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wr...

This year’s holiday train rides feature beautiful scenery and visits from Santa.

PolitiFact - Do ICE officers have ‘federal immunity’ as White House official Stephen Miller said? No www.politifact.com/f... #wipolitics

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.

Norwescon showing some @scalzi.com love for their monthly book club!

The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia. Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan. I never made it out of the House.

For years I've been using a made-up term, "elliptical sex" to describe sex that is implied. I invented it based on Piers Anthony's use of the ellipsis in his Xanth series for sex and intimacy that is implied but not explicitly described. The downside is that no one understands the term.

New episode! In which our intrepid co-hosts act upon the recommended reading and viewing suggested by each other! 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/10/toyn...

Pub on Tuesday! THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP! buff.ly/Bf9BguU With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social 3 ways to WIN: @thestorygraph.com tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea #Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn @fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF #giveaway

"People are literally going to die from it," warns researcher who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for decades.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

The Pioneer route operated from 1977 until 1997, when it was cut because of budget shortfalls.

Love this one!

New Take Me To Your Reader Episode! Assistant *to* the Regional Major (The Long Walk) pavementpodcast.com/archives/pod... We loved this one, so go check it out in theaters while you can. Recorded on location in Seth's backyard. Post credits audio includes Cotswold Way and a mystery meet up!

"The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city," Mayor Keith Wilson said.

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

Our latest episode - with Colin's Worldcon report, and a trivia quiz from returning guest Seth (Hugos There) Heasley. Any resemblance between Seth and the depicted SETH-3P0 is purely coincidental... 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/09/triv...

Nada. Zip. Nothing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

We need your help. There is a new doxxing site circulating. A domain just registered through Namecheap (on Sept 10, 2025) and hosted on Squarespace is being used to publish private personal information.

News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs. But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.

At Dragoncon, I was absolutely delighted that @robertpicardo.bsky.social was the MC for the Dragon Awards. He was funny and charming, and took great care with the pronunciation of everyone's names. And he had this really neat trick for when he didn't know how to pronounce a name

New Episode! (Seth's Picks) Lightning, by Dean Koontz, with Megan Cutter (@mlcutter.bsky.social) and Colin Kuskie (@colink.bsky.social). It was fun talking about our first Koontz and revisiting an old favorite. hugospodcast.com/podcast/ligh...

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Hey Firefox users.

New Take Me To Your Reader episode! A.I. Artificial Intelligence, based on "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," by Brian Aldiss I think this is one of our best episodes in quite a while. pavementpodcast.com/archives/pod...

Always happy for a chance to say: I read every real study on the impact of bike lanes on street-level retail. They never hurt. They often help. Sometimes they help a lot: www.businessinsider.com/bike-lanes-g...

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

#SeattleWorldcon #feedback

Editorial: Billions in new taxes should come with a commitment

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

A study in Poland found that doctors appeared less likely to detect abnormalities during colonoscopies on their own after they'd grown used to help from an AI tool. n.pr/45XPr8I

"Today, security at SeaTac stopped multiple attempts to ship munutions to locations around the world. Investigations are ongoing." #seattleWorldCon

Just woke up, only to see this cross my Bluesky feed. That long ramp was there in case a wheelchair or mobility scooter user won a Hugo. As the only Hugo finalist there in person who uses a wheelchair.... Well.

@manuphoto.com I have visited the Montreal bid room! I think Montreal should win just because of the butter tarts. #seattleWorldcon2025