Why is this a sculpture of women's hands emerging from Hell to scratch a single withered testicle?
05.12.2025 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@williampreston.bsky.social
Writer (mostly SF, currently in July–August 2025 Asimov's; forthcoming there and elsewhere), reader, former teacher, parent to three grown women. Interests include film, religion, history, many sciences. he/him ho-hum
Why is this a sculpture of women's hands emerging from Hell to scratch a single withered testicle?
05.12.2025 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hearing reports that some of you have not been informed that we are casting the net far and wide to determine the science fiction and fantasy favorites of the year. Here's me amending that:
02.12.2025 16:39 — 👍 31 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0Well played
04.12.2025 18:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s his nightly ritual
03.12.2025 02:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is good insider stuff
03.12.2025 01:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
02.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 14378 🔁 4865 💬 1911 📌 1717Also not how “planting a story“ works.
02.12.2025 22:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have to flag this as not actually a parody.
02.12.2025 22:27 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Mark me safe from a cocaine-related death
02.12.2025 22:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0what the what
02.12.2025 22:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He is the face of the FBI, after all, and his is the face of fear.
02.12.2025 21:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As one might expect!
02.12.2025 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Holy crap
02.12.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Jim Jordan with full sleeves and jacket.
02.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And after he went to all that trouble to learn the word “groceries.”
02.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It has ever been thus
02.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0OK, but if it’s going to be Harry doing his vaudeville act, just send me an email next time. How do people tolerate this ridiculousness masquerading as serious news?
02.12.2025 01:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It deserves all the justice you can give it
01.12.2025 23:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I want to know if Christian Floral Delivery ships flowers or whether it delivers flowers from the clutches of Satan. Or both.
01.12.2025 23:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That Amazon description is a banger
01.12.2025 22:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It really isn't. Search the web. Its origin is a fake-story generator. And Nix has turned up in multiple variations of the purported "breaking news."
01.12.2025 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The story, though, is fake, generated by one of those always-fake Facebook "breaking news" sites.
01.12.2025 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
01.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 131 🔁 167 💬 2 📌 24Same in Baltimore in the 1960s, except it was the Penguin who got away
01.12.2025 21:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Now it makes sense
01.12.2025 03:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s right there on his business card
30.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0😂
30.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Introducing Hecate into the equation definitely has to improve the potential outcome
30.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the peace plan I approve of.
29.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Heh
29.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0