Caterina Lance

Thank you for posting all this

Even if you choose to be generous and say that seating Davidson near a mic was accidental (I'm guessing the mics are for crowd response), that doesn't explain the decision not to edit out the N word.

on stage until the N word and Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo's reactions. He removed himself shortly after.

BBC did edit out most of the slurs (including him saying something homophobic when Alan Cummings was on stage) but left in the N word even after Warner Brothers asked them to remove it

To summarize what seems to be the story of BAFTA: They knew John Davidson has Tourettes and hurls out slurs, sat him near the back of the room and chose to seat him near a hot mic. According to him he was told any slurs would be edited out and that he was unaware that his ticks could be heard /1

I thought ZomRomCom was bad with 3

So I feel (both as a reader & author) like discoverability of new books is down lately, especially for the midlist. Please tell me some recently published (past year-ish) SFF books you loved that are midlist/overlooked/deserve more hype! (And please share your recs/this list!)

My recs in reply!

Just finished my rewrite of The Burning Lie. Here's a reminder that The Root and The Seed will be available for purchase in June from Android Press. #books #androidpress

Sun Quan sighed and said: ... Those who posses riches and honors yet able to break their vices and engross themselves with studies, finding pleasure in books, think little of wealth and uphold the righteous. Those [men] can leave a legacy and be their State's great men, this is the excellent!"

DID YOU PEAK IN HIGH SCHOOL? JOIN ICE! YOU'RE NOT PIGS. PIGS ARE INTELLIGENT.

Spotted in Philly

Rockwell would have painted this.

I don't know where you live, but in some parts of the world, yes

He's been on my never list for fucking forever

Brought to you by a combination of, I say this regularly and

A post on Instagram with one panel talking about Persephone as if she were a willing participant and the next literally saying we need to protect little girls from pedos and I am so angry

AND I'VE DONE BEEN SAYING THIS SHIT FOR FUCKING FOREVER SO DON'T ACT BRAND NEW AT ME LIKE YOU NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT BEFORE

I'm gonna lose friends over this *dances*

IF YOU NOT ONLY EXCUSE, BUT GLORIFY THE KIDNAPPING, RAPE, AND FORCED MARRIAGE OF LITTLE PERSEPHONE BY HADES AND WORSE TALK ABOUT HADES LIKE HE'S SOME POOR MALIGNED BABY

YOU ARE NOT SAFE

THIS IS PERPETUATING EVERYTHING WE'RE SEEING EXPOSED RIGHT NOW

I hope you guys have happy lunar new years

To folks that have advised me to abandon the folks I fundraise for for my own good:

If ya'll weren't so ready to abandon others in need we wouldn't be in this situation. I'm not the one you should be side-eyeing, look in the damn mirror and fix your hearts.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Save this for when you're having a hard time today, then watch with the sound on.

Sex offenders

An image in the style of the Bad Religion logo, a black background with a red "do not" circle over a UFO, with the words "Bad Archaeology" in red above the circle

Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies?

This Call for Papers is for you!

Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference!

Link in the reply.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

guys please don’t fall for the cute doggo ring super bowl commercial. they’re literally creating a tool that turns all ring cameras in a neighborhood into a surveillance dragnet

I'm so glad!

Utah Hogle Zoo photo, giraffe and parents

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

I'm really hopeful for the new one that I keep hearing about and how hard they're going in on the is gotta be good and not cringe and how all the bad people are not involved

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

These kids should never have had to do that because grown ass men shouldn't be laying their hands on little girls, and adults should have protected them, i hate that they had to, I'm so thankful that they did

Absolutely gorgeous

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”