Harry Turtledove

A screenshot of a "Toronto in 1958" video, looking across the Railway Lands toward Union Station, the Royal York Hotel, and Commerce Court from what appears to be the approximate modern position of York Street and Bremner Boulevard. The Royal York and Commerce Court, in particular, are darkened by layers of grime.

colour images of the past are incredibly important because it makes it clear how fucking filthy the past was

it becomes much more difficult to hold up the 1950s as some kind of golden age when there was soot and pollution everywhere

"He was really talk," Laura says. When I saw it years ago, David McCallum was Joseph II. He was not really tall.

Laura says Matthew Patrick Davis is 6-8.

Laura and one of our daughters saw the show at the Playhouse, too, and also enjoyed it very much.

A friend of a friend came over for dinner once, and he was 6-10. I had to warn him about dangerous places in the house, including ones I usually missed. He visited Japan once, and left his size 16s outside a temple. When he came out, Japanese visitors were photographing his shoes.

Of course it's a joke. Everything that has anything to do with sex is a joke, best damn joke in the world, endlessly hilarious. If you don't hang around with somebody you can laugh with in bed, you're missing something priceless.

What is one supposed to do about him? Pretend he's straight? Pretend he doesn't exist? Those are both lies, alas. I would rather joke than lie.

A thing that’s shocking me about the lack of coverage is air safety info. Hi, Glasgow folk, from a Southern Californian transplant: ash from old buildings is super gnarly. Please wear a respirator if you need to be near the scene.

Queen Street is still available, but it goes different places!

Fox admits to 'error' after burying clip of Trump wearing hat to fallen soldier ceremony Fox News over the weekend apologized and admitted to an "error" after failing to air footage of Donald Trump wearing what some deemed a controversial choice of attire to the dignified transfer of dece...

Well this is amusing if not surprising.

Fox tried to cover for Trump's embarrassing white baseball cap and rumpled blue suit at the dignified transfer yesterday by playing footage from an older similar event. They got caught and apologized, claiming a mistake.

www.rawstory.com/trump-fox-ne...

I will apologize if you like. Joking helps me not scream...quite so much.

As with people, so with nations; what others did to you, you go on and do to others still once you get big and strong...and damaged.

A digitally painted scene from the Fezouata Formation featuring Aegirocassis, Sagenograptus, Falcisicaris, Bathmoceras, Rhopalocystis, Plumalina, Brachyaglaspis, Choia, Megistaspis, Eoconularia, Plasiacystis, Plumulites, Ampyx, Pirania, and a non-specific Conodont

Fezouata Formation.

Felt like drawing an Aegirocassis, accidentally drew a bunch of other stuff too.

#paleoart #sciart #art

That's why you also need memorizers and bookleggers, à la Fahrenheit 451 and A Canticle for Leibowitz.

My dad recently said something to me about this, along the lines of “in the future the last repositories of reliable knowledge might be in paper books, and the internet will be entirely inaccessible or kaput”

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

I am not well enough informed to be able to tell you.

I think he's been his father's chief aide for some time. And there is a hereditary factor, as there is with, say, Chasidic dynasties.

I became a historian because of sf/f: LEST DARKNESS FALL. Then, when I couldn't make a living at it, I poured what I'd learned back into sf/f. The river of branching and intersecting streams...

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

The Los Angeles Angels

Welcome to 550 BC/E and the Achaemenid Empire!

I don’t understand why people think “many Iranians hate the regime” is a defense of bombing Iran particularly coming from people who hate Trump and live in DC?

He will love us forever, you're saying.

I don't much care one way or the other.

Priskos of Panion would understand. Sidonius Apollinaris, too. You have my deepest sympathies. Not a role I'd ever want.

Narrator: "They did not stop him from making a mess of our Constitution."

We did less of a regime change and more of a tire rotation

When Lindsey Graham says this, you never know quite how he means it.

Oil built the Persian Gulf. Desalinated water keeps it alive. War could threaten both As the Iran war widens, experts say the Middle East’s real strategic weak point may be water — not oil.

As the Iran war widens, experts say the Middle East's real strategic weak point may be water — not oil.

Trump pardoned every single insurrectionist. Every single one.

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose