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!
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
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I honestly hope none of those influencers whose jobs is posting about their supposedly idyllic lives in Dubai get hurt, but, by Golly, JG Ballard couldn’t have constructed a more satisfying comeuppance for a dystopia sold as a Utopia.
03.03.2026 22:33 — 👍 430 🔁 73 💬 5 📌 6“lutnick volunteers to testify about epstein as a distraction from the exponentially worsening iran war clusterfuck” is a fun twist
03.03.2026 20:35 — 👍 209 🔁 18 💬 9 📌 1I live in Dallas, Texas and have resided in this state for over 40 years. As a woman of color, I promise you this is not new. They will do ANYTHING to suppress votes here. People need to embrace early voting here (it was from 17-27 Feb which is 11 days) instead of waiting until the last minute.
03.03.2026 23:18 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I'm getting my eyeball lasered by professionals. 250 milliwatts at 452 nm wavelength to cauterize some bleeding capilaries in the back of my eye.
Strongly recommend the people doing it, they explain things, and it's _less_ unpleasant than anyone would reasonably expect.
Hunter biden made $50k a *month*! That's 0.6 million dollars per year.
After getting 4 unbuilt floors of an underwater-on-its-mortgage property leased for 99 years, and running Affinity Partners with no training, Jared Kushner got 3,215 million Saudi dollars!
Never got called before Congress.
Through a funnel inserted into a wired shut broken jaw.
03.03.2026 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
03.03.2026 12:16 — 👍 6616 🔁 2965 💬 69 📌 46
…but we STILL don’t have UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
But you know who does? Israel.
And since the US subsidizes Israel to the tune of tens of billion of dollars, a year, you’re paying for it…
…along with this war
But, TODAY, in the US people are being DENIED HIV/AIDS medications that keep them alive
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
03.03.2026 19:28 — 👍 295 🔁 108 💬 2 📌 17Only because you're constrained by the prudish morality that gets Republicans elected to office!
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Marco Rubio said that the U.S. had to wage war against Iran now because Iran would act to defend itself if it came under attack — a circular explanation that appeared to pass the buck for the aggression to Israel, despite reports that Israel and the U.S. have been planning a joint attack for months.
03.03.2026 19:05 — 👍 65 🔁 31 💬 6 📌 6
Science fiction told us the AI apocalypse would be brought about by rogue robots deciding humanity must die.
Turns out it’s caused by humans destroying the world to have the AI create shitty art, convince them to off themselves, and make military decisions.
"War is worse than Hell, Father."
"I don't quite understand, Hawkeye."
"In Hell, the wicked suffer. The people who engineer great harm. In war, kids like Jones suffer, and the people who send them here go sleep in comfortable beds, and never miss a meal."
As I watch footage of explosions in Beirut and dust clouds towering above apartment blocks in Tehran, I keep coming back to something that I witnessed back in the summer of '04, during my first tour in Iraq. But first, let's start with a question:
Have you ever heard someone wail?
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Separate studies demonstrated 20% increase in additional hours and a 17% drop in actual knowledge as ascertained by a quiz on the code they had just written with AI assistance versus the control group without.
03.03.2026 17:57 — 👍 121 🔁 48 💬 1 📌 3
*slides you a paper bag*
"Palantir. Make it look like an accident."
Why should IDs have gender markers at all?
03.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
I asked Twitter to recommend which of 16 NFTs to make a tee shirt of.
I tagged in a tee shirt scraper bots.
It was my most viral Tweet, because the owner of the NFTs kept losing his shit as the tee shirt bots kept showing his NFTs on shirt mockups...which caused people to share it to mock him.
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
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03.03.2026 11:28 — 👍 24 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
So as the USA and Israel continue to bomb civilians, hospitals, schools etc across the middle east, let’s think ahead a bit.
If, heaven forbid, there’s ever another terrorist attack in the USA related to that region, can we please skip the fake-innocent WHY DO THEY HATE US shit this time??
Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections
03.03.2026 08:39 — 👍 161 🔁 79 💬 9 📌 5
"The right of information is always the first casualty when the government [prioritises] its security objectives."
02.03.2026 16:52 — 👍 91 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 1Ah, remember the good old days when Mike Pence caused a seismic spike in Indiana’s HIV infection rate because of his version of Christianity? Well, this reason is even dumber and more pointlessly cruel.
03.03.2026 10:38 — 👍 53 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
schools are never valid military targets, on or off base
if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime.
The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.
It's the funding of taxonomic research & training that's dying out. Without an ability to identify life forms, we can't recognize/quantify invasions & extinctions and their impacts on ecosystems. Imagine trying to repair a complex steel structure if you can't distinguish different types of bearings.
03.03.2026 04:27 — 👍 41 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 1