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Average music fan carrying a $70 single bag of groceries past bored troops as their neighbor gets thrown in a van by masked men who just pepper sprayed a cop:

“Huh, I wonder why these songs about an NFL player’s big ol’ dick don’t feel as relatable as they usually do”

If you plan on following along with my spring run of Intro to Literary Studies: Analysing Playful Media, here’s a chance to get some of your Required Reading at a steal of a price.

I, uh... wrote my capstone like this

Largely agree with what Bouie says here, but also think it's interesting that he's using the language of Baudrillard to make these points!

It's Hispanic Heritage Month in the US & w/the buzz for CR campaign 4, I'd love to invite you all to join us in Alma on our Tales Unrolled show✨

See what those who are watching have to say about our story that blends pan-Latin American folklore into dungeons and dragons ✨

We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them. This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force. Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy. OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing. The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators. The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001.

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An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

Holy shit

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If @cnewf.bsky.social recommends something, I check it out. So I checked this out, and now I think you should, too.

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Quoted (with citation) in my own syllabi this term:

all American schools should ban phone use during class hours, but we CAN compromise by bringing back Internet-connected computer labs where the nerd kids can retreat to look at fanfic during lunch

Muppet Christmas Carol: Scrooge calls down to the bunny kid in the street.

You there, gay boy, did it happen yet

I'm here to once again say that convenings and gatherings are going to be extremely important for people to organize in the coming years. If that's part of your skill-set, put those skills to use.

Was just thinking oh boy I hope a critic or journalist writes about Worlds Beyond Number and then remembered that there aren’t any.

Last work day before the start of the fall semester, and it feels fitting to watch this as I finalize the Game Writing course syllabus.

(Wild to think it’s been only two years, and two years already. Whew.)

We live in this guy's world

Why does every tech guy read sci-fi dystopias and go “I can make this happen”

I need everyone in my life to suddenly be listening to and caught up with @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social right now actually #worldsbeyondnumber

It’s worth noting that Dolly’s Imagination Library relies on local community partners that take responsibility for recruiting families in a geographic area & raising some funds.

My dad has been part of the effort to get more Houston zip codes covered.

If you know a local org, you can help too.

#TeamAabria 100%

Cannot. Wait. For space campaign.

Omg. I know there’s a long way from lab discovery to accessible mitigation but for now I am cautiously excited and very, very glad this research is not US based.

BREAKING: U.S. layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BREAKING: E.J. Antoni, Trump's candidate to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now suggesting suspending the agency’s monthly jobs report.

No accident that Trump has federalized National Guard troops in two prominent cities run by Democratic Black women mayors.... where's the media angle on that important fact?

I got into SFF by reading Star Wars EU books (Stackpole X-Wing series, anyone?) and Dragonlance. As I got more into genre, I went back and read some Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke. I can't imagine 13 yr old me starting with like Stranger in a Strange Land or some shit

Godspeed and thank you for all the work you've put in! I hope you have a thicc vacation in the works!

My mutual Kandice has been doxxed, and fascists got her fired from her job as a nurse. We are seeing Black women on social media reporting attacks like this more often. Please follow Kandice on Tiktok and consider throwing a few bucks at the fundraiser for her.

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It took a 2-week tech detox vacation for me to finally see that four screens MIGHT be too many screens.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

more graft, corruption, mob-like tactics....

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Professional criticism is not the same as individual reviews. They can both be useful but criticism is a skill-based genre like any other writing. The yelpification of criticism isn’t evolution.