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FICTION Quote "Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a lot of wonderful fiction off the list." A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives  by Maria Haskins 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives
by Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com

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Love’s Not Time’s Fool Spacetime pitfalls don’t restrict themselves to mass.

Forgot to post earlier: I have a poem out in the latest editon of Strange Horizons! See strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry

People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome May Have an "Exhausted" Immune System A long-awaited study of people with ME/CFS revealed differences in their immune and nervous system. The findings may offer clues about long COVID

Could this be why folks with chronic illness experience so much fatigue? www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

Also, there was a Szechwan restaurant in Cambridge, MA, Mary Chung's, beloved by MIT folks. They had the most amazingly hot food, the best Peking ravioli and sauce, but especially Suan La Chow Show, pork dumplings over bean sprouts with insanely hot sauce. Soooo good. Alas, Mary retired last year.

When I was six years old, my grandparents took me to an Italian restaurant in Albuquerque (long closed) where I had manicotti for the first time, three rolls of pasta in a sublime meat sauce with five different cheeses, lovingly baked in an individual dish. No manicotti has ever topped it.

Government cancels disinformation grants in disinformation-filled statement The National Science Foundation said the studies "could be used to infringe on" speech rights.

The NSF has stopped funding research into disinformation, a disinformation researcher highlighted why this is such a bad idea:

“We know false information is out there, we know it spreads widely, and it’s important for people’s health and for democracy to understand what we can do about it.”

Congrats! Other fun things, partly in response to the green chile burger thread:
*Biscochitos!
*Taco burgers at Bob's Burgers (predates cartoon)
*Casa de Benavidez has the best salsa in Albuquerque
*Tomasita's in Santa Fe, NOT Tomasita's in Albuquerque
*Turtle Mountain Pizza
*10000 Waves in Santa Fe

Facilitate?? Bring him home now

It was such a beautiful ceremony.

I'll be there.

Well deserved.

There's no weird like New Mexico weird. It's called the Land of Enchantment for a reason.

Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

A tweet from John O'Connell (@jdpoc) with the caption, "Today, in Tottenham, North London." The image shows a large satirical billboard under a bridge. The billboard features a parody movie poster titled "The Fast and the Führer," depicting Elon Musk in a pose reminiscent of a Nazi salute, with a Tesla Model S below him. The text includes a fake quote from Donald Trump: "Tremendous. So, so good," and a four-star rating from JD Vance. Additional text reads, "Heil Tesla," and references to Nuremberg. A worker on a ladder is installing or adjusting the billboard, while a woman walks past below.

The British are devilishly good at this.

Via The Naked Pastor
nakedpastor.com

Happy Pi Day!

Be like Rosemary…👇

An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson, Speculative Fiction ‘Grand Master’ | Upstart & Crow Spend an evening with Nalo Hopkinson, the brilliant speculative fiction writer and youngest ever winner of the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Grand Master award. Hear a reading from her ...read ...

My rescheduled appearance at Upstart & Crow Books in Vancouver is this coming Wednesday, March 12: upstartandcrow.com/event/an-eve...

In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.

Survey Results Press Release (1).docx US funding cuts drives mass layoffs of healthcare workers and TB Care services leading to heightening risk of transmission and development of drug resistance Abrupt funding cuts threaten to reverse a...

Very grateful to the TB Community Coordination Hub for finding ways to gather data even when funding for data-gathering has been canceled.

This is critical reading, but to highlight one disaster: 29% of those surveyed have completely stopped initiating TB treatment.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The City of Sun Prairie has become the first municipality in Wisconsin to achieve 100% renewable energy. Their next goal: carbon neutrality by 2050.

Recently I introduced a bill with State Representative Supreme Moore Omokunde to commit the entire state to carbon neutrality by 2050.

U.S. Military Dragged After Photos Of WWII Bomber Enola Gay Are Flagged For Removal Due To 'DEI' Purge They are a parody of themselves at this point.

They've become a parody of themselves.

Trump supporter wrongly detained by Ice questions his support for president Jensy Machado, a naturalized US citizen from Virginia, believes US immigration agency profiles Hispanic people

Similar to how conservatives can't wrap their head around any social issue until it affects them directly, MAGA don't understand how little their Dear Leader cares about them until their world implodes due to his policies. Mind you, that's happening a lot now.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One thing that the general public is not that aware of re: Tesla is that *they do not manufacture their own battery cells*

They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic.

A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.

My personal act of resistance for today: finally figured out how to delete my core Facebook account. I am now free of Meta completely.

Do you know if they have protections for those who wish to blog anonymously?

This is a power grab, massive in scope, that attacks Americans in charge of our own government and destiny and reduces us to voiceless, powerless consumers.

Shutting down consumer and environmental protection agencies shuts down our ability to fight for our own rights to a healthy environment and not being blatantly ripped off by unscrupulous businesses.

Putting corporations in charge of education, health care, veterans administration, our natural resources such as parks and preserves, and our military removes power from American citizens and puts it in the hands of self-interested billionaires.