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Radiant Star Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Locati...

Oh, look, a cover!

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Also, the way to not "die on that hill" is to be united. These folks who want to jettison trans folks, immigrants, Black folks, etc. are so short sighted they think it'd be a victory to die a couple steps later, when choosing solidarity is actually choosing to not die at all

getting princess treatment (being married off at 12 and shipped off to a country where I don’t speak the language to live with an inbred gay prince so what’s left of the Holy Roman Empire doesn’t fall completely to pieces)

I am SCREAMING I am CRYING I am SETTING A SMALL FIRE. Inject it straight into my eyeballs I'm so ready.

I regret to report that blocking the internet from all my devices is still the most effective way to actually get work done. What a terrible system.

I had a coworker ask if I'd used ChatGPT to write a piece of professional correspondence because it was so good, which was a bit insulting.

What made up for it was her expression when I responded with "I will cut out my tongue before I let a robot speak for me."

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

someday maybe I'll do something to make my website good.

Me: ugh, I have so much left to do this afternoon, maybe I should take a shorter lunch break

The ghost of the gilded age copper miner who follows me around: raises his pickaxe

Socialism

Soli-fucking-darity. Montana had a democratic governor up until 2020 and a democratic senator until 2024 and people act like the whole state is hardcore republican forever now.

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

There is a simple and basic truth here which is that this is not how legitimate law enforcement agencies in a democratic nation state behave.

It’s simple and basic, so much so that it bears repeating again and again lest it slip away through the open Overton window.

The analogy she gives in this is really, really powerful. Please give it a full watch all the way through.

Pre-orders for my big dragon book are officially open! Three heads for one low price.

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This probably sounds minor to many of you but closing the commissaries will....not be taken lightly by the US all-volunteer standing military. The PX is everything (literally, as it's not just groceries!)

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

Most morally offensive part of hegseth's speech was the idea that manliness and courage consists of bullying and abusing people weaker than you rather than standing up for justice against people more powerful than you. Real andrew tate shit

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

I've read a couple of history books and I can tell you for sure that rounding up your generals, having a drunk yell at them and call them fat, and then stopping paying them that same day is absolutely how you institute durable personalist rule

the "who will the public blame for the shutdown?" handwringing is asinine. the vast majority of voters have no idea how government shutdowns work, and by the time midterms roll around they won't remember anything that didn't impact them directly

OK, I’m usually pretty good with alt text, but this one may defeat me. Imagine the biggest, wrinkliest black dog. Now imagine a large, violently green ball. Now imagine that Peanut the mastiff has put a ball exactly the size of his enormous maw into his enormous maw, completely filling it like a cork, or a big green baby binky. That is this.

A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.

Let it wash over you.

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Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

A poster advertising book tour dates from Oct 6-9 in Montana featuring author Leah Sottile discussing her book Blazing Eye Sees All

Hey Montana friends, this is next week!

Bozeman - Mon 10/6 at the Country Bookshelf w/ @betsygainesquammen.bsky.social
Helena - Tues 10/7 at Montana Book Co. w/ @kemc.bsky.social
Missoula - Wed 10/8 at Fact & Fiction w/ Lee & Jule Banville
Hamilton - Thurs 10/9 at Chapter One w/ Russ Lawrence

oops, all scheming viziers

to be fair, this was all easier before the fascism. Not much, but, you know. easier.

they should invent a "my brain" that "is smart".

I am so jealous of writers who can just sit down and write a thing. When I try that it ends up taking me four to six business years to produce a passable rough draft. I have to figure out the whole thing first, and even then there's a good chance I'll write the first 30% and realize I got it wrong.