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This should be a bigger story.

More than 15,000 American farms shut down in 2025.

The cover of Paul McAuley’s novel, Loss Protocol. It’s light blue, with the title in white and the author name in black. Between them is the image of an orangey-brown moth with its wings outspread.

Early contender for best book of the year. Starts off slowly and calmly, then at some point you realise what you’re reading is actually profoundly weird and complicated, which is something I do like in a book. Much recommended.

I've just accepted an offer from Zhupansky Publishing House in Ukraine for a reprint of THE UNIVERSE BOX, my new collection. As always, every penny I receive will go to a Ukrainian charity helping victims of the war.

Bill wants in on it

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gonna start using this video in auditory perception lectures, when we get to hierarchical perception of tones (DO in solfège is the tonal center)

Johnny Quest!

As per my previous post

These are starting to make sense together.

The cover of Paul McAuley's novel Loss Protocol

Happy publication day to this little book

Where the hell is Darth

When does Darth usually return from hibernation

I know somebody knows!

My husband just texted me there's a downhill skier called Breezy Johnson in the same year that the ski jumpers are in trouble for letting out the crotches of their suits and this cannot be true?!

"Better it is for philosophy to err in active participation in the living struggles and issues of its own age and times than to maintain an immune monastic impeccability, without relevancy and bearing in the generating ideas of its contemporary present."
- John Dewey, 1908.

"Lone Swimmer on a Cold Day"
2025
archival cold press paper

Jef Bourgeau
American Artist
b. 1950

18x18

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

the bushes were people 😂

Near record government payments

My only regret is that I have but one cancellation to give for my paper

Yup.

As a life long John Le Carre fan and now a middle grade and YA comic book creator, I want to do a canon-accurate George Smiley graphic novel that’s just 200 pages of Smiley as a kid sitting reading German poets and then going to the library to take out more books of German poetry.

STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS

Photo by: https://www.facebook.com/share/1KMPhkWTWG/ Young panther asleep on an orange tarp while being examined by two vets

A good news story: a year old male mountain lion walking around a San Francisco neighborhood was successful tranquilized and relocated to wilderness, in part because the neighborhood helped out and had the right attitude.

Cover of Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley. A black and orange moth against a stark blue background

Coming in February, LOSS PROTOCOL is the new novel from Paul McAuley, the Clarke Award wining author of Fairyland.

Available for pre-order now: uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9781...

The Great Tolkien Reread: Three is Company, A Short Cut to Mushrooms, A Conspiracy Unmasked "Nazgûl" by Juan Bjuan Oliver [Frodo] had indeed privately made up his mind to leave on his fiftieth birthday: Bilbo's one hundred and twent...

The Great Tolkien Reread continues with "Three is Company", "A Short Cut to Mushrooms", and "A Conspiracy Unmasked." In which the hobbits make their way to the edge of the Shire, the Black Riders appear, and we discuss Tolkien's unique use of foresight. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

David Mancuso DJing at The Loft

New playlist DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY: PARTY MUSIC 1970-1976, frequently played songs at underground parties and discotheques sourced from Tim Lawrence's LOVE SAVES THE DAY

🕺🏽Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3N6...
🪩Apple:
music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
💃🏽YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Who up bending they arc toward justice

pigeon

For the record, my favorite in this collection is the title story, which is also probably the wildest.

Pluto was just meant to be an inert scrap of ice and rock, but when we sent something to look at it, we found it was covered in a shifting sea of nitrogen ice that lapped against the foothills of water ice mountains, with methane dunes blown up by winds of sublimating nitrogen.