It is somewhere between deeply amusing and blackly terrifying that Iran's shocking hardline ceasefire conditions which have everyone spinning into a "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE" frenzy are just like, "fuck off and obey the law."
Oooooh, yes. It’s great to see this world in the hands of someone so skilled.
Going on the TBR!
Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character, wrong answers only.
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Go Fish
Go Fish.
It’s like you see the week’s plans falling to pieces in front of you.
The bots are all for it
I think of this Anna Akhmatova poem constantly
Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Israel is doing great evil“ is not antisemitic. “Israel is pulling the levers on all the world’s evil” is both antisemitic and also passing the buck on how bad the US is, and our role now and historically.
“But how do we do it without all the things that make it special?”
Also known as @danielomalley.bsky.social .
If you would like a fun read about an occult secret service in the UK, try the Checquy books by Daniel O’Malley. “Royal Gambit” has a lady in waiting who can break bones with a touch, an investigative quokka, an operative who turns into a stegosaurus, and marble cubes in peoples’ heads. Like ya do.
“A Half-Built Garden” by @r-emrys.bsky.social is a first contact novel starring an underslept nursing mother and I hugely appreciated it.
I have. The first one is just my favorite.
I reread The Dark is Rising every winter.
They found him. He died.
Another murder by our immigration goon squads
100% my comfort reads
Thanks for the rec! I would add “A Half-Built Garden” by Ruthanna Emrys ( @r-emrys.bsky.social ) to comfort reads! How do you handle first contact when you are still nursing?
So good!
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BURRITO FIGHT
Oh! “Rules for Ghosting” by Shelly Jay Shore ( @shellyjayshore.bsky.social ). Jewish trans man doula medium in Rhode Island. I read it twice in a row.
Whacks bedpost with hockey stick.
Oooh, I haven’t read this one in a while. It used to be a stalwart comfort read.
@authorkaraj.bsky.social Kara Jorgensen’s Reanimator Mysteries. There are four so far - an autistic necromancer and his investigator boyfriend in 20s NYC.
Good choice
I reread “Synners” by Pat Cadigan ( @patcadigan.bsky.social ) about once a year. It’s OG cyberpunk, kinda hope punk?, and gets more true every year.
