🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽

Welp, you've got me playing Opus Magnum again. I'd set it aside a decade ago at the final puzzle of chapter 3. Which you motivated me to solve yesterday.

(My fandom is SpaceChem)

Great list, particularly since as a woman in horror I definitely want to do it scared!

So far, 2026 has been a string of book disappointments. Is there a book you love which you think I probably haven't read (this covers a *lot* of ground)?

Currently leaning toward Will There Ever Be Another You (Lockwood) or The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Chakraborty)

Finished reading Ninth House. Thought I was reading noir; got an Agatha Christie ending that undermined all the themes the book had (I guess accidentally?) set up

this is why I don't usually read mysteries; they can cut off their own legs at the last minute

(love 4 Columbo)

Photo shows ice-sheathed small branches, against a blurred background of sky.

Well good morning Boston.

low level annoyance with "moiety" but that's more recent and I don't yet know whether it will become a permanent part of my personality

I'm irrationally annoyed by the words palimpsest and petrichor. I don't know what started it. It's only gotten worse over time. I'll close a book, like a knee struck with a doctor's mallet. Have to give myself a pep talk to keep reading. Sometimes I don't resume. Palimpsest is the worse of the two.

re: legitimacy
calling something "operation epic fury" is a big clue
signed,
poetry editor

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 1
Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” said CEO Roger Krone.

You know that three fingers scene in Inglorious Basterds? I have that same "not from here" insta-reaction when Trump says something about showing your papers.

Soviet. Not born here.

I mean, he was. But gut reaction every time is "imposter."

I'm tinkering with a scene between a mom and son making pancakes
mom: use the whisk to mix that
son: to beat extra air in!
mom: because we already used the whisk and I don't want to wash a spoon. Make the batter the night before
son: so the gluten can rest!
mom: because I don't want to wake up early

this is exactly the sort of science fiction that fires my imagination

When I criticize MAHA I know I'm supposed to add conciliatory noises about how they're right about processed food; but I would get into a knife fight to defend the honor of Flamin Hot Cheetos. As an American.

I don't think I can claim the title The Human Thermometer, though. I have a friend who can walk outside for a second and immediately tell you the temperature (in F), accurate down to the degree. *She* gets to be The Human Thermometer.

By day, she is a dermatologist.

I have never in my life had a first-aid thermometer that worked. Can't think of a time one worked in the school nurse's office either. Have always relied on hand on forehead

bring back mercury it's dangerous but cool

I guess deploying my sensory powers is also cool

Hooray! The anchovies series is peak.

Paul Starr Voxel Art Voxel art portfolio — 120 renders across 8 projects.

finally pulled together a voxel art portfolio paulstarr.dev/voxels/

Congratulations to all the 2026 @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award nominees! 🎉

Very exciting to see twelve (!!!) poems from last year's Strange Horizons issues on the list!

Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their work and thank you to everyone who read and enjoyed them! ❤️

And she's right. ICE, plus the reoffence rate for the Jan 6ers he pardoned (way higher criminality percentage than immigrants)

And aid cuts. I nearly lost my mind when he talked about how his strong economy had lifted a million people off food stamps. lifted! Lifted like thievery?

Isn't his mom one of the women's team's player development coaches? Or am I mixing him up with someone else?

Nice. Also, I'm obviously Selectstart.

Not sure whether it's the same moment you're thinking about, but she (and Rep Tlaib) were shouting "what about the Epstein files" or something similar to that

She’s here. 💀

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same.

old and busted: doomscrolling

new hotness: researching the history of cosmic horrors

I beg of you, poets. Use concrete nouns! We are not brains in vats, we are embodied creatures that must engage with the physicalities of our environment and relationships. If there isn't a thing I can touch in your poem, I'm lost...or worse, bored!

"PRINCIPLE NOT POLICY; JUSTICE, NOT FAVOR; MEN, THEIR RIGHTS AND NOTHING MORE; WOMEN, THEIR RIGHTS AND NOTHING LESS, WAS THE CLARION CALL TO THE MOST ASTOUNDING UPHEAVAL OF ALL TIME. A CALL WHICH WAKED THE WORLD, SIGNALED AND INAUGURATED A REVOLUTION WITHOUT TRADITION OR PRECEDENT, AND PROCLAIMED THE FIRST INCONTROVERTIBLE CONCEPT OF HUMAN FREEDOM---THAT OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY---PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, INCLUDING WOMEN. WOMAN, FIRST DENIED A SOUL, THEN CALLED MINDLESS, NOW ARISEN DECLARED HERSELF AN ENTITY TO BE RECKONED. SPIRITUALLY THE WOMAN MOVEMENT IS THE ALL-ENFOLDING ONE. IT REPRESENTS THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMANHOOD. THE RELEASE OF THE FEMININE PRINCIPLE IN HUMANITY. THE MORAL INTEGRATION OF HUMAN EVOLUTION COME TO RESCUE TORN AND STRUGGLING HUMANITY FROM ITS SAVAGE SELF." Figure 11. Excerpt of 238-word inscription composed by Adelaide Johnson and stenciled on the back of the Portrait Mon-ument in December 1920. Removed in late September 1921.

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GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻

this is much more compelling than aging backward or having an evil secret portrait that ages instead of you; I look forward to the novelization