Andy H.

I can't believe he would horn in on Vox Day's territory like this.

That's not actually why they call it that!

Something I think about kind of a lot is the time on an old poker TV show when the best hand lost to a bad river card and Doyle Brunson sagely intoned, "That's why they call it poker, boys."

No, but I get it, though.

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This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

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The torment nexus meme is misleading in that it suggests that our technoligarchs are capable of actually building anything. All that happens is that they use old sfnal concepts as a shared language—that old sensawunda, now bottled—for marketing their quite ordinary torment products

*become ungovernable voice* Become inconsolable.

People have been saying that pretty regularly for my entire lifetime??

On the other hand, I really enjoy what this sentence is doing if I take it as internal to the narrative, implying that the reason that the myth is incomplete is not because the tablet is, but because the fox is still down there, and hasn't succeeded *yet*.

"Until other, more complete tablets are found that record the same myth, scholars may never know whether the fox successfully completed its mission." This feels unnecessarily credulous about narrative tension. It probably did! What's missing is the details of how.

Makes sense. You've got to have a Magneto plan that's not one of your swords or other metal implements.

Screenshot of Worldcon 2025 panel description reads as follows: Strong Woman Lead # LGBTQIA+ Culture/DEl Room 420-422, 9-10 a.m. Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads? Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possible to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love?

I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports

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Canada must re-examine Safe Third Country Agreement w/U.S. How can we call U.S “safe” for asylum seekers? We should reassess Canada-U.S. refugee policy, Protect affected families, Defend human rights. The travel ban took effect June 9, 2025. Canada must not remain silent. 3/ #HumanRights

To be fair to The Luminous Dead, some of the people who had it on a "to-read" list over its lifetime have presumably taken it off that list to move it to "read" instead.

they did it yay!

It just contains a mirror.

And also, everything you do is a thing that's done.

Call that Little Nemo.

To be fair, I have paid for a lot of whole books in my life that I've not yet read any of.

Given how hard Poilievre worked to tie his image to the Convoy while it was here, I think it's fair to expect Ottawans in particular to get an extra little frisson at the news.

Good luck, Canadians (and anyone else whose wellbeing may be impacted by this election).

Every once in a while I quietly hallucinate the taste of a combo B from the Vietnamese food court place in Lonsdale Quay circa 2000 or so. A comfort meal I have never found even an approximate replacement for.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then, I met a man who was selling baby shoes, never worn.

Ms. Cobel from Severance saying, "What I just did was something I knew that you could handle and grow from. It was very painful for me. I hope that you'll let it help you."

*GLaDOS voice*

I want to talk about nonbinary gender in North Continent Ribbon! (1/n)