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I only break out this bottle when babies are born, Hugos are won, enemies die, and when my city tells MAGA to go to Hell. Congratulations, Gina Ortiz-Jones, Mayor-Elect of San Antonio. Congratulations, 210. We stood strong and passed the test. Onward.

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These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

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New blog post: My review of Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber welearnbywriting.blogspot.com/2025/06/swor...

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NOW: NYPD officers randomly charged into the crowd and tackled a protester. Three or so cops began dogpiling him, earlier he was just standing next to me. His condition appears to be severe as he reports he can’t feel his head nor his legs. Cops may have broken his knee.

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The videos coming out of the Gestapo terror raid in Los Angeles today are absolutely horrifying and really should wake you up to the new reality of American fascism. It’s here it’s coming for us all and unless we fight for one another we will not survive.

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The chemical munitions used by the secret police are setting local shrubbery on fire and damaging vehicles.

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Last night ICE hit Chinatown. They pepper bombed civilians while the country was watching LAPD fire rubber bullets and tear gas downtown.

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For Caturday: Frank Kelly Freas' cover painting for NEW WORLDS OF FANTASY 2.

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Typo of the day: _bague_ (for an intended _vague_). I assume this is a verb meaning "to make bagels". "Are you done with the doughnuts yet?" "No! I have to bague! I MUST BAGUE!"

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I present to you three visions of the nearly edge on Sombrero Galaxy. From left to right we have Hubble (visible wavelengths), JWST (near-infrared wavelengths) and JWST (mid-infrared wavelengths). (1/n) 🧪🔭 📸 whole thread: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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Folks, the way to read the NYT article about OpenAI and higher education is to recognize that the person OpenAI hired to lead their effort came from Coursera. Remember when Coursera and MOOCs were going to cause the reinvention of higher education?

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The Amazing AnswerBot. www.patreon.com/posts/amazin...

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Seeing a lot of debate about who will "win" the Musk-Trump feud, and on that front, there is no doubt: Trump. This is a numbers game. The only people Musk gets in the divorce are terminally online, secular racists who graduated college but only ever read "The Fountainhead" all the way through.

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D-Day, the 6th of June 1944. And every day since. youtu.be/SFPL97m2dsw?...

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Stories from @ecatherine.com , @johnlangan.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social , @jamesenge.bsky.social and more! Arthurian stories, knightly stories, weird dying world stories. Beautiful art, and so on. Exclusive early bird rewards for the first 48 hours, too!

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Much of this short paragraph by Brown is outdated and/or not meant to be taken seriously. But I like his conclusion about sf, which I would broaden to include fantasy. "It is a nightmare and a dream. And isn’t that what we’re living in and for today? A nightmare and a dream?"

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So after about 32 years as a published writer, I was finally able to buy the original art for one of my book covers. This is the cover art by @donatoarts.bsky.social done in oil and oil mediums, for The Wizard Hunters.

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Minnesota State Capitol building in St Paul #photography

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Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-...

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Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller August 11,1938

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Talking Elon Musk V. Donald Trump & Freedom of Expression with Ann Telnaes www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/talking-el...

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Our 2025 crowdfunding campaign is live! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

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We all know AI models can now create realistic images and videos but how do they fare at identifying where a real image was taken? Bellingcat researchers have put Large Language Models to the test: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

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Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

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Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, 1523 #northernrenaissance #hansholbein

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Some of y'all can't handle 2 high-agency males going at it and it really shows...

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Apart from anything else, I think I might be the first person to coin the word "slopaganda" (slop + propaganda). I hope it takes off!

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Excellent film with what I suspect will be wide appeal www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

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Reading some early "KRAZY KAT" of George Herriman. I'd forgotten that Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse were a same-sex, if somewhat fractious, couple (reminding me a little these days of Musk and Trump).

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Does anyone other than me remember the Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre movie ZADAR! COW FROM HELL--and is there any way to watch it, so that I can inflict these memories on someone else?

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Important, completely random, fact

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Orestes and the Furies in a pre-trial conference, by John Singer Sargent.

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[Happy 91st birthday to Spanish Surrealist Gervasio Gallardo, who painted 29 covers for Ballantine Adult Fantasy, including works by Lovecraft, Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Peter S. Beagle, Hope Mirrlees, and George MacDonald.]

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exchange of the day

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Thei are goinge to put AI yn a toastere and it will tell lyes about bread

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Wha?? Audible has the preorder for the audiobook of WEARING THE LION for just $7.70!! I had to confirm it's real, but it is! The sale ends in just a couple of days. www.audible.com/pd/Wearing-t...

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Goldman: "The idea of focusing on President Biden is a way of distracting from Donald Trump's efforts to completely undermine our democracy, to grift and engage in corruption, and to help out his billionaire buddies by cutting their taxes while taking Medicaid away from the American people."

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Check the bonus panel on the site by clicking the big red button. ◆ COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com ◆ PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... ◆ STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com #webcomic #⁠smbc

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Susan Collins is the Teddy Ruxpin of senators — she doesn’t actually do anything but you’re supposed to be impressed because she has three sentences she plays on repeat.

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To rehabilitate the warrior culture of the US military, Hegseth should start naming ships after ancient Greek heroes, like the USS Achilles and the USS Patroclus. Hell, the USS Alcibiades, even, though it might get sidetracked trying to seduce the USS Socrates

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 4,1951

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Please enjoy this discussion of Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery on the @fictionfanspod.bsky.social‬ podcast!

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Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” comment wasn’t a gaffe — which is why she is refusing to apologize. It’s part of the larger Christian right war on empathy. www.salon.com/2025/06/04/j...

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God damn, Fritz Leiber was good. I forgot how Ill Met in Lankhmar drips with color, tone, and dark humor.

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