John Scalzi

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

I sense twice as many Gen Z dudes will not be getting anywhere near a woman anytime soon

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Once again weirdly delighted that somehow I've developed a real side gig being a DJ for the nerds.

(And yes, I'll be doing a dance at this year's Worldcon as well)

Gas up at least 40 cents a gallon from last week here

Planes on the tarmac at Dayton

At the airport. San Antonio, see you soon!

Vous connaissiez ce roman de John Scalzi sous le titre "La Controverse de Zara XXIII". Ce même ouvrage revient au format poche avec une nouvelle couverture et sous un nouveau titre : "La Planète des toudous", car extraterrestres poilus et attendrissants, il y a. 🐻🤎

Between this and the US courts maintaining that "AI" work is not itself copyrightable, good news for actual humans.

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

MAYBE

That's the one I got so I would imagine you'll have your pre-order soon

Indeed there seems to be a problem with the book section of Amazon (at least) and sale links don't seem to work. I'm sure this will be fixed reasonably soon, and in the meantime, a reminder that Amazon is but one retailer, and my books are available many other places, including your local bookstore.

Not how I would choose to have a coronary but I'll allow it

A SeeStar S30 "Smart Telescope" still in its box

My gift to myself for finishing a new book has arrived

(For those of you about to say "what a strange-looking guitar," JUST YOU WAIT)

I ain't got noembody
Noembody cares for me
Noembody
Noembody

I'm so sad and lonely
Won't some Lewandowski
Come take a chance with me
'Cause I ain't so bad

Me, looking terrifying and like I might eat someone's face

Thinking of you, Tade

I have roughly twice the followers here that I had on the former Twitter when I left it, so, yeah, skill issue I guess

An image of the chocolate sludge cake, which looks tasty, while the "sludge cake" of the original post, which is dried out sewage, emphatically does not

In fact: Chocolate Sludge Cake

www.pelwattedairy.com/recipe/42

DO NOT CONFUSE THE TWO

If you're looking to find cake on Bluesky boy do I have news for you

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

Was this in the 90s when he was there for the Grumpy Old Man movies?

I honestly don't remember but I have no residual bad feelings toward him of any sort, so I guess maybe he did? Clearly not a life changing amount of he did.

(It was 1992. The joke was about Ross Perot as Darth Vader. He was going to use it on the Tonight Show. It didn't make the cut.)

I once sold a joke to Kevin Pollack standing in the bathroom at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons

It's a fabulous cruise and you would love it!

IN FACT I DO, and as it's from the 1920s, it may actually BE the instrument George Formby played. I need to take it in, however, as the A string snapped a while back, and it overall needs some general maintenance.

My Sopranissimo uke laying on top of my Fender Fullterton Jazzmaster uke. It is less than half the Fender's size, and the Fender is pretty small.

Here it is in comparison with my concert-sized uke.

(And yes, I'll likely bring it on @jococruise.bsky.social)

A green ukulele, significantly smaller than the cat laying next to it.

So, @amerrill2.bsky.social alerted me to the existence of sopranissimo ukuleles, even smaller than sorprano ukes, which are very small. I decided I must have one. This is the one I got. Cat for scale. It's cute and actually plays nicely.

UGH FINE I GUESS

I know someone who might possibly have ordered one maybe

World bad but bills due, so...

Next Tuesday, March 10th, is the release of BUTTERFLY EFFECTS, the fifteenth (!!) book in my InCryptid series of urban fantasy chaos adventures!