Robert Dillman, 2nd of his name (he/they)

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."

Taps sign

The Pedo-in-Chief is Putin's Puppet

Night Watch and Thud are so much a 1-2
Night Watch - Vimes as leader and citizen
Thud - Vimes as person
Elements of both in both, but the focus shifts.
An incredible duology.
DON'T MAKE ME PICK! 😬😰

Taps the sign

*Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please"
- Machiavelli

Trump to mass death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The president's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ouch 🤣🤣🤣🤣

But ... why?
Why share stenography of his narcissistic, Adderall-addled rantings?

Love a nice Sedan reference

My advice to the Administration: With the U.S. uncomfortably close to a recession -- and already in a jobs recession -- don't do anything rash that could make things worse.

I LOL'd
Thanks for that

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

"When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline, and the wheels of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other will stop".
Frederick Douglass, 1894

Like clockwork.

I feel like midlist SFF is both vitally important and uniquely threatened right now because the midlist is where you find most of the queer, PoC, and otherwise marginalized authors. As well as a lot of really exciting books trying new things! Stuff that's not a "safe bet" but often a great read

i'm also going to add my concern that these are also the authors for whom travel to the US would be most unsafe and who have to pass on attending cons/events. US remains the largest readership. having name recognition in the US helps tremendously.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Tomorrow in San Antonio! We’ll be there doing panels and signing books at the Central Library Pop Con! Free admission!

The Bard is ..Brutal

Yep

We need a bigger Hague to handle all these f-ers

From FT comments

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

"Machiavelli observed that ‘wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please"

"As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it."

Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Ohmygod.

If this is true, and there was no vetting and human in the loop on these decisions

We're gonna need a bigger Hague

As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.

But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.

This what comes from the Epstein-class
If they but read a bit... But they never will

"Machiavelli observed that ‘wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please"

"As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it."

Both: Max Hastings

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.

Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

Get outta my dreams, McSweeney's!

What's the emoji for: smiles ruefully at the laser-focused capture of competing fight/flight instincts in this hellscape of a timeline?

(And how does my dictionary not include "hellscape" yet?)

Like clockwork

RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

This moron has no idea how much of a third rail this is. If he goes through with a public fight with Dunkin he will never live this down. In the words of my people "fuck ya motha."