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Cover of Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker; cover art by John Golden. The illustration shows Varika, a tattooed barbarian woman, punching a green-glowing skeleton in a wrestling ring, while a sorcerer in green and black casts fiery magic. In the background are a masked chorus and an audience seated in an Ancient Greek-style amphitheatre.

Ooh, pro wrestling discourse, too? What a wonderful day to be on Bsky! Anyway, coming soon: the main event of the summer.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."

Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀
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Post See new posts Conversation Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender There is HEAVY pressure on Dems to get in line on this Iran war powers vote. Leadership is whipping a yes vote, progressive groups are threatening primary challenges, and I’m told Pelosi is currently giving Landsman a piece of her mind on the floor. https://axios.com/2026/03/04/democrats-iran-war-powers-vote-primary

Good. Every Democrat who doesn't do the bare minimum should obviously be obliterated at the next opportunity in their primaries. Glad leadership is whipping yes.

Folks will be - legitimately - furious with the Ds that voted no (leadership whipped hard for yes), but I think it is worth looking on the other hand: 98% of House Democrats (and 1% of House Republicans) just voted to try to block the president from waging war on Iran.

Iran! The Great Evil!

The Last City Acre on the Eve of Ruin, Spring 1291

A look at Frankish Acre on the eve of its fall . . .

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

SUPLEX & SORCERY is declared for 2026! Our heroine of the ring, Varika, meets her match in the mysterious Sorcerer. What grudge does he bear? What sinister powers and minions will he conjure to bury her? Find out in this exciting pro wrestling fantasy novella! #wrestlesky #swordandsorcery

The doohickey is a manifestation of the Service Weapon from Control

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

A vote for Trump was a vote for the extinction of right whales.

The reality of an actual diplomatic process, with extended talks in Geneva or Vienna or Muscat and god forbid a five-page memo from the Iranians, was so daunting to the Trump administration (probably because they have fired or let go every seasoned diplomat) that they started a regional war instead.

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago

Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago

New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6

CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East

Two days into the war:

- three F-15s shot down

- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames

- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded

- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

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everything theyre saying now they said during iraq

Once upon a time, I worked in "enhanced due diligence" where I would have to tell the most nerdy quants in the world to google search how absurdly corrupt certain places and people were and why it was a terrible idea to underwrite a derivative from a loan to them the way they would in Switzerland.

The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games - Truthdig At home and abroad, demonstrating strength through punishment is more important than “victory.”

The point of Trump wars is the war. There are plans for condos, but no peace. He preens, extorts what he can, and loses interest, assuming he began with any. What's left is a killer opportunity with no excuse left for it but civilizational extremism that ends either in futility or war crime.

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Why are so many bases being successfully hit? There should be no world in which we planned an attack in Iran, expecting counter strikes, and have had our defensive systems exhausted so rapidly? We should have been stockpiled with enough patriot missiles to defend these things for weeks…

I mean part of the answer is they sincerely didn't think Iran would follow through, since the US leadership has demonstrated they do not comprehend their enemies as human with capacity for thought, but also things never work the way you *imagine* them to. Even unlimited stockpile wouldn't be 100%.

Israel's systematic attempts to kill the entire Iranian opposition leadership in Iran is indicative of what (some) of us have been saying— Israel doesn't not want to turn the IRI into a democratic republican state, it wants there to be no state. It wants a rubble-state, Gaza or Yemen or worse.

Protecting the revenue stream The signs of Amazon's decline are written in the weird Chinese brand names that dominate search results now.

The signs of Amazon's decline are written in the weird Chinese brand names that dominate search results now.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Title page for "How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?" Astartha, a trans woman with a labrys and wearing Ancient Greek-style clothing, sits slumped against a wall next to a hallway. She is covered in blood. A woman in the hallway behind her clasps her hand to her mouth, having dropped a clay vessel of wine in shock.

Intro illustration for “A Serpent from the Ash.” Left text: “Story by June Orchid Parker.” Right text: “Art by Matthew Spencer.” The black-and-white illustration shows Astartha, a blonde trans woman with thickly muscled arms and a scowl on her face, standing in front of a disembodied wooden door frame. She is holding a dagger; she wears a sleeveless robe and a cape draped over one shoulder. Farther in the background are swirling grey clouds and dark earth that is dotted with ponds.

Black-and-white artwork depicts streams of blood raining from a golden eagle onto Astartha, who is crawling on hands and knees through a deep pool of blood, her eyes glowing. The tattooed face of an angel forms the background; a sun hangs over her forehead.

"Your god will kneel to me."

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it's possible that a majority of the senate would vote for striking iran, but it's not guaranteed; the *reason* senate republicans don't want to reclaim their constitutional responsibility is because they do not want to have to go on record in favor of a war that even republican voters don't want