Bruce Baugh

A shipping crate left behind at the remains of the Scranton Lace Company in Scranton, PA. See the rest at www.abandonedamerica.us/scranton-lac...

Another thing I've been saying!

For context, the cup is made of dichroic glass, a material that shifts color depending on the angle of view. Ancient Roman Nanotech Made This Cup Change Color. Scientists Finally Cracked the Formula gizmodo.com/ancient-roma...

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Get to know a GoH! Author guest of honor Mary Robinette Kowal, amazing writer and speculative fiction “triple crown”* winner, will be at Capricon. Learn more about her works and register to see her in January on the website, capricon.org/guests-of-ho...

Mom, listening to an orchestral suite of music from Salome: “Well, they’re certainly worked up about something.”

Happy Manul Monday!

$480 Billion of imagined value gone, poof, like that, as if the stocks were never worth that much to begin with.

Mark's right.

my crappy still photos of the octopus. it was a vibrant red in person.

I saw an octopus! I saw an octopus! For the first time! On a day with many whales!

Can highly recommend.

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.

I loved this piece so much I chose it for Best American Short Stories, so I'm thrilled to hear it's now going to be its own standalone book!

I remember always finding it weird that my Christmas nostalgia was for 70s-style tackiness despite growing up in the 80s and 90s, then realised that it was because regular people (particularly working parents with better things to do) don't or can't keep up with cutting edge fashion.

The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

With 8 days left, be sure you have all the resources you need to participate in democracy!

The essay that we wrote on THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS for Criterion's 4k release is now online. This is a piece about Jame Gumb that addresses how the transgender perception of the character was formed. criterion-v2.herokuapp.com/current/post...

beautiful moment in Wawa today… older dude, probably 70-75, wearing a sharp tan suit with a crisp colorful button-up underneath, waiting in line with a coffee young guy, probably 20-25, walks up and taps him on the shoulder “yo, you look fresh as hell, man” old dude might still be beaming

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how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss

"Come on, baby, let's spasm!"

Thank you. Here's an example of one of the correct versions: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Noachian King, personal project illustration. "Noachian" means something so old it's obsolete ("belonging to the times of Noah"). This guy meant to be an old king of an old kingdom not existing anymore, but still attached to the throne and the power.

They're doing this to churches. "The Homeland Security Department “surveils, covertly infiltrates and interrogates the staff of nonprofits and churches conducting voter engagement”... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

This is pretty funny. A crackpot group claims they see relatively recent small comet impacts all over the place, and cite as evidence structures such as — seriously — golf bunkers, gravel pits, and retention basins. Embarrassing.

Made for you?🤨😠❌️ Made from you 😏😉✅️ #myart #art #Halloween #Frankenstein

It's Binx bi-weekly portrait day! 16 weeks today! AKA She's four months old! Collage is 6 - 16 weeks! AKA 1 lb. - 4 lb. ! #cats

Open for business. 📸 capsulebutt

25th of Owltober! Luta the Eastern Screech Owl suffered a broken wing that wouldn't heal well enough for him to return to the wild. The good news is he became an Ambassador at Ohio Wildlife Center. Want to donate to OWC? ohiowildlifecenter.org/donate Source: fb.com/151437643406... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Spoiler alert: the entire book is transcripts of Friedman asking middle school-level questions to ChatGPT and then feeding the responses into Claude.

For any who care, here's my ongoing list of Cinema and Literature I've taken in for the first time in 2026. If you want to keep up with me, please come join my Patreon, at least at the free level. I don't post things nearly as much here as there. www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephe...

Ursula Vernon: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of your blorbo King: MY blorbo?! Vernon: yes Vernon: YOUR blorbo King: from my stories?!? Vernon: yes Vernon: from your stories

Just how Americans were, and how those played by James Hong still are, too.

On a grim, damp day, The Morning Monty takes all the light he can get.

Yes, it's *absolutely* like scam emails. And they're generated by people who aren't readers themselves, otherwise they'd know better than to do this. Like unironically trying to sell a colour-by-numbers book page covered in crayon in an art gallery.

For a minute there I thought that reindeer are the only deer who see ultraviolet but further fact-checking revealed they are only the most studied UV-sensing deer. So there goes that podcast segment.