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Send this to all your family outside DC who assume it’s just peachy. Seen this repeated over and over with so many people, including ones who aren’t even specialized or former Feds/contractors.

AHA! @nicknc.bsky.social identified it: A DARKLING SEA by James L. Cambias! It wasn’t one of the Jupiter moons but it WAS a planet with an icy surface and a big ol’ sea! Excellent stuff, go read about being dissected, you won’t have nightmares, I promise

*Trying to remember the book* Some human dudes go to either Europa or Enceladus to explore the ocean underneath the ice to see if there’s life and WHOA DANG The book is narrated by that ocean life that sees a human swimming around and thinks WHAT AN ODD FISH and so they CUT THEM OPEN FOR SCIENCE

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

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.

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And now the Denver B-Gates Tattered Cover Bookstore has signed copies of When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Redshirts, and Old Man's War. Go get them!

I of course loved him as Chekov, but playing Bester on BABYLON 5 really showed his range. You really forgot the guy ever *was* Chekov in that role. RIP Walter Koenig.

Oh no!!!! He was great. His Bester character on Babylon 5 was amazing. And of course, the loss of any original Star Trek cast member cuts deep.

NEW: "It’s been hell." "I’m dead inside." "I honestly don’t know if I will ever find work in the U.S. again, let alone D.C." "It’s akin to screaming into a void." What is going on with D.C.'s job market? Contributor Abi Newhouse investigated:

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After sitting on the account for a few years, I finally set up an affiliate link on Bookshop.org -- if you use this link to pre-order my new book, you both support independent bookstores and give me a bit of an extra boost! bookshop.org/a/104234/978...

If you pay in gold, it’s fantasy; if you pay in credits, it’s sci-fi.

Why would anyone build a data center in Florida. Hurricanes are a thing

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I enjoy taking my handheld radio frequency jammer to the psychic clairvoyancy events my wife drags me to. The panic on the "psychic's" face when their assistant looking everyone up on social media behind the scenes gets replaced with static in their ear is brilliant.

An amazing image from Twin Peaks, Dune, and Fallout star Kyle MacLachlan's memoir "Fictional Selves" that just shows how awesome Patrick Stuart is.

HIV is no longer a death sentence.

We used to be a country, a proper country

Ozone layer.

"Stop calling it 'artificial intelligence.' That's not a thing." One finger on the monkey's paw curls.

They're almost here... soon.

We are now entering the week of disconnect as the US doesn't fall back while Europe does

Applies to dogs as well

Some good news for DC locals. Need every drop of good news

Remember that website haveyoubeenpwned? Well yes. The answer is yes.

ok new plan: writing all of my code on parchment, which i’ll place under a rock in the forest

Construction on President Donald Trump’s triumphal arch could start in two weeks pending final approval from a federal commission stacked with Trump appointees, administration lawyers said in a Wednesday court filing.

In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare. We've made that feature available online following reports of the studio's impending closure. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

@darthbluesky.bsky.social Please wish Freddie a Happy Birthday!

We all need some joy right now. You know what to do youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

It's absolutely impossible to express how much this means and how unbelievable it seems.

You know that feeling when you're at the very top of the rollercoaster, and you see all the track in front of you, and know there's nothing you can earthly do, but hold on? Yeah. You're there, right now.

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

Throw in "do you support trans people" and your hit rate will be damn near 100%

Ursula K Le Guin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/le_gui... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: 1st presumably Bruce Pennington, could identify the others as still can't access isfdb - though 2nd has a signature [looks like 'Alex Eissa']):