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This is mostly status quo bias. Cornfields are seen as pastoral and quaint, while fields of solar panels are new and different and a little dystopian-looking

The Rehearsal Season 3 looks wild

Thank you to whoever bought a ton of my self published collection of short stories. I usually only get enough to buy one whole candy bar per invoice so this is a really nice surprise. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

just finished the dispossessed after forgetting how to read for several weeks and now. NOW I figure out it’s part of a series. I KNEW THE HAINISH SOUNDED FAMILIAR.

I took a law class in high school and our teacher asked all of us if we could recite the Preamble. We all immediately started singing it to the Schoolhouse Rock theme. She’d never heard it before and looked at us like we were all in a cult.

Hot tip for art thieves: find buyers before you steal art! Or else you'll steal it, find that no collectors are stupid enough to buy hot masterpieces, and live in a state of increasing state of panic before a sting operation catches your ass. Today's case in point: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...

Don't be ridiculous. If you had to read a book before deciding what you think of it, who would have any time for internet pile-ons?

11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

This can create two scenarios: 1. authors have to openly discuss their own trauma histories and then display the appropriate wallowing in that trauma for the reader to accept their accreditation. 2. author who refuse are (unknowingly to the reader) of not having "actually" been raped not really

Four years ago, I wrote, "The Commodification of Authenticity: Writing and Reading Trauma in Speculative Fiction" You can read it on reddit, but to summarize: there has been increasing pressure in fiction circles that openly state "REAL victims don't act like that." www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Oh, I see the mistake, but this theater is actually showing the new “Avengers: Domesday”, it’s a detailed account of land holdings and tax disputes in the Marvel Universe…

Was having a conversation on this topic just recently. A book (or story or painting or movie or whatever) is not a puzzle with a Correct Solution. It's an experience to think about and with, to chew over and then bring to other experiences.

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so swyvinge evil.

experiencing the specific 21st century panic of looking at your last few weeks of gofundmes (a student whose parent was deported, a queer friend fleeing the south, a teacher whose house was destroyed by a freak storm) and wondering if we have broken the world beyond repair!

I’ve been in such a rut but I want to write about the wattpad terms of service changes so bad and how it aligns with censorship… hmmm #fanfiction

classic way

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

Happy Ray Bradbury apocalypse day to all who celebrate.

havent been sure what to draw lately so i have drawn another moth dragon thing

jesus along with all the other threats right now... be careful, portland...

Hey remember that fun thread i wrote about how corporate lingo has infected casual vernacular and how language shapes our thinking and how companies always have to be showing profit and growth Excise the brand from your mind. Become human again

I love it when a museum has an exhibit that's just a lil guy

Library pro tip: never go in without locking the emergency stop. If the lights are motion activated and you’re alone, they will definitely turn off if you’re in there, someone will come in and assume sensibly that there’s no one there. Ask my busted ribs how we know!

More than 50 people have died in ICE custody

University of Michigan voters have a 100% El-Sayed precinct right now.

Propaganda arm of Susan Collins campaign in action. The actual news here -- to the extent their is any -- is that her team thinks she's got more trouble on her left flank than her right. OR that her numbers are so weak in general that it's worth risking MAGA's ire to shake up the race. #MEpolitics

#WoleTalabi 's novella "Descent" will officially be featured in the Locus anthology! Please enjoy this clip of a small part of the story as we push for the next goal, a variant hardcover design by artist #JohnPicacio !! Visit the site for info http://kck.st/4wtYJ6X [in bio]

Today is August 4th, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills. Since you express no preference, I will select a poem at random.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

are you british

LOS ANGELES (and friends across the internet) It is time to ROLL FOR DEMOCRACY once more. We are supporting Estuardo Mazariegos for LA City Council! With @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social and @erikaishii.bsky.social, and more cast to be announced! Links here and in replies below:

That this could happen at all, this insane persecution spurred by conspiracy theorists and political predators, against a man who helped save millions of American lives... It's monumental evidence of the *joke* our nation has become.

SINNERS (2025, dir. Ryan Coogler) #OnePerfectShot #Filmsky 📽️🧛🎸

your timeline has been visited by the Yuna Orb. The Yunorb. Conduct yourselves accordingly, she is watching.

A-yup, a beautiful thing. www.instagram.com/p/DbTTqrgDPi...

Bury my Heart (Galehaut Laid to Rest) "And Lancelot himself lay his companion to rest inside the tomb. After he had laid Galehaut down, he kissed him three times on the mouth in such agony that his heart nearly leapt out of his chest." Lancelot Part IV (Lancelot-Grail /Vulgate Cycle) #Arthuriana