alllll the people waiting to get books signed (many have been waiting since the panel talk began and the inside seats were already at capacity)
psyched to see so many fans willing to brave the heat!
@scalzi.com TFOB needed to put y’all in a bigger capacity space 😿 sounded like a great panel
this thread 🤯
This happening while Trump is actively stifling or killing renewable power projects. He's taking sources of electricity off of the table just as demand is skyrocketing.
All while he launches a war that is driving u fossil fuel prices.
When thinking of Australia, one's mind tends to gravitate towards scorching sun and barbecues on the beach, but double Summer Paralympic champion Lauren Parker has set herself the challenge of defying that stereotype by taking on the Winter Games at Milan-Cortina.
u.afp.com/SLxB
Thanks to a partial government shutdown affecting TSA and other agencies, potential travel troubles are looming just as spring breakers get set to take off.
Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. Why?
From our colleagues at @revealnews.org:
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
Live Nation employees joked about "robbing" ticketbuyers, called customers "stupid" in Slack messages
In the messages, the men boasted about charging high parking fees. At one point, Baker sent a screenshot showing that Live Nation had grossed more than $666,000 on premier parking in 2021 and then wrote, “Robbing them blind baby. That’s how we do.” Weinhold replied, “lol.” At another point, Baker wrote, “these people are so stupid,” and Weinhold replied, “I have VIP parking up to $250 lol.” Baker then said, “I almost feel bad taking advantage of them. BAHAHAHAHA.”
Completely unsurprising to read this, since VIP parking at Blossom Music Center was up to $250 a car last year - for the closest, most accessible parking lot. The actual ADA parking was farther away. www.billboard.com/pro/live-nat...
@angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment: "what does "sinners" record-breaking oscar nomination haul mean?"
for the academy? everything.
for the future of black film? history tells us it won't change much.
for @vulture.com.
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism.
(This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
NEW: Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
"The companies include Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia and Oracle"
*Is that list of newly-militarized targets entirely fair, tho? Maybe they just pulled-a-DOGE and looked them up with ChatGPT
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
Which team could replace Iran in the World Cup? The answer is complicated
“As tech bros shake hands on billion-pound deals and race to stake their claim on the future of AI, it is women and marginalised genders who are left to absorb the real-world fallout.”
“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”
The cost of an Uber or Lyft to LAX is already pricey, and it looks like it's about to get pricier www.latimes.com/california/s...
In 2019, Austin Bell embarked on a wild quest to photograph all 2,549 of Hong Kong’s outdoor basketball courts using drone cameras and Google Maps …
there’s a lot of blame to go around at Tottenham Hotspur but friends, allow me to point you towards the real villain of the story: sporting director Johan Lange
www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...
There’s also this situation in the women’s game going on at the same time:
www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/i...
Iran's military command said the world should be prepared for oil to hit $200 a barrel, as three more ships came under attack in the blockaded Gulf reut.rs/46WdEN3
BREAKING: Iran's sports minister said Iran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup after the US killed their leader. 'Considering that this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup' reut.rs/413RFjD
this is really, really sad
(and might I note, comes hours after Gianni Infantino issued a meaningless statement saying the U.S. will allow Iran's team into the country, a statement FIFA keeps pointing journalists towards in response to the news)
www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...
Someone with Grammarly will have to tell me whether or not I'm being faked in this cursed app and also whether the advise it gives is any other than "use the word 'fuck' more often"
www.theverge.com/tech/891822/...
As they spend billions on the Iran War, the Trump administration is moving to kick six million Americans off food assistance, including two million children.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
