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The Shifting Ground of Sovereignty — Broken Hands Media This is all very important, because one of the main features of the modern nation-state is the monopoly on the use of violence within a geographic region. This means that another way of addressing th...

These thoughts aren't really complete, but this serves as a binding-together of some ideas and a jumping-off-point for some future things.

In fairness, in the First Law world, most people are doomed--or at least screwed--from the jump.

Any paintings or illustrations stop you in your tracks lately?

She's amazing and Liveship Traders shows off her abilities even more. I read them recently and I was blown away by her character work, which I was already impressed by. I haven't cringed that hard at someone screwing up an interaction since Austen. I'm so happy for you!

I, Medusa by Ayana Gray in print, Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham in audio, and my current ebook is The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein!

Here it is again for the morning scrollers!

Edgar's Book Round-Up, February 2026 — Broken Hands Media It’s hot, and weird

Another book round-up, friends: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/3/...

Like if I'm reading a review, I'm not reading it to find out what happens; I'm reading it to find out whether I'll like the thing under review. And honestly, if I'm reading in-depth criticism, it's usually because I've already read the thing being discussed.

Truly! It really only take a sentence or two of plot summary; a review or critique isn't about what happens in the work in question

Favorite ghost story, any medium? (This can be a pun if you want)

Messy painting of a blue person with three (5?) eyes against a red background. There are some tubes with electricity coming out of them also

Look Into My Regular Normal Average Amount Of Eyes

"Star Catcher" by Remedios Varo features a mystical figure clad in an ethereal, flowing gown, holding a net and a small cage, symbolizing a magical pursuit. The artwork reflects Varo's surrealist style, blending fantasy and introspection on a checkered floor that suggests a dimension between reality and dreams.

Star Catcher
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20016

TRULY. One of the most perfect films of all time.

Season of love, season of change

5 weird writing pet peeves:
- thoughtless stylistic anachronism
- cliche or cartoonish body language
- similarly, characters that don't seem to be in their bodies (injuries with no impact etc)
- improper usage going to press
- sentences and especially analogies that don't track

Cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia

Discussion of the cosmic microwave background in Adam Becker's More Everything Forever: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_...

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

I realize this is inaccurate but you have to know that I'm picturing Link from Zelda blowing up your phone

Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2026, part 1 (or 1.5) — Broken Hands Media Okay, okay, I’ve been moving at a fair clip. Car trouble has led to me doing a lot of walking, and so I’ve gotten through a lot of audiobooks.

A round of book reviews, containing fiction about gods, ghosts, and monsters, and nonfiction about serial killers, supposed AI, whether or not we'll live in space, and how (maybe) not to go insane dealing with this stupid world. Or maybe to make it happen faster. Baudrillard is hard.

"The Language of Nna Mmoy" by Ursula K. LeGuin, in CHANGING PLANES

I've played this game multiple times, and every time, with every group, there's something new to find, some new conceptual space to explore.

That cake is like 15 minutes into the movie and I am pleased to report that it does not get normaler, nor does it allow the comic tension to break at any time. It's incredible.

Zerograd (1988) Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.

We just watched this and I really cannot recommend it highly enough: boxd.it/2z6w

Favorite album(s) of 2025?

It's so bad. My big beef with AI (on a personal rather than structural axis) is that the people I know who use it, use it because they are self-conscious about their writing skills more than anything else. Which sucks! That sucks!

Man reading a letter by candlelight, by Rembrandt Peale, 1805. Today was his day.

How is this moldy raspberry so delicious? WOW!! Nature’s expiration date gets blinged. Feels like an artifact from a decadent, decaying dream!

Stunning work by Kathleen Ryan shown at Karma via Han Marie Santana-Sayles

#beautifulbizarre #modernart #contemporarysculpture #sculpture #laartscene

This essay deeply informed my decision to read, and subsequent enjoyment of, Moby Dick last summer. Thank you for writing it; it's one I think of often and read and reread with pleasure

Inside the Panopticon: Data Breaches, Section 230, and You — Broken Hands Media Not to be all “old man yells at cloud”, but when I was a child the assumption was that the internet was a hostile environment and the last thing you wanted to do was give out any kind of personal info...

It's rough on the internet these days.

Please take with the caveat that I am a teacher, not a security specialist or a lawyer, but I'm trying to digest and make accessible some of the things I'm coming to understand. If someone understands better, I fully welcome corrections.

Worth noting that, while this is being put forward as a "bathroom bill," the even worse part of the bill is that it invalidates previously-issued ID with updated gender markers.