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I still wasn’t used to things that were unfair to me being a major point of consideration for humans.

A sleeping calico cat is surrounded by three small kittens, a tabby, a void, and a tuxie

Auntie Jazmin!! 🐱🧡 #FosterKittens #cats

@sanders.senate.gov on the opportunity cost of war: "All over this country, people are sleeping out on the street, can't afford housing, can't afford healthcare. We are the richest country in the history of the world... We need to provide a decent standard of living for every man, woman and child."

Verse Brandon O'Brien Wrote in 2025: - monster hunter as underwriter (Seattle Worldcon Program Book) - Jah Files for Asylum in the Caribbean Sea (Seattle Worldcon Program Book) - "its hour come round at last..." (Seattle Worldcon Program Book) - Landing: Seattle (Seattle Worldcon Opening Ceremonies Poem) - "We're gathered here on this momentous eve..." (2025 Hugo Awards Best Poem Presentation)

Essays Brandon O'Brien Made in 2025: - Con-Verse (Seattle Worldcon Blog) - Better Earnestness Through Incantation: Speculative Poetry and Sincerity (Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Five)

A reminder that I wrote some pretty neat poetry (and non-fiction about poetry), and some of that is eligible for the Hugo Awards! So if you are nominating, the Con-Verse column also makes me eligible for Best Fan Writer, and all of my poetry is eligible for the Best Poem Hugo!

The hazards of local plant dealing: the woman I bought my manzano peppers from just informed me that her granddaughter got into the labels and what we both thought were manzanos are definitely not. She’s growing out new ones for me, but I’m interested to see what I got assigned by her granddaughter.

I spent three months sleeping in a dresser drawer in Bavaria

Didn’t spot a single salamander out of the water, but I did spot the world’s most obliging Spring Peeper, who I hear all the time but rarely get to see!

an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)

open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Screenshot from XZ Studio video where he's wearing a cap and a black shirt and they've drawn on fox ears and a tail

#xiaozhan

The director of the video revealed that when he saw XZ in the black leather top, the combination of the top and XZ's musculature was so breathtaking he decided to add the close-up on his waist and abdomen right then 😂

#xiaozhan

A photo of a cat under a bed with a rotisserie chicken with the caption: This is Beans. Beans stole a while rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.

Become ungovernable

Miyamoto Musashi: "Shrike on a withered Tree"

Analysis of Miyamoto Musashi's "Shrike on a Withered Tree:" kanochronicles.com/wp-content/u... #GNUPeterMorwood

Fuckin sick weirdos.

How the Easy-Bake Oven, an Appliance That Allowed Kids to Heat Treats With a Light Bulb, Revolutionized the Toy Industry The product, launched in 1963, became a staple in American households

Hi. Are you buried in the horrors right now? Maybe you can take a break and recover some hit points while you read this charming history of the Easy Bake Oven.

UK, too?

Nice! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

I say this from bitter experience—never, never, ever try to outdrink a librarian.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

Book 13: System Collapse by @marthawells.com.

It's been a rough few weeks and it took me longer than I wanted to read through this one. But, man. What a beautiful expression of how PTSD feels.

A photo of the front cover of the Japanese edition for the Murderbot Diaries. Depicting murderbot in an anime style with a spaceship behind him. It looks to be a double edition for All Systems Red and Artificial Condition.

This awesome cover for the Japanese edition of @marthawells.com Murderbot Diaries.

A ruby red pine grosbeak drops from his branch and tucks his wings in classic borb fashion.

Angry bird.
#birds 🌿

Realized a keyword in this request might be hiding it from other people who have that thing in their mute words. So if this QRT is hidden from you, I may be looking for YOUR Dragonji fic recs.

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

And this includes prisons btw!!

Barack Obama BREAKS SILENCE on Trump's ape video, Bad Bunny, and 2028 election YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

Watch the full interview: youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw

BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.

my pappy sent me a little haiku he wrote for a contest, about my auntie that died of cancer. he’s never wrote poetry before but i think this is a pretty great haiku:

potato salad. frybread.
now she’s in heaven—
no one knows the recipe.

Their Water Was Undrinkable. Oklahoma’s Oil Regulators Failed to Help. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

Oklahoma officials found signs of oil&gas pollution in Tammy Boarman's drinking water, which left sores in her mouth and corroded appliances. In the end, the state closed her case, with basic questions left unanswered @readfrontier.bsky.social+@propublica.org

www.readfrontier.org/stories/salt...