wait what's happening to gonzo?!? he's the little blue checkmark one, right?

please share broadly. american citizens have been left behind in khartoum while (per The Washington Post and other sources) the embassy staff have been evacuated, even though many of the amcits were sheltering in the same buildings as emb staff.

especially when my speech is me saying "fml, i am. so. tired."

Thanks to Mary Robinette Kowal for letting talk about World of JUNO in My Favorite Bit on her blog! World of JUNO is now available on Audible! Links at the bottom of the post! maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-fav…

whatever happened to the PRH penguin ?

i was just reminded that the Word Matters podcast went on summer break nearly a year ago. :( Peter Sokolowski Elizabeth A. Brewster any chance that it will come back?

NEW: A story about Jim Clyburn, one of the most powerful Dems in the country -He secretly worked with the S.C. GOP on redistricting -He protected himself -The cost? Making a swing district safer for the GOP From Marilyn Thompson: propublica.org/article/how-re…

Better statement: "Kaitlyn had an impossible job, whiffed on some major points where she failed to follow up (namely infanticide) and tried to wrangle Trump, often without success. She allowed a victim of sexual assault to be disparaged and mocked by Trump and an unruly crowd.

"IRREGARDLESS" HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1795. ITS INCLUSION IN THE DICTIONARY IS NOT A SIGN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FALLING TO PIECES, OR PROOF OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FAILING, NOR IS IT THE WORK OF CURSED MILLENNIALS. IT JUST MEANS A LOT OF PEOPLE USE IT TO MEAN "REGARDLESS."

What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.

Lab-grown meat could be 25 times worse for the climate than regular beef unless scientists find ways to overhaul energy-intensive steps in its production newscientist.com/article/237222…

“In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the dudes who murder unarmed black people claiming they were a threat, and the dudes who do that in uniform”

“A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.” -Robert J Sawyer #writing Ahermin

apparently the solution to multiple years of not being able to focus enough to read a book is to just rotate through 8 audiobooks, one chapter each, in series. #technicallyreadingagain

there's finally a semi-official definition of long covid, and it looks like between 10% and 23% of people who get covid end up with it. archive.ph/RKpcJ

that thing where you file a legal brief that you asked another lawyer to help you with, and that other lawyer chatgpted it, and chatgpt straight up invented a bunch of citations with quotes to support your argument, and now the judge is pissed. reason.com/volokh/2023/05…

The worst part is that the inflammation from wildfire smoke and other factors potentially like increased time indoors, etc., make it more likely that COVID will kill you, per this study of deaths in 2020. hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-rel…

I am torn between being utterly heartbroken that this kind of bigotry exists in this country where people complain about an LGBT+ display at a library DURING PRIDE, and so very proud of the wonderful malicious compliance by the Erie Library children’s librarians. 🌈