Great, note-perfect story by @ghoulpus.bsky.social, who also has fiction appearing in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy soon. Stunning detail in the prose! Up over at @reactorsff.bsky.social now, acquiring editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social. reactormag.com/not-like-oth...

Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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MN Lynx coach Cheryl Reeves today, while her team won the game

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

quel ennui!

@getplayedpod.bsky.social

The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 2w ago

Babe, what’s wrong? You’ve barely touched your Liquid Metal Slime Curry with activated charcoal garnished with a single chicken nugget.

real heads know the balrog is a maiar like Gandalf and if Gandalf can talk and also sometimes be a weird divine being of light and magic there's no reason a balrog can't speak!

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

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Real America is sick of movies with no trans people in them, ignore them at your peril Hollyweird

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

‘THE ODYSSEY’ is now tracking to pass $1 billion worldwide in its box office run. It is expected to become Christopher Nolan's highest grossing film ever.

woke: national hot dog day bespoke:

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

I'm always saying this

dwarf fortress bugs@dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 4w ago

[0008926] A Deep Pit intersects with a hollow adamantine spire, causing Hell to be revealed without digging

Some people have been saying.

Your Ring camera isn’t stopping crime. But it might be making you paranoid.

Doorbell surveillance is undermining neighborly relationships.

vox.com

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

Like every patriotic American, I am celebrating the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg and the Union victory at Vicksburg this weekend, which just happen to line up with the days (July 3 & 4) that the Declaration of Independence was published and widely distributed. That’s why we celebrate, right?

Fill your garage with Hogwater.

As always

feels like it might be worth reminding trans folks that you don’t need to hang out online all day & bear witness to fallout over expectedly evil superme court rulings. you can step out while folks who love saying “it’s all over & there’s no hope” do their thing. you don’t have to stare into the sun.

not really a Spiegelman guy but “I Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” is a really really really good one-pager

I forgot to mention they are also at their highest discount: 70% off for Citizen Sleeper 50% off for Citizen Sleeper 2 Enjoy!

tfw you take way too much benadryl

this podcast will cause a euphoric high lasting up to 4 hours followed by a debilitating flu

I really cannot deal with this kind of dumb, fake outrage. Something was published at a football-specific website, the headline explains why a story about Simone Biles is relevant to a football-specific website, and people lose their shit. Extremely obnoxious.

My "stance on Graham Platner" is that if he wins the Democratic nomination, I'd rather he become Senator than Susan Collins get reelected. I do not see how that's a particularly controversial take.

god damn, i was just reminiscing with friends about Once More with Feeling a couple hours ago. sad news. a great actor and wonderful TV presence.

Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.

bbc.co.uk

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

this is a cyberpunk sidequest

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

A guy made an app that analyzes pictures of its users' poop ostensibly for health reasons. He is then turning those photos into a tagged database for AI training that he has been advertising for sale on Reddit: www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops

"I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you expect… 150k stools images."

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I feel like the 17th century English space program run by Oliver Cromwell's brother-in-law has the potential to become a history meme

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

if Gwendoline Christie ever disappoints may I not see it. may the gods turn away the sight from me.