Brian Wolven
@brianwolven.bsky.social
Coulrophobic Hydra tamer. Terrified of dyslexic zombies. Friend to arachnids. All of my puns are 100% organically groan. //|\oOOo/|\\ https://wolven.us/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-2332
Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20h agoToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
As always I would be thrilled for people to pick up WICKHILLS, a weird city fantaspionage (??) about a government agent assigned to look after a defector who... wait WHAT did he steal?? us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
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Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w agoauthors you should absolutely quote post this with your fall releases, I am finding out about so many cool titles that I hadn't heard about
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of ICE, one day after he was detained.
Afghan ally died in ICE custody from allergic reaction to unidentified substance, certificate says
A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of ICE, one day after he was detained.
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No One Knows What the Hell Elon Musk’s AI Graph Means gizmodo.com/elon-musk-y-...
No One Knows What the Hell Elon Musk's AI Graph Means
We're starting to think Elon might not be very bright.
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Extreme weather is complicated (there are over 150 definitions of drought in the literature!), the Earth system is complex, models are imperfect, and we still have much to learn. But it's remarkable how spot-on most of our predictions have been: drawdown.org/insights/is-...
Is climate change unfolding faster and fiercer than scientists expected?
Climate change is undeniably here, and it’s bad. But is it, as some are claiming, worse than even the scientists expected?
drawdown.org
The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
A brief reminder that less than 30 days ago, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro held an absolutely unhinged press conference smearing the defendant and doing absolutely everything in her power to violate Rule 3.8(f). Absolutely warrants referral to state bar authorities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlTu...
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro Announces Charges Related to Vandalism of Reflecting Pool
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
I wonder if someone is going to get in trouble for admitting this in court papers. Trump went on and on and on about vandals. And how great his contractor was.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
O’Neal helped purge me & all the other Black full-time staff columnists at the Post Opinion Section. I challenged his move to fire me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. And he testified against me in June. We are expecting an arbitration ruling soon. Convenient time for him to quit.
Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5d agoNew: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday
the impossible has happened. apod has a new website. science.nasa.gov/apod/
APOD - NASA Science
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Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
So, @cataranea.bsky.social and I went to Guyana over the past week (ish) to attend #BugShot, in the Rupununi Savannah, at Karanambu Lodge. You wanna see some pictures of what we saw?
Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
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TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
NEW from me: A senior Trump official is using his govt social media account to attack sitting federal judges, sparking accusations he's putting their safety at risk as judges already face a spike in violent threats. This “puts a bullseye” on them, one judge told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...
Senior Trump Official Using Government Account To Smear Sitting Federal Judges
This “puts a bullseye” on judges already facing a spike in violent threats, warned U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, whose son was killed by a disgruntled litigant.
huffpost.com
I'm down a rabbit hole on combination utensils. There's my beloved SPORK, but then we get into the much more exotic combos: This one's called a FORKCHOP, designed by Donald BonAsia in Los Angeles, available now through a variety of online retailers.
Sad for the chickens, but also a bit scared. Are the ghosts of 10,000 chickens now going to haunt us as poultrygeists? 😱
10,000 chickens dead after break-in at Nova Scotia poultry barn
Thousands of chickens are dead after someone broke into a poultry barn in Pine Grove, N.S., over the weekend.
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The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
