John Shirley
@johnshirley2024.bsky.social
Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
NY Times reveals Uber is victim shaming victims of sexual assaults. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b... #boycottuber
Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ (Gift Article)
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
nytimes.com
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
theatlantic.com
Truth Social is charging as much as $100,000 per month to high-frequency trading firms to gain access to the website’s API, allowing traders to see these stupid posts a few milliseconds before everyone else...This is the story of so much of Trump’s presidency: an unending series of scandals...
This Is the Real Story of Trump’s Presidency—If Democrats Will Tell It
His Truth Social subscription scheme and IRS immunity are just the latest chapters in a massive, ever-growing book about his self-dealing and corruption.
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Trump truly unleashed the Big Lie. Falsehoods and slander and fearmongering--it's all been part of the GOP playbook for years. But Trump gave implicit permission to lie big, to lie hugely, to lie repeatedly. He's magnified lying. He's built a triumphal arch of lying over DC. Maybe Ossoff should sue.
Is this the most dishonest ad of 2026?
An opaque nonprofit affiliated with Senate Republicans, One Nation, has blanketed Georgia over the last five days with a new ad attacking Senator Jon Ossoff (D).
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Yeah, Woman of Tomorrow. Marvellously drawn and top notch, multilayered writing.
It made 126 mil but is a box office bomb, cuz the budget was so high. But it's doing well streaming & meanwhile she IS coming back in 2 more movies. I enjoyed the movie, its comic booky alien world sleaze--tho it's directing is uneven, the story sometimes blurry. But it was BIZARRE & I love Krypto.
Supergirl’s Streaming Redemption Has Begun In A Massive Way After $186M Box Office Bombing
What is next for Supergirl?
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Trump truly unleashed the Big Lie. Falsehoods and slander and fearmongering--it's all been part of the GOP playbook for years. But Trump gave implicit permission to lie big, to lie hugely, to lie repeatedly. He's magnified lying. He's built a triumphal arch of lying over DC. Maybe Ossoff should sue.
Is this the most dishonest ad of 2026?
An opaque nonprofit affiliated with Senate Republicans, One Nation, has blanketed Georgia over the last five days with a new ad attacking Senator Jon Ossoff (D).
popular.info
About an old friend and colleague of mine and a Person of Interest at Mondo 2000. She passed away from cancer some years ago. She was a legend in the tech/web underground.
In Defense of Irresponsible Journalism
Wherein St. Jude (Milhon) will not be canonized (much)
unseeninternet.substack.com
The Kenya Space Agency! Glad to see an African space agency. Do other nations in Africa have them? This one seems to be working with satellite placement mostly.
Kenya Space Agency - Possibilities beyond our skies
The Kenya Space Agency promotes, coordinates, and regulates space-related activities in the country, enhancing the regulatory framework and Kenya’s competitiveness in the global space agenda.
ksa.go.ke
From Mondo 2000 associated people and the true hipsters of the earlier internet; the secret worlds, the secret bizarre glories!
The Unseen Internet 💫 | Shira Chess | Substack
Looking at technological woo past, present, and future. Click to read The Unseen Internet 💫, by Shira Chess, a Substack publication.
unseeninternet.substack.com
My paranoid fit of the evening: With FDA being reduced and squeezed dry and not having enough inspectors and rules relaxed and the Trump "every business can do whatever the fuck it wants" attitude, maybe we'll start having situations like mass ergot poisonings. In a country chockablock with guns.
1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning - Wikipedia
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Greg Abbott is going to respond to this poll by reminding the voters of Texas what he's the absolute best at -- killing their children. Lots of different ways to make it happen, but rest assured: He will kill your kids. That's a promise.
Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 2d agoFrom a Fox Poll out 7/31: Talarico-Paxton is the marquee race down here but check out the dead heat btw Abbott and Hinojosa for governor. This contest isn't even on the radar for the national Dems, AFAIK. She's has $3m cash on hand--Abbott has *$67m*. Some more highlights from the poll... /1
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
“Civil rights advocates have said these prosecutions, even when unsuccessful, are part of an effort to criminalize lawful community organizing, weaken movements opposing deportations and turn the lives of activists upside down.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.
Jiang, a rising Camas High School senior, designed and built a “floating island” — a 4-by-7-foot raft planted with native wetland species — to help combat toxic blue-green algae blooms in Fallen Leaf Lake. With assistance from her father, Lipin Wang, she placed the island into the lake on July 3.
Camas student’s project aims to tackle algae bloom in Fallen Leaf Lake
CAMAS — Many people view algae blooms as a problem too big for any one person to solve. Emily Jiang saw an opportunity to prove that one person still could make a difference.
columbian.com
The choices of the dick state of mind resonate through the ages the dick, the jerk, the sullen state of mind the passive aggressive rages
The dick state of mind - John Shirley Blog
The choices of the dick state of mind resonate through the ages the dick, the jerk, the sullen state of mind the passive aggressive rages The dick, the jerk, the selfish state of mind concatenates thr...
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Now THIS is how the fae should be depicted. This is good shit man.
No Man's Land
A compelling standalone dark fantasy set in a gritty post-WWI Britain that has been overrun by the fae, from the award-winning author of Altered Carbon“One of my favorite books of the year, destined t...
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THIS looks REALLY cool and it's got some great actors in it.
WICKER Trailer (2026) Olivia Colman
YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage
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Climate Deniers of the 119th Congress and the Second Trump Administration A new CAP analysis finds that the federal government is rife with officials who deny climate change in leadership positions within the executive branch, presidential Cabinet, and Congress.
This upcoming #sff thriller looks interesting.
The Last House | Greta Lee and Wagner Moura | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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synchronistically for me, I'm now engaging in my first serious reading of In Search of Lost time.
Tom Gauld@tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d agoMy latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Gift link -- no paywall. Stunning reporting here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
nytimes.com
The basis for the huge tsunami in my novel of some years back, Everything is Broken.
Don@donald777.bsky.social · 2d ago
