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Summer is a season to be savored. It feels so good, and it goes so fast. But take heart, bookworms! Summer’s not over yet! As a kind of in-the-mome...

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Hey Albany peeps! Tomorrow I'll be at the Barnes & Noble Colonie Centre to chat and sign books. Might I see you there? stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Correction: I am a LIAR. This beautiful cross-stitch was created by @rebeccamatte.com! All praise unto her.

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Look at this adorable cross-stitch @peripateticmeg.bsky.social made of Garrodigh from The Dragon Has Some Complaints! This guy came with me for my entire book tour. I love how each head's personality comes through. Bottomhead is so proud to have become a cross-stitch. He's Bottomthread now.

Question: What is a blog you like to read? (No, not a BlueSky account, or a TikTok, or an IG. An actual blog website. A blog I like to read is Don't Worry About the Vase (thezvi.wordpress.com), which used to be about rationality and COVID, but is now mostly about AI.)

Don't Worry About the Vase

Trying to dig out from minus a million points

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Post your hottest music take: Without Kim Deal, the Pixies suck. Ditto Sleater-Kinney without Janet Weiss.

allison steele, organic human person@trulyaliem.bsky.social · 5d ago

post your hottest music take: every single argument about what genre of music some band should be considered is stupid.

Trans rights are human rights. There is nothing complex about it. There is nothing nuanced about it. There is nothing to debate. Either you support humans having rights, or you don't.

People go to therapy for years when all they have to do is let their trauma finish its attack animation and then aim for the glowing orange weak point.

Hey upstate New York peeps! Next Tuesday I'll be signing at the Colonie Centre Barnes & Noble in Albany. I'll be bringing my good pens. See you there?

Can someone who understands MTGO economy explain to me why Red Elemental Blast and Blue Elemental Blast (and their Pyro- and Hydro- counterparts) are > 80% of the cost of Pauper decks? I am confusion. @remipanjo.bsky.social @nerdtothecore.com Any ideas?

You don't build a durable coalition by triangulating how far under the bus you can throw coalition members when it's election season

Details are important In a professional setting, details are how you know who cares Not many where I work do, and it sucks

Thinking about the intersection of the motto “every second counts” between two of my recent obsessions: the streaming series The Bear and the video game Megabonk. The brain works in mysterious ways.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

The world is full of wonders. A few centuries ago the only way to get Axe Body Spray was to chop an artery.

I make this point every time I see something like this but RSS readers never left. I use one every day. I still follow blogs. I use it for YouTube. I read webcomics. What really happened is Google Reader shut down and you never found an alternative.

da share z0ne@dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 2w ago

DA REAL INTERNET MUST COME BACK - dashare.zone ADMIN

Get my book from a library! I was broke for decades. For more than half of my life, nearly all of my access to literature was thanks to having a library card. Feel no more shame in using yours than you would heap upon me. Libraries kick ass.

Xauri'EL Zwaan@xauriel.satan.social · 2w ago

People are always so apologetic about getting our books from the library. And I'm just like, beyond just their massive civilizational utility, libraries are the best advertising an author could possibly hope for

I’ll follow you down til my many notifications will haunt you you’ll never get away from the sound of an inbox that wants you

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

I have a soft spot for incremental clicker games. Meaningless Random Numbers takes an intrinsically repetitive genre and slaps it with a ton of style. Think Balatro meets a low-budget horror movie, and you've got the right idea. Free demo is up on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/4211060/...

Meaningless Random Numbers on Steam

Meaningless Random Numbers is an Incremental Horror Game about earning money through Random Number Generators but be cautious, God is Watching...

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i keep coming back to this. it's not about hating us. it's about degrading femininity as such, and reducing the definition of women to baby makers and ornaments. trans folk get in the way of that. so does women's sports. so does the fucking vote.

Mags Visaggio - Writer and Writing Coach for Hire 🏳️‍⚧️@magsvisaggio.com · 2w ago

transmisogyny is, ultimately, just misogyny.

JUDGE AT MAGIC TOURNAMENT: several of your opponents have asked that you not breathe heavily with that glazed over dreamy look in your eyes when you're milling them ME: show me where it says in the rulebook how I'm supposed to breathe

My dragon is a #1???

Q. (they/them)@quiara.net · 2w ago

Somebody’s dragon seems pretty popular! Congrats to @wiswell.bsky.social!

First day of a new job feels like the first day at a new school. I kinda wish I had a Trapper Keeper to mark the occasion. Those things were great.

I'm over at @scalzi.com's blog today yelling about how dragons are ADHD incarnate. whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/17/t...

The Big Idea: John Wiswell

We all hear voices in our brain, but what if they were coming from your other heads?!? Author John Wiswell’s main character is a multi-headed dragon with a lot of contradicting opinions. Thou…

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Healthcare is a human right, and the US healthcare industry is a fucking nightmare. If you have something to spare, these folks deserve support.

CodeMarvelous@codemarvelous.bsky.social · 3w ago

We actually have a treatment plan now but thats only after two weeks of ER and specialist visits. Thank you so much if you can help or share. ko-fi.com/codemarvelou...

This article takes all of my rage and frustration with American Nazis and gives it cleaner, stronger words. You should definitely read this.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 3w ago

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Though not Christian in my approach, I, too, have tried to transcend the abject hatred I feel for my enemy and ascend to some benevolent state where I see us all as holy and the same, deserving of grace and capable of change. I have failed, and it's just like she says.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 3w ago

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Citizens of Philadelphia and Doylestown! I am headed your way! Tonight I will be at the Doylestown Bookshop with the mighty @chuckwendig.bsky.social so we can discuss Widow's Bay and also probably books.

JOHNATRON WISWELL BUY HIS BOOK! It’s charming: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

So you're telling me that the "pro-life" party will allow Lindsay Graham to die, but that Mitch McConnell must remain in Schrödinger's box until it is politically expedient for him to expire?