Rob
@thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social
Pamphleteer (he/him) | serial & short fiction Current Issue: No.62 thedreadfulpoint.com/2026/04/21/62/ Home: thedreadfulpoint.com
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! “The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a Half. @fantagraphics.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/jessie-moyni...
"The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me" - Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga 'Forming' and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a Half – Broken Frontie...
In the first of our 'Fantagraphics at 50' Month interviews Andy Oliver chats to Jesse Moynihan about 'Forming'.
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During the last year i edited this volume of 44 tales from ninth-century China. The translator, Max Massa, went all out, it’s an amazing piece of literature & scholarship 356 pages. Buy or preview it here: asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...
An Account of Marvels and of Beasts | Asterism Books
> “Oh, are the transformations of gods and faeries truly thus, or is it all the bewitchment of charlatans plying their art? For it is not a thing that the common knowledge touches on. As to sparrows b...
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Jacob Siefring@jsief.bsky.social · 4mo ago“What would please this Jingbo would be to descend the mountain on a stout horse in fine attire, then give my ear to melody and indulge in sensual delights, wandering between Chang’an and Luoyang.” Niu Sengru (c. 780–848; Tang dyn.), tr. Max Massa out on May 15 asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...
certainly this, and also i wouldn't wanna undersell the fact that the first time a lot of people DID emerge from the isolation of covid restrictions was to engage in mass protest that summer
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
Today's great news..." #Solar is poised to overtake #coal as China’s largest source of installed power capacity this year, as Beijing steps up its green transition with a renewed emphasis on efficiency, quality and orderly growth over sheer scale." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s solar surge nears milestone – even as Beijing hits brakes on sheer scale
Coal capacity is projected to lose its long-held crown this year, despite a pivot from raw solar panel expansion to quality.
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*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.
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Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia
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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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The Great Tolkien Reread says "Farewell to Lórien" today, giving me an excuse to talk about how LOTR treats magic, and specifically the power of the Ring, and how both are rooted in religion in a way that most fantasy readers are not accustomed to. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Great Tolkien Reread: Farewell to Lórien
Illustration by Morgan Rogers , 2020 'Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder. 'I do not know what you mean by ...
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Former Eisner winner here, still making comics & comic art! If you subscribe to the zines tier of my Patreon, you'll get a new zine every month from the artist Conan O'Brien called "one of the greatest comedy brains on this planet" & the NYT called "derangedly funny" www.patreon.com/MichaelKuppe...
New York is a suburb of Philadelphia
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran
The Odyssey by N.C. Wyeth (1929) hard to find good quality photos/scans of these but I like this looser, more impressionist Wyeth
If you liked Neuromancer you're going to love simply rereading Neuromancer
