I would expand on this a little. Short thread on de Camp and his complicated legacy.

Yipeng holding a sign in clinic that reads “healthcare should never depend on status”.

I am a family doctor and public health researcher, and I oppose Carney’s cruel cuts to refugee healthcare. I join healthcare workers in 9 cities across the country today to demand access to publicly funded universal healthcare for ALL regardless of status. #NoCutsToCare

time to rate some more amounts of money

$414,910: that's a whole bunch of money where i come from
$50: nice and neat. i love it!
$1.06: no offense, but this isn't very much money
$1000: don't bullshit me
$1002.17: yeah, that's what i thought
$614.05: solid
$0: hey, wait a minute!
$18.93: bad salad

Best first time watches, March
- Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2026)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
- The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
- Opening Night (1977)
- The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
- All That Jazz (1979)

Best first time watches, February
- Unstoppable (2010)
- New Rose Hotel (1998)
- Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
- Send Help (2026)

Two shots from Chungking Express. He Zhi Wu stands in a convenience store lamenting, "We broke up on April Fools' Day...So I took it as a joke."

happy he zhi wu day

It should be illegal to number a fiction series based on internal chronology rather than release date.

Avi Lewis: "When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, we call them out. When the US and Israel start an illegal and reprehensible war against Iran that sets the world on fire, we say Canada should have absolutely no role in it whatsoever."

Hinterlands Canon Class of 2026: Part 4

New blog post! The 2026 Canon Class is complete with a Bradbury and two Togashi's

Christmas was invented by Charles Dickens in 1843 to sell good will and cheer

Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

Hinterlands Canon Class of 2026: Part 3

New blog post! I wrote about Red Mars and some cool comics.

Gambling on War An insider made hundreds of thousands betting just before Maduro was kidnapped. This kind of behavior is becoming normalized.

wrote about Polymarket/Kalshi and the financializing of the tides of war www.liberalcurrents.com/gambling-on-...

Eight Sci-Fi Books That Teach Urbanists the Dos and Don’ts of the Future Science fiction has long painted a picture of the city of the future. What if they’re our roadmap out of dystopia?

wrote about some of sci-fi's best cities of the future (written with urban planners in mind) www.planetizen.com/features/137...

Hollywood Isn’t Directly Attacking Trump. It’s Doing Something More Interesting. Less “what we need right now” and more “what it feels like to be alive.”

Wrote about the last year or so in mainstream political cinema, with the spectre of Trump haunting it all, and the films (and Tim Robinson) that look instead at what it means to "live through history." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

When news is bad I always take comfort from this

Mythago Wood

Hinterlands Canon Class of 2026: Part 2

New blog post! Writing about Earthsea, Delicious in Dungeon, and Fist of the North Star

Link’s Awakening
Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda

Bumping this again - very fun! What a treat! Like 15 books recommendations in here.

The Best Books I Read in 2025 YouTube video by The Hinterlands Blog

God help me, I made a youtube video

Hinterlands Canon Class of 2026: Part 1

New blog post! Writing about a fantasy series and two very very good comics

Pynchon-esque is kind of like Lynchian but for books

Best Films of 2025

New blog post - it's cool and topical to drop your best movies of the year list in February. Nobody has moved on.

“Cheedo the fragile”

Best first time watches, January
- La Strada (1954)
- No Other Choice (2025)
- My Dinner With Andre (1981)
- Rome, Open City (1945)
- Popeye the Sailor meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936)
- First Cow (2019)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Stray Dog (1949)

Bethesda thinking Morrowind isn’t a good enough game to get a remaster is actually good because remasters are bad and if you like morrowind you shouldn’t want it to be remastered

We are deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Magic legend Kai Budde. His achievements in the game and community go beyond what we could say in one post. Our thoughts go out to Kai's friends and family in this moment.

Remembering Kai Budde: magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...