Found by our delighted son, not sure where.

His audiobook narration for Sabriel by Garth Nix is amazing.

You can always tell you are in a functioning democracy when the the leader builds a monument to himself.

A picture of part of a page of a mass market paperback. The text reads: "Cooper worked in precise ballpoint; Gordon used a Parker fountain pen, even for quick calculations such as this. He preferred the elegant slick slide and sudden choking death of pens, and the touch of importance their broad blue lines gave to a page. One of the reasons he had switched from white shirts to blue was the doomed hope that ink stains on the left breast pocket would be easier to conceal."

A passage from Timescape by Gregory Benford that I probably would have just breezed past, other than to make a joke about nerds needing pocket protectors, before I got into fountain pens.

She played for Meziane in France at Villeneuve-d'Ascq.

I am frequently wrong about women's basketball, but I am never as wrong about women's basketball as Jeff Pagliocca is.

The spare jersey is 26 because it's 2026, Rebecca Lobo.

#ncaaw #wbb

Connecticut Sun bus crash

Someone sent me this picture from Killington Mountain today.

Hope everyone is OK, but the metaphor is good.

Before the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire select their initial rosters on Friday, we explain all of the rules and look at who might be available to select.

Newsletter by @richardcohen.bsky.social: herhoopstats.substack.com

Why would Indiana waste a protection on Sophie Cunningham? Neither team is going to spend that UFA pick on her. I feel similarly, but less strongly about Natasha Cloud.

Boston Fleet clinch a playoff spot.

CLINCHED.

It's the art of the deal

GREEN MOUNTAIN CUPSET

ONTO THE SECOND ROUND

ALLEZ LES VERTS

It's not just you. I've seen exactly those same complaints from other people.

Why these birds need a new name YouTube video by The Nature of Things

A nice video about why we should remove the names of assholes from bird names.

No, Phil. The road rule is an important part of Act 250. The only people who don't think so want to build multi-million dollar single family homes in isolated areas, which will not solve the housing crisis. #vermont

Here's my classy tribute to Kobe Bryant 🖕

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

He's probably talking about dams and reservoirs and other large pieces of infrastructure. You know, stuff that would cause a humanitarian crisis on a massive scale.

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My Venetian fantasy Everybody's Perfect comes out at the end of June. There's a Goodreads giveaway of 50 copies and you can sign up at the link.

Also, look at the great cover!

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Joss Whedon: greetings whedonistas and whedonistos!
Clive Barker: who're you?
Whedon: i'm
Whedon: i'm joss whedon!
Whedon: c'mon, you remember me!
Whedon: i was everyone's woke 90s bae!
Barker: hm doesn't ring a bell

Good thing we didn't fire the FBI agent in charge of stopping Iranian espionage while covering up the Epstein files.

Usually what turns me off is hypocritical use of religious language. This guy at least seems to understand the text.

Bari Weiss must have been asleep at the switch to let Talarico go on CBS Mornings and tell people we shouldn't be blowing up school kids with health care money.

The 1984 Del Rey mass market paperback of 2010: odyssey two by Arthur C. Clarke. The cover shows a spaceship orbiting a planet that has the image of a baby superimposed over it.

A library book sale find. Today I learned this is a Michael Whelan cover.

I'm sure there is a 0% chance any of that intelligence was fabricated.

So what you're saying is, she doesn't know Dick.

A thought I've been having: Is it a good idea to normalize kidnapping and killing world leaders you don't like when you are being protected by an agency barely competent enough to save you from a kid who stole his daddy's rifle?

Hegseth on TV telling us how we have warfighted in the most warfighty way that any warfighters have ever warfigthed int he history of warfighting. 🙄