For what it's worth, we've been on this cruise twice and the people are friendly and accepting and the nerdiest bunch of weirdos you will ever meet.

Truly awesome experience

Heyyyy Chieftains!!!!

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I can hear this post.

On the bright side, since they rely on scanner, they’re not equipped for anything without a bar code.

Watched one walk past Edith Wharton first edition cuz it wouldn’t scan.

An Intense Love of Place: A Guest Post by Scott Lynch - B&N Reads Lynch’s vividly transportive world-building will have you under a spell. This “heisty” fantasy about a gang of amusing and charming thieves brims with dark humor, mischief and suspense that will keep ...

Oh hey, I got to do a piece for the Barnes & noble blog, too:

www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/scott-l...

B&N bookseller here. I Was excited that we got several cases this week.

TLOLL (and the rest of the series, of course) has been top of my fantasy recommendations to both customers and my fellow booksellers for years.

Looking forward to the new covers on book 2 and 3

Hope you have a great trip.

Bought those religiously as they came out.

Great stuff

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

Chicken? YouTube video by Andy Merrill

Did you need to hear me sing like a chicken? Yes. You did.

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New Baritone. Yazoo!!! YouTube video by Andy Merrill

Break it in with Yazoo?

Sure.
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So you can max out your “Time played” more efficiently?

UnitedHealthcare CEO Killed “Quick! Everyone get whatever surgery you need while they’re distracted!” -Sophie Rudin, Espionage Trainee -The Onion

UnitedHealthcare CEO Killed

Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance unit, was fatally shot outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in what police described as a “brazen” targeted attack by a gunman lying in wait for him. What do you think?
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cartoon of Les Nessman during his infamous and historic WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Day drop moment Text: Oh! The humanity!

From the Larchives: The infamous Les Nessman turkedy drop moment. Sharing it early for folks to enjoy and share if they wish this coming week :)

Something about pants. YouTube video by Andy Merrill

Here’s your damn Sparks, @gailsimone.bsky.social

Btw, I’ve been wanting to do this song anyway.

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Many people discovering our whole deal for the first time.

Jefferson County School Board set to approve sale of three closed schools for nearly $9 million - Jeffco Transcript The Jefferson County school board is expected to approve the sale of three surplus properties in November, netting close to $9 million. The properties — Glennon Heights, Vivian and Thompson Elementary...

The week’s top stories at @ccmlocalnews.bsky.social: Reporter Suzie Glassman provides details on Jeffco Schools’ sale of 3 buildings: coloradocommunitymedia.com/2024/11/12/j...

I’m married to a journalist and watched the internet happen to newspapers in real time.

Part of the business plan at the time was exactly that — free news online and readers will subscribe. They didn’t, at least not in large numbers.

And Once they had free stuff, some even stopped subscribing.

Getting a lot more traffic here in the last week — who’s from Colorado and interested in Local News?

cartoon of Cathy and Bill the cat as characters from Mars Attacks!

Cartoon break: Ack! Ack!

Thanks. I missed it entirely til your public service post

“One punch!”

Huh. Imagine that

My life is a lie. Decades ago, Someone told me they thought it was Bela Fleck.

And that stuck and I never bothered to check.

What is JoCo Cruise? What is JoCo Cruise?

[P] (Trying a little updated test of Bluesky reach here)

We help run an annual music/comedy/writing/gaming/nerd event cruise. It's really, really fun, there's tons of cool guests (including @tmbg.bsky.social and @scalzi.com, to name just two), and you should totally come. jococruise.com

Zatanna has incanted one final spell for the evening! There's a good probability now that you will "have a magical weekend."

🎩🪄⭐️

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I’ve been trying to remember the title for literally decades.

Now I just need to find a copy.

cartoon of Lar in the Drake meme Panel 1: LAR NO! Panel 2: LAR YES!

Cartoon PSA: I realized it's past time I made something like this for folks who follow me.

Hey so I'm going to need to push the ol' newsletter subscription for a bit because the media landscape is really getting rough and it looks like I'm taking another hit on the near horizon and I would *really* like to keep doing this work. thismodernworld.com/subscriptions