So excited to share this excerpt, which also contains the first identifiable book typo! What a year for me to make that one in particular too lolol (iykyk)

Made the call a while ago that I won’t be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up

Risa

away mission and chill

Maybe I had been watching too much media.

i hate this so much

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

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It’s not like I didn’t already think this situation was really fucking bad, but I was beginning to think it was way fucking worse.

For Months, Tear Gas Has Entered Their Homes. Now They’re Suing ICE.

For Months, Tear Gas Has Entered Their Homes. Now They’re Suing ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye Better nothing than a MAGA mouthpiece.

"Defunded by Congress and fearing the Trump administration might pervert the organization to further undermine free media, the board members agreed it was better to salt the earth than leave behind a place for Trump to plant his poisonous, choking weeds." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Purple background, white text, which says The real-world history and stories about "witches directly inform the portrayal of Discworld's witches. Discworld's sex work and sex workers are similarly informed by real-world history and narratives. More specifically, the ways in which Mrs Rosemary Palm is "almost a witch" can constructively frame some real-world conversations around marginalisation, power, and autonomy... "Almost a Witch," Freyja Stokes

Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns...

This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free!

Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com

I stopped. I did not scream, though I thought about it for .02 of a second.

Oh, also: Baker & Taylor imploded (americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/10/08/b...), so a lot of my brain at work (academic librarian at a Research 1 Uni) is about our swap from Rialto (owned by Proquest) to Gobi (owned by EBSCO) for print purchases vs ebooks. Vendors! Technology! Capitalism!

The Diplomat is back! My wife and I are spreading it out rather than binging in one night, but so far it is still fantastic and feels like a West Wing for the current times, in the best way

Massive crowd in Boston

Boston

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

I didn’t want to look more human than I already did.

Oh NO

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

I felt my face change. The muscles were all stiff, and not from the hit I’d taken. I’m still not great at controlling my expressions, and I had no idea what I looked like. Behind her hands, Amena whispered, “Oh shit.”

Black and white photo from the early 20th century of two little girls in roller skates on a city street, wearing sashes that read DON’T BE A SCAB. A handwritten annotation in white ink at the top of the photo says “Strike Sympathizers.”

Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

“Are you two talking?”
“Yes.” I had to look at the wall now.
Amena was still worried. “Are you fighting again or are you making up? Because it looks exactly the same from the outside.”
We’re making up, ART told her.

"I don't know what the big deal is" — exactly the right energy for fighting a moral panic

This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles

In addition to today’s case, these are the two other upcoming cases that I highlighted on Sunday at Law Dork — www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-con... — so I definitely urge you to check this out from @mjsdc.bsky.social and @leahlitman.bsky.social —>

A projection on the outside of the Old North Church reading "Let the WARNING ride forth ONCE MORE: TYRANNY is at OUR DOOR"

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.