Repost this, please. People need to know about it.

Damn. The Pitt finale. Damn.

I didn’t know you were looking…

Seconded,

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

a group of people in space suits are clapping and laughing Alt: a group of people in space suits are clapping and laughing

Best Star Trek Crew. Wrong answers only.

I read a piece in The Nation that got me to thinking about why people write and play music and make art and do a lot of other things that require a lot of effort and don't necessarily bring in a lot of money and recognition. More at the Treehouse Writers blog. treehousewriters.com/wp53/2026/04...

Picture of Earth taken by the Artemis II mission

Ich see trees of grene
Redde roses too
Ich see them bloome
For me and you
And Ich thynke to myselfe
What a wondirful worlde

Ich see welkin blue
And cloudes of whyte
The brighte blessid daye
The darke sacred nighte
And Ich thynke to myselfe
What a wondirful worlde

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That’s it…

I Remember Marmee

This was written in the late 1990s. I had lost the file, and frankly thought I might have imagined I'd written the whole thing. And then last week, looking for something entirely else, I found it. I've softened a little bit on Marmee: Abba Alcott was doing the best she could in…

It’s similar in some ways to people
Not understanding that their beloved ACA was aka “Obamacare.”

Names have power, and True Names are important, how may times do we have to remind people about that?

That’s the way it’s done.

And look good while doing it.

To be clear, though, general artificial superintelligence is never going to happen. Or at least it won't magically evolve from the plagiarism machine.

Everyone thinks of him as a comic actor, but he had range.

Yep.

I resemble this anecdote.

You know that he had a clause in his contract that if he played a Nazi he would ONLY play inept or evil?

I was SFWA Secretary and then Nebula Commissioner. Am proud I did it and glad I’m out…

My dog was attacked a couple of times when she was young and turned to balls as a safer alternative to The Pack. She was happy to play with single chance-met dogs, but the park was where she got her workout.

I will note that my ball-obsessed dog was an utter pacifist and would either find another ball or stand by politely until the ball-thief grew tired or recognized that it tasted wrong. Emily was a wimp…

Oh, no. I’m so sad to hear this.

Yes!! California, you can do this too!

$40 an hour? Says something about how little they value actual creative work.

Ice, Ice, baby…

Thank you so much!

Good for both Bean and you. Happy New Year!

I was missing having to cuddle the dog through the neighborhood explosions—I could have cuddled her any time, but I felt extra useful when she was upset by all the booms. In the Great Dog Park in the Sky fireworks do not exist.

Happy New Year, Nancy—to you and Jim and the kittens.

Seeing the old year out with competence porn (Apollo 13) and then the Stranger Things finale. Plus snacks, of course.

I miss having a dog to soothe when neighbors start shooting off rockets, but I bet the dog is just as happy.

A safe and kind New Year.