✨️ Deal Alert✨️ GUARDIANS OF WINTER is coming in Spring 2028 from @thenerdyalchemist.bsky.social, James Persichetti and @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social

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Da Freebooterz Code!

Both the defaced by me special edition and the hardcover are available for pre-order next week!

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A lot of things to talk about in this week's Black Library Weekly, now in its new home on Substack.

Thank you to those who have helped make the jump a gratifying success!

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

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one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

Feeling Better and Back At It Plus, Opening Sentences

I think my bad habits almost caught up with me . . .

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It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate Behind the language of legality, the new emir has pushed a political project to narrow national identity and roll back decades of democratic reform

This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it

If you’re a GM looking for a powerful new threat in your campaign, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Temple of Spite provides the definitive guide to the dark elves and the floating citadels that allow them to strike across the world.

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For a limited time, secure these collector-quality Map Bundles from our Warhammer game lines. Whether it’s the sprawling Empire of Man, the vast Macharian Sector, or the dangerous Great Parch, these are perfect for display or for your games.

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Huge installment today, with some big changes!

* Final inductee of 2006
* We move to a one-year-per-article model (instead of half-years)
* We welcome @jordansorcery.bsky.social and @arbitorian.bsky.social to the HoF Committee!

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"By Crom! Like a Vendhyan dervish, we'll help you spin your website to the top of Google's search results!"

Breaking Free From Alex Jones A former Infowars employee on radicalization, lies, and getting out

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

there's a strongly gendered element to our culture's expectations around difficult art, who's allowed to make it, and who it's allowed to be for. certain identities are only supposed to create/enjoy art that's unchallenging and nice—and if we do otherwise, that's considered a Problem.

I've received a number of dismayed and affronted inquiries about me not doing more Year of the Mer appearances! This is a delightful problem to have but all I can tell you to do is have your local bookstore/library get in touch with Simon and Schuster and tell them you want me showing up places. 💜

all good fiction asks questions, and warhammer asks questions like “what happens when a medieval peasant soldier fights a giant rat with a machine gun”

Cover image for "Moriarty & Moran's North Yorkshire Crime Spree," featuring an emerald necklace.

you can now preorder the next story in The Casefile of Jay Moriarty: https://books2read.com/b/bWX8ND

this one contains what @ianmayor.bsky.social... see complete post

I think it’s the Legos they make for babies

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

One of the things this year's Locus Finalist lists show off is what amazing work comes out from such a wide range of writers, incorporating so many different ideas and themes. Some people think diversity is a weakness. Those people are fools. And they're missing out.

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Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

sort of hard to convey the sheer joy, scale and absurdity of it but Budapest's streets are currently so full, past midnight on a Sunday, that it feels like I'm personally walking back to my room, accompanied by my eight to twelve thousand best friends

Lord, I have seen what you have done for others...

Keep on keeping on, Sora! 🙌

After lunch, a new patient, a handsome middle-aged man I'1l call Toby, eased into a recliner topped with a fluffy pillow. A nurse inserted an I.V. into one arm; Koniver shook his other hand, saying, "Welcome aboard!" Toby and his family had recently been in a car accident, but he'd lost trust in most doctors, he said, after they became "obsessed" with viruses and vaccinations during the pandemic. He was glad that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, was getting the country "on the right track." "I'm not a big vaccine guy," Koniver replied. "A lot of them don't have the

A wild journey through MAHA:

“He asked me if I’d like a complimentary drip of methylene blue, a … dye marketed for improving longevity and memory. I knew it as a last-resort blood-pressure drug that … constricts blood vessels so much that it can cause gangrene.”

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is that the show that's like what if Hot Fuzz wasn't a comedy

The result has been something like an inverse caricature of Republican complaints about diversity, equity, and inclusion, a system in which the incompetent rise not because of their abilities but because of their sycophancy. Authoritarian regimes behave as the Trump administration is behaving—optimizing for political loyalty rather than competence. Merit, in short, has little to do with it. Hegseth is a prime example. Deeply unqualified for the job and convinced that brutality provides an easy path to victory, he has led the United States to the verge of a strategic defeat with a weaker adversary in Iran. The current cease-fire leaves Iran with a more hard-line government than before, one in total control of a shipping lane crucial to the world economy. The Islamic Republic is arguably in a stronger position today than it was when the war started, and probably in a stronger position than it was before Trump, in his first term, scrapped the Obama-era nuclear deal. On Sunday, Trump posted on his social network a refrain that he and his toadies seem to think is insightful: “If you import The Third World, you become The Third World!” This archaic social Darwinism is the ideological mortar of the Trump project. It fuses Hegseth’s disdain for diversity in the military’s senior leadership and valorization of brutality with the administration’s attack on birthright citizenship and its deployment of federal agents to occupy American cities. It is a worldview that would assume an easy victory against a country like Iran, especially with America’s new, “unwoke” military. Bigotry isn’t just inefficient, as the U.S. military discovered in the 1940s. It also makes you stupid.

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Watching this was a lot

i love a dubiously-canonical third Holmes sibling. love the idea that Sherlock and Mycroft’s parents saw how their first two children turned out and went, “well, what are the odds of that happening a third time?”