The Venn diagram of storygraph/Goodreads/Amazon reviewers who complain constantly about 'telling not showing' and those who cannot comprehend subtext or allusion if isn't spelled out to them is basically a circle.
...2020 is here.
2022 coming in a couple of weeks! (Like 2020 and 21, some absolute bangers that year).
Do pick some of these up if they're books you haven't read before. The general vibe of what I'm doing is 'commercial with a ton of craft and a bit of weird'.
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I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists.
Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s.
2021 is here, and... 1/2
Do I have any New York Public Library followers who are librarians in the system?
A digital illustration done in simple contour lines and rough pencil coloring on neutral tinted paper background of a woman reclining on a surface in a faint. Seen from a foreshortened angle from her knees and feet. She’s laying on one hip with her torso twisting to supine. The back of one hand lays across her forehead and the other is held limply on her ribs. Her head is back and her red curls spread out on the ground around her. She’s wearing a white, voluminous and old fashioned night dress. Orange lettering in an Art Nouveau style to the right reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
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@drspacejunk.bsky.social wow
And hey, nobody ever forget: this was because her late husband’s sons were greedy bastards and stole both cars, reported her to ICE, re-routed the mail so she wouldn’t see anything about her Immigration case & are in the process of stealing the estate, all because their dad married an old flame.
I remember this. I could add a few, too. Women couldn’t refuse sex to their husband. Men could legally physically or sexually assault their wife, and some forms of child abuse were legal both at home and at school. I’m sure there’s more. I’m a smidge older than you.
The Bill of Rights was basically poppycock until the 1960s. When I was born, all of this was legal:
● Public school teachers could lead mandatory class prayers.
● Private employers could require employees to go to church.
● Both govt and private business could post jobs for Whites/Men Only.
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All of it is grounded in court cases and statutes I studied in law school. It's stunning how many of the rights we take for granted were not recognized until the 1960s and later.
Also: Many of the judges who expanded our rights had worked on war crimes trials after WW2.
I would LOVE to see this!
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@drspacejunk.bsky.social wait. So solar panels may generate both electricity AND rain? SIGN ME THE HELL UP FOR THIS.
www.techradar.com/pro/maybe-it...
Check out this @taskandpurpose.com interview with the photographer!
taskandpurpose.com/news/august-...
📷 Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class August Clawson
NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.
This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.
I hope you feel better soon. #ParshaChat
Very much a collective responsibility. The conditions that enable mold, mildew, etc are not specifc to one home in a village. If one home has it, the entire village may.
So rather than playing blame games, let's all help scrub everything clean.
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And, often, there's no real blame.
When a flood or a tornado rips through, it's a natural phenomenon. (No matter what TV jacklegs might say.)
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Yes, although on a collective level there *are* a lot of things that have a negative impact on both the weather and the infrastructure making extreme weather survivable. #ParshaChat
A tornado hit my town last week, and I’m remembering sitting in the basement thinking what we should grab if we need to evacuate suddenly. #ParshaChat
Q1 The first thing that jumped out at me is that you, the householder, get your stuff out of the house *before* the priest gets there to declare whether things inside it are pure/impure. So, the things you take out beforehand don't have to be purified!
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#ParshaChat And then I found this article: about how priest/rabbis determine ritual reality.
I think that's why you say "*Something like* a plague" -- you're not a priest! Your saying doesn't make it so!
www.thetorah.com/article/prie...
I sometimes call us Homo Narratus, the storytelling species. Stories are central to how we share information and indeed construct our experience.
Stories need villains. If reality doesn't provide a villain, we'll invent them.
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Yes. This article, in talking about healing a person with tzaraʿat, mentions the same items & how they're used to exorcise demons. It's been a big deal, you need a ritual to give everyone the satisfaction of knowing it's OVER #ParshaChat
www.thetorah.com/article/tzar...
A4: Returning to my Homo Narratus theme - humans construct our experiences as stories - a story needs An Ending.
Not merely a stop, but An Ending.
The ritual after the cleansing provides An Ending.
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I've always heard that in the first 24 hours after a death, a grieving loved one is not and cannot be held responsible for what they say, do, or don't do. I wonder: does this text teach us that? Is it the source of the tradition? #ParshaChat
Hi, all, I’m going to miss #ParshaChat this week. I’ve been sick for a week, and am heading in my 3rd or 4th nap today. Will try to catch up later
