Guy Gavriel Kay
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
For the record, Seattle 24-17.
Boring pick, I know. But I did say 6 weeks ago it was the season of defences and Seattle is best D left standing.
Boring pick, I know. But I did say 6 weeks ago it was the season of defences and Seattle is best D left standing.
February 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
For the record, Seattle 24-17.
Boring pick, I know. But I did say 6 weeks ago it was the season of defences and Seattle is best D left standing.
Boring pick, I know. But I did say 6 weeks ago it was the season of defences and Seattle is best D left standing.
Tom Brady??!!
My contribution to Super Bowl Sunday is this Jewish Aramaic incantation bowl with a demon on it. From Nippur, Mesopotamia, circa 6th-7th century CE.
Truly a super bowl.
Truly a super bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Tom Brady??!!
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Making the US Olympic Team does not require you to be a cheerleader for the Trump administration.
February 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Making the US Olympic Team does not require you to be a cheerleader for the Trump administration.
Reposted by Guy Gavriel Kay
This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”
February 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”
‘Ah! It is about Streisand and her Effect.’
February 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
‘Ah! It is about Streisand and her Effect.’
Toxic hire: check
Destroy paper: check
Get fired: check
Incompetent, immoral clowns can do SO much damage.
Viz: The White House
Destroy paper: check
Get fired: check
Incompetent, immoral clowns can do SO much damage.
Viz: The White House
After a disastrous run two years, Will Lewis is OUT as CEO and publisher of The Washington Post. Jeff D'Onofrio steps in as interim boss.
February 7, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Toxic hire: check
Destroy paper: check
Get fired: check
Incompetent, immoral clowns can do SO much damage.
Viz: The White House
Destroy paper: check
Get fired: check
Incompetent, immoral clowns can do SO much damage.
Viz: The White House
Endorsed. Someone I’d known for a long time died of colon cancer many years ago because he was so freaked by colonoscopies he refused to get one. By the time it was caught…
The dread is ridiculous, and can be deadly.
The dread is ridiculous, and can be deadly.
Just got a colonoscopy this week! Unlike poor Saavik here, prep was basically painless for me. Drink the goop, poop a lot, done. Really the whole thing was smooth & easy & not worth the dread lots of folks bring to it.
If you're nearing or above 50, do it!
If you're nearing or above 50, do it!
Hello Bluesky user—are you, yes you, approaching 50?
Well, I have some bad news and some good news: you are at increased risk of dying a horrible painful death from colon cancer—BUT—there is something you can do to prevent it!
Yes, you should schedule your colonoscopy today!
Well, I have some bad news and some good news: you are at increased risk of dying a horrible painful death from colon cancer—BUT—there is something you can do to prevent it!
Yes, you should schedule your colonoscopy today!
February 7, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Endorsed. Someone I’d known for a long time died of colon cancer many years ago because he was so freaked by colonoscopies he refused to get one. By the time it was caught…
The dread is ridiculous, and can be deadly.
The dread is ridiculous, and can be deadly.
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has anybody gotten confirmation yet from Mike Johnson that he hasn't seen the post?
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
has anybody gotten confirmation yet from Mike Johnson that he hasn't seen the post?
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Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
Manutius is a bit of a personal hero, inspired the bookshop-in-Seressa aspect of my A Brightness Long Ago. He’s featured in Bound In Venice by Alessandro Magno, a strong non-fiction recommendation.
In praise of Aldus Manutius, who died OTD in 1515. I did not know or had forgotten that he was tutor to two nephews of Pico della Mirandola before he set up shop as a Venetian printer: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #MedievalSky #BookHistory
February 7, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Manutius is a bit of a personal hero, inspired the bookshop-in-Seressa aspect of my A Brightness Long Ago. He’s featured in Bound In Venice by Alessandro Magno, a strong non-fiction recommendation.
Extremely concur with this. Have also said for a long time that Trump would be, Trump IS, nothing if House and Senate were functioning sanely and with integrity.
The question isn't whether an evil man will be evil. It's what good people will do in the face of it. TOO MANY people still want to overlook the obvious. They find all kinds of ways to explain why he's not really evil. They are the problem.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Extremely concur with this. Have also said for a long time that Trump would be, Trump IS, nothing if House and Senate were functioning sanely and with integrity.
This will count as another murder, really.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:25 PM
This will count as another murder, really.
‘I will be a gentleman whatsoever it costs me!’
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
February 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
‘I will be a gentleman whatsoever it costs me!’
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
— Ben Jonson, ‘Every Man Out of His Humour’
(Yes, am subtweeting Trumplandian bribes and bought pardons.)
(Is it no longer subtweeting if you say that? Probably isn’t, but…)
Yes. Plus underscores just how HARD it is to get good staffers these days!
Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.
Live updates: White House blames 'staffer' for racist Obamas post shared by Trump
Trump administration live updates: New Jersey's special House primary too close to call
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Yes. Plus underscores just how HARD it is to get good staffers these days!
A nice piece by Cathal on why Sidney Crosby (38, but always ‘The Kid’) is so admired. I link him as one of those in my thesis about how happy we are when truly great athletes (or performers, yes) are also really good people. He’s captaining Team Canada and, really, who else could it be?
February 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
A nice piece by Cathal on why Sidney Crosby (38, but always ‘The Kid’) is so admired. I link him as one of those in my thesis about how happy we are when truly great athletes (or performers, yes) are also really good people. He’s captaining Team Canada and, really, who else could it be?
This … this is magnificent.
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This … this is magnificent.
This falls squarely into the category of UNFAIR QUESTION!
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Why didn’t Karoline Leavitt initially say the video was wrong, was posted by a staffer, and apologize?
She did none of those things.
She just blamed Democrats for “fake outrage.”
She did none of those things.
She just blamed Democrats for “fake outrage.”
February 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
This falls squarely into the category of UNFAIR QUESTION!
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Also…
Apologize? APOLOGIZE??
Removing, even after Scott’s ‘prayers’, and under pressure, would not remove the stench of his pure racist trash.
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:
February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Removing, even after Scott’s ‘prayers’, and under pressure, would not remove the stench of his pure racist trash.
I think, grimly, this is true. The discounting, the ignoring of his racism and hatred (‘Oh, it’s just him joking!’) is a dangerous failure.
Trump referring to the first Black President and First Lady in the history of the USA as apes is not a distraction. It is a major news story once again emphasizing how fundamental racism is to this administration and the Republican Party and conservative movement.
And right now media is ignoring.
And right now media is ignoring.
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I think, grimly, this is true. The discounting, the ignoring of his racism and hatred (‘Oh, it’s just him joking!’) is a dangerous failure.
Quiet, lucid, devastating.
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Quiet, lucid, devastating.
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The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.
Every time I think of Trump declaring ‘they mutilized’ (this morning, at Prayer Breakfast, in context of ‘mutilated’) I feel more stupidized.
When will it stoppize?
When will it stoppize?
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Every time I think of Trump declaring ‘they mutilized’ (this morning, at Prayer Breakfast, in context of ‘mutilated’) I feel more stupidized.
When will it stoppize?
When will it stoppize?
There is much in this speech that is agonizingly cringe, but ‘they mutilized’ from a man elected President of the United States, and currently destroying it, has flattened me.
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I stopped the mutilation of children. The mutilation. The word is mutilation. They mutilized, you know, mutilation of children."
February 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
There is much in this speech that is agonizingly cringe, but ‘they mutilized’ from a man elected President of the United States, and currently destroying it, has flattened me.
Youngest bro often quotes a prof of his from long ago:
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Youngest bro often quotes a prof of his from long ago:
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’