William Preston
@williampreston.bsky.social
Writer (mostly SF, currently in July–August 2025 Asimov's; forthcoming there and elsewhere), reader, former teacher, parent to three grown women. Interests include film, religion, history, many sciences.
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Analysis: One-quarter of Republicans can not be trusted to operate motor vehicles or self-administer medications.
Nearly 9 in 10 US voters oppose taking Greenland by military force -- including over two-thirds of Republicans
abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...
January 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Analysis: One-quarter of Republicans can not be trusted to operate motor vehicles or self-administer medications.
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FUCK ICE. Hi, it’s your pal KG. I’m getting suppressed on threads b/c in addition to inappropriate jokes, I post a lot of political stuff. I wanna give this app a chance but just don’t know yet. Can u help me get a lot more followers, so I can do a test anti trump post to see if it gets traction?
January 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
FUCK ICE. Hi, it’s your pal KG. I’m getting suppressed on threads b/c in addition to inappropriate jokes, I post a lot of political stuff. I wanna give this app a chance but just don’t know yet. Can u help me get a lot more followers, so I can do a test anti trump post to see if it gets traction?
The Bible is the first to go…
A new Florida bill would pave the way for schools to remove any book that mentions sex, from the Brave New World to The Bluest Eye.
Literary, scientific, artistic merit would be stripped from consideration when deciding if a book should be accessible to someone younger than 18.
Literary, scientific, artistic merit would be stripped from consideration when deciding if a book should be accessible to someone younger than 18.
Florida lawmaker says literary merit doesn’t matter if books mention sex
The big story: The Florida Legislature’s years-long push to add restrictions to school library books hit a bump in 2025, when the Senate rejected a measure to delete consideration of “literary merit” ...
www.yahoo.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The Bible is the first to go…
Hey, @nytimes.com , let's see the transcript. Much of this is paraphrasing to make it coherent.
Gift link to the most frightening article I've ever read. Trump isn't just an existential threat to America; he's an extential threat to humanity. This is the scariest thing I've ever read in my life.
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Hey, @nytimes.com , let's see the transcript. Much of this is paraphrasing to make it coherent.
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My first editorial in @science.org was published today: what to do (and, importantly, what NOT to do) when your grants are suddenly cut or research funding is uncertain. Please read and share!
#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Weathering budget cuts: Lessons from NASA
The current uncertainty and cuts to science funding affect universities, research facilities, and laboratories across the United States, but this situation is not unprecedented. Under pressure to fund...
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM
My first editorial in @science.org was published today: what to do (and, importantly, what NOT to do) when your grants are suddenly cut or research funding is uncertain. Please read and share!
#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It has to be said that much of what these reporters did was to paraphrase Trump, turning what was likely incoherent into something at least parsable. I'd like them to publish an attached transcript. The NYT is doing PR for Trump.
NYT: “Asked in a wide-ranging interview if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: ‘Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.’”
If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
January 8, 2026 at 9:03 PM
It has to be said that much of what these reporters did was to paraphrase Trump, turning what was likely incoherent into something at least parsable. I'd like them to publish an attached transcript. The NYT is doing PR for Trump.
We're a rogue state.
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 AM
We're a rogue state.
If Squirrel Girl isn't in Doomsday, it's bullshit. #SquirrelGirl #Doomsday
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
If Squirrel Girl isn't in Doomsday, it's bullshit. #SquirrelGirl #Doomsday
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Leave it to Mary Oliver to sum up what I said in a long-winded essay in one beautiful, heart-wrenching poem. 🤨
(Seriously, though: When Oliver veers from her usual, gently-moving-through-our-aching-world structure to drive home line breaks, you KNOW she's not a happy camper.)
#Poetry #PoetryBreak
(Seriously, though: When Oliver veers from her usual, gently-moving-through-our-aching-world structure to drive home line breaks, you KNOW she's not a happy camper.)
#Poetry #PoetryBreak
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Leave it to Mary Oliver to sum up what I said in a long-winded essay in one beautiful, heart-wrenching poem. 🤨
(Seriously, though: When Oliver veers from her usual, gently-moving-through-our-aching-world structure to drive home line breaks, you KNOW she's not a happy camper.)
#Poetry #PoetryBreak
(Seriously, though: When Oliver veers from her usual, gently-moving-through-our-aching-world structure to drive home line breaks, you KNOW she's not a happy camper.)
#Poetry #PoetryBreak
Once Enormous and Alive
The corpse of an enormous, pale man washes ashore.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 AM
The Hegelian Dye-alectic
Hegelly Blonde
A decision was made to make Hegel wonderfully, unnecessarily blonde and I support it.
January 5, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The Hegelian Dye-alectic
The only thing Trump has successfully “run”: away from military service. #Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The only thing Trump has successfully “run”: away from military service. #Venezuela
In the post–ICE U.S., when these briefly militarized underperformers are cut loose, we're gonna have more trouble than the South had finding jobs for patrollers after the end of slavery.
New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
wapo.st
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 AM
In the post–ICE U.S., when these briefly militarized underperformers are cut loose, we're gonna have more trouble than the South had finding jobs for patrollers after the end of slavery.
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Here is the full deposition released to the House Judiciary Committee.
They released it at 2:30pm on New Year's Eve to get it buried and obscured.
Don't let it.
They released it at 2:30pm on New Year's Eve to get it buried and obscured.
Don't let it.
judiciary.house.gov
December 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here is the full deposition released to the House Judiciary Committee.
They released it at 2:30pm on New Year's Eve to get it buried and obscured.
Don't let it.
They released it at 2:30pm on New Year's Eve to get it buried and obscured.
Don't let it.
"Not me! Those other sleazebags! Stop looking at me!"
Trump: “Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, & thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT … Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"Not me! Those other sleazebags! Stop looking at me!"
Not to be allowed near children or dogs
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Not to be allowed near children or dogs
It's like the transcript of the Wannsee Conference
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It's like the transcript of the Wannsee Conference
The words Trump and class do not belong together.
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The words Trump and class do not belong together.
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@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories Jan/Feb 2026 #Asimovs #Fantasy #SF
Stay by William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social
Master is dying. Dog will be sad. Will dog accept a robot proxy or is there an uncanny valley? A quiet, thoughtful examination of the inadequacy of AI.
Stay by William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social
Master is dying. Dog will be sad. Will dog accept a robot proxy or is there an uncanny valley? A quiet, thoughtful examination of the inadequacy of AI.
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories Jan/Feb 2026 #Asimovs #Fantasy #SF
Stay by William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social
Master is dying. Dog will be sad. Will dog accept a robot proxy or is there an uncanny valley? A quiet, thoughtful examination of the inadequacy of AI.
Stay by William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social
Master is dying. Dog will be sad. Will dog accept a robot proxy or is there an uncanny valley? A quiet, thoughtful examination of the inadequacy of AI.
"We're the people who can openly talk about anti-semitic conspiracy theories because we're not controlled by the Jew at the heart of our conspiracy theories."
Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"We're the people who can openly talk about anti-semitic conspiracy theories because we're not controlled by the Jew at the heart of our conspiracy theories."
Joy to the world
December 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Joy to the world
An applause line for a-holes.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
An applause line for a-holes.
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🚨 BREAKING: I obtained the letter the DOJ sent to Congress about today's Epstein files release. NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE! The law requires 5 exceptions. They're using 8. Here's what they're hiding and why it matters.
December 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
🚨 BREAKING: I obtained the letter the DOJ sent to Congress about today's Epstein files release. NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE! The law requires 5 exceptions. They're using 8. Here's what they're hiding and why it matters.