Also, just to be clear, I do not believe he only just found out, and I think his handling of this whole thing makes it even more clear that he needs to fuck off.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Also, just to be clear, I do not believe he only just found out, and I think his handling of this whole thing makes it even more clear that he needs to fuck off.
At this point, I wouldn't even be picky about how they're being replaced.
August 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
At this point, I wouldn't even be picky about how they're being replaced.
According to the publication's bio of this very author, he fucking TEACHES professional ethics. The fact that he and his employer think he is qualified to do so is presumably part of the problem.
August 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
According to the publication's bio of this very author, he fucking TEACHES professional ethics. The fact that he and his employer think he is qualified to do so is presumably part of the problem.
I know the video will be much more thoughtful than this, but it was the first thing that came to mind.
March 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I know the video will be much more thoughtful than this, but it was the first thing that came to mind.
I mean, there are probably other reasons, but you may be right.
February 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I mean, there are probably other reasons, but you may be right.
Not the first product to be better known by the implied subtitle Powder Sucks.
February 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Not the first product to be better known by the implied subtitle Powder Sucks.
Handsomeness and being unfuckability are not mutually exclusive categories. Being unfuckable can be a result of personality or ethics. Also, we do get this description, only partly physical, but it does suggest that this kid pretty much nailed it.
![From Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol:
Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No[13] warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often "came down" handsomely and Scrooge never did.
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, "My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?" No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and, when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4qjw7l4vdarn5bxnylevtndy/bafkreigjq6bbyc5yi7svsi7lmjyfk4cz2viqznsw2k2gxhjp5oakhslcb4@jpeg)
December 24, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Handsomeness and being unfuckability are not mutually exclusive categories. Being unfuckable can be a result of personality or ethics. Also, we do get this description, only partly physical, but it does suggest that this kid pretty much nailed it.
I put mine on my special, Ursula-only bookcase, next to the somewhat battered paperback copy I read when I was fifteen. This book is the hinge in some of the most important pivots of my life, at least intellectually.
October 16, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I put mine on my special, Ursula-only bookcase, next to the somewhat battered paperback copy I read when I was fifteen. This book is the hinge in some of the most important pivots of my life, at least intellectually.
Seeing this activated a long-lost memory of reading a little pulp paperback Blake's 7 novel from a used bookstore in the early '90s (Scorpio Attack?). I think I was on vacation, and I read that, and this Dr. Strange novel, which I had not thought of since then. Also a Greyhawk novel? Weird week.
October 11, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Seeing this activated a long-lost memory of reading a little pulp paperback Blake's 7 novel from a used bookstore in the early '90s (Scorpio Attack?). I think I was on vacation, and I read that, and this Dr. Strange novel, which I had not thought of since then. Also a Greyhawk novel? Weird week.
If you can get in on a tour, it's absolutely worth checking out.
September 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
If you can get in on a tour, it's absolutely worth checking out.
I read it at 8 from the library, and everything, including the cover image, lodged in my brain, except the title and the author. Like 10+ years later, I was at an SFF bookstore and saw the cover and immediately bought the three books they had. Still on my bookshelves more than two decades later.
September 10, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I read it at 8 from the library, and everything, including the cover image, lodged in my brain, except the title and the author. Like 10+ years later, I was at an SFF bookstore and saw the cover and immediately bought the three books they had. Still on my bookshelves more than two decades later.
David Graeber wrote something that touched on this a little. davidgraeber.org/articles/of-...
August 26, 2024 at 1:00 PM
David Graeber wrote something that touched on this a little. davidgraeber.org/articles/of-...
I wish I'd been at the show to add it to my slowly growing collection! The one you did for the Cave Angel Ascendancy tour in 2021 is on my mantel right now, and I loved it so much I got another print for a different room.
August 13, 2024 at 1:27 AM
I wish I'd been at the show to add it to my slowly growing collection! The one you did for the Cave Angel Ascendancy tour in 2021 is on my mantel right now, and I loved it so much I got another print for a different room.
He was also a time traveler who put the second pyramid on top of the first nearly forty years before the first was built. Truly, the man lived a life.
July 7, 2024 at 11:24 PM
He was also a time traveler who put the second pyramid on top of the first nearly forty years before the first was built. Truly, the man lived a life.
Every time I think of The Postman, I remember Nathan Rabin's My Year of Flops review, and especially the quote in it from David Brin, the author of the book.
www.avclub.com/my-year-of-f...
www.avclub.com/my-year-of-f...
July 7, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Every time I think of The Postman, I remember Nathan Rabin's My Year of Flops review, and especially the quote in it from David Brin, the author of the book.
www.avclub.com/my-year-of-f...
www.avclub.com/my-year-of-f...
I don't know that that's reasonable to say when this exists.
June 21, 2024 at 1:32 PM
I don't know that that's reasonable to say when this exists.
The biggest climate bill in history is so wildly inadequate to the actual scale of the problem that we're still looking at a catastrophe in the coming years. There are differences, but they bring us to the same apocalypse. There's still reason to hope (and to act), but politicians are garbage.
May 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM
The biggest climate bill in history is so wildly inadequate to the actual scale of the problem that we're still looking at a catastrophe in the coming years. There are differences, but they bring us to the same apocalypse. There's still reason to hope (and to act), but politicians are garbage.
I know that. But it does seem that somewhere between three and five of the five requirements of the UN Convention on Genocide have been met when even one is sufficient (open to some debate). As far as intent, there are fairly damning statements from multiple members of the cabinet and Knesset.
May 10, 2024 at 4:22 AM
I know that. But it does seem that somewhere between three and five of the five requirements of the UN Convention on Genocide have been met when even one is sufficient (open to some debate). As far as intent, there are fairly damning statements from multiple members of the cabinet and Knesset.
Google Image search turned up this.
May 9, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Google Image search turned up this.
It's especially sad given how good the cover is for the first hardcover edition.
April 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM
It's especially sad given how good the cover is for the first hardcover edition.
I never tire of sharing that Ursula LeGuin pretty much immediately and completely saw right through Rowling. If Ursula LeGuin had referred to my work as "ethically rather mean-spirited," I think I would simply choose to stop.
April 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM
I never tire of sharing that Ursula LeGuin pretty much immediately and completely saw right through Rowling. If Ursula LeGuin had referred to my work as "ethically rather mean-spirited," I think I would simply choose to stop.
There's also plenty to criticize in the writing (without being dismissive of the many people who found something they loved there). I've always enjoyed how thoroughly Ursula Leguin saw right through them. But yeah, the terf thing is a lot worse than the writing.
March 14, 2024 at 5:32 AM
There's also plenty to criticize in the writing (without being dismissive of the many people who found something they loved there). I've always enjoyed how thoroughly Ursula Leguin saw right through them. But yeah, the terf thing is a lot worse than the writing.
Would she though?
March 13, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Would she though?
Okay, that card is kind of useless. They look like this:
February 7, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Okay, that card is kind of useless. They look like this:
In fact, it's probably a good idea to stop trying to decide who "deserves" things altogether. I think of this Ursula LeGuin bit from The Dispossessed probably once a week.
February 7, 2024 at 9:09 PM
In fact, it's probably a good idea to stop trying to decide who "deserves" things altogether. I think of this Ursula LeGuin bit from The Dispossessed probably once a week.