Patrick Nielsen Hayden
@pnh.nielsenhayden.com
VP and editor-at-large at the Tor Publishing Group. Series editor, Tor Essentials. Winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award for editorial work. Opinions mine, not Tor’s. Happily working out of Tucson, AZ.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Not my home, but I know my way around
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Not my home, but I know my way around
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
Lived in, slept in, driven through, driven into. 48 out of 50.
October 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Lived in, slept in, driven through, driven into. 48 out of 50.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
September 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
My favorite doctor and companion
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My favorite doctor and companion
Melbourne, Australia:
July 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Melbourne, Australia:
No cheating: post your lock screen.
July 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
No cheating: post your lock screen.
Behind the ordering counter of an ancient Roman fast-food joint. Ostia Antiqua, 2023. “Would you like garum with that?”
(Photo by @martin.sunpig.com.)
(Photo by @martin.sunpig.com.)
July 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Behind the ordering counter of an ancient Roman fast-food joint. Ostia Antiqua, 2023. “Would you like garum with that?”
(Photo by @martin.sunpig.com.)
(Photo by @martin.sunpig.com.)
Age 16 was a pretty good year.
July 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Age 16 was a pretty good year.
We keep being astounded that credulous journalists sincerely believe that ChatGPT is a person. What we don’t grasp is the real problem, which is that these dipshits don’t actually believe that anybody is a person.
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
We keep being astounded that credulous journalists sincerely believe that ChatGPT is a person. What we don’t grasp is the real problem, which is that these dipshits don’t actually believe that anybody is a person.
Promises, promises
July 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Promises, promises
This Herblock cartoon was published 71 years ago, and it’s just as pertinent now.
July 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This Herblock cartoon was published 71 years ago, and it’s just as pertinent now.
Today is his day.
July 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today is his day.
I belatedly realized one of the many weird things about Trump’s defense secretary, which is that he looks exactly like 1960s white-guy-in-suit clip art
June 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I belatedly realized one of the many weird things about Trump’s defense secretary, which is that he looks exactly like 1960s white-guy-in-suit clip art
Esoteric Venn diagram between the new pope and SF fandom history: Evidently Hugo-winning fanzine publisher Richard Bergeron is/was (I don't know if he's still alive) a ninth cousin to Leo XIV. If the ancestry chart for Leo in this weekend's New York Times is correct, that is. See attachments.
![Text explaining that Richard Bergeron and Pope Leo XIV are ninth cousins, both being descendants of a pair of seventeenth-century French emigrants to Québec, Pierre Pinguet dit Laglardière and his wife Anne Chevalier. I am unable to post the full text, because Bluesky limits alt text to 2000 characters.
[Sources: US and Canadian census records, the Drouin Collection of Québec vital and church records, US social security records, Vermont state and local vital records, US-Canada border crossing records, the Genealogy of Canada website at https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/genealogie.aspx, The Genealogy of the French in North America by Denis Beauregard (2024 edition), US World War II draft card records on ancestry.com, New York State Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967 on ancestry.com, grave photographs on findagrave.com, and "The Family Tree of Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, New York Times, 15 June 2025.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mrwgwaydlivkbanqrgxpizyc/bafkreig56zyjjc7bbnsgozujdljuofihwx5pvj452zdiipurfvx6a75y5q@jpeg)
June 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Esoteric Venn diagram between the new pope and SF fandom history: Evidently Hugo-winning fanzine publisher Richard Bergeron is/was (I don't know if he's still alive) a ninth cousin to Leo XIV. If the ancestry chart for Leo in this weekend's New York Times is correct, that is. See attachments.
oddly specific number
May 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
oddly specific number
May 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
How I arrived on Bluesky
April 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
How I arrived on Bluesky