Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Two Nebula 2025 nominees are $1.99 right now

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar 

The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

Today's news and jokes

@7newsq

Witnesses are recounting the mayhem that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast. Two sisters have told of how their mother and a man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. #7NEWS

♬ original sound - 7NEWS Queensland
(Are they starring in an ad campiagn yet?)

Racy cover for Werewolf by Night # 4 by E. M. Gist

FPV of people twirling with their pets

@jesuethor Que tal asΓ­ jaja?😎 Si pesa el Thor πŸ₯Ή☠️πŸ˜ͺ😁🫢🏻#lethergo #microbully #americanbully #exoticbully #nanobully #doglover #thor #paratiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii #viral #foryou #fyp #tiktok ♬ Let her go - solartunne


Monday, April 21, 2025

A bunch of books from my wishlist are on sale right now

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal is $1.99 right now.

Also on my wishlist, The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011 is $1.99 right now.


Finally, The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, which I just raced through, is $2.99 right now. It has some clumsy plot contrivances that make it feel a little unfinished, but it's the best (unofficial) Jurassic Park sequel I've read.

Today's news and jokes

What's funny about the latest Pete Hegseth chat scandal is that the timeline makes it extremely clear who provided the New York Times with this information. They're not even trying to hide it.

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— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM

Like just to be 100% clear, according to the New York Times, the close associates Hegseth fired last week were also members of this second Signal group.

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— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM




you think hegseth added his lawyer because he thought it would make the group chat privileged?

— Matt Margolis (@itsmattslaw.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM


A view from my Chromebook

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— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
("More than a month after announcing an indefinite bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Defense Department has offered little information and the command overseeing the campaign is refusing to answer even basic questions on what U.S. forces have accomplished in the area or whether troops have been under fire or injured")

Merge Mansion lore videos collected (the live ones are very fun)