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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 11h

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover

Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.

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Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 1d

Hi judge expert here this isn't funny judges only do this when they're in extreme distress

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

the 9th cir decision overruling the TRO might be the funniest "per curiam" i've ever seen? it's an unsigned opinion written by "the court" as a three judge panel, but has a concurring opinion and a dissenting opinion attached

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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · Jun 15

Turtle Mutual Aid:

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 2d

*deep breath*

The term Judeo-Christian is somehow both antisemitic and Islamophobic: it reduces Judaism to Christianity's predecessor on the one hand and implies only two Abrahamic religions on the other, when there are (at least) three

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 5d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=heFR...
This was a vital performance for understanding what would become one of my favorite artists.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 5d

SOME OF US WORK IN CUBICLES

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 5d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 7d

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 8d

Finally! I’ve broken through the glass ceiling for old, white men hoping to work in animation.
Be sure to tune in. As I tell all my lovers, this might just be the best 20 seconds of your life.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 9d

from an asterix comic: panel 1: Julius Caesar, enraged: "OH STUFF YOUR BRASSICA OLERACEA CAPITATA!". Panel 2, senator leaning over talking to a scribe: "Delete that last culinary expletive of caesar's. It wouldn't go down too well as a classical quotation."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · Dec 10

POV: you've committed the perfect crime, disposed of the weapon and and hidden the body, but now you arrive back at your pasture to find you are well and truly fucked.

Detective Columbo stands behind a wooden table with two irregular cow tools in it. He holds a 3rd cow tool and looks at it with his other hand scratching his head. He says, "Gee these tools are really something, aren't they? Y'know, my wife, she says they lack sophistication. But I just think that adds to the charm... Say... Don't they usually come in a set of four?"

Caption below the panel reads, "Cowlumbo tools."

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 12d

what's your piece of media you try and pitch to every single person you meet? I've realized mine is Priestdaddy

The book Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

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Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 12d

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (nonfiction) or Gnomon by Nick Hawkaway (fiction)

Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 17d

You have to. For science

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Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · 18d

This is a pretty bad specific example though. Harkaway‘s written enough fiction and nonfiction that he probably means the words he says and not your implicit “and it would be bad if it happened here”

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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 20d

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?”
Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”
Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 26d

CHOTINER:

JOHN CAGE:

CHOTINER:

CAGE:

CHOTINER: ?

CAGE: This interview is over.

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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · Sep 10

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · Aug 18

Moebius

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Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · Sep 3

Aging into equivalence with Jon K Samson when he wrote songs is a curse. Hearing them at the bar just reminds you that those feelings persist forever on to oblivion.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Amazing photo of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open by Ray Giubilo

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 25

a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · Aug 24

The latest on how the internet has made us all medieval peasants: “this cookie chain has the spirit of the perfidious Jew behind it”

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Kirby was such a great artist, of course, because he inhaled other comic book artists and gained their abilities.

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Benjamin "Not Ben Shapiro" Schapiro @vermilious.bsky.social · Aug 17

When I was young, I broke my arm pretty badly. In the hospital before surgery, there was a joke book. The only joke I remember was “What heroes do lawn care? Only the Shadow mows.”

Christian Ward @cjward.bsky.social · Aug 17

Who knows…

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