Genevieve Williams - Shakespeare Adjacent out now
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SFF writer, hardingfele player, tracker, librarian. Longer writings and book reviews at welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com. masto: [email protected], insta: datamuse. SFWA, Codexian. Shakespeare Adjacent anthology out now!
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Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Arkona
Warpaint
First Aid Kit
Thunderpussy
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Arkona
Warpaint
First Aid Kit
Thunderpussy
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers
Indigo Girls
Warpaint
Wet Leg
Liz Phair
PJ Harvey
Indigo Girls
Warpaint
Wet Leg
Liz Phair
PJ Harvey
Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
Velocity Girl
Belly
The Breeders
Mila Jovovich
X
Velocity Girl
Belly
The Breeders
Mila Jovovich
X
January 24, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Arkona
Warpaint
First Aid Kit
Thunderpussy
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Arkona
Warpaint
First Aid Kit
Thunderpussy
Can't imagine why this quote's been playing in my head on repeat lately
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Can't imagine why this quote's been playing in my head on repeat lately
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I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
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Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.
"Whatever your quiet superpower, it is needed now."
The Friday roundup is here! With links to this week's podcast episode, along with some thoughts on junior high-school French class, my supervillain origin story, and why (whatever our sad pasts) each one of us is desperately needed in the fight ahead.
January 9 Friday roundup
With links to the podcast! Also, why nothing in life is wasted.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:32 AM
"Whatever your quiet superpower, it is needed now."
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You best start believing in history. You're in it.
January 8, 2026 at 7:19 AM
You best start believing in history. You're in it.
A thing I first started doing habitually during the first year of COVID is go outside to a specific spot that feels copacetic and just hang out there. Notice what's going on. Count birds or dogs. Maybe bring a notebook and a pencil. Never my phone.
I bring this up right now for no reason at all.
I bring this up right now for no reason at all.
January 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
A thing I first started doing habitually during the first year of COVID is go outside to a specific spot that feels copacetic and just hang out there. Notice what's going on. Count birds or dogs. Maybe bring a notebook and a pencil. Never my phone.
I bring this up right now for no reason at all.
I bring this up right now for no reason at all.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
combine and ruin two bands
Butthole Zeppelin
Butthole Zeppelin
combine and ruin two bands
They Might Be Gorillaz
They Might Be Gorillaz
ruin two bands by combining them:
Nine Inch Hole
Nine Inch Hole
December 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
combine and ruin two bands
Butthole Zeppelin
Butthole Zeppelin
There's research showing effects of using your phone while driving that are tantamount to being drunk, so effectively making the entire dashboard a phone always struck me as a really bad idea.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
There's research showing effects of using your phone while driving that are tantamount to being drunk, so effectively making the entire dashboard a phone always struck me as a really bad idea.
I spent a week in the Kalahari Desert last year without a streetlight within a hundred miles. It’s not just the absence of electric lighting. The stars look close enough to touch, and there are so many of them.
If you ever have the experience of seeing a night sky out in the deep countryside you can understand this; it really is a fundamentally different experience, and I can't imagine it not being formative to people.
December 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I spent a week in the Kalahari Desert last year without a streetlight within a hundred miles. It’s not just the absence of electric lighting. The stars look close enough to touch, and there are so many of them.
Still looking for proof that Doris Lessing actually said this:
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
Lovely sentiment. Can't find evidence that it came from Lessing.
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
Lovely sentiment. Can't find evidence that it came from Lessing.
This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible.
I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”
I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”
looking up the source of quotes, whether for a book or a video script, is great for figuring out when a quote everyone "knows" and has repeated for ages is actually just weird bullshit someone else made up
December 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Still looking for proof that Doris Lessing actually said this:
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
Lovely sentiment. Can't find evidence that it came from Lessing.
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
Lovely sentiment. Can't find evidence that it came from Lessing.
Need some faith in humanity this morning? Here you go:
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Need some faith in humanity this morning? Here you go:
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. However, this was before Inigo’s wound reopened, and Westley relapsed again, and Fezzik took the wrong turn, and Buttercup’s horse threw a shoe. And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit….
When Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half-sunk, a shattered visage lies
December 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. However, this was before Inigo’s wound reopened, and Westley relapsed again, and Fezzik took the wrong turn, and Buttercup’s horse threw a shoe. And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit….
Praise be Hot Rat Summer, for it is eternal.
Seattle Man Leaves Out Plate of Cheese for When St. Rat Comes Up Through Toilet Tonight: tinyurl.com/nhf8cr8s
December 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Praise be Hot Rat Summer, for it is eternal.
Gosh I've been thinking about this movie a lot lately, for SOME reason
watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
December 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Gosh I've been thinking about this movie a lot lately, for SOME reason
A few years ago I gave a talk at a library conference on wildlife tracking as a metaphor for information seeking. It's not really a metaphor--tracking *is* information seeking, typically using incomplete evidence and with a necessary building of context to understand what you do find.
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
December 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A few years ago I gave a talk at a library conference on wildlife tracking as a metaphor for information seeking. It's not really a metaphor--tracking *is* information seeking, typically using incomplete evidence and with a necessary building of context to understand what you do find.
Cleanse your feed with these adorable murder tubes
Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Cleanse your feed with these adorable murder tubes
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Dude... give me the bottle
December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Dude... give me the bottle
Such a very excellent thread about a movie I’m still thinking about two days later. I left the Church over 35 years ago and have complicated feelings about it but I loved this movie and what it says about faith, power, and trying to be good.
Alice has now seen “Wake Up Dead Man” which means now I can talk about “Wake Up Dead Man” as approximately one million of you have asked me to do. intermittent live-blog in the quoted thread. gay Catholic musings below:
Alice is finally watching “Wake Up Dead Man” and we are having a great time
December 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Such a very excellent thread about a movie I’m still thinking about two days later. I left the Church over 35 years ago and have complicated feelings about it but I loved this movie and what it says about faith, power, and trying to be good.
This might go without saying, WA friends, but before going anywhere the next few days make sure however you're getting there isn't underwater/collapsed/covered in mud and downed trees. #wawx
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This might go without saying, WA friends, but before going anywhere the next few days make sure however you're getting there isn't underwater/collapsed/covered in mud and downed trees. #wawx
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"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM