Brian McCullogh
@webmccullogh.bsky.social
73 year-old retired guy, didn’t expect to have followers. Joined to continue reading interesting posts from favourite f&sf authors, science writers, and learning new things from other interesting people. Occasional likes, replies, and reposts.
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Germany's magazine Der Spiegel:
"Martial and attention-seeking - that's how ICE Commander Gregory Bovino likes to present himself."
"Martial and attention-seeking - that's how ICE Commander Gregory Bovino likes to present himself."
January 24, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Germany's magazine Der Spiegel:
"Martial and attention-seeking - that's how ICE Commander Gregory Bovino likes to present himself."
"Martial and attention-seeking - that's how ICE Commander Gregory Bovino likes to present himself."
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This is the kind of night we hunker down and stay off the roads.
People in Minneapolis are in the streets defending democracy and defying fascists. They are heroes.
On the coldest night of the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc...
People in Minneapolis are in the streets defending democracy and defying fascists. They are heroes.
On the coldest night of the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc...
Bruce Cockburn - The Coldest Night Of The Year (Toronto)
YouTube video by YYZChap72
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:18 AM
This is the kind of night we hunker down and stay off the roads.
People in Minneapolis are in the streets defending democracy and defying fascists. They are heroes.
On the coldest night of the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc...
People in Minneapolis are in the streets defending democracy and defying fascists. They are heroes.
On the coldest night of the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc...
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This one is even better, imo.
January 23, 2026 at 3:36 AM
This one is even better, imo.
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Kicked off our Cabinet meeting in Québec City with Bonhomme.
January 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Kicked off our Cabinet meeting in Québec City with Bonhomme.
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Like I dunno, maybe people have books on their shelves because they like them and they browse stores because they enjoy it and they buy books as gifts because it's their love language and maybe people are adults who can make their own choices.
January 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Like I dunno, maybe people have books on their shelves because they like them and they browse stores because they enjoy it and they buy books as gifts because it's their love language and maybe people are adults who can make their own choices.
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Happy (?) Friday! Today is a good day to read the BSFA-award-longlisted (twice!) ONE MESSAGE REMAINS -- four stories of resistance, malicious compliance, myth, and tradition in a world not quite like our own.
psychopomp.com/one-message-...
psychopomp.com/one-message-...
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed | Psychopomp
In One Message Remains you'll find three brand new stories set in the morally ambiguous world of war and magic first encountered in The General's Turn.
psychopomp.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Happy (?) Friday! Today is a good day to read the BSFA-award-longlisted (twice!) ONE MESSAGE REMAINS -- four stories of resistance, malicious compliance, myth, and tradition in a world not quite like our own.
psychopomp.com/one-message-...
psychopomp.com/one-message-...
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If you need a book series to devour during the winter storm, may I recommend Wayward Children by @seananmcguire.bsky.social? There are 11 now, they are quick reads, and I have loved all of them including the most recent
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
If you need a book series to devour during the winter storm, may I recommend Wayward Children by @seananmcguire.bsky.social? There are 11 now, they are quick reads, and I have loved all of them including the most recent
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They really are dropping any pretense that ICE is about immigration.
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
They really are dropping any pretense that ICE is about immigration.
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
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I don't know anyone--and I know a lot of very feminist people--anyone who says, in the general, that it's bad for women to become mothers, men to become fathers, people to become parents.
We say it's bad for anyone to be FORCED into those life paths.
We say it's bad for anyone to be FORCED into those life paths.
How do I know? 1) Common sense. 2) He said the same shit on twitter in 2022, but about women
January 24, 2026 at 12:31 AM
I don't know anyone--and I know a lot of very feminist people--anyone who says, in the general, that it's bad for women to become mothers, men to become fathers, people to become parents.
We say it's bad for anyone to be FORCED into those life paths.
We say it's bad for anyone to be FORCED into those life paths.
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How do I know? 1) Common sense. 2) He said the same shit on twitter in 2022, but about women
January 24, 2026 at 12:04 AM
How do I know? 1) Common sense. 2) He said the same shit on twitter in 2022, but about women
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I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Also, the arctic vortex wandering south like this IS an indicator of climate change, as it is due to the destabilization of the jet stream and oceanic currents.
Yes, it’s cold across part of the United States today.
This does *not* mean the global-scale patterns of long-term warming linked to climate change are not happening.
The United States covers only 1.8% of the planet. And a few days is only 0.03% of the 30 years we average for climate statistics.
This does *not* mean the global-scale patterns of long-term warming linked to climate change are not happening.
The United States covers only 1.8% of the planet. And a few days is only 0.03% of the 30 years we average for climate statistics.
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Also, the arctic vortex wandering south like this IS an indicator of climate change, as it is due to the destabilization of the jet stream and oceanic currents.
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Finally cast this core! I cannot wait to get it finished up!
January 20, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Finally cast this core! I cannot wait to get it finished up!
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Completed another dragonborn mix set! This commission came with the request to make the d10s the gold and silver with black numbers (the rest of the set colors were up to me though!)
January 19, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Completed another dragonborn mix set! This commission came with the request to make the d10s the gold and silver with black numbers (the rest of the set colors were up to me though!)
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basically all the really smart and funny people on social media are people who understand that every social media platform is a dumbass pyramid scheme that will eventually turn to shit when the owners realize it makes no money, and are thus willing to migrate, and the money people don't like this
the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine
January 20, 2026 at 3:11 AM
basically all the really smart and funny people on social media are people who understand that every social media platform is a dumbass pyramid scheme that will eventually turn to shit when the owners realize it makes no money, and are thus willing to migrate, and the money people don't like this
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Tanya Huff's keeper series caught me due to the cat. Then kept me for the characters and humour. Very Canadian.
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tanya Huff's keeper series caught me due to the cat. Then kept me for the characters and humour. Very Canadian.
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If you see this and agree, you are obligated to rec a book by a fantasy author who's still writing. I don't make the rules.
I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.
I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.
I'm always baffled by the "I'll ONLY read old fantasy" crowd.
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 AM
If you see this and agree, you are obligated to rec a book by a fantasy author who's still writing. I don't make the rules.
I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.
I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.
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I'm always baffled by the "I'll ONLY read old fantasy" crowd.
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I'm always baffled by the "I'll ONLY read old fantasy" crowd.
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
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I'm feeling the need to caveat this with 1000 things but I'm tired. Rest assured I love Tolkien and I'm not coming for your Discworld stacks, I just don't get the point of only rereading old stuff when you could IN ADDTION TO IT read new stuff incl stuff by women, queer people, and people of color.
January 21, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I'm feeling the need to caveat this with 1000 things but I'm tired. Rest assured I love Tolkien and I'm not coming for your Discworld stacks, I just don't get the point of only rereading old stuff when you could IN ADDTION TO IT read new stuff incl stuff by women, queer people, and people of color.
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OR WHAT YOU WILL by Jo Walton (@bluejo.bsky.social). Published in 2020 and still deserves a lot more readers. Also, a ton of fun.
If you see this and agree, you are obligated to rec a book by a fantasy author who's still writing. I don't make the rules.
I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.
I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.
I'm always baffled by the "I'll ONLY read old fantasy" crowd.
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
You know there are LIVING authors doing really cool stuff, right? Like, LOTS of them? And we could get MORE if more people bought their stuff?
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 PM
OR WHAT YOU WILL by Jo Walton (@bluejo.bsky.social). Published in 2020 and still deserves a lot more readers. Also, a ton of fun.
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Bigass MUST-READ thread. (Click through, scroll *all* the way up and read the WHOLE thing. Worth it.)
Anyway: here's to my students. They took it seriously, they argued it out, and they came up with something that I doubted at first, but ended admiring more than any system I've designed on my own.
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Bigass MUST-READ thread. (Click through, scroll *all* the way up and read the WHOLE thing. Worth it.)
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Murder by Memory has been longlisted for the BSFA and members can vote for it, how nice, I am very calm, oh look, there is Amal El-Mohtar and Sarah Gailey and Annalee Newitz, what a good set of names to be among, I am definitely not having a small internal joy breakdown on this very normal morning.
Vote for the BSFA Awards
www.bsfa.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Murder by Memory has been longlisted for the BSFA and members can vote for it, how nice, I am very calm, oh look, there is Amal El-Mohtar and Sarah Gailey and Annalee Newitz, what a good set of names to be among, I am definitely not having a small internal joy breakdown on this very normal morning.