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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 20h

Flour tortilla, mayo, Crystal hot pepper sauce, fold in quarters, eat.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 1d

The peak years of emigration to New England were 1633-35, well before the English civil war, much less the restoration.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 2d

This is 100% the case. I’ve been there for some of these conversations, and they shook me down to my toes.

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 2d

Despite all the attempts to paint American fascism as some sort of grassroots phenomenon, so much of it is fueled by gentry at the same dinner parties hating the rest of us.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute hell poison to believe the most valuable ideals are open exchange, debate, and regard for the beliefs of others, instead of actual ethics.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 3d

George H. W. and Kate Bush have always had issues.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · Feb 24

I'm the guy tabulating whether you are "not surprised" by some act of political monstrosity. keep it up, you're doing great work and everyone wants to hear about it

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 7d

To cite a really simple example — I think I first heard this one from @lydy.bsky.social — it’s obviously useful to any band of humans to have a few members who can’t sleep at night or stay awake during the day.

Richard Garfinkle @rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · 7d

The benefits of neurodiversity are obvious if people would stop to think about it. Different ways of thinking means that different skills are easier for different people. A mentally diverse population can therefore do much more, learn much more and create much more than a mental monoculture. /1

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10d

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 11d

I’ve used “anent” for years — it’s particularly useful in character-count-restricted forums, but it’s just generally a helpful word

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 12d

All of this. I’m an aging 67 year old with a herniated disk who walks with a cane, but I can ride an e-bike for miles and miles and feel great after doing so.

Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 12d

I am an old and sedentary person with asthma who hates exercise. Except for biking. Biking in general, but even more with electric assist, lets me get out and move, but titrate the amount of effort, so that I never give myself an asthma attack.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13d

trump constantly says black women in leadership positions have "low iq" but the mainstream media refuses to say trump is a racist

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Betty Ann @vegavannah.bsky.social · 13d

Those crazy fuckers are on tv every single day calling dems violent gang supporting baby killers and dems are still “my friends on the other side of the aisle should check their hearts”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13d

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 13d

I have just experienced cataplexy

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 14d

Yes they can. They just don’t. On purpose.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 14d

my immediate thought on seeing it was ‘why are we taking the ‘AI summary’ at face value’

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 14d

Please stop posting that bullshit thing about Melania Trump plagiarizing from C J Cherryh. It’s AI-generated and not true.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 16d

Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance.

And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 16d

You don’t understand, Joe Biden was President during the initial COVID outbreak, the fall of Saigon, the Thirty Years War, and the sack of Constantinople in April 1204. Facts are just facts, you can’t argue with facts.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17d

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 17d

It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 16d

Absolutely

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 16d

My spouse and I have never quite recovered from the sign we saw outside a highway rest area in Wales: NO SMOKING INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THIS FACILITY

You hear that, people of Antares?

Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 17d

That’s insane. I’ve been an editor in trade book publishing for 37 years and I’ve never paid for an advance quote.

(I use the term “quote” instead of “blurb” because the latter has become hopelessly confused. Half the people who use it think it refers to descriptive what-is-this-book-about copy.)

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