The formless void manifested enough to type
This is such a fun book if you want mermaids eating the cast of a History Channel documentary.
Seanan McGuireINTO THE DROWNING DEEP by Mira Grant is only $2 in US eBook format today! That's less than half the cost of a cup of decent coffee for hours and hours of meticulous marine biology research leading you to the horrors of the deep!
I suspect quite a few people are going to be rocking LA Queen hats no matter how much they actually watch sports. (free on Youtube BTW)
Frankie de la CretazBy popular demand, here is everything you need to know ahead of the Women's Professional Baseball League season that starts tomorrow:
It won't be solved in my lifetime, it will never be solved, but what ACTUALLY happened to the children in Hamlin that led to the Pied Piper legend? There's no contemporary records, several theories, and I have problems with each of them. Who was the Pied Piper who took their children away?!
G. Willow WilsonWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
This is bad but I'm also somewhat surprised it's not already been a problem. Absolutely they need to keep invasive species from taking over, but also I am in shock that we've managed to do that over the course of the last 3,000 years of marine travel.
GizmodoShips Stuck in the Strait of Hormuz Could Cause an 'Invasive Superspreader Event' https://gizmodo.com/ships-stuck-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-could-cause-an-invasive-superspreader-event-2000792824
Also "I do not need to have an opinion today". Feel free to give a developing story a week for any relevant info to come out before you go digging into the first and most shocking information people could find.
John Bullgeneral reminder that you absolutely do not need to have an opinion on everything. social media just makes you think you should. "i don't know enough about this to have an opinion" is one of the most liberating thoughts you can have in the modern world.
The fact that we're doing this is depressing, but we're out here every day proving that science works.
Rebecca WatsonIn April, Pete Hegseth announced that US troops were no longer required to get the flu vaccine. Only 40% of the next group in basic training opted for the vaccine. By the end of June, one Air Force base had 284 sick, six hospitalized, and one dead from the flu. 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/07/pete...
I'm not sure if the root cause here is bigotry or people being bad at math.
Joel S.This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.