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“This Place is Best Shunned” 😱⛪️🦑

My latest dark tale, “This Place is Best Shunned,” is free to read on Tor.com RIGHT NOW!!!

Allie and Rooster are heading down to Asheville for Rooster’s new gig, a cushy stint as artist-in-residence at UNC. Rooster is more of a con artist than maker of art, but Allie doesn’t mind, because he’s good-looking, charming, and values what she is: a girl with a keen eye for abandoned places and a knack for getting into them. But when they stumble upon an old backcountry church—the perfect backdrop for Rooster’s latest project—they discover that some “abandoned” places have a knack for keeping themselves occupied.

(Amazing cover art is by David Palumbo!!!)

There’s a Hexagonal Storm Larger than the Earth Rotating at Saturn’s North Pole ‽

…AND NONE OF YOU TOLD ME!!!

natural color animation of hexagonal storm on Saturn (via Wikipedia)
natural color animation of hexagonal storm on Saturn (via Wikipedia)
  • NASA’s page on this weather phenomenon (with some stunning images and animations):  
  • Good overview of the science behind this over on Wikipedia. 

This weather feature has lasted decades, if not centuries. YOU HAD AMPLE TIME TO MENTION IT!!!

How do we sleep with the roiling eye of an angry God staring at us?

(via NASA) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/science/saturn/hexagon-in-motion/
(via NASA)

See also:

"Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco Goya
“Saturn Devouring His Son” by Francisco Goya

“CHANGE PASSWORD.”

https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/1503131005389099011

[2022.03.17] Oops: Instead of telling you when it’s safe to cross the street, the walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating ‘CHANGE PASSWORD.’ Something’s gone terribly wrong here.

EDITED TO ADD (4/13): Details of what happened.

via Bruce Schneier’s long-running “Cryptogram” newsletter.

Urologist reporting up to 400% increase in vasectomies since Roe decision

Washington Post: Men rush to get vasectomies after Roe ruling

Urologist are reporting up to a 400% increase in vasectomy inquiries and scheduling since the repeal of Roe last week. Some young men—a group not known for its forwarding planning—are specifically citing concerns that Justice Thomas will seek to use this repeal as a jumping off point to limit access to birth control (based on Thomas’ concurring opinion). Absolutely astounding. 

Incidentally, if you’re considering a vasectomy: I got one after our second kid (about 9 years ago). Have never had any issues or complications since. It’s ambulatory surgery, they don’t put you under, and in my case they had one matronly middle-aged nurse there who’s entire job was, apparently, to hold my hand and be fucking hilarious. It was literally less unpleasant than any single dental cleaning I’ve gotten in the last ten years. I spent the weekend icing my nuts, and was fine.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Recommended; would snip again.

I LOVE this web comic! 👨🏾‍🦲

“Your Black Friend” by Ben Passmore

This is a situation where I want to grab frame or two to put here, to entice you to click through and read the whole thing. But at the same time, I don’t wanna grab a full frame, b/c every frame of it—and the way the entire thing locks together—is So. Damn. Perfect, and such a perfect presentation of the thing it’s trying to talk about.

I love it. There’s nothing left to say. It’s 100% perfect for me. It is MAUS for this moment.