Imaginary friends Pillow wearing a baseball cap is not a valid passenger for carpool lane, say police Mark Frauenfelder

afrofuturism Watch this opera adaptation of an Octavia Butler novel on Friday night Thom Dunn

Comics A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at Donald's many imaginary friends Ruben Bolling

sourdough Baking with a small-batch, whole grain, locally sourced wheat Jason Weisberger

happy mutants Man-Eaters: Handmaid's Tale meets Cat People in a comic where girls turn into man-eating were-panthers when they get their periods Cory Doctorow

trump The prosecutor who helped a rich serial child rapist escape justice is now a Trump Cabinet member Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Tom the Dancing Bug Another Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at Donald Trump and his imaginary friends Ruben Bolling

Science On the junk science and excellent PR of Cambridge Analytica Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Caped one-percenters: how superheros make out like bandits under the Trump tax-plan Cory Doctorow

Games Meet a professional D&D dungeon master. Yes, that's his main gig. David Pescovitz

happy mutants Monster Scouts: go camping with an imaginary cryptid scout troop from the 1910s! Cory Doctorow

Robert Anton Wilson A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography Ferdinando Buscema

happy mutants Binky: a fully automated social network that doesn't require you to be sociable Cory Doctorow

picks Adventures in Pain Mangement: a TENS unit really helps Jason Weisberger

Tom the Dancing Bug Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Hillbilly Robot and MORE!! Ruben Bolling

Delightful Creatures America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake Ted Levin

happy mutants 30 years on, Roz Kaveney's "Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners" is finally in print and winning prizes Cory Doctorow

media Saturn’s moon Iapetus will destroy Earth, and other tabloid stunners Mark Frauenfelder

art The Amazing 4 Corners Project Michael Borys