Folks are arriving for #MCAtlanta and as a heads up, the second T is silent and if you say “Hotlanta” you will get arrested. This pains me to say this as I am anti-carceral. But there are some crimes that cannot be forgiven.

For #MCAtlanta attendees: It's probably going to rain this weekend. Pack accordingly. You can take the train to a lot of places in the city, but you'll still probably have to do some walking. I would still suggest getting out a bit further and using ride-share for those places.

Chotiner: So you chose to kill your slavewomen as well as the suitors who had taken over your home. Why? Odysseus: Well, I was in a frenzy understandably, plus they had probably slept with the suitors. C: Ah. And as slaves did they do this voluntarily? O: I didn’t ask because C: They were dead?

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social You've mentioned lately on IBCK that you've been reading a lot about the rise of the Nazi party and etc. What've you been reading? Just one of the classics, like Rise and Fall, or something else?

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

God I love a Chotiner interview so much.

I was getting raptured but then I hit a goose on my way up and now I'm just kinda stuck up here. A plane clipped my shoulder and now I'm just kind of spinning. It's cold and I'm dizzy. If someone else could get raptured and just let me grab their ankle I would really appreciate it.

The cool thing about preordering books on @bookshop.org is I get to support local bookstores, even when buying books they may not regularly carry (like @keezyyoung.bsky.social's Hello Sunshine, out today!). The less cool thing is I have to wait like a week for the book to actually show up 😅.

It's not the rapture just because you saw a guy float away, there are other reasons that happens to guys

dudes rock

I'm a decaf drinker now (I know, I know) and sometimes I'll put a little bit of caffeinated coffee into the mix, and boy oh boy I forgot that this stuff is just drugs.

Whenever you go to a coffee shop it is your job to identify your Enemy.

Acting under the assumption that AI generated art or writing has any sort of value, even as a placeholder or a "concept," shows me that you have absolutely no respect for artists and writers. You only "respect" personality and influence, and their actual work means nothing to you. It's disgusting.

It was really a wonderful first night of the tour

I saw @themountaingoats.bsky.social last night and the show was incredible. Great energy, great tunes. I sang along to a lot of songs I’d never heard before. I was a bit surprised at how much it made me reflect on the nature of God, though.

I think the reason I don't often engage with the wider Magic fandom can be illustrated by the person on Reddit (haunted place) that saw the censoring of Kimmel by ABC/Disney and seriously thought they should suggest to people that a boycott of Disney could be a good way to end UB sets.

you'd be hard-pressed to make a more compelling argument for the way things are now than that we're all trapped in the fitful dream of someone dying in front of a tv. everything that happens involves someone from tv

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Dan’s pitching heaters and drafting beaters

The fact of the matter is that I can condemn political violence, I can believe that gun violence on campus is abhorrent, I can even say that I think it's horrible that children watched their father die in public and on film. But based on his writings, I don't think Kirk would actually agree with me.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

This was a really fun episode to put together. Listen to three writers talk about writing! Occasionally I also talk.

Snap keep.

This made me genuinely laugh out loud.

Stupidest possible timeline.

generally I do not like political violence. it is extremely scary to live through times as violent and unstable as these. I'm wary of making any pronouncements as to whether individual instances of violence are "good" or "bad" given everything going on.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

My opinion, unrelated to anything else I have posted, is that if you spend your life toeing the edge of violence, demanding it upon others, insisting that your hands are clean when they point the way for violence to be instigated, that violence coming back to you should not be unexpected.

Most importantly, above all else, I think guns are unequivocally bad and shootings on campuses are always, under any circumstances, terroristic and evil.

On another note about the agency of voters in states with right wing governments, the truth is also that it is absolutely correct to still want better lives for those people. Horrible people are born everywhere, all the time, and yet we still have to be good everywhere, all the time.

As a southerner my entire life, I do think a lot of folks both inside and outside of the south refuse to give agency to the voters there. Either they can’t change their political circumstances due to outside forces, or they’re just ignorant buffoons. No one will admit that a lot of them just suck.

Pretty uncool how dust just accumulates on all your stuff even if you didn't do anything wrong.

Did y’all know that Superman movie was really fucking good

A great part of working in an office again is watching full grown men walk out of the bathroom without so much as pretending to wash their hands.

Fuck it. We ride for the Khan. Pritzker 2028.

I love that he's so clearly in control of this entire race that he can just, like, use a massive campaign infrastructure to do a fun little scavenger hunt. Fully expect that by the end of this campaign they're just going to be using their resources to host Magic the Gathering tournaments.

It's important to remember that genAI can't do any of this. It's a lie. The things they are claiming aren't actually possible to do. You cannot generate "fluid, context-rich dialogue." It is not "secure." You cannot regulate it being "age appropriate." None of this is achievable. They're just lying.

Video games do take 7 years to make, it’s just that a lot of the time they compress that 7 years into 3 or 4 years, killing their staff with the pressure, and then still need several more years post release for the game to actually work as intended.

People are just excited that Newsom is actually engaging with Trump on the same playing field, and also actually saying that the man is a dictator. The moment a politician who isn’t a transphobic, homeless killing soulsucker realizes this is the play that gets attention, Newsom’s toast.

When I was in fifth grade I had my first black teacher. I’d had black parapros and black counselors (shoutout to the counselor who helped me through my parents’ divorce), but my first black full time teacher was in fifth grade. She taught us a lesson on slavery. It would have gotten her fired today.

imo take this a step further and ask yourself, "how many people have to be in camps, and how bad do the conditions in the camps have to be, before i would consider it imperative to remove trump from office, even outside the normal constitutional mechanisms of end-of-term transition or impeachment?"

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this gambit all morning. If every single person in NYC who voted for Trump in 2024 came out to vote for Cuomo, and every primary voter who ranked him higher than Mamdani also came out, he’d be behind Harris’ 2024 total by about 700,000 voters.

if it was one quick chomp and then it’s over, i’d be cool with being taken out by a t rex but, if it’s two or more chomps then no thank you

Magic player in denial about the apocalypse because "there's still one more horseman they haven't shown us yet"

being in ICE or Border Patrol must be so crazy right now, you’re walking around as the disposable henchmen you can kill without qualms in the coming century of films and video games

ooh if you’re of polish, italian or irish descent…watch out