The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

I’m so happy I got Droplet Book 2 to my beloved beta readers *before* Hades 2 came out

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

I have to laugh at Disney’s desperation. I paid for lawn care today using Venmo, and I got a pop-up, “Congratulations! You’ve qualified for a three-month deal on Disney+ and Hulu!” Seriously? I have to laugh because if I think of how much they’ve spent putting these ads everywhere, I’ll scream

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

You would think that because I made a joke about this experience yesterday, I would learn from it. And yet!!

The Greater Gatsby

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. First day of fall

Being Autistic is not a bad thing.

Me, the day after my covid/flu shot: Feels like the Tylenol is wearing off a bit, but I’m fine! Me, 10 minutes later: consequences

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I’m reading a copy of Reading Lolita in Tehran that I got used, and I found the original owner’s 20-year-old receipt from @quailridgebooks.bsky.social inside! One of my favorite bookstores!

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

I’ve been trying to avoid doomscrolling by reading the Sherlock Holmes stories. What other public domain books do folks recommend? I’d love recommendations outside the standard USian English Literature path.

Sign up to vote for “ace in space,” do it, do it

I mean what the fuck else does this guy have to do, does he have to put a crown on his own head on national television while screaming I AM KING OF AMERICA there is no level of appeasement that will satisfy him, fight back

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

for the time being we still have juries & one of the few heartening things is how they continue to be made up of other people deeply annoyed at this horseshit, not an endless parade of administration ghouls barely able to hold their rotting epidermal coverings on over their chitinous exoskeletons

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

The jokes will continue whether or not morale improves. That's how this works.

This story is not getting the attention it deserves in fact it should be so shocking that it took over the CK story at this point. However, you would be hard pressed to find more than a couple people who even know what happened

My "The gods themselves dare not smite me for my hubris." has a lot of people shouting questions from so far away it's difficult to say whether the shirt adequately addresses them or not, though it is hard to see how it could possibly fail to.

A few years ago, swimming in the ocean, my husband shouted, “Come at me, Poseidon!” Immediately, a wave bowled him over and took his wedding ring.

Just sent the first draft of Droplet Book 2 to my beta readers!! The last task before sending was clearing up my bracketed placeholders to myself, like “[what’s-her-face]” and ”[thing that goes on horse’s head]”

"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."

Some good news!

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The governor of NC just rescinded prescriptions being necessary for all adults in NC with high-risk conditions. I made my appointment for next Friday to get mine.

This probably can't be said clearly enough: The Incandescent has big and serious things it wants to talk about, but on a sentence and scene level, it is also just consistently engaging, clever, and often funny, with some tour de force set pieces.

I made up SO MANY magical cat stories as a kid, you have no idea. I’m tempted to go back to that as an adult.

(1) Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland! An amazing historical YA fantasy about a young Black woman in magical 1930s America who just wants to open a bakery and instead has to investigate magical blight. Great characters, great frame narrative, very cool use of magic.

Me: *typing carefully* I have decided that 'comps' is short for 'compsognathus,' and therefore you will note that my pitch document describes small dinosaurs rather than 'comparable titles,' so if you Me: Me: Me: *sighing, backspacing*

It is my considered moral stance that lying to get a vaccine that you should be eligible for and would be eligible for if we didn't have a bunch of vaccine denialists in major roles is always morally correct! Protect yourself and your community: get vaccinated!

Diego the giant tortoise got to go home after a century to an island full of his descendants, thanks to a captive breeding program that saved the island’s tortoise population! www.galapagos.org/newsroom/fam...

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

I’ve been on tumblr since 2012 and still haven’t seen half these posts. Anyway here’s a recent favorite of mine.

I am genuinely grateful to mediocre books in these trying times. If my brain is mush, I can still pick up a bland book with zero intellectual or emotional investment, and it’s so much better than doomscrolling.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

"To meet that need, AI companies ingested digital copies of practically every published work on the planet, without getting the permission of the copyright holders. That was probably the only practical option they had." "i stole it because it was my only option" is not an acceptable argument

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either. This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem  This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now 1/

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Slightly diminish a book: And Then There Were a Few

Finished my unofficial annual reread of Watership Down

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

By nullifying Congress's biggest ever investment in climate projects, the Trump admin is threatening both public health and democracy By concocting any reason to insulate the admin from accountability, conservative judges are proving themselves just as dangerous ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/clima...

Again, I do this for a living: If you're going to take action against RFK Jr, if you're going to spend your time and energy on opposing this fucking monster, the time is now.