The Prairieland cartoonist/zinester who got 30 years for making a zine. Still short of the goal for funding his fight against this total travesty of justice. A gullible rural jury brainwashed by rightwing media, and the most fascist judge in the country. Donate & push this over the finish line.

Despite only covering two episodes, this is my longest non wrap up piece so far. I’m gonna try to rein these in, although it’s possible the first of season three, the last three episode piece, will be the shortest.

After WestNet shut them out, Mutiny is holding on by a thread. What will Cameron and Donna do to save their company? We're halfway through Halt and Catch Fire, but it feels like it's just getting started. Read my latest piece at Amy Wren Says What! amywrensayswhat.com/halt-and-cat...

Here are the 17 movies currently in my "Seven Like Club" over on Letterboxd. letterboxd.com/amazingamywr...

We're really wasting the concept of a Great American State Fair because a REAL Great American State Fair would have fried foods even God didn't dare to imagine.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

since i am a trans woman who’s been out of work for over a year, and am running a publishing business on a shoestring budget, i will raise my hand for help (or serious investors) venmo: @d-napier paypal: [email protected] or buy some amazing books: www.pastitch.com

Here is another state fair thing to bring back under Woke 2.0. www.californiasun.co/the-lost-pas...

Relatedly, if you’re looking for someone who knows her way inside and out around PHP and can both kick ass in the code and lead a team, let me know! I might just be your woman.

speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job

I'm in @slate.com writing about how this World Cup is the Diaspora World Cup, and argue there may be 48 home teams not three:

Last day for this!!

Us or them. Simple as that. (Of course, if it’s us most of them are coming with us. There’s no place for us if it’s them. This is the truth of this.)

Paging Mr. Herman. Mr. Herman, you have a telephone call at the front desk.

I currently have 454 paid subscribers. Getting to 500 would enable me to reliably fund travel for stories & to purchase media insurance so I could pursue investigative journalism at my newsletter.

I'm 43 and I still remember how excited I was to learn the word "peripatetic" when I was ten

explaining vim as "what if the Backrooms was a text editor"

If you’re an editor going “well you didn’t pitch ME” please just tell me who you are so I can pitch you!!!

Sydney may be one of the most underutilized journalists in the country for her skillset. Let her cook on World Cup and Olympic coverage already.

It annoys me more than it should the Minions themed Bello Yello soda at AMC uses Sprite as its base and not Mello Yello

In this week's premium Friday newsletter, @lilywrites.bsky.social on the good, bad, and terrifyingly accurate of Disclosure Day

This is a good thing. It's a sign that Mamdani is looking for a way to keep his promises to the trans community - the way he's found will help independent providers spin up outside of the large hospital systems that are too reliant on federal funding to offer care.

Anybody know what to do when the hard reboot won’t shut the power off on a Windows 11 laptop? Once the battery dies it’ll likely start up but I really would like to have my computer back sometime in the next 48 hours. How in the fuck is there a machine that can’t be hard rebooted sometimes?

Well, I know what they're *not* talking about.

This past week, I added Ghost Integration to Carrel! I'm already using it to post new editions of Amy Wren Says What. It's simple to set up and works really well. Carrel is still in private beta, so request an invite and you'll get in (I know the owner). carrel.studio/request-access

in the late 2000s people used to say "the Internet is forever" meaning online evidence of wrongdoing never fades, but that turned out to be very wrong. this shit is mad ephemeral. I executed a family of six with a claw hammer in 2013 and there's no evidence because I uploaded the vid in flash player

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Listen. Episodes is so good, it would be worth subscribing at 2x the cost. Or even 3x. But no more. At $40? It’s an unbelievable deal! But you should believe it. Because it’s real. But act now. Go.

This past week, I added Ghost Integration to Carrel! I'm already using it to post new editions of Amy Wren Says What. It's simple to set up and works really well. Carrel is still in private beta, so request an invite and you'll get in (I know the owner). carrel.studio/request-access

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter, Emily talks to @quinnae.com about how journalists can accurately write about trans issues without inciting panic or making organizing harder

If Toy Story's "Andy trilogy" has much, much cleaner storytelling, I think Bonnie is a much better drawn character in general, and the new movies are improved for letting her be a kind of awkward, weird kid.

Imagining Michael Douglas pulling this out in an early 90’s erotic thriller where he’s a high powered corporate lawyer being blackmailed

Breaking: Eight anti-ICE protesters have been sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in prison. Prosecutors had argued that their use of the encrypted messaging service Signal and wearing all-black at the protest proved that they were members of an “Antifa cell.” www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leade...

Sorry, haters; Disclosure Day rocks. A speculative fiction story about what wonders might result if the world still functioned like it did in 1994.

You don't want a glimpse into the reality where you didn't preorder this book. Hundreds of men die needless deaths!

Legend

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

I like this movie pretty well but I’d give it 10 stars if the woman they are looking at turned around and it was Natalie Portman.

the movie NEVER LET ME GO isn't as special as the book; but I relate hard to the bit about growing up in a cloistered environment and then having no idea to act in normal life

Toy Story 5 is 1. A solid tech demo for Pixar’s ability to create photorealistic animals. 2. A showcase for the greatest pig ever. 3. A charming story about two slightly odd girls becoming friends. 4. A best hits album Conan O’Brien is also there.

Toy Story 5 is 1. A solid tech demo for Pixar’s ability to create photorealistic animals. 2. A showcase for the greatest pig ever. 3. A charming story about two slightly odd girls becoming friends. 4. A best hits album Conan O’Brien is also there.

the best thing about Toy Story 5 is when they finally confirmed that Boo traveled back in time to become the witch in Brave

Mutiny has been pulled back from the brink, thanks in large part to Community. And Joe has his sights on acquiring them for his Westgroup network. Things are gonna go well for everyone involved, I'm sure! Read the new Halt and Catch Fire piece at my newsletter. amywrensayswhat.com/halt-and-cat...

I'm not sure there's a more bizarre collection of supporting cast members than this handful from the credits of THE EXORCIST III.

Wrote another book about one of my favorite movies with @laurentheisen.bsky.social, and it's OUT at the END of SEPTEMBER. Including thoughts on: -It's a Wonderful Life as Frank Capra's apotheosis -WWII PTSD -IAWL's politics -Bert & Ernie: gay??? Preorder here: www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...

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Mutiny has been pulled back from the brink, thanks in large part to Community. And Joe has his sights on acquiring them for his Westgroup network. Things are gonna go well for everyone involved, I'm sure! Read the new Halt and Catch Fire piece at my newsletter. amywrensayswhat.com/halt-and-cat...

Season 3 of A FRENCH VILLAGE is slowly enmeshing the characters into the machinery of the Holocaust (some enthusiastically, some reluctantly) and goddamn is it hard to watch