do not do this or you will die younger than you should

Good. Also, fuck the Department of Education for attempting to pull this bullshit in the first place, and fuck this whole racist, shitty administration. And fuck ICE, while I'm at it, because that's just an evergreen at this point.

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

If you want to write anything good, you cannot afford to be afraid of your reader.

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

The news about students seeking compensation from universities for COVID teaching has made me quite sad. I can't say what happened at those universities, or what those student's experience was. My present university did not appear to be in the list. But what I can say is...

My evolving relationship with streaming. 🏴‍☠️

New from me: an example of how the voices of "moderation" have ALWAYS gotten it wrong in struggles for civil rights & equality. This would be a very good time to FINALLY collectively figure this out.

Eisner submissions are now open. My fellow comic creators, no matter at what point in your career you are, if you're making comics in any form, these awards are "For You" and you absolutely can be nominated. Let's get small press/self pub comics on that list! ENTER: www.comic-con.org/uploads/2025...

If people hadn’t been so willing to decide Black people noticing racism was “Worse than the right wing” And need to clear their feelings by HELPING EPSTEIN AND CO BY SILENCING THAT REALITY We wouldn’t need a file drop

I’ve been thinking of these words from Grace Lee Boggs, as I see how my neighbors and my community, and neighbors and communities across the U.S. have been showing their love “for people and place” with their whole, brave selves. Happy revolutionary Valentines to Minnesotans, to folks all over -

A Big Five editor I interviewed “It’s impossible to get reviews. And the reviews you do get are not moving the needle. Literary fiction is review-driven. So if you're not getting reviews, or the reviews you’re getting are not getting eyes on them, it’s like, well, then what are you supposed to do?”

I’ve gotta start building up my stock of nonsensical metaphors for life now that my Appalachian grandparents are all gone. “Don’t go running back into a burning house just because it’s cold outside.” “worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it won’t get you anywhere.”

I know Kevin knows this, but the explanation for this is clear: It's racism. Racism and xenophobia and misogyny. A white native-born American, living in the parts of the country where white native-born men still hold disproportionate power, is the only fully "real" American in the eyes of many.

In regards to what’s going on at the Berlinale film festival, here is footage of Godard & Truffaut shutting down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with students workers & protestors getting brutalized by police in the streets, & probably Godard’s best line about film criticism ever

Omg you guys didn’t have to get me anything for a Valentine’s Day! but that’s so sweet, I love it 🥰

Last summer, on behalf of Granta, Sheila Heti underwent ketamine, DMT, and LSD/MDMA treatments. Her essay about these drug therapies is free to read online until Monday, along with the rest of Granta 174: Therapy.

Hello fans of nonograms/picross games!! Introducing my latest game, Walfie's Nonograms, a free Game Boy Color game featuring 150 puzzles! Play in browser, in a Game Boy emulator, or on a real Game Boy (via flash cart)!

"agony aunt" is a truly wild phrase and if you didn't know what it meant you would never ever come to the meaning on your own.

This is the actual origin of the story that won the @twfestnola.bsky.social very short fiction contest last year, so I encourage everyone to follow their rage. ☺️

This is one of those quotes I think about more than any other.

this is such an oddly specific pet peeve, but I find it so embarrassing when I introduce a rhetorical device or cool phrase to a conversation/workshop/discussion and someone borrows it but to awkward if not outright incorrect effect. like damn I almost taught you something and I'm sad I did

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I feel like it's a good time to restate that my rapist was never prosecuted by the Republican DA at the time for Tarrant County in Texas, who served for 3 decades. In fact he had some of the lowest prosecution rates for SA and rape cases. Republicans have always defended rapists and predators.

Agree with this 100%. Get started on this ASAP. Don't get caught with your pants down. We know they are desperate to pass this. Also, I know these things are prohibitively expensive for a lot of people, along with other barriers. Please consider crowdfunding and enlisting a trusted friend to

ok the ai-powered dynamic pricing for airlines has finally hit me and wtf?? a roundtrip flight we had gone through all the steps for and had hit "submit payment" to suddenly sent us a message asking "hey actually tix have doubled and you'll be paying $1200 that's cool with u rite" like holy shit??

Abusers do this. You can never hate them because of what they’ve done to you. You’re just an easily suggestible person who has been duped by malevolent forces working against them. They can’t reckon with their own evil or the fact that they’re undesirable.

CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE: anyone more online than me is a loser phone addict and everyone less online than me are basic underdeveloped normies

I have family who are BIG winter people. As in, they're essentially unreachable in winter because they're somewhere on a mountain doing something very fast on skis. One texted me that it is -17°, their pipes are frozen, and they're wearing ski socks to work. This winter broke the winter people.

gotta be honest: i kind of prefer this open racism to the implicit kind. makes it easy for everyone to see who’s on the right side and who isn’t. no excuses now!

here's where they think the scam will work- generate hundred books in popular genre, then create a bundle for buying them cheap. 150 Romantasy Novels about Dragons or something, for only $10 that's where they're hoping to fool people. "Omg what a deal! in bulk too!" Already seen in the TTRPG space

This is awesome

yes but that does not excuse their imperialism in kuwait, iraq, and afghanistan

I write weird-ass books. They take a long time to write: I pour layers of weird and the layers need to set before I can layer on more weird. But it's still a story. I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Do we not waste enough of our lives subjected to ads YouTube you just gotta sneak a couple unskippable ones six minutes into a less than ten minute exercise video from nine years ago wow really gotta make sure I learn about some financial accounting app and meal kit service while I’m HOLDING A PLANK

Literally, Skill Issue Just fucking practice and get better holy shit

Racism is not a mental health condition or a cognitive issue, it is simply racism. Implying that it is a form of pathology is a great distancing tactic to avoid engaging with your own role in it!

i've genuinely been thinking about this a lot recently let female journalists be UGLY

A lot of "golden age" science fiction has interesting ideas and workman-like-at-best prose, and Asimov was no exception to this. He and many other GA SF writers benefitted from "first-mover" status, and also, editors who preferred neat SF concepts (and men) over exceptional prose (and women).

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

IT JUST TAKES SOME TIME LITTLE GIRL, YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIDE EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING WILL BE JUST FINE

one thing you have to understand about helen andrews is she is genuinely stupid

Let a thousand @hellgatenyc.com s bloom.

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

All my pens keeps dying on me and I feel like this is a metaphor for this dry-ass winter and my repeated attempts to write but not having time for it

This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger. Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows. You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.