fortunately, having watched the Fallout show, I know exactly what I would do (die immediately) www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

the sexism in all the comments about reactions to mens hockey is just off the charts. Poor little girls who just can't distinguish fiction from reality! Thanks to @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions for teaching me that this shit goes back *at least* as far as Molière & pals

I know I’m not going to win here, but it really sucks to see leftist writers promote their work through (or partner with) C*rr*nt Aff*irs. Everybody knows about the co-op busting, some people carve out exceptions for themselves or decide it’s magically okay now

I’m always thinking about how you couldn’t publish LOTR today (because it’s already been written 🤪) but also because editors would demand you clean up points like the ones in the thread below, they’d insist on rational & main plot-centered behavior from everyone. also no tom bombadil

A group of amazingly generous folks are 3D printing whistles and sending them (for free) to people across the country whose areas are under attack by ICE. They've sent almost a million. Want to help? Buy them filament 👇

seeing lots of economy Takes…it can’t be simultaneously true that the court ruled against tariffs to help Trump on the economy before the midterms AND that lifting the tariffs wouldn’t help the average U.S. consumer. it CAN be true that this ruling was simply meant to benefit the wealthy

but what happens now to the stonks

We need food right now. My wife is diabetic and needs to eat regularly. If anyone can send us a few dollars that'll help today. My PayPal is acting stupid so please donate to my wife's PayPal [email protected]. Thanks in advance. Agape.

Whereas previous cult phenomenon depended on a charismatic leader preaching the divine word with a force of will, the next cult phenomenon will almost certainly be rational people driving themselves insane to serve the whims of an "AI god" they have convinced themselves speaks prophecy.

there are simply no appropriate uses of AI in journalism

who put this dull, exploitative, incredibly excessive, Game of Thrones-ass flashback in the middle of my nice-knight-and-cute-squire show?!??

This is good stuff.

this is ghastly and unsurprising and everyone should read it

good morning, I wrote about AI psychosis, and why I literally/figuratively think LLMs are demonic open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...

take out the modern technology and the Paradise Lost reference, and this is the most late medieval/early renaissance story ever www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

My Kalma has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The good news is she is in good health it may be low grade, meaning surgery will drastically improve life expectancy. The bad is it normally costs around $6000 and is time sensitive- things I just do not have. ko-fi.com/coyoteprince

best episode of scifi tv or best episode of tv itself, ever? hard to decide

this is much more realistic imo than any notion that Bezos bought the WP to ruin it. he enjoyed his propaganda outlet for a while (and maybe he does want to pivot harder toward a Bari Weiss model) but it makes sense that he’s simply over it

I bet I could do luge, I’m great at lying down and being a lil chonky

yes, Bad Bunny’s halftime show ruled, but I will NOT stand for Kendrick erasure

we’ll give the patriots two drives before we ask for bad bunny back

say what you like about the new england patriots: they sure make football boring

every celebrity who appears in an ad should be killed

this article’s a psyop, its sole purpose is to convince all writers they have to use AI or else

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

yes but at this point it would be hilarious if the patriots won

why do 3/4 of the winter olympians dress like sperms

thinking today about all the people who defended Amazon’s so-called “diverse”tv shows despite their white male showrunners and cynically bad writing, who praised Jeff Bezos for saving the Expanse etc….who did you think this guy was? what did you think he cared about?

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

rent is due and i know we are all squeezed for more so anything helps and i'm sorry and i love you all, i'm 700/1400 paypal.me/aizykows venmo.com/u/nellarosmarino cash.app/$spacedaddie

ok BUT: people do disagree and have different tastes! for example, I loved neil gaiman’s work when I was in high school & college, then as I got older I realized he was indeed derivative in certain ways, and always better when working with visual artists. so when he was outed as an abuser…

I think it’s possible that: 1) opsec is wise in certain situations (Signal organizing etc) 2) technology has changed and we have to accept we’ll be caught on film everywhere 3) it’s risky to show one’s face at a protest but also a sign of courage 4) some destructive tactics are very stupid

prepare for the most Normal discourse of all time

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

new opening quote for the novel just dropped

I used to be friendly with Brie, she wasn’t like this before. But she always loved attention…and antisemitism is popular right now…

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

releasing more epstein files is cool, but I wish literally anything would happen because of them

the sex games here are so interesting. the fascists pretend that everyone’s hot for them—but, in true Klaus Theweleit “Male Fantasies” style—the fascists are so frightened by the thought of sex that they respond with violence

rough day to have co-written a book with Chomsky! if you possessed the faculty of shame, of course

ah yes, nordic compassion. famously a part of viking DNA

unrelated to anything, but Delta Dental is fucking garbage

Amy when you’re done self-promoting do you think you could go get that kid out of that concentration camp

I’ve been seeing takes like, obviously you don’t NEED 5-6 hours in your day to write, plus extra time to think and read….but it’s ideal, expecially if you take a lot of time to revise & reconsider your linework

If you have to make the argument, you’ve already lost the argument

It’s like if Teapot Dome, Watergate, Kent State, Credit Mobilier, and Iran Contra had all happened in the same week.