Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

“I was just following otters.”

1 like equals one clove of garlic going into my dish

The sixth picture in my phone gallery is my (no longer correct) glasses prescription, so this is actually plausible.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

One problem that healthy people have is they don't have any frame of reference for what 'pain that never leaves you' feels like both on a day to day level nor over the long time horizon you'll be chronically sick, which is a problem, because doctors are healthy people overwhelmingly

Also I didn’t need to have a good attitude about it at all, you can just be furious and crabby and work your ass off and still accomplish things

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Your annual reminder that the measure of inequality called the Gini coefficient now has America rated higher (we are .49) in inequality than Ancient Rome (they are .42-.44). Inequality doesn’t progressively get better. We have to actively work against rising plutocracy.

Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend

and now for your umpteenth reminder that the best way to fight human trafficking is to support measures that ease poverty and promote affordable housing, not to go hunting for hidden coded messages on the internet

there's a sense that conservatives want me to worry about which liberal elites might catch Epstein strays when in fact I am so married to this outcome that me and this outcome have a home in the suburbs and are expecting twins

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Elon Musk is not set to become the world's first trillionaire because this pay package has a bunch of preconditions he will never meet. The 600,000 people he killed are dead for real, though.

sometimes i hit a losing streak on my little puzzle games, usually bc of fatigue or brainfog i know the app developers are rubbing their greedy little hands thinking “THIS time she’ll buy coins to keep playing” but i never do i may lose at the game but i will never lose to them

THIS IS SO GOOD

Really love that the sandwich guy was on video whipping a sandwich at a CBP officer and right away was like "damn right I did that shit, I hit that pig with a sandwich" and the Justice Department tried to bigfoot the case and couldn't even get him on a misdemeanor because fuck you

So their strategy is to hold a gun to the head of the American people until we blame the democrats for allowing republicans to hold a gun to our heads?

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead. 🪶

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

i need more places to take subtitles seriously, i don't even need them as much as others do and the current state of them pisses me off royally

In the same way, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a massive, roaring backlash against Woke exploded out of the American squillionaire class, at the exact same time that lots of women started using social media to talk publicly about the very wealthy men who harassed and assaulted them.

Come gather round people wherever you stand Take a look at this plinth, partly covered with sand And on it the name of a king who had planned To be known for all time in his glory But his statue's two legs are now all that does stand To give even a hint of this story

I agree with basically everything Erin says in this thread, but it's also an artifact of who we follow here. I see many more Seattle politics posts than I do New Haven ones, even though New Haven politics affect my day to day life much more.

Look, I know it's true that the current Republican party has strayed far from Reagan, but also, REAGAN WAS VERY BAD AND RACIST AND LET'S NOT FORGET IT.

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

"The ex-blackwater rich kid with a wikipedia page family and a death camp tattoo whose oyster business is almost 100% driven by sales to his mom's restaurants is the true voice of the working class."

that's some serious blade runner sh*t

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

If they don't win every marketing award going for this it will be a travesty. Chapeau! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Also the “I was drunk and it just happened” cannot be a defense from this guy IN PARTICULAR bsky.app/profile/what...

also, he has other tattoos did he get those before or after the Totenkopf? because in my area if you went into a parlor & they saw that it’s gonna go 1 of 3 ways: 1.) before I do any new work we’re gonna need to cover that up 2.) get out. I don’t ink nazis 3.) get out before I beat you nazi ass

I guess where I’m landing is less “oh no he’s a Nazi” and more “I just went through this shit with Fetterman and Sinema and a six year term is too long for me to take on faith that your Nazi tattoo was the accident but what you’re saying now is the truth.”

If you're reading early-1900s novels about Mars on your phone, that's Barsoomscrolling

Happy International Sloth Day!

Because, look. Print order is a choice. No one obliges you to print a guy going “I like Bartletts for this” and then immediately, no space in between, have two other cooks going “if you don’t use Bosc pears you might as well piss in it”. You choose to do that. And I’m very glad for it.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the frogs They are leading forth the unicorns & funny cats & dogs They are coming from the rivers, from the ponds & from the bogs Their truth is marching on Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Their truth is marching on

They have sounded forth the ribbit that shall never call retreat; They are lifting up the hearts of men with jazzy dancing beats; Oh, be swift to go and follow in the prints of webby feet! Our Frog is marching on.

From pretty padded-lilies, Kermit hopped across the sea, With a banjo he'd be playing, That inspires you and me! Kermit sung to make folks happy, Let us sing to make them free, Our Frog be hopping on!

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.