Happy 120th birthday, special relativity! Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

Just edit your first chapters into a short story, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. Me, now.

So there is actually, quite literally no level of fame that you can achieve without some nowhere talentless asshole insisting you work for free in exchange for “exposure.” Good to fucking know!!!

My latest newsletter is about J.J. Abrams' "Mystery Box" TED Talk, in which he claimed "mystery is more important than knowledge." Our politics are all Mystery Box now. It's all rabbit holes and conspiracy theories, all the way down. The Mystery Box ate our world. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Ok. Hear me out, though. I need this.

Irish flags went up all over town this morning. At first I felt happy like yep, that’s home. Then I remembered the people who put them up don’t see me as Irish at all. If they had their way I’d be deported. The reason they put up the flags is to instil fear in people like me and they’ve succeeded

if you’re feeling high on One Battle After Another, i’d urge you to seek out Jules Dassin’s Uptight, an incendiary film from 1968, told from the perspective of the burgeoning Black power movement directed by the Jewish, blacklisted Dassin, and co-written and produced by Ruby Dee

"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Coucou! Good morning from Radio Antifasciste, where we play the hot hits… youtu.be/dj1doKIzSpk?...

Random internet trolls should not be able to get away with ruining a good person’s life simply because she (fully legally!) posted a joke about them on the internet. If you have anything to spare to help my friend fight back against this monster please donate.

Segregated Black communities, schools, churches, and institutions were subjected to racial violence. We weren't walled off. I told my mother about this post over dinner. She shared that white men would come into Detroit's Black Bottom in the early 1950s & assume that Black women were... available.

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The answer to why people think sex scenes in pop culture are unnecessary is that we as a society scorn people who practice the craft of making them good, and also scorn the very concept that it is a craft to begin with. It is, very frankly, a skill issue.

Every day I feel more like Dr. Manhattan on the moon.

Harnessing the power of empathy, Bisa Butler presents a tender, evocative suite of new works in her current exhibition, 'Hold Me Close' at Jeffrey Deitch. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/bisa...

LA friends, this is vital to breaking the hold of Sinclair/Nextar.

Honestly, he got it. This is an impossibly hard thing to get right. I can quibble about some parts, and it’s impossible to do normie content that’s also sufficient for the moment, but he did as good a job as is possible. Especially glad he rightfully called out the threat to journalists.

I checked my Tumblr and found myself tagged in an Riverdale/Avril Lavigne Replacement Conspiracy Theory post, along with a reader’s memory of an essay I haven’t written yet that may yet become a future essay. This was why I used to love the internet.

It’s so rare to be halfway through watching a movie and realize you are watching one of your favorite films for the 1st time. Another PTA masterpiece. I am vibrating I am so happy with what I just watched. It’s a novel as a film, everything Inherent Vice wanted to be but executed PERFECTLY. In LOVE.

Go read with your kids, take your niblings to a bookstore and let them buy Dog Man books, go volunteer to read with kids in elementary school, we have all got to do something to change this.

This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises

Corporations just go whichever way the winds blow. Our job is to create headwinds so powerful that they’re forced to change course.💨⛵️ The Kimmel case is encouraging. Let’s keep going.

Male fat positive is a big deal to me. That’s one of the reasons I wrote this 90s set #YA romcom. Think CLERKS written for Hallmark by Warren Miller. It’s not a memoir but it could’ve been. We need more male body shapes repped in YA lit! You don’t need great abs for skiing. #unhingedpit

Last November, after years of the Odessa City Council focusing on culture war issues, voters went in a different direction: The mayor and his allies lost their seats.

If you're reading Bad Indians Book Club and loving it, might I interest you in the Live. Laugh. Lurk tee which is the very same one mentioned in the book you're reading and it is now 20% off along with everything else in my shop. johnniejae.com/merch/live.+...

The three rows of cornstalks currently growing in Kate Werble Gallery convey both heartache and hope, though not for reasons you might expect.

NEW WORKSHOP!! Sabrina Imbler will teach "Writing Alongside the Nonhuman" on Sept 15, online. It is one thing to write about animals, plants, and other non-human beings, but what would it look like to write with them? 🌱🐈🌸 www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

Updated my website to have links to buy my books from seattle gay bookstore Charlie's Queer Books. Also it now features @maeveynot.bsky.social's thumb never.horse/books.html

I love this so stinking much.

New CINEMA WORMS episode just dropped! This week (since Z is off GALLIVANTING again) I'm talking about Hot Milk 🥛👩‍🦽 and Whiplash 🥁😡! Let my mini-review of each film help you decide whether its worth seeing!

It's release day for WHY I LOVE HORROR 🤩 I'm thrilled to be part of this beautiful collection of essays edited by the wonderful @raforall.bsky.social on why we love this genre and what it means to us. What's the foundation of my horror love and my essay "The Giant Footprint of Horror"? Hmmm 😆

#UnhingedPit #F #H #A #CS Uh oh, looks like it's 2015 and the crew of BLUDEYE BEACH got Tumblr accounts...

You know how to fuck up a Baptist? Tell them—in all sincerity—that you hope Jesus comes back today. Or “can’t happen soon enough” whenever they mention the rapture. They have no idea how to handle people who are confidently ready. #TipsfromaDruid #YourRavenAuntie

(Don't Fear) The Reaper by blue öyster cult x Dead Like Me x Buffy the Vampire Slayer #UnhingedPit #YA #F #Paranormal #Q

George Herriman is arguably one of the first major black artists in comics. And the only reason for that is because NO ONE KNEW HE WAS BLACK. He was light skinned enough to be white passing & hid that fact into old age so that he WOULD be able to continue drawing largely due to rampant racism.

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔 He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

Well, I guess the rapture didn’t happen in time for me to get out of the next Teams meeting.

I’m at that stage of burnout/dystopia where I become irrationally irritated when I want a coffee, order a coffee, then see an empty cup when I get to the coffee place because they’re out of decaf. Y’all. I went Full Pearl.

“at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job” tracks entirely with this worldview. nothing is real. everything is fungible. having a job is the same thing as doing it. a mug that says “world’s best dad” is the same thing as the world’s best dad

A slow float 😭😭😭😭

Remarkable restraint to not call people out by name.

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

A lot of people outside of publishing don't seem to know that Rupert Murdoch owns HarperCollins, which publishes a TON of amazing books that are elegantly brutal in shredding the very idea of a company like News Corp, and yet!

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

I'm part of the suit against Meta for scraping my debut novel. Its sequel, and an unrelated novella have been pirated. I've been here since June 2023, and "I block AI/NFT/Crypto accounts" been in my bio the WHOLE time. Block me back about it. Please.

Derrick Henry having fumble problems is like how the Death Star was taken out by an exhaust port.