yeah man, what would i, a black guy from the south, know about thugs intimidating people out of voting? what possible experiences in my family, which has been here since slavery, could ever inform my perspective?

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

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Boycotts can work! Don’t support businesses with ICE contracts. Thanks to @thenation.com for this!

If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today

If you're hoping to get your hands on an early copy of The Bloody and the Damned, there's a Goodreads giveaway happening now through Feb. 2nd! This will be one of your last chances to get your hands on an advanced copy before it releases April 7th! @fiercereads.bsky.social #booksky

House Dems are live with with a January 6th hearing. Watch:

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Part 3 (1/2) #Solavellan #DragonAge

I'm boosting myself to say this: You're going to see people On Here tell you calling electeds doesn't matter. That's not true. Some are bots. Some are people who like being contrary to be edgy. But calling moves the needle, especially against a blatantly illegal act by Trump and Co. ACT.

If there's one thing about me, I'm a b*tch who loves a color coded chart. In early July, I downloaded an app to organize my day job and author work and started using it to track words I'd written as well. Interested to see how it looks in 2026. #authorsky

Happy 2026! 💜 I love a reason to shed old skin and be reborn, so here we go: beginning as I mean to go on, in the tradition of @lbardugo.bsky.social. Drawing, writing, running, showing up more, learning more. Wherever you are, I hope you know safety and love. You are wanted. You belong here. 💜

Thank you, conspiracy theorists /s gift article wapo.st/49zDc43

Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.

Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in. Fuck substack

Listening to the Lost Elf theme over and over just to hurt myself #dragonage #DAI

Okay, this isn't really Christmas Eve talk, but: 1. I just went over to Threads (for a work thing) and 2. Was startled to see how many of my mutuals consider Aaron Parnas a legitimate reporter. He's an influencer/aggregator, who has built his entire career aggregating the news.

Yes. That’s why I say “don’t stop commenting” on SCOTUS decisions and practices. It matters.

Three months ago, my dear friend Hani was murdered while trying to feed his family. His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day. I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die. gofund.me/2550fc5e2

Okay, skyline, I can only buy AVOWED or MONSTER HUNTER: WILDS -- which one should I get?

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

A black cat at Stonehenge on solstice. Protect that cat and worship it as our new god!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Generative AI is a poison that kills everything it touches all so people who are already rich get to be richer while you have to be poorer

you love to see it

Oh my god…

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

everyone invest more in human artists now

The most accurate summation of @larianstudios.com

WOW this is obnoxious. And also telling, I think, that these guys plow past the consent and will of others. Rape culture doesn't just show up in sex because rape is about power. The imperious arrogance and entitled behavior are quite familiar

If @larianstudios.com is using genAI, then it looks like I won't be buying Divinity after all. How disappointing.

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

When I say Israel is ALSO doing genocide in the West Bank, just slower, this is the type of horror I mean.

Both my kids are in their rooms playing K-Pop Demon Hunters songs and singing along, and I'm across the hall at my desk dancing to it

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

I managed to draw a portrait I kinda like. (Just ignore the failure at facial hair.) This was a LOT of experimenting with brushes and trying to figure out what I like. #procreate #digitaldrawing

"But they've come pretty fucking close which has resulted in babies not starving to death, which is great, A+, keep it up, we're just going to work to reduce how expensive formula is." This is the only acceptable continuation of whatever this sentient piece of cheap leather is saying.

Rookanis commission for @victia.bsky.social 💖 Pre- last boss fight kiss 🫣 #artcommission #rookanis

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

Pundits, 2018: OK-05 is PVI GOP +10 -- a Dem can't win! (Kendra Horn, D, beat the GOP incumbent 51-49) Pundits, 2022: Alaska is PVI GOP +8 -- a Dem can't win! (Mary Peltola, D, beat GOP fmr Gov. Palin 55-45) Pundits, 2025: #TN07 is PVI GOP +10 -- can @aftynbehn.bsky.social win?** **Yes, she can!

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WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game. @washingtonpost.com $ORCL $NVDA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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