Finally, American Exceptionalism is back. /s

Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker say Epstein was an intellectual force with a mind like steel trap and then his e-mails read like the ending of Flowers for Algernon.

Okay, invisible scaffolding aside, I would *die* getting up at 4am. I want to die getting up at 6 to go to freaking Disney World; all my brain does before 8am is scream like a terrified goat.

Bruce Springsteen making it CRYSTAL FUCKING CLEAR that *this* song is not pro-government.

Kat is a really great editor, I highly recommend her!

some a y’all don’t watch doctor who and it really shows

Oh my fucking god, again with this?

Holy shit. I bought a bunch of books and racy comics from Dreamhaven in 2024 and joked that I was from Florida and expected my haul to get me arrested when I went home—they told me they’d pay my bail.

The story told in this thread is just bonkers, but adds a whole 'nother layer of risk, uncertainty, terror, and Monty Python to traveling by bus.

Liz, I adore you but what the fuck? You know what would make the US work better for Americans? Abolishing ICE.

I saw Goody Proctor at the wine mom gang at the LAX Radisson.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Ten reposts and I will make these novelizations kiss

I’m not sure I have a sacred book? Seamus Heaney comes close, but it would feel wrong to be sworn into office in the US with another country’s poet. I think it’d depend on what office (federal or state) and then I’d choose something appropriate to it?

If this means I can have the funds to become part of the middle class, rather than the genteel poverty wherein I currently reside? Bring it, Babycakes.

My then-toddler charmed the members of 2 Live Crew—whom we passed in a corridor of the local radio station—with his enthusiastic description of the puffer fish we’d just seen at the children’s museum.

Why, Santa brought me book money, so I have … -the Lilywhite Boys books by @kjcharleswriter.com (finishing out my collection) -The Pale House Devil by @richardkadrey.bsky.social -The Secret History (look, it’s $1.99 on Apple Books and I’m on a dark academia kick) -Oak and Ash by Annick Trent

Me, in the bedroom, can faintly hear @scottyd89.bsky.social’s podcast: Huh, that’s a lot of references to the antichrist, I wonder … Wanders out to the living room, looks at husband’s phone: It IS Behind the Bastards on Peter Thiel!

Ok that’s funny

Honestly I’m mostly surprised he didn’t do the top half in gold-colored script stickers.

Definitely more than a feeling, with a solid amount of information to start with, but I learn about them/figure things out about them as I write them. Depending on the character I do know more than is likely to end up on the page.

Really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man, but I’m still waiting for my honest to god southern gothic Benoit Blanc mystery.

I cannot believe I’m actually going to post this, but … as a Florida native who is married to a politics and news junkie, while I would not say Florida is “in play” for 2026, the results of the Miami mayor’s race and the various other things people are looking at are def worth some side-eye.

New issue of FUCKIT is out with a couple of poems by yours truly--grief and ghouls, my brand for 2025. ko-fi.com/s/ce8d3d737d

Typo in a book description: “the evil spirit, Jeff ...” Seems a bit pedestrian, but you know what, I applaud the novelty of naming your malevolent force Jeff. Then the disappointment of realizing it’s a typo. Suppose it’s up to me, now. Jeff Sauron, master of dark magic and backyard grilling.

Post your favorite LOTR character, wrong answers only.

Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.

Are you planning to give gift cards this Christmas? Have you considered putting them inside a really cool card that the giftee could decorate with after? Lucky for you, I know a guy! www.etsy.com/shop/TheCraf...

Oh yeah, the prompt: You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

That’s the entire plot of the last show I watched. I’m definitely going to have to escape on my own. (At least I’ll get a dog out of it.)

In other news, I am reading a book that’s 1,000+ pages long, and I have to wonder how many pages it would be if the author wrote paragraphs longer than 2 sentences. Will my desire to know the Big Plot Secret outlast my irritation at the way this book reads like a Bluesky thread? Guess we’ll see!

Does this mean that @scottyd89.bsky.social is now gayer than @jkasonetc.bsky.social? Or is marriage disqualifying both of them?

In The Story & the Engine, the Doctor refutes the Barber's claim to be Anansi, Dionysus, Sága, Bastet and Loki with personal memories of the first four. He leaves out Loki: a hybrid trickster, liar and shapeshifter, normally male but sometimes female, who lives among gods but isn't one of them. Hmm.

Posted this before, but in my not so humble opinion you can never have too much Mongolian heavy metal throat singing.... The Hu, Wolf Totem. Side note they also do cooking videos "Hu's In The Kitchen". www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8d...

… I am in this picture and my kid is laughing at me.

The Screwtape Letters is a premium feature, lads.

Yeah yeah gender norms, it’s still hilarious that when the husband goes down with something, I’m the one bumbling around like an idiot with no idea how to heat up soup.

I need to create some folklore for the current book to reference, so I decided to dig through the ancient stuff I cannibalized back in 2007 to write the first version and see if there’s anything in there to screw around with.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

This

I am so happy for many of my friends and their spouses. I'm also so fucking tired of their rights being challenged by the worst people in the world.

I will sign this!

When I’m yelling about AI Calvinism, this is a good explainer on the Calvinism part. (The AI part is even crazier, btw.)

My darling husband is having a one-sided argument with the Nook app’s opinion of his reading speed.

My take on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court. Short version: LOL slate.com/news-and-pol...

"I could smell the onions and mustard"

Same person who told him the requirements to get into Heaven.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.