Well, this is horrifying on multiple levels.

@scottyd89.bsky.social @jkasonetc.bsky.social

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

These absolute fucking babies trying to mafia a pope from Chicago

Trump's whole strategy with Iran was to break the "rules" and kill their leaders. He assumed that would scare everyone else into submission. Instead Iran said, "No rules? OK, then we'll close the Strait and fling missiles at every oil facility within 2400 miles. How many Patriots you got left?"

Serious answer: I’m rewatching season 1 of Veronica Mars, 22 episodes, and the *space* they have for red herrings and organic character/relationship development is super satisfying.

You write down a couple notes on all of them, pick one, and start writing the worst fucking version of it. When a new idea starts swirling, you put that down in your notes and go back to the ms you’re working on. Repeat until you’re done with a draft, realize it’s not that bad, and start revising.

I’m gonna post this again because it makes me so happy! Look at my girls! Gwen’s ready to poke that thing and see what happens! Corwyn’s resigned to her sister’s lack of impulse control!

Oooohh … magic that fucks you up somehow when you use it (like, you have to make yourself bleed; it’ll eventually kill you and using it accelerates the process; it ~changes~ you bit by bit); magic that is a little sentient; and gods that are so alien that they’re only a little sentient from our POV.

This is infuriating because some of the absolute best, most original SFF worldbuilding I’ve read in the past couple of years has been in Romance.

10 years ago @jkasonetc.bsky.social gave me my very first portrait of the girls, and it was amazing—and this one’s even MORE amazing!

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Americans are being sent to die in Iran by men who don’t even have the courage to say, “Uh, thank you, Mr. President, but I wear a size 9 shoe.”

I have the tasks organized, the workflow (ugh what a word) streamlined, but the problem is, as always, none of these things that I need to do are anything I *want* to do.

You know, my teenaged kid wrote one of these that held together way better than the one we’re living through.

You might not know who Country Joe Mcdonald is, but he wrote one of the greatest anti-war songs of all time. It's about Vietnam, but applies to a lot of America's military misadventures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6...

Okay this does actually make me feel better.

It sure is by the end, anyways

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one way of seeing anthropic vs. the pentagon is as a fissure between the two silicon valley tribes most enthusiastic about ai: "rationalists" and "accelerationists" maxread.substack.com/p/what-anthr...

Coming soon … SIBLINGS! DARK SECRETS! Less blood than my usual but still SOME BLOOD!

Me, settling down on the couch with the laptop: I can hang out and do light edits in the living room while @scottyd89.bsky.social watches this unexplained mysteries show! Me, 15m later: FUCK YOU CADROSAURUS COULD EAT PEOPLE IF IT WANTED TO!

IYKYK.

Love is @scottyd89.bsky.social sending me terrible iPhone photos of a hot air balloon he saw. 💕

Age verification? I’ve had to buy albums, replace them with cassettes, replace those with CDs, replace those with MP3s, and now I pay monthly to not physically own any of it.

As a USAmerican, please boo. I will be booing in my living room.

WHOMST AMONG US HAS NEVER

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.