Reminder that the WaPo and most legacy newspapers are owned by right wing billionaires and serve Republican agendas. Alternatives in the thread!

The GOP has been gerrymandering the fuck out of the south for decades. It's long past time Dems stopped playing fair about this shit. And if Republicans want to cry about it, point em at every other state that seceded in 1860 where their fucked up maps still rule.

Killing people. They mean killing people.

Sweden, too. 15 years after Sweden began replacing textbooks with computers, they allocated over €100M to bring printed books back into schools for core subjects. Teachers, parents, and education officials cited concerns about reading comprehension, reduced attention span, weaker writing ability.

Denmark has long been hailed as a digital champion, with online public services and tablets in schools as early as 2011. Now they are now shifting course in the education sectors, due to alarming impacts to children’s mental health and school performance. A massive return to analogue is underway.

So companies raised prices, passed the cost to us, and are now also getting the refunds from it. Capitalism at its finest.

If you need an audience to go back and watch a retconned version of a story they've already seen to understand the story you're telling, then you are not telling a coherent story to begin with, and I worry for you.

Citizen Sleeper and Genesis Noir thoroughly rewired my brain in wildly different ways. Buy this. You want this. Go have a fever dream and build a beautiful second-hand space community.

It’s one of the biggest lessons I hammer into my kids. A first draft is bad. But it can be fixed. A blank page can’t be. Get it down.

when i’ve tried to explain what the sabres crowd atmosphere *used* to be like to out of town friends i used to have to pull some 20 year old clips in grainy standard definition. but it’s just *here* again

Screaming. Crying. Throwing up. WERE SO FUCKING BACK BABY!

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

For the first time in 15 years, the Buffalo Sabres take the ice for a playoff game. I’m not crying, you’re crying. Shut up.

There are many reasons I believe in the separation of Church and State and "you can't disagree with the head of state, that's against theology" is probably the most prominent "absolutely not" scenario.

this is why you can miss me with Gavin Newsom apologia. a liberal presidential candidate who doesn't at least parse this current disconnect between establishment Dems and voters, let alone shout it out, ain't on my list.

Wow holy shit how brave of you all.

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

And now I need biscuits.

"High-speed rail in the US is unrealistic"

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Exactly one year ago today:

“The ballroom is deeply important to our national security.” I cannot stress enough that that is a quote.

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

Getting off oil is a solution to so many problems. Economic, political, military, social. We need it and we need it fast. The good news is we CAN do it. We just need the political will.

Old enough to remember when the GOP was convinced that teenage pregnancy was a sign of them being degenerate liberals.

Screaming. Eternally. Louder every day.

🎧LEVER TIME: The secret 40-year plot to bury you in tax paperwork & force you to pay accountants - rather than letting the IRS send you your completed tax returns like other countries do. This story is enraging - it's a GOP plot to enrich tax prep companies & make you hate taxes.

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper Have become slightly obsessed with this dungeon crawler/minesweeper mashup you can get for pay what you want or free (Paying creators is nice though). It plays in browser too!

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

What a way to basically confirm you have little to no vision for your movies and don’t think it’s an important step. I feel awful for the artists.

"…Can, Should, Must, and WILL Delete everything after the question mark."

Tennessee's First Amendment lawyers prepare to send the state lege a fruit basket in appreciation

grids.fun/t/about-me-v... This was a lot of fun!

important business

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Begging people whose stuff I would love to read to migrate anywhere else.

"Donald Trump and a DoorDash delivery driver addressed reporters on a wide range of issues including Iran from the White House on Monday" I...what are we doing here? What stage of collapse are we on?

Also, note the choice in language. Trump is throwing an "angry counterpunch," while the Pope "pleads." One is cast as the dominant actor, the other one a passive submissive.

Even the advanced life on Earth took a look at us and went, "Nope."

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Beyond the fact that there’s just too much of it to keep up with, this is why I don’t buy certain fantasy authors’ books anymore.

There are a lot of writers I would like to read more of, but the moment I see "Substack" I'm like, er, well that's too bad. If you are on Substack and wondering why, here's a primer, with some options for other platforms. leavesubstack.com

I also have a jail broken kindle. It’s not really hard, and screw planned obsolescence.

Book censorship has so many far-reaching consequences, especially in the world of children’s publishing. Whoever your audience, if you’re an author you should be screaming about this.

I repeat, if the midterms are anything but a historic bloodbath I will cry foul and scream.

How many times does this guy need to tell us all who he is?

whenever you see something like this you need to remember that some people are so naturally dull that anything that isn't boredom feels terrifying to them

The amount of letters parents would receive home from me being like, “Alexander would like to be known as Alex. You are receiving this because Idaho made it a law. Feel free to call the Governor about it.”

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.