Guess it's time for me to update this piece for what seems like the 37th time in the past two days.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

I actually blocked a couple of tiresome people who defended Disney last week because "it's not about free speech, it's about what their customers wanted" and now I wish I didn't block them just so I can be like "how's wrong feel?" Of course those people are much wealthier than I am and won't care.

404 Media is suing ICE for documents relating to its $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions. These are the journalists you should be supporting with your subscription money because they are meeting the moment. www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

We don't need an answer why someone suggested euthanizing unhoused folks on TV and didn't even get a slap on the wrist. I live in a wildly liberal sanctuary city. Someone had abandoned all their possessions in the park. By 7am, someone had reported it as a 'health risk' instead of a wellness check.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

First time one of these 99 cent deals has ever been done for Entropy of Everything. Still super cheap til midnight tonight. (The funny thing looking back at the Indestructibles books is I never had a guarantee the next one would be picked up so every book is set up with series-finale stakes.)

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Evergreen post for every writer ever

Entirely based on a wild time travel conversation I had earlier this week, the Entropy of Everything is 99 cents all weekend. Being an author right now feels like being a carnival barker at the end of the world, but hey, if you're looking for a distraction for a few hours...

"The need to write is not something that can be encouraged – it is an illness that descends on the writer." Ain't that the truth? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

According to the New York Times, "The text exchange between Mr. Robinson and his partner was reproduced by prosecutors in the charging document." Reproduced? So no one has seen the actual messages? No screen shots? No time stamps? Also, weren't they on Discord and not SMS? 1/

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I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

It is not about Kimmel or what he said. It is about the US government forcing a network to fire someone - no government should have that power. If the network decided this on their own, that’s one thing. But in this case they absolutely did not.

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech

After having the WILDEST discussion about alternate timelines, the butterfly effect, etc. during our D&D game last night I mentioned one of the Indestructibles books is all about that stuff and y'know, why not... The Entropy of Everything will be 99 cents this weekend. www.amazon.com/dp/B07KF11X6R

It's about time for us independent creators to start boosting each other, not in expectations of returns, but in the idea of "we all hang together or we all hang separately." Expect a St. Remedius Personal Interlude on the subject soon.

Every time a voice is forced from a mainstream service I feel like we're one step closer to the state-sanctioned infotainment the general public has access to, and the stuff the public NEEDS to hear being behind Patreon or Substack-style paywalls as creators craft their own platforms.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Work has been feral the past 48 hours so I basically had nothing prepped for the weekly D&D game I DM. Somehow we had a three-hour interactive philosophical rumination on time travel, alternate timelines, if the undead can harbor broken hearts, and living time out of order. I love this effin' game.

I swear, I saw this scene as a kid and I've spent a lifetime as a storyteller trying to find a single line and delivery as perfect as this: "You know me. I'm the same as you. It's two in the morning and I don't know nobody." youtu.be/nby0t43dlIs?...

Watching tech desperately try to reduce headcount using AI while also seeing multiple articles about the 996 trend of working yourself to death for someone else's tech startup is some dystopian bullshit all wrapped up in a private equity flavored bow, innit.

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Yes! Please. Request my books in libraries. Seeing my book in a library -- even considering the fact it was a copy I donated -- was the coolest thing to experience as an author. I'd love to see them more places.

So much of what he did was iconic, but I swear I quote this one scene almost every day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sdl...

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries - hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf - art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

There are many good people in the world, but it's hard to get through an hour without ever deepening disgust at how many people are truly and unrepentantly evil.

They had kids, too.

south korea is reacting to its citizens being illegally detained and tortured the way i thought other countries would react to its citizens being illegally detained and tortured

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Remember, I highly recommend Action Figures, which is a complete series with one current spin-off book (that I also enjoyed quite a bit).

Chatting with the most remarkable actress I ever had the joy to direct tonight and I just kinda blurted out “What is art if not turning our worst days into stories, right?” and I think that’s as good a moment to start a week with as I’m gonna get.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

A while back I thought I'd airlocked all the people in my life I'd never reconciled with, but it is a sad statement of things that still, in 2025, something will happen that surfaces the blindness or bigotry in someone's heart, and I just give up on them.

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless." CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"

My most depressing conversation when living in Ireland back in 2010 or so: driving through Limerick and an old man pokes me and says "we're in Stab City! Cos of the knife crime." And I laughed blurted out "hell, I can outrun a knife. Can't outrun the bullets back home." Felt like an ass saying it.

I used to post links like this after every shooting that made national headlines on the old sites. Then I got tired, cos the mass of men don't give a damn unless they can use it to their advantage. massshootingtracker.site

Games Journalists have watched the trainwreck in slow motion for a literal decade. Culture matters. It is a microcosm of the larger ecosystems.

Like once a month or so when the house is empty I'll go on this Youtube excursion for live performances of Patty Griffin live performances, so the algorithm knows it, and this image just made me realize how much art we'll lose when sites like Youtube disappear. Uploaded 19 YEARS ago.

Welp. If you haven’t gotten you COVID booster, flu shot, MMR & other shots yet, I’d strongly advise doing so within the next week.

People need to understand that Gamergate is the most important domestic political event of my lifetime

we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.

The bird food I buy to stock my feeders has gone from $19 for a 20lb bag five months ago to more than $48 at the local hardware store today, over $50 on Amazon. Just in case Republicans try to gaslight you on inflation today.