We Have Met the Alien and He Is Us: An Eclipse LARP Report. (No spoilers in this report, but there's a link within to a much longer report with spoilers.)

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

Dear Disney- I don't see an actual apology there, nor any sort of admission on your gross overreaction and misjudgement over what Kimmel actually (and factually) said. So, yeah, I'm glad you're backing down but I don't think you've really learned anything here.

Making noise works. Companies need to know: Go fash, lose cash. www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

Shot. Chaser.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

And economically shit is only JUST hitting the fan. People are nervous right now but they are going to be FURIOUS by December. I don't see how that doesn't happen. He's not reversing on tariffs and companies aren't going to quietly eat shit on his behalf forever.

Reason for cancellation: "Disney has acquiesced to a dictatorial, un-American tyrant."

The state has authorized pharmacists in Oregon to administer Covid-19 vaccines without a prescription.

Just to clarify - the main thing the Trump administration is making cheaper is....cocaine?

Got my COVID and flu shots -- across the river in Vancouver WA, where (unlike Oregon) the governor has the power to tell pharmacists to do the right thing.

A big problem with US conservatives is that they view people disagreeing with them as an attack — but they view them actually attacking people as “a disagreement.”

It occurs to me I've hit on the difference between novel #1 and novel #20. Novel #1: you're in a shop to sign books, the only person approaches to ask where the toilets are. You don't know and they leave. Novel #20: you know to tell them where the toilets are.

Just received my contributor's copies of BABELZINE Vol. 4, including the Japanese translation of my story "Kora Is Life"!

Facebook user privacy settlement payouts are being delivered now. I just received about $25 via PayPal. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/10/facebook-user-privacy-settlement-payout-amount/86071613007/

Writer friends: if your Google Docs and cloud accounts self-destructed, and if your computer caught on fire, would you still have copies of your writing, or?.. #WritingCommunity

If you haven't gotten your updated COVID vaccine by now, book an appointment fast before next week's ACIP meeting. After that, you might not be able to get one. I plan on getting mine this weekend if I possibly can. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Landed at PDX! We received a water cannon salute in honor of our retiring pilot's very last flight.

i guess the real message is don't fuck around with etsy witches www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

NEW: The National Guard analyzed its mission and found it is perceived as "leveraging fear, driving a wedge between civilians and the military, and promoting a sense of shame among troops and the military." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Today's Love Letter is from the unstoppable @shing.bsky.social. Shing's ode to Making Little Guys is one of the single most nourishing pieces of nonfiction I have ever read. Maybe you need this one as much as I do.

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Actual lunar eclipse during "Eclipse" LARP

"Eclipse" LARP, run 3 (2)

"Eclipse" LARP, run 3 (1)

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either. This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem  This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now 1/

Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting. "I think it's an opportunity." www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

"AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy." ‼️

From Princeton Professor of Politics and International Affairs, @jshapiro.bsky.social.

At Dragoncon, I was absolutely delighted that @robertpicardo.bsky.social was the MC for the Dragon Awards. He was funny and charming, and took great care with the pronunciation of everyone's names. And he had this really neat trick for when he didn't know how to pronounce a name

Highlights etc... Jay Werkheiser @julianmcarver.bsky.social @mlclark.bsky.social @aahabershaw.bsky.social @daviddlevine.com @katemacleodwrites.com @jsdarcey.bsky.social @averyparks.bsky.social Steven Mohan Paul Franz @StephenRCase James Patrick Kelly Liz Williams Allen Steele @rreedsf.bsky.social

A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane

Just to be clear here: The president is claiming he has the authority to execute anyone he claims is a drug dealer, without trial or any due process

At PDX heading for Poland (!) for the ECLIPSE larp! https://chaosleague.org/eclipse-larp-en/

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

Edwin Nunez on Instagram: "Portland Oregon was out and about during this Labor Day. #portland" Lots of good pics in this post.

Portland,OR #WorkersOverBillionaires

@50501movement.bsky.social #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay #AFSCMEStrong #Resist Thousands march across the Burnside and Morrison bridges in Portland.

I hypothesize that if the end of the zero-interest-rate policy era hadn't led to a funding cliff in the early part of this decade, causing OpenAI to pivot to creating and releasing ChatGPT as a product, there would still not be a large number of highly commercialized chatbots out there

OpenAI has trained ChatGPT (and their open source GPT-oss models) to be, as far as I can tell, affirming, supportive, and friend-like - which I consider to be *colossally* unethical, particularly in combination with the other marketing they've done around it it's actively deceptive to the user

Labor Day protest, Portland OR (2) #LaborDay #WorkersOverBillionaires #pdx

Labor Day protest, Portland OR (1) #LaborDay #WorkersOverBillionaires #pdx

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