Y'all are awesome! Because of that, we were able to help resolve this yesterday afternoon. In the process, I discovered that things don't look great for M on the rent front, either. Extended Christmas Magic? NYE Magic? We shall see!

I've got an unexpected bill due on Friday. Any sales I can get through this WGV sale can help pay that bill! So, please do consider this for you "I've been good and deserve a neat game" self-gifting over the next three days!

Texas A&M University has declined to reinstate a faculty member who was fired after she was accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders, even after an appeals panel found that the dismissal was not justified.

Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university. Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.

Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.

The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

“🇨🇳 China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s military power released on Tuesday. The U.S. report says that the PLAN will embark on the largest carrier build-up effort in the Indo-Pacific since World War II.”

Nothing says Christmas like a whole wheat kitty loaf warming on the radiator. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s (in case you can't tell by the rainbow of browns).

Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

Also good in Canada! Looks like Kobo and Apple both have it for $1.99 too. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... books.apple.com/ca/book/bloo...

Hey, so, my baby cat had an unexpected trip to the vets. The vet said it's nothing to worry about, but she's still poorly and seeing the vet cost money. If you've ever wondered about buying my books, it would be a wonderful gift for me and the small girl. www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Posting on Twitter is evidence of idiocy.

I've got an unexpected bill due on Friday. Any sales I can get through this WGV sale can help pay that bill! So, please do consider this for you "I've been good and deserve a neat game" self-gifting over the next three days!

I'm going to do a deep dive into the last 15 years of traffic data and publish a full analysis, because it reveals some very interesting trends, but here is my initial takeaway: Bluesky in 2025 was more effective at driving traffic to our marine science website than Twitter. Ever. Was

So, in our very late-stage capitalist society, the oligarchs are working feverishly to squeeze even more money out of common folk.

Literally robbing Peter to pay Paul. Roughly 65% of veterans, who are 12% of the electorate, voted for Trump. Who thinks anyone doing anything for love of country or duty is a sucker and a moron. They deserve every bit of humiliation they get for this.

If Evangelicals can sue a bakery for religious persecution, I suspect a non-Christian could sue Lancaster Cabins for religious discrimination. They're not a church or religious support services business. I wonder if anyone's forwarded this to the Satanic Temple yet. They like filling lawsuits.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

“The evidence will show that the school board named that school for Stonewall Jackson — a prominent Confederate general well known for fighting to preserve slavery — to make it very clear that Black students were not welcome,” Not a soul who’d honestly dispute this but it won’t matter.

When satire needs government approval, it’s no longer satire. #holdfast

I would would slam that button so fast it would break causality.

Yeah, coming from anyone else, this would just be an amateurish and reflexive “let’s make sure we quote the other side.” But we also know Weiss’s history of not bothering to reach out for comment when she absolutely should have.

The judge also ordered that teachers have a right to misgender trans youth even when the parents know of and are supportive of their trans child. Just in case you thought this was actually about parental rights.

The government, NGO’s etc were all INFRASTRUCTURE , the system was crap because we needed them but they were infrastructure Even the most mal adjusted grifter, knows that we won’t protect the people they target The GOP took that to teh next level

ICE is out of control.

WTAF??? FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced that they will be hiring a "bias monitor" at CBS "who would report directly to the President." Literally will be State-run TV. smfh Make sure everyone sees this.

Regarding "Broadway attendance will go down due to congestion pricing" argument: it's not congestion pricing. Suburban attendance has been dipping since at least 2020 due to pandemic onset & pivots to work-from-home. Also related: people leaving NY due to affordability

Thing is, you can say “I’m just against the state of Israel,” and you might even earnestly believe that, but once the action you take to express that opposition involves attacking random Jews worldwide, you’ve crossed the line into antisemitism. The actual motive is irrelevant here.

Another crypto scammer, shocking! share.inquirer.com/smiYL5

Daily sketch 🌅☀️🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? I needed some sun today since I haven't seen it in weeks where I live so I decided to paint it :) Have a bright, sunny day 🩵 #art #artsky #ink #sketch

One generous serving of orange loaf. Still warm

Probably bad that even centrist and now liberal institutions regard the relatively mild intervention in order to slow the spread of a deadly disease as a mistake. Really not comforting to think how this will impede response to a future pandemic

Military history is fucking boring. There, I said it. It's 99% "They met on the battlefield and then the cavalry broke free and hit from the flank and the battle was won". Over and over and over again. The lives of everyday people is FAR more interesting.

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

It is especially revealing of Miller's obliviousness that he is making a "of course you'd refuse to house the stranger" claim *the week of Christmas*, which for everything else about it is fundamentally a story of hospitality denied then recieved. All nativism and no nativity for thise ghoul.

NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners. It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Another one to file under "This is NOT normal behaviour by a supposed democracy and ally". This isn't about censorship, if it was the US would be sanctioning Russian and Chinese government figures who really are suppressing free speech. www.bbc.com/news/article... (1/2)

We used to be a civilized country.

Lol she literally forgot we exist when she was scrubbing that story from affiliates... Didn't bother saying one word to Global News and then when the story runs she's all "WTF is a Canadian?" and "They sound treasonous"... It's the funniest shit. Sheer ignorance and incompetence of the highest order

So let's get this Black single father's license right for Christmas, so he can get a city job and build his life after this has saddled him for over a decade. #BlackCrowdFund #MutualAid bsky.app/profile/pope... #ShowUpForWishes #200PeopleWith25Dollars

I boost a number of Gazan accounts, but this family is the one I focus on the most. They have been verified via multiple sources, including journalists. These are good, kind, wonderful people who truly need our help. Their children need our help. And Naser's health issues ABSOLUTELY need our help

Air Support Project is building a really cool high-quality low-cost flat-pack air purifier inspired by Corsi-Rosenthal boxes but way more transportable. Donate to help them bring this device to market.

"Ah, perfidious Canuckistan!"

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

National Guard wearing Santa hats while patrolling in DC.

Is there a Bracket City clone out there? I would love to play it without benefiting the goons at The Atlantic.

If the NYT Bestseller's List covered *only* sales, on any given week, romance would have the top 30 to 50 books on the top 20 list. The NYT Bestseller's list generally omits romance as a genre, because "reasons." If you want the best odds of a middle-class life as a writer, learn to write romance.