My CHILD DIED from being run over by a steam roller and I posted that the country is having an epidemic of steam roller deaths! You then came by with a disgusting graph showing steam roller accidents have been falling since 1912. How DARE you minimize my suffering and say my child didn't die.

There are two possibilities here. Taylor Farms paid a shit ton of money to get the FDA to say this. Or DOGE decimated the FDA so significantly that they managed to fuck up a basic sample test. Neither one is great!

So I got a bird feeder two weeks ago, and already I'm hunting for products like this:

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")

There’s poop on the lettuce. There’s worms in the beef. There’s glass in the bread. What kind of Upton Sinclair timeline is this

Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯

true story: a 1967 survey of the Cuyahoga River found 2 fish. not just 2 species, but 2 *actual* fish. Pollution tolerant and invasive. today, more than 70 species call the crooked river home, including many more sensitive to pollution and thriving in improved water quality.

“If you can’t cook there are services” “If you can’t support yourself just tell them & get help” “If it were really that bad support would show up” This is internalized ableism. Most of the time, help isn’t available. Support doesn’t come. Disabled people are on their own.

the most reliable indicator for whether a brand is washed and unc and never coming back is whether it gets a really successful universes beyond crossover set for magic the gathering

Amazing what lengths people will go to in order to avoid the truth of "...maybe I AM an asshole"

I mean yeah this is kinda true

This is quite good. Jim Shooter has a deservedly mixed legacy, but this hits both the highs and the lows, which is comparatively rare to see in articles about him.

Wanna know how to build your own customized Christ? I go into DEEP detail on how I created the religion for my new serialized novel The Cathedral of Portals, and how the differences in the Christ analog affect literally everything in that world. theferrett.substack.com/p/the-religi...

This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.

back when i worked at petco i would always say "goodbye [dog name]!" in a sweet voice and one day i did this for a big biker lookin guy walking away with his pomeranian and he turned around and walked back very serious and stopped and (gently) grabbed that dogs paw and made her wave goodbye to me

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

The first chapter in my serialized novel The Cathedral of Portals is up at Royal Road! Meet Tesa, renegade portal builder, a lesbian in a troubled polyamorous marriage, and soon to have SERIOUS employment difficulties. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1780...

I have to Agree, Significant Changes are Needed….

Listen, if you don’t know the difference between Democratic socialism and communism, I’m not engaging with you. Crack a book.

PROTIP: Before responding to a post online, press “X” to equip EYEBALLS to perform the READ action to check if ten people have already said the same exact unfunny non-joke

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

The Rachel Hope Cleves assertion that Tillie Walden just adapted her book is compelling, but either way, you got to admit it's ironic for people who are saying that Walden didn't do her research to have a fully confident, set-in-stone opinion on this based on one tweet.

So, some of you are too young to have seen this before and recognize the signs. But at a certain point, if the "social bonding culture" of a business class becomes centered around mind-altering drugs? This is basically what it looks like from the outside - no cool soundtrack or Scorsese cuts 🤷‍♂️

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

#kindlebookgiveaway 2 ebooks of The Uploaded by Ferrett Steinmetz. @theferrett.bsky.social US only. C'mon folks, it's a good book. Kind of dark, but it's like dark chocolate.

The week Supergirl came out, despite not really having interacted with the movie on YouTube at any point, I was swarmed with four separate videos from creators telling me what a disappointment it was. I cannot help but think this was instrumental in poisoning the water for an okay-to-good film.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

...if I read 50+ books a year, I am in the 1% of readers who read 50+ books a year?

If they don't make court reform a non negotiable platform plank, find someone else who will. That is all

Many critics I respect didn’t like SUPERGIRL as much as I did, but this review, in a major publication, struck me as nuts: “The film can’t quite articulate why Krypto is so important to Supergirl.” What?!!! IT’S HER FUCKING DOG! Who wouldn’t travel across galaxies for an antidote for their sick pet?

Panic is not a plan. Unfucking The World exists to help people understand the stakes, the strategy, and the state-level power we can still use to protect democracy. Our 6-part podcast series starts this week.

Well, I loved it. I am so happy right now. I had a blast. Made me happy to be a Supergirl fan.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Why "Obsession" Is The Perfect Metaphor For Male Power theferrett.substack.com/p/why-obsess...

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

October 20, Complete Kubrick www.criterion.com/boxsets/9000...

OH MY GOD TASKMASTER SEASON 22 RICHARD AYOADE

THE DISSIDENTS is the true story of the political cartoonists who draw for the provocative magazine, THE MASSES. What they show in their cartoons is a country spiraling into darkness, under attack by saboteurs, and brutal private militias, plagued by racism, and rocked by class war. Out Sept. 15.

This is Google AI's summary of my upcoming book The Cathedral of Portals. Since I only announced it this week, there are only three sources of data that have anything to say AT ALL about the book. Google AI looked at the books I USED TO WRITE and GUESSED what this one is about. And it's wrong.

I asked my wife how long she gives a book to get interesting before she stops reading, and she said, "I do not stop. I refuse to let the book win. I read to the end. I kill it." Pretty much what I've come to expect from her, to be honest.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

Well, THAT'S never happened before

I have a fat pampered cat who thinks he’s very fierce & brave. He’s always trying to get outside to take on the world But when he does escape, he instantly realizes he’s a fluffy spoilt dummy who’s prepared to handle nothing & begs to come back So anyway, that’s what’s happening with the Iran War.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

My new book is called "The Cathedral of Portals" and will be published serially (though you can order the finished book at the end). Details are here: theferrett.substack.com/p/read-my-ne...

You should either be reporting for a newspaper or writing a book with news. I don't think you should be doing both.

Look The ethnic minority in me feels a pang of sympathy. Compassion for other humans drives me , and I recognise the rejection that all minorities have experienced. But c'mon What were you expecting You cannot say you were not warned Or did you think you would be their "good one"?

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...