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Every time I look at the obituaries in my local newspaper (shut up, I'm old and depressed) there is at least one dead Jesuit and one dead nun and I have no idea where they are all coming from or how they are being replaced. This town must be full of hidden monasteries.

Tonight's bloggery:

it's lesbian visibility week and I'm lesbians check out my series about trans, nonbinary, AAPI, and neurodivergent lesbians behaving badly! heisting and hacking and lesbian-ing HAMMAJANG LUCK and THE OBAKE CODE are both out now!

I need to know what comes next after you’ve used up all the hatred. There has to be a stronger word than hate and I don’t know what it is.

Today’s bloggery:

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Suddenly much prouder of having been blocked by Brianna Wu back on Twitter.

7 When Doves Cry Gett Off Cream And a fifth one is HARD. First 4 are obvious. Little Red Corvette? Raspberry Beret? Diamonds and Pearls? Thunder? The Most Beautiful Girl in the World?

Evergreen

God help me, I just logged into LinkedIn. It was a mistake, I swear! I didn’t mean it!

Today’s bloggery:

Guys: medical debt and student loan debt. Bring the system down.

Happy Birthday Robert Smith! Explore The Cure co-founder & frontman's musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/RobertSmithHBD

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

Tonight's bloggery:

Ahem: SOMEBODY SEND ME A REVIEW COPY OF PARADE OF HORRIBLES, I’M IMPORTANT. Thank you.

NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour. Further narrowing GOP majority

Yes it is.

We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.

Today’s bloggery:

Ahem: SOMEBODY SEND ME A REVIEW COPY OF PARADE OF HORRIBLES, I’M IMPORTANT. Thank you.

I would love to know the percentage for “hate that motherfucker more than cancer."

While I’m skeeting requests that no one will pay attention to: Publishers! If you release book one of a series in hardcover, you are morally obligated to release all subsequent books in that series in hardcover as well. I don’t care how the first book sold. Do better marketing.

I need all of my writer friends, as well as all of the writers I don’t know, to stop. For, like … six months. I need time to get caught up.

They’re making these to kill us with them.

This will be fun. He can't read.

Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious

I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!

This is at least the fifth reference to Lonesome Dove I’ve seen this week so clearly the universe is trying to tell me something.

That’s the most unnecessary “critics say” in the history of written language.

I’m entertaining myself by thinking about Barack Obama waking up in the morning and realizing, already exhausted, that he has to learn the choreography for Wheels on the Bus so he can go do his stupid job this morning.

Today’s bloggery:

this is fucking nuts:

My parents, and their generation in general, were never more wrong about anything than they were about the future of video games.

Benjamin “The Thing” Grimm of the Fantastic Four and Raphael of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, caught in a real Eisner of a downpour, by Jon Bogdanove & Fernando Peniche.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

In the basement because of a tornado warning, AMA.

In all seriousness, those don’t look even a little bit safe.

Who else feels like the FBI would be better off with no director at all than with Kash Patel in charge?

Tonight’s bloggery, such as it is:

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

in general, more things should have been punctuated by a beastie boys KICK IT

I’m good with firing 62 million men into the sun. No trials necessary.

I’m surprised he knows that word, but then again he’s applying it to someone supposedly trying to earn a living, so …

Speaking of coffee, the French press didn't take so we're trying a pour-over thingiebobber. I will be fancy or die trying.

Everything just keeps getting stupider all the time forever.

I just tried to crack my knuckles. They made a sound like wet cardboard folding and now my hand hurts like hell. That's bad, right?

I think the bottom right is a burger patty? I have absolutely no clue what the bottom left is but whoever served it should be charged with assault.

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