You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Slopworld is not inevitable. People have power! Use it!

From @theathletic.com: For the first time in the 20-year history of the World Baseball Classic, Venezuela can call itself the champions of the baseball world. They beat the greatest collection of American baseball players ever assembled. nyti.ms/4rBFmWI

I've spent the last hour dancing up and down our tiny galley kitchen, listening to music that reminds me of my university years. The air is warm and muggy from a series of storms last night, and smells like rain and thawed dirt. Remember to step away sometimes. It doesn't mean you don't care.

The most terrifying thing I've ever seen was the footage of attending senators refusing to turn around while all of this was going on a few feet away. It looked like a game glitched and NPCs were frozen. It felt like my mind had snapped. That will haunt me for the rest of my life. They're inhuman.

The mayor needs to yank Shelley Carroll off the police board today. This is bananas. Here’s a gift link. Are there any elected officials in Toronto standing up for residents? She must go. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ted Cruz, with access to those briefings, said literally the opposite yesterday.

"My fellow Americans, despite what everyone else says, we are living in the golden age of America. Not your golden age, though. My golden age. As in: I am very old, and everything I own is either solid gold or gold-plated or painted in gold to make it seem like it’s real gold."

Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.

If you've got some coin, toss a few into the plate of trans/queer journalists covering trans/queer stories from trans/queer perspectives, because the institutionally transphobic corporate media sure as fuck ain't going to do it. They're fully compromised.

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

complete insanity

New in PN: The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here "The fantasy monster that president after president has conjured up is real, and he is squatting orangely over his phone in the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago."

“They are terrifying because they seem untethered alike from policy goals and logic. Trump offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it.”

Minnesota would like a word.

So, it was Iran? Not China? Not Venezuela? Not the radical left? We are living inside the minute-by-minute delusions of a madman.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

You can understand the Iranian regime is oppressive and murderous and also understand that this war of aggression against it is illegal and immoral and that those who will suffer the most from it are the people of Iran.

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.

The seemingly disparate threads of the current administration are all connected, and keeping track of the larger plot is getting harder every day. Bottom line, the US is waging war in the name of profit and impunity, and they'll do and support anything to succeed. This powder keg is about to blow.

important to understand that there's real domestic pressure from the large Iranian community in Canada to support this action

Yeah, they love to fuck kids, they're covering it up, AND they love to bomb brown people. Evil can multi-task!

In the study but NOT included in the article: “However, reverse causation cannot be ruled out, as some individuals may begin to use cannabis to self-medicate prodromal symptoms of psychiatric disorders even before a diagnosis is made.”

#ThePitt ripped through me this week for all the right reasons. It'll be a tough, likely complicated episode to watch for SA survivors, so if that's you, just make sure you've got your aftercare covered. Bandwidth-depending, everyone should be watching this show.

It's fundamentally wrong to say that AI is countercultural or punk rock because AI is presented and promoted by the establishment that countercultures and punk rockers defy. There's a profound misunderstanding of countercultural and punk movements going on there.

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Can confirm things ain’t how they used to be. I used to go to the US a lot and I just can’t anymore bc they hold me for hours every time. The last time they held me, the officer said a Canadian can’t be a contractor for a US company. When I said they absolutely can, he googled it in front of me lol

I can 100% confirm that we did *NOT* base the mask on Jeffrey Epstein. The mask was based on the old concept of 1930s era devil masks used by magicians. Ours was sketched by Tom Savini & sculpted by Jason Baker. At no time did anyone mention Epstein and modern real world abuse was not on our minds.

This is the part he’s not telling you: the only folks who’ll lose when this bridge opens are the Morouns—billionaire Trump donors who own the competing bridge. This is about rewarding them. With Trump it’s ALWAYS about the grift.

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:

Lestat dropped a hot new track, gang.

Living in America has desensitized me so much that I can't even cry for Tumbler Ridge. My heart breaks, and I mourn with my fellow Canadians. I also miss being able to trust that the government will do the right thing following tragedy. I miss not being gaslit by bought politicians.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Excited to have an interview with GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE screenwriter Matthew Robinson in the upcoming issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social, my favorite magazine for all things genre and tabletop and genre tabletop. Preorders go on sale soon, but you should sign up for their newsletter today.

Guys. Fuck. It's Reggie. I know times are absolute shit, but if you're not in the shit at the moment, please consider helping. Dude is a legend and a big part of why Horror is where it is.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

The highly-anticipated new sequel to THE MUMMY, starring Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser, has finally set a release date.

I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.

Like, the utility pole act and the lights in the stadium flickering were not just random. The power goes out in PR all the time! Because we ran their utilities into the ground! That’s political!

I fucking sobbed. It's good to feel hope.

what a shot

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

We spent the past week watching all of Barry for the first time. Holy shit, what a show 😳. It's one thing to hear about its technical mastery but another thing entirely to see it for myself. The acting and writing are top tier, but the staging, cinematography, and stunts are on another planet.

"If there's no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."