This seems like a solid idea. Also I love B&W film. #MovieSky #FilmSky #movies #film #BookSky

“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Become a famous writer and you too can do freelance work for xAI paying $40 per hour. #WriteSky #writersky #writing #writers #AI

Five ‘70s flicks that you love and return to time and again: (Geez, just five?) Grease Monty Python & the Holy Grail Rocky Star Wars The Godfather

Ratings knock me out, man. Finish Marcus Aurelius’s MEDITATIONS and Goodreads will actually say, “Please judge the personal journal of this Roman emperor on a scale from 1-5.” And by god people will do it. #BookSky #books

“It is the job of thinking people to not be on the side of the executioners.” ~ Albert Camus

Alex Pretti’s murder kinda took me out. I’ve barely functioned since. None of the people hurt by these Republican thugs has deserved what was done to them. Goodnight, Renee. Goodnight, Alex. You did so well. We’ll get them for you. #Minneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #PrettiGood #ICERaids

As someone who made the choice to leave conservatism, though, safety isn't guaranteed. On the contrary, it is objectively harder. I have thought about how to pitch a more just worldview to family members, but I cannot honestly tell them they will be happier.

"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted. A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...

Holy shit. He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him. His hands were on the pavement when he was shot. He never had his hand on a weapon. Cold blooded murder.

This is so fucking haunting.

Further thought: The big climax to MELANIA could be like Netflix's BLONDE, wherein Marilyn Monroe has dehumanizing, awful sex with JFK, except of course it would be ten times more awful because, y'know, it's Trump. #FilmSky #film #movies

There's probably a good movie in Melania's life story, actually. She is, after all, the world champ of gold diggers. It'd be one of those films in which a person gets everything they wanted at the cost of all else. Anyway, obv. we're not getting that. #FilmSky #movies #film #screenwriting #WriteSky

I don’t think people understand what an ask it is to beta-read a novel. Are you aware that I cannot count your manuscript toward my Goodreads Challenge? #WriteSky #writersky #writingcommunity

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

God, the whole X-MEN: ELSEWHEN project is really just the most has-been thing a bitter old man like John Byrne could possibly do. Can't say I'm happy to see Marvel reward him for it. #ComicSky #comics #comicbooks bleedingcool.com/comics/a-loo...

My whole the-editor’s-job-is-to-help-the-author-make-the-best-version-of-the-book-they-want stance got sorely tested this week when I read an MS for an evangelical novel 400+ pages long. Never mind the missionary who wrote it, *I’m* the saint here. #writingcommunity #WriteSky #writersky #editing

Happy #MLKDay! If you haven’t read a biography about #MLK yet, KING by Jonathan Eig really is your best pick. It manages the impressive trick of being 1/3rd the size of Taylor Branch’s authoritative work but feeling more holistic, and it includes the recent discoveries. #BookSky #books #civilrights

I’m kinda on a tear here. #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched #FilmSky

We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.

"The Black Spot" is now live on Substack—and in a tip of the hat to my start with fan fiction, it's a swashbuckling superhero story! Happy reading! #sff #shortstories #amwriting #fiction #BookSky #books #thrillers #superheroes open.substack.com/pub/nokevohl...

I think someone should probably tell Kuang that she’s likely to face some brand confusion if she tries to go by “RFK.” #BookSky #books #RFKuang