there's a genre of take that boils down to "the reason trump is providing for his actions doesn't make sense, so there must be another secret reason that DOES make sense." it is always wrong.

Hey to all my Creator friends out there: Ya might want to check your Adobe subscriptions before the next billing cycle.

People who defend your abuser are not people you need understanding from. They are in their own layer of denial and until they do similar work, they're not going to hear you. They'll always be willing to make you pay for their denial. Keep your distance.

The president is clearly threatening multiple nuclear strikes. I don't see why we're not discussing impeachment proceedings or, in lieu of that, military activity intended to prevent such an attack. I'm generally of the opinion that we believe people when they tell us, then act accordingly.

The fact that Congress isn’t stopping it is also why none of our allies will ever be able to trust the United States again.* *The best hope we have is unpacking the Court, prosecutions, and massive structural reform.

This is hilarious because it implies that her husband DID call her while she was in space on the ISS to ask her help in looking for something. 💀🌌

JOHN BROWN: if I burn in righteous hellfire so be it. But I believe it is my sacred duty to cleave you in two with this here blade. JOHN BROWN AVATAR GUYS: being impolite to the police is the main problem in the country

I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.

Sure, the most influential accounts on X are all right-wing influencers who spew a steady stream of misinformation and hatred, but I'm sure you're not feeling any downstream effects from all of that. You're just too smart and savvy to be influenced by propaganda, not like literally everyone else.

In the '90s, punks and leftists made absurd images like this to parody American conservatism. I'm not sure you can do that today because there's not even the veneer of Christian virtue to point out the hypocrisy.

Dads will literally show 1970s war dramas to their single-digit child and expect them to end up normal.

Okay, again... this is how TF you write a GD'ed headline!!!

Hi. Me again. Where are the complete Epstein files?!

She left her agent because he was in the Epstein files, and just like that, there’s a bot-driven smear campaign. You fell for it with Amber Heard and Blake Lively, stop fucking falling for it.

uhhh well I didn't realize they already announced this but I guess that means I'm allowed to tell you I will have an essay in the booklet, a condensed variation on the big Highlander essay I wrote a couple years ago

Yes Comrade!

Did everyone else have a thing where watching a show in syndication the station would play a bit of the theme songs as a "Back to the show" bumper? You'd see "Now back to The Dukes of Hazard" and you'd hear "Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since they day they were born"

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

He is risen (and will rescue your daughter)

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

88 Films recently revealed the special features for its upcoming release for THE HOURS so I am excited that I can share that I did a commentary track for it & I also put together the interview with David Hare as well. Neat!

I feel like you can tell a person’s political leanings off whether they think TV is real

I could do a whole thread about songs like this. I've spent a lot of time looking for music. And Shazam has only ever helped me find 1 song, it was Clementine by Pink Martini.

There’s a lotta “Trump’s gonna drop nukes on Tuesday” going around and it’s probably just the kickoff of a ground war, because of course the guy is high enough on his own supply to loudly think that the commitment of thousands of people to harms way should be announced like a TV premiere

This is way overdue, but I finally got my 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR review wrapped up today (I started it weeks ago, lol). This one is available to both paid & free subscribers: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/quickie-revi... Shares are deeply appreciated - cheers! 🖤

I said media organizations because I'm still ticked off at certain newspapers omitting certain things but this also applies to politicians. I truly do not think it's that difficult to anticipate how Bluesky will react to milquetoastiness and yet my milk keeps getting toast in it.

"I do declare, this has been one of my most difficult cases. But if you'd be so kind as to gather everyone in the living room, I believe I am ready to explain what occurred. Just make sure that nice Detective Murphy is with us. She'll be taking the murderer away with her. Thank you kindly, sir."

There was a moment of momentum where the people running this site were being chill and publicly presenting Bluesky as a rebellious alternative to Elon's bullshit. And then they visibly threw that away for people like Jesse Singal and that launched an all-out attack on their own users.

I'm going to be real with you. I said two silly things this week that caught some attention. Not a huge amount, but enough that I feel something I said resonated with someone. That's pretty neat. And no one called me a slur in the comments, so that's a win.

In essence if Bluesky had wanted to keep growing they could have decided that the enthusiastic users who cheered them on mattered more than the minority of well-connected goons who wanted to be harmful. The "Waffles" debacle where staff mocked and derided their most active users didn't help.

I'd seen jokes about "anti-bedtime leftists", but I didn't realize this was actually a thing someone had said. And then to go on to whine about "Power Users" like that's something the world needs. And he wants Algo to show him stuff, probably wants Clippy to tell him to put glue on his pizza too.

men will literally post rambling threads about how people are mean to them on social media instead of going to therapy

Social media is shrinking abd has been for years. Twitter was already in decline when it was sold. Twitter was in many ways a fad, heavy users were outliers, most people sent less than 10 tweets a day. It was always a double edged sword of success and harassment.

I guess I'm just reading Nightmares & Dreamscapes again at this point. I'll skip a couple of stories, because having read Dedication once, I never need to read it again. I don't find Head Down interesting, but I'll likely get through everything else.

Not to mention mall restrictions, closing arcades, and they defunded every bit of teen programming possible at the libraries, closed all the community centers, and refuse to fund after-school and weekend events...

TIL

No real problem with ordinary folks asking about the 25th, but every time a congressman asks for the cabinet to remove a president you should read that as them abdicating their own duty to pursue impeachment through congress

I know this and you know this and we all know this but sometimes you gotta say the obvious thing out loud (so to speak) just so you don’t feel alone or crazy: our president is a deeply unwell and utterly vile man who shouldn’t be in charge of driving a golf cart much less the free world.

This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

One truly can only conclude this is because they like Trump and want him to rule us like a king

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

I hate how true it is that we'll probably find out because of polymarket fraud or something

yep, Nestlé had their sales reps *dress up as nurses* and give out free formula *in maternity wards* to make families dependent on it, in countries where many didn't have access to clean water for mixing with formula. researchers estimate that 10.9 million babies died.

HORATIO: Look, my lord, it comes. HAMLET’S DAD’S GHOST: (rockets past at inconceivable speed) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

Yesterday a person I sort of know came over to me and was like “I can’t believe how bad trump is.” Really? You can’t believe how bad this is? Last time he left office we had a completely out of control pandemic and that was when he had “more professional” people in his administration.

I hate this with every fiber of my being. And having the students be the face/voice of it also is just so appalling when it's being pushed by corporate interests and when they don't even know what it is they're losing by having this foisted upon them.