Well don't I feel stupid

Mid Missouri DSA is pumped to attend this signature gathering training, Saturday! Can you commit to joining us? www.mobilize.us/pnpmo/event/...

“Stranger still is lost Carcosa.”

Honestly, if you are a male geek, you owe it to yourself and the women in your life to listen to Catherine Nicoloff’s story. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-WVn...

Honestly, a really good article. It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years. It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

I finally beat Hades 1 on 32 heat the day before Hades 2 comes out! It was really fucking hard! And extremely fun. If Hades 2 is only half as good as the first it's still going to be one of my favorite games ever.

Check out the chyron -- they are shilling their merch store during a funeral. The sheer vulgarity of these petty-hucksters-gone-big is wild to me. Government by fashy used car salesmen, I swear to God. It will never ever not be fundamentally strange to me that their own base find this appealing.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

But tell me, have you seen the yellow sign?

Our children are the reason we must fight for socialism, and also our children make it really hard to participate in the socialist meetings.

I take pity on those who have also read Hegel.

Broadly, Grant Morrison’s comics sound a lot better than they actually read.

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

Opera Ratz #1: The Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute). Gouache with glitter & metallic paints, 5"x7". #theillustratedrat #operaratz

Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them. I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October. But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

This week isn’t going to kill me, but by gods it’s trying its best

One of the things happening here in Texas, by the way, is that Greg Abbott is personally intervening to ensure that academics and students who are insufficiently deferential to Charlie Kirk -- or are baited into being so by free-roaming snitches -- are fired and expelled from universities

I see it's time to put on my nonprofit staff hat again. No, you don't have to RSVP for protests. Yes, you can just show up. If you feel at risk, by all means, don't rsvp. But it is not some nefarious plot when orgs ask you to RSVP! It helps them in numerous ways:

I really don’t know what to say about this beyond that I’m going to keep being a leftist writer until they put a bullet in my damn head.

J.D. Vance and Stephen Miller want to use the horrifying murder of Charlie Kirk to target and dismantle pro-democracy groups. Their comments call to mind some of the darkest periods in U.S. history. They're dividing people based on what box we ticked on our voter registration.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I'm spending the next few weeks at an ecological artist residency in rural Virginia! As usual, I'm documenting the trip with semi-daily diary comics. The week 1 batch just went up on my patreon for $2+ subscribers, but here's a freebie~ patreon.com/mgillman

LET'S FUCKING GO www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

“What set tea apart, though, was its intimacy,” writes Erick DuPree. “Astrology required training and calculation; alchemy demanded secrecy, resources, and years of study. Tea-leaf reading needed only a pot, a cup, and an attentive eye.” wildhunt.org/2025/09/tass... #tasseography #pagan #witchsky

Tomorrow is the deadline to submit a proposal to my #ICMS Kalamazoo session, "Medievalism and Modern Pagan Religions!" Pagan scholars and/or medievalists, send me an abstract! icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr...

Tomorrow is the deadline to submit a proposal to my #ICMS Kalamazoo session, "Medievalism and Modern Pagan Religions!" Pagan scholars and/or medievalists, send me an abstract! icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr...

Trans rights are human rights. Human rights are not negociable.

“Like a lot of folk love divination, I don’t know where this came from,” writes Lauren Parker. “It’s nonsense, it’s silly, it’s probably not even accurate. Also every time I’m handed a straw I dutifully tie a knot to see if someone somewhere is thinking of me fondly.” wildhunt.org/2025/09/scho...

If you’re looking for someone to talk about Kash Patel’s “I’ll see you in Valhalla” line, I’m available. I’m a writer and editor with @thewildhunt.bsky.social, the preeminent Pagan news publication. I also did my PhD on conceptions of “holy land” within modern Paganism and practice Norse Paganism.

Hey journalists: if you need some perspective on this, give me a DM. I’m an editor at @thewildhunt.bsky.social, a news outlet for the modern Pagan movement and a practicing Heathen / Norse Pagan.

Leading, inevitably, to some of the worst ubi sunt laments ever. Where is the spreadsheet and Linux? Where is the Python that was coding? They have passed like silicon degrading. Like windows in the meadow. Adobe producs have gone down in the west. How did it come to this?

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

"Let me be crystal clear on this: On May Day 2028, the UAW will not settle for anything less than retiree health care and a real pension (at the Big Three)." — @shawnfainuaw.bsky.social www.freep.com/story/money/...

Breaking my code only to say that nobody involved in this is going to Valhalla.

Today, on Heat Death! To celebrate our podcast appearance on @thelorehounds.com, we're re-running a classic piece on Tolkien's orcs and the narrative myth of the eternal enemy. If you missed it the first time, this is a piece I'm *tremendously* proud of

Extremely long, anxiety-inducing day at work. It ended the way I hoped it would end, but still.

Get this book by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social it is really helpful for understanding the time we are in.

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Please, please listen to me: MAGA world has a lot of money to pay "researchers" to trawl niche social media sites like this one, and take posts that will provoke enormous outrage and plaster them across multiple platforms. Please think about what you're posting before you hit "Post"

again, if you're invested in tech, hospital services, higher education, engineering, or any other white collar work based in Kansas City or St. Louis, you should be on the phone with one of your guys contesting this redistricting that's going to turn Missouri into Mississippi

32. Gangrel

17. WALTER (credit realphillipdohm)

Absolutely insane gold thrymsa from Norfolk in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social. Never seen anything like this, wtf is going on