"It's a cross between Twilight Imperium and Cones of Dunshire, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and..." Friends, I guffawed... xkcd.com/3235/

I think David Sanger is one of the most dangerous sanewashers of Trump's instability & this column ignores extent to which Iran War is a global negotiation & Trump is increasingly less likely to be the decided. But Trump reads him these two ¶¶ say quite a bit. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

STOP USING AI TO MAKE FLIERS. It changes Black people's faces. This has now happened to TWO colleagues.

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

What is this I see here? A Kickstarter that includes ME and several other amazing folks? www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

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Hate to break it to this CEO, but as a Napan, I know that wine sales cannot survive on CEOs alone. It requires regular people, the kind of people he wants to fire, to buy it. You also need water and a healthy climate, two things at risk from AI data centers. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wow 🤯 I honestly don’t see how the USA will survive the moral bankruptcy, democratic wreckage, and loss of international credibility caused by Trump 2.0

What is the U-3 unemployment rate? How is this GDP relative to past years? What’s the federal funds rate, and how could changing it impact growth and employment? These are all factual questions too. If a public official chooses to mislead on some facts, how can we be confident he won’t on others?

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election? KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question WARSH: I believe this body certified the election WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?

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Those governor numbers 👀

Does anyone know who is responsible for this page tracking LLM-linked deaths? It seems like a useful resource for tracking this stuff. llmdeathcount.com

Hey, new book drops 5/26, which is very close to my birthday, so if you can't bring me cupcakes, a pony, a vintage VW bus, or chocolates, you can just pre-order my book instead (-:

Good lord, I knew it was bad, but 3%?? And for that 3% you must now pay more than Netflix monthly while being splattered with ads, porn, ads for porn, Nazis, ads for Nazi porn, every half-coagulated thought that dribbles out of Elon Musk’s barf-hole, & ads for Nazi/Musk barf porn.

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists. Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table. FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

Graduate student workers at Harvard University are walking off their jobs Tuesday on the first day of a union strike that could disrupt academic life, just weeks before final exams.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists. Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s. 2021 is here, and... 1/2

Kathleen Jennings (@tanaudel.bsky.social) is an Australian writer and artist – and GoH at Swancon this year... Where are you based? Brisbane! Your work in brief: Gothic, Australian Gothic, fairy tales, and fairy-tale Gothic fiction and illustration.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

"Fine. I'll take the dragon outside again tonight. Hmph."

My joke during the W. era was I don't get people complaining about him being on vacation. I don't want him to come back. But W was just scarfing pretzels and pretending to clear brush. What Trump does in his downtime is just more middling evil.

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How does Trump spend his time? Construction, Con, Corruption, and Clubs. emptywheel.net/2026/04/20/t...

if you respond like this to people 6 years later expressing that the social isolation of peak Covid was hard for them, congratulations: you are a huge asshole

American Nuremberg Trials for every single one of these depraved brownshirts and the depraved individuals giving them their orders. There will be a fucking reckoning of some form or fashion. Bet.

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Translation: This deal is about to be exactly like the JCPOA, minus Obama’s signature

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I am very happy to say that I just finished reading: • #TheSubtleArtofFoldingSpace by @johnchu.bsky.social / #JohnChu and it was absolutely brilliant.

Celebrating 4/20 in your 20’s vs celebrating 4/20 in your 30’s

As a candidate for U.S. Senate, I support the legalization of marijuana use. #mepolitics

When Trump is out of office, we're changing all the federal building names back, right? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

(Er sorry just to be clear, I'm not the amateur fencer, I'm quoting someone I know)

From an amateur fencer: look how the dominant fighter barely does any flourishes--it's all to the point flow

The original questions raised by my t-shirt also answered by my t-shirt t-shirt

Same. My job is very stationary. I stay home and make comics. But then from time to time I get to go out, do cons or a tour of schools or whatever, and connect myself and my job to the rest of humanity. And it was REALLY hard having that taken away from me for so long.

SO happy for everyone who spent like 2-12 months in the house and had some major self discovery, realized working from home was the shit, or who just got to not interact with people. I had an essential job so had to deal with people stuck at home looking for excuses to be indoors publicly.

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The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

This is so much worse than just honorably disbanding the organization

Has anyone done a proper deep study of what reading a book actually involves, psychologically, neurologically and so on? Because it occurs to me that quite a lot of AI/creative initiatives are premised on a rather limited understanding of what that interaction actually looks like.