Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1987) asserts that a powerful common enemy MIGHT trick humanity into uniting. But for the West the USSR was just that. Since its collapse every Western nation has backslid on democracy, immigration & the social safety net. No USSR also allowed China’s rise. 1/

With that, I unfortunately have to reopen fundraising because the insurance payout is a bit short of what the exact same car would cost in New York 🫠 Closed the old goal out at 44% with more details later ko-fi.com/d7th/goal?g=0

Hi there! I'm Sarah, writer and artist from the southeastern USA. I love making new worlds (especially making maps for them) and playing with the characters. Art: sarahamacklin.com Writing: sarahamacklinauthor.wordpress.com

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If you’re in the mood for something really peanut buttery and delicious, I recommend this recipe. And pretty easy to make: www.simplyrecipes.com/peanut-butte...

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$1720 to go! I truly appreciate everyone’s help, only got until next week and am doing another cookie baking stream for donors next week if I make the goal to save my home. Thank you, all! ❤️ PP: www.paypal.me/Briggsycakes CashApp: $briggsycakes

I used to work fast food and we had a lot of Hispanic construction workers come in for lunch. I knew enough Spanish to take their orders and one guy asked me where I was from. Me (in Spanish): here Him: No, before here. Me: *laughs* Here. Truly. Him: *wide eyed* Your Spanish is *really* good Me: 😊

So: Bluesky is great because there's no algorithmic hand on the wheel randomly picking shit to go viral and suppressing other posts, but it also means all posts are equal and you never get the "Woah big number" pop of Twitter. BUT! You can share Patreon/Kickstarter/other links without suppression

Every morning I see this line of white vans book it down my street. They're only labelled "delivery truck", no company identification. I pointed them out to my husband. Now we're both suspicious.

During the first regime, they kidnapped a man who sold fruit in my neighborhood. Thankfully, teens at a local school who bought fruit from him found out and were furious. They and their parents helped get him safe. He is the loveliest man. Anyone in the neighborhood would have let him stay with us.

Sickening

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

There was a female prison nicknamed the rape club. It got closed (eventually) and the Trump administration is trying to reopen it as a migrant detention center I don't think I need to provide further details. It's all the same stink

Whelp. I won't be returning for season 2 of Mighty Nein.

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do you think theyll have mr beast sponsor trump’s hunger games?

It remains wild to me that during the first trump administration there was a long debate over terminology after AOC (correctly) called border internment "concentration camps" and now having concentration camps is a core domestic policy. The purpose of that stupid debate was to normalize the idea.

How did he "make" the FBI buy him this? Nobody had the fortitude to reject the request? Did he just go ahead and do it? Or did the people in charge of such things go yeah, sure, he's our guy. Anything for the president's stooge. Don't act like he twisted anyone's arm.

My current WIP is about an up and coming crime family and it's biggest inspiration was Jade City. I often described the male MC as a mix between Lan and Hilo and I think I've made an absolute monster. IYKYK

Happy holidays! Save 10% off your order with code KRAMPUS at checkout from December 22nd to 25th 2025 at blambot.com. This includes fonts, brushes and even the Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering!

Any other writer find it hard to pull out of writing an intense scene and come back to the real world? Bc my character just executed a few people *horribly* and now I'm supposed to start Christmas baking.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

My team is hiring narrative designers again! * Entry to mid-level! * Casual mobile games with campy fun stories * Big caveat: after a few months remote, you gotta do a year or two in-office in Beijing! * Pay is low by US standards but great for Beijing or Europe www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Many get sick while traveling. One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions. To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!

not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

My daughter was happily sitting in the kitchen last night munching on the chicken feet she cooked and whipped up a sauce for. I don't know what ancestor came back to enjoy more prosperous times but enjoy yourself I guess.

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

This is probably my favorite story I got to work on this year. Only downside is I had to read more of a Pete Hegseth book than I needed to just to use one quote 😭

Torchy Brown in Heartbeats by Jackie Ormes from December 23, 1950. A great example of her work.

The Impossible Wish for Christmas is to find this dress that stopped being made several years ago & the creator closed her shop to move onto other creative projects.

Happened to find this - it's a useful little website if you A) want to know why you should drop Substack and B) want a list of alternatives. A couple also have tools to import your old SS posts over. leavesubstack.com #kidlit

So amazing.

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This strikes me as just a way to let LLM in the door over at SFWA. You do not a survey to craft a no generative AI policy.

Watching the spiked 60 Minutes episode on YouTube, thanks to @phillewis.bsky.social. It's not like the Trump admin didn't have its say. At about 4:15 mark, there is footage of Trump saying CECOT was "great facilities, very strong facilities" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenF...

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Our girl Steph needs a new desktop and as a comic writer that's vital. So pick up a few signed copies of Roots of Madness to get her on her way.

i saw this template and immediately had to do this with Zinthra 😌

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Obviously, this is amazing BUT the thing I love most, is that it's directly poking fun at the desire/fetish to overanimate overlapping action & smears. Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.

A Black Mom who got an eviction notice is trying to raise enough to keep a roof over her daughter. She does work, but fell ill this year and got further behind on bills until she couldn’t catch up. Let’s each give $1 to reach her goal. We’ve helped 209 people so far let’s keep going.

The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday.

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.