Crime is bad. Criminals shouldn't be in charge. DUH.

In a real society, in a real country where laws were applied to everyone and consequences were a thing, saying "I will protect the pedophiles and crooks in this room from justice" would be the end of this guy's career and he'd be in jail

I just had the worry that people might think I'm a bot since I find interesting people to follow and upvote their little posts. Instead of like, commenting a hundred times a day like a real blueskier. Blueski?

If your movie blurb mentions the rating, I probably don't want to see it.

Doing long-overdue web maintenance today. My old site is uneditable, thanks to google domains getting sold to squarespace. It's a teardown/rebuild. I wish there was an easier way, but it probably won't take too long if I can figure out how to get started. Layers upon Layers are intimidating.

A great sale going on for my first urban fantasy novel (anthropological werewolves!) on Kindle in the U.S. $0.50! You can't buy anything of such quality for that nowadays! www.amazon.com/Silver-Book-...

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

It was fun to listen in on the 200th episode of Writing About Dragons and Shit. Congrats @aboutdragons.bsky.social, still waiting on Treavor's book

Join us live on our Discord Tuesday, June 16th at 9pm Pacific for Episode 200 of WADS! We'll be talking with folks in chat, answering questions, and celebrating this awesome milestone! If you haven't already joined here is an invite link to the discord: discord.gg/pPZe55yV

Call for proposals from Asmodee's Game In Lab. Each project will be eligible for a maximum grant of €20,000: www.game-in-lab.org/en/internati...

Just had 3 screencaps from Twitter show up in my feed of some idiot/Grok bot posting a stupidly offensive reply. I came to Bluesky to get away from that garbage. Stop keeping Twitter relevant. Let it die. Instead of re-sharing a screencap of a Twitter post, reply with "STOP USING TWITTER." Thanks.

Thanks to Trump's tax cuts, 88 corporations — including Coinbase, CVS, and Disney — paid ZERO federal income tax last year. They also spent $852M on political donations and lobbying. Their combined tax savings: over $26 BILLION (a 3,000% ROI!) We must break this corrupt cycle.

"yucking your yum" is an atrocity of a phrase

Yo @umactually.dropout.tv you guys desperately need a studio audience.

I set aside the last two weeks and next week on my schedule to work on the minimum viable product that enforces some of my ideas for how Vast would work in a second edition. Thanks to @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social @johnnydale.com @adamjury.com among others for helping get it to the table.

And with the cover off:

I do think Poirot fucks, but also absolutely he's a short eggheaded old man who would never mix business with pleasure, never make the first move, vigorously clarify consent to someone else's advance, and would never kiss and tell. And he'd be heartbroken when they inevitably leave before breakfast.

Reframe the question and it becomes very clear. If you hire a manager to run your estate can that manager burn down the buildings on your estate or chop it and sell it off in parcels? Pretty obviously not. The president doesn't own the country. He's hired to administer it for four years.

The critics are mostly right about AI, so I'm pissed I feel the need to keep defending it from specious generalizations.

Also was quite confused by the first hour of the movie Heat: I conflated Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, and so thought it was about a crooked detective/thief pretending to track himself down.

I read like two years of Dinosaur Comics before I realized the art is the same every time.

Not for nothing but freedom of navigation has been a core US foreign policy objective for 200+ years and preserving the Arabian Gulf from domination has been one for just a hair under 50. When I say things like “calamity” or “inexcusable defeat”, I am not being partisan or exaggerating.

I can’t overstate the importance of Judge Kathleen Williams’s decision on Friday to reopen Trump’s $10 billion case against the IRS. This is why it's such a big deal. 👇 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-truly-amazing-exercise-of-justice

Will you be in the Washington, D.C. area on Wednesday, June 3? Come see me and @weinersmith.bsky.social discuss "Our Future on Mars?" at The National Air and Space Museum! airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/eve...

So, so dumb

A wonderful take that I disagree with. Basically "AI brains can't be intelligent because they're nothing but a series of math functions". But so are ours! Of course our brains are better—thanks to over half a billion years of evolution—but still basically just "inputs -> mystery box -> behavior".

In honor of all the people who died struggling against tyranny, and gave the modern world the privilege to be stupid enough to throw that privilege away, a crucial sentiment: Bad Guys attack. Good Guys defend. People who start wars and kill people don't deserve our respect. Or our votes. Duh.

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Earth is so cloudy

21:52 on Thursday May 21st, over the North Pacific Ocean

"I feel unsure of many things just now, but I am most certain that the gifts of the Spirit are stunted when knowledge is restricted in any way, and for any reason." -from And All Between by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

Don’t forget: It’s unpatriotic, perhaps even treasonous, to criticize Trump just for being stunningly ignorant, openly corrupt, unendingly destructive, out of touch with reality, lying every time he speaks, being a pedophile, and taking orders from Putin.

but her emails

I sure wish retweeting stuff on Bluesky would make Congress get off their asses

Anyone know a good text explanation of @gil.hova.net 's excellent "player in 3 persons" lens on games? (The one with Player, Avatar, Agent.) Searching, I'm only finding other news about Gil, or the board game from Avatar: the Last Airbender. 🙃 The closest so far: boardgamegeek.com/thread/23152...

Why can't the greedy old pedophiles see past the grift? The way he behaves would get him fired from every other job in America. The only explanation for their continued support is that they don't expect repercussions after the fact. They don't expect justice. Short-sighted. Foolish. Cancerous.

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

I think you meant DO"J"

The DOJ is reportedly considering dropping any audits of Trump, his family, or his businesses as part of a potential settlement of his bogus lawsuit against the IRS. That’s on top of the $10 billion in damages he wants. This is corruption on steroids — and taxpayers will pay the price.

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. He's posting unhinged AI slop and far too many people just shrug it off. Trump is unwell, and he is a danger to us all.

Hey Facebook could you please stop spamming my 84 year-old mom with ads that tell her her computer is hacked? What a shit platform. No moderation, just "scam scam, download this scam now!"

Shinjuku reprint (Japanese edition) will be available at Game Market 2026 Spring later this month. twitter.com/rigoler_/sta...

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Why do shows gotta be so hyperviolent? It makes them less good

A comforting take about purposing "moral beauty", and why we could all use more stories about regular people finding the strength to be heroes. share.google/PbdnUxKLMwZ5...