It was a true joy of my life to get to sit on a Doctor Who writers round table at @gallifreyone.bsky.social today on the main stage.

I was sitting on the floor and a child silently walked up to me, smiling, and handed me a 6-7 ribbon. #gally1

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I feel like Matt Vogel got put into a pretty difficult position of having to assume the role of Kermit very publicly and unexpectedly (AFAIK), and he gets a lot of flack for having to work out his voice over a series of projects. But his Muppet Show Kermit is good!

I’m in the hotel lounge area enjoying my breakfast and there’s a lady barefoot with her feet up on the hotel lobby couch watching a worker clean up a mess her group made and I didn’t really know I could have this much disdain while eating a breakfast wrap.

The new Muppet Show is so good. I hope they get to keep doing them!

I work with a real jerk, can't stand him, don't even think he knows my name. Today he's suddenly the nicest guy here. Knows my name, knows everyone's name. He's playing the piano. Just saw him surprise a young couple with wrestlemania tickets.

I feel like the most “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” thing that could’ve just happened was me coming out of a screening of it planning to take a photo with the poster and they’d already taken it down.

It’s wild how much hate Starfleet Academy gets from so-called long time fans because so far eps 2-4 have followed 90s era Trek episode structure more than any of the Paramount+ shows so far.

I really do believe comics are a perfect tool for curing tiktok brain and regrowing attention spans, and we should publicize that

One of my new housemates is an ardent microbrewer so now I feel like I’ll have to start running a D&D campaign where I craft a narrative and we drink his beer so we can call it “Homebrew & Home Brew”

ICE is indeed still in LA and they are especially active in north of Los Angeles as well: Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

"simply about getting ICE back to obeying the law" Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity. ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand. Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.

Good. We hate you. Everyone hates you. Even you hate yourselves.

This. All. Of. This!

If you want to watch something kind and heartfelt and you have 15 available minutes, well, do I have a film for you! It’s the last day it’s up during this film fest, so get the login deets below!

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

ICE heard Fred Rogers say "look for the helpers" and thought he was describing targets.

There’s a video of another ICE murder, either make sure your media settings are right, get off for a while, or be ready.

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This happened today and is a big story more news outlets should be reporting on but of course they aren't

Moving is so hard. Like what do you keep and what do you get rid of. Like do I need to keep this 20 year old bottle of was once wine from my divorced friends’ wedding that has my deadname on the tag? It’s so hard to decide.

Idk, Apple. That seems like a pretty unlikely scenario for me to find myself in, let alone need a whole playlist for it.

They say "thats not possible" and "no we won't research that" in the same breath. They *assume* hormones will somehow work differently than they do in cis people, despite having literally no evidence for it

This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest

Weird, almost like this was a manufactured culture war against a powerless scapegoated group over nothing

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

In Uganda, a nearly entirely Black country where it’s illegal to be gay, LGBTQ people used code words like “minority” and “DEI.” But Trump made that impossible, not only w US funds, but by forcing other nations and non profits to cut off anything with words like “trans,” “gay,” minority or DEI

A reminder that you can, and should, turn on the setting (in your settings, natch) that forces you to use ALT text on photos. It's under Settings / Accessibility --

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Some great comics to support including Horror Not Hate!

To note the problem more explicitly, imho: "Can a man become a woman?" implicitly discounts the existence of trans and cis categories. It's basically saying "assuming trans people don't exist, can trans people exist?"

Talking about paid agitators when 🧊 is a bunch of people who got a 50k signing bonus is another “every accusation is a confession” argument

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Hey TTRPG Sky! I'm looking to organize group games for my team here at Demiplane/Roll20, and am seeking professional online GMs to hire for one-shot play. If that's you, you can drop me a quick line through this google form: forms.gle/Yesw4e9r3WR7... Systems I'm looking for in the next post.

So Holly Hunter’s Chancellor Ake is bisexual?

ONLY on Assigned Media: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have accused the regime of genocide. Some of the most vulnerable are trans. Crack reporter @mollyquell.bsky.social comes to us from The Hague to report on trans oppression as part of the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar.

I have to give myself a little mnemonic to remember which needles are for drawing my hormones and which are for injecting. I used to use “green at the go and blue into you” but my current needles are blue to draw, orange for injections so I use “orange you going to jab yourself?”

OUT NOW: "The Great Multipurpose Satellite" - In an adventure recorded live at Strategicon 2025, the K-OS team contend with a platoon of party poopers. Listen now at goodchaotic.com/2026/01/14/l...

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.

Anyone still shopping at Target…the best time to boycott was already a while ago, but this might be like a third or fourth best time.

For today's horribles: the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on banning trans athletes. It's the most bigoted thing they'll do this term. I'll be jotting down my thoughts here.

If you don’t read anything else this week, read this. In many ways this is exactly what you would expect, yet somehow so much scarier in print. “‘Just to be upfront, the goal is to put as many guns and badges out in the field as possible,’ he said.”

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

i had editors reach out to me to write about today's supreme court arguments in the trans sports case. i didn't end up taking any of the assignments, not because i don't think the case is important, it is, but because there is nothing new i could write about this issue that i haven't said 100 times.

“Despite the sweltering heat, don't roll down your windows because those monkeys seem confused and irritable.”