Sunday is kind of the Bronze Age collapse of the week

Catch up on the news with this Venn diagram trio!

This regime is turning into tyranny by cosplayers and content creators

Because of my professional obligations, I was given a special, Blogger Strength Covid vaccine

The canceling of Kimmel's show is indeed a Very Ominous Thing but it is of course not the first attack on the first amendment we've seen in the past couple years. We've long since tossed our country's bedrock principles about speech into the shitter so Israel could go on killing.

Because of my professional obligations, I was given a special, Blogger Strength Covid vaccine

This regime is turning into tyranny by cosplayers and content creators

Great rebuttal by Lit Hub to the dumb, reckless consultants at Third Way (and Pete Buttigieg)

A rare bit of good news out of DC

“It’s another reason to love RSS: seems like the tech lords hate it.” Why you should let RSS feeds back into your (digital) life.

RSS? Yes, yes, yes! (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

And finally, for now, here’s the 1.5hr deep dive I recorded with Mike about both Kirk’s death and his life www.patreon.com/posts/036-wh...

In this week's Newsletter, @lukevburns.bsky.social and I featured writing by - Amanda Goble in @mcsweeneys.net - Freddie Shanel in @reductress.bsky.social - Luke Herzog & Lisa Zheutlin in @pointsincase.com - Bezalel Stern in McSweeney's Subscribe below! And we've got a big archive you can read!

RSS? Yes, yes, yes! (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

@jamesfolta.com extolling the virtues of #RSS for @literaryhub.bsky.social.

"Researchers recently found that “reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%,” which sucks." You guys, this piece by @jamesfolta.com in Lit Hub is itself fun! Which is as it should be. lithub.com/no-ones-read... #WritingCommunity

Thanks for the nice mention of We Had It Coming @literaryhub.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com alongside some other great writers (and also @raxkingisdead.bsky.social). lithub.com/no-ones-read...

Filling my new Xanadu with AI slop and this time it's great and everyone is happy

A blog for @literaryhub.bsky.social about how authors deserve more from an industry that unabashedly treats all of our work and private information as grist for their own profits

ICYMI, wrote about that annoying reactionary centrist list of words to avoid, and pitched some phrases I wish Dems would actually stop using (for @literaryhub.bsky.social) lithub.com/some-phrases...

Your Moment Of Venn

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“AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness and stupidity. Cruelty is the central tenet of right wing ideology.”

I’m a patient in the Scrubs hospital and I’m bleeding out but the banter is pretty good

I was working outside today and a bird dropped a little grub on my laptop, which means seven years blog luck

Meet the vegetables

Some reactionary centrists think word choice is the problem! For @literaryhub.bsky.social

Mr Patterson… I’m begging you… (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

These announcements always remind me of this Army Man bit by Ian Maxtone-Graham:

Oasis merch is reaching a critical saturation point in NYC

At the home town bagel place, they’ve known me since my preteen cinnamon raisin days… gotta show them I’ve grown up, I’m a man now

Picking up the “scam likely” calls to ask for career advice

I love the scene in Collateral when Foxx’s character gives away his “happy place” postcard

@jamesfolta.com and the Quest for Cheese, coming to a theater near you next summer

The nurse at the doctor’s office said I have “a kind power” so I think I’m going to live forever

tfw you and the lads are kicking it in 22 while your bestie is being contemplative in 21

Did my piece for @literaryhub.bsky.social lead directly to the rumored settlement in this case? We may simply never know for sure

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Do you want to continue to get Weaponsed?

The new show makes clear that Ray Romano exists in the Alien universe

Going on Fox News to be mad about a scavenger hunt because I’m a serious person

Side eying karaoke this week

I live by the office of the surgeon who put my elbow back together and I’m always tempted to pop in and say what’s up, show him my mobility, see if “Hips Don’t Lie” is still on his surgery playlist