Because you needed a video of a group of cute guinea pigs eating watermelon... You're welcome #bluesky 😊

Ah that's lovely news. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

The American automaker reported that tariffs cost them $1.1 billion and reduced the company's profit margin from 9% to 6.1%.

A federally funded database helps track long-term, missing-person cases. Yet an NPR investigation finds that even in states legally required to use it, more than 2,000 people haven't been added.

Finally got my podcast up and running. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. Mystery, History and Crime. Give it a listen. Thanks for your support.

Perfection.

I have not one, but two, Kevin Costners following me.

You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

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There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

My latest writing contribution to OTCP.

‘THE BOYS’ has released an awards FYC advertisement that includes negative reviews accusing the show of having a “woke agenda” and being “communist propaganda”

I had a chance to write about my new book, ALIBI—and what I think about writing mysteries—over at @scalzi.com's The Big Idea. whatever.scalzi.com/2024/11/15/t...