If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

The Sex and the City pilot is kinda fascinating to watch in 2025. It was 1998 and the show is heavily influenced by 90s indie comedy cinema. Chatty, hand-held, grainy, cigarettes and booze. Carrie breaks the fourth wall by talking directly into the camera. It strayed so, so far from that by the end.

Hey coding dorks, my 11 year old spontaneously got super into the javascript stuff on khan academy, mostly because it let her draw stuff. Might be just a phase but... is there a good path that connects increasing programming skill to animation and/or robots? Like, the coding equivalent of crafting.

'Sup ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

Not a good writing day, but that's why we have tomorrows. #amwrting #Writing

We’ve officially gone to print and I’ve only got around 80 copies left…when they are gone…THEY ARE GONE FOREVER! So, If you want a limited edition OVERSIZED hardcover of I TOOK A HAMMER TO HELL now is the time! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

What's a property that you love, but no longer follow? I am a huge Doctor Who fan but I haven't watched faithfully since the end of the Matt Smith era, just dipping in & out, catching an arc here or there. Still one of my favorite shows, just doesn't occupy the same space in my life as it once did.

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Must be a day ending in "y"

I'm really enjoying working on my latest project. And I've come to terms with the fact that it probably won't do very well. I'm a 1st time novelist with a few indie comic credits, a now defunct review site that was mostly overlooked, and no real social media following. But I #amwriting 1/2

My 1st child had so many great music based shows to grow up with, Little Einsteins, Backyardigans, Jack's Big Music Show, Yo Gabba Gabba!. By the time my second came along it was Paw Patrol and such. My 1st is so much better at focusing, and had so much less trouble in school. #justmyexperience

Oh, yeah I think I heard something about that. What he a friend of yours? Oh, you liked his tv show? Podcast, sorry. What was the show about? Got it. I hadn’t heard of it, but I’m really sorry that happened. Really sad. We gotta do something about all these guns

Just leapt up to 85 per cent funded thanks to one very generous pledge so who wants to get us a little closer now ? www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

The scene at Broadview today is calm, no sights of federal agents other than the occasional car going in the front gate. A UHaul truck was backed into the side garage earlier. About a dozen protesters are holding signs, dancing to Mexican music and yelling “shame” when agents enter/exit.

I think it's becoming clear that if you like indie creators, you're going to need to support them any way you can. And that doesn't mean money, just spreading worth of mouth can be powerful as well.

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Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Me, every day.

And there’s this.

Almost sounds like execs internally may have understood how this could play out, and the directive came from the very top? screenrant.com/disney-scram...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Activists in the UK unveiled a MASSIVE banner featuring Donald Trump and his best friend Jeffrey Epstein outside Windsor Castle where he will be staying this week (Video: Everyone Hates Elon)

The Golden Girls was way ahead of its time.

Great Emmy Awards acceptance speech tonight from @danielobrien.bsky.social! Can't wait to hear all about the experience on the next episode of Quick Question!

Yup, glorious sweeping paragraphs of overwrought prose... at some point #Sundaysucks #writinglife

If we can’t ENFORCE the First Amendment then we don’t HAVE a First Amendment.

This. I may be bi but that isn't a visable thing. So I support. It's what I can do. Don't really care if it's seen as "performative."

I may not be prolific but when I finish a project I'm already into the next one. Even though a project may take me years to finish I have no desire to sit & stare at my completed work, no desire to elevate it to some "artistic endeavor." That one's done, what's next? #writinglife #makecomics

Today is the birthday of writer & magician Walter B. Gibson (Sept. 12, 1897-Dec. 6, 1985). The Shadow started as the name of a mysterious narrator on the Detective Story Hour radio show, but it was Gibson who developed him into the character we now know in The Shadow magazine.

Found out yesterday that my email address (Chuck at whatchareading dot com) hasn't been receiving emails for about a week! No idea why and no idea how to fix it. These days I am constantly overwhelmed and two steps behind.

Oh look he spelled "replace" wrong. Teachers really need to push back against AI in the classroom. Just another example of "the leopards won't eat my face." www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...

Historians of religion in the founding era have estimated that church attendance rates at the time were lower than 20%.

Wtf

I almost posted this today. Instead I deleted the draft and sat down & wrote. Wasn't a huge writing day but I got words on the page. #amwriting #writinglife

"That was supposed to be me, then." That's the only way I can describe the feeling I get sometimes, a nostalgia for somerhing that never was. Such an odd, lonely feeling.

Great advice! I was facing similar questions about my writing style/voice, until I finally realized that I do have a unique voice it's just hard for me to hear, because it's mine.

Life in 2025:

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

It seems like the most and least gate-kept industry out there. You can make a comic, but good luck getting it in front of readers. I love the medium, it is a fantastic way to tell a story.

Hmm in reality it was probably Pong, but the one I remember playing that made me love video games was Asteroids!

The first 10,000 words came out like they were trying to escape. The next 10,000, they've been the steady drip that forms a stalagmite. It's slow but it's growing. #writinglife #amwriting #indiewriter

Aspirational

Not as prolific this week. I definitely got stuck in the opening of Act 2. Even with a solid outline I still occasionally stall out, I stared at the same paragraph for days. Until the question it was asking prompted the answer, while I was in the shower of course! #writing #amwriting #writinglife

Wow, this is just disgusting.

Over 8,500 words this week. I'd like to push those numbers higher but I have to admit this is the most consistency I've had on a first draft in a very long time. It's a great feeling to finally break the story that's been a just an idea for years. #writing #amwriting #indiecomics #comics

Thanks @fanbasepress.bsky.social and @barbrajdillon.bsky.social you are a true friend to the indie comic! It was a lot of fun talking about Renfield and the wonderful creative team that brought this project to life!

My Fantastic Four