You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.

i love how you have to whisper in a library. there should be more whisper-only spaces. speak softly if you must speak at all

James Yeh interviews Ted Chiang for The Believer (2019) www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

What a perfect analogy and response to resistlibs who whinge about "why are you protesting democrats and not republicans." Well done. 🧵

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

I guess I lost track of Brigitte Bardot after my childhood where I learned that she was a famous hot lady from the past and am just catching up on her recent activities of loving animals, hating non-white people and being dead

My hottest writing take is that the oxford/serial comma is not remotely as big a deal as its proponents claim. If it makes a sentence clearer, it's useful. Otherwise, I can take it or leave it. Who cares? It feels like a toy nobody cares about until somebody (allegedly) tries to take it away.

Walked by the kitchen right after my partner connected the potato peeler attachment to its handle and they were brandishing it as if in triumph. I enjoy them a lot.

Earlier this year I read all of the Wheel of Time in 3 months and 1 week. The show was canceled right around when I finished the books, but I'm watching it now anyway.

One of my greatest worries about climate was “countries will not trust each other enough to do this” but that’s actually become somewhat moot as renewables have become way preferable for many growing countries precisely /because/ they do not trust temperamental petrostates.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I’ve been struggling and I’m glad I’m working to get help. I think a lot of us have built up a tolerance for suffering but what if we don’t have to suffer? What if life doesn’t have to feel like it’s killing us? If you have resources that can help, get help.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

I hate the online reaction cycle that praises a piece of art a lot and uses it as an example of what’s good about the medium but then the moment it gets awards or enough acclaim or fandom, suddenly we have to talk about how it’s actually not really that good and it’s overrated and always sucked

I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤 #art #painting #portrait #illustration

Me after every social interaction

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Being well-liked and charismatic and having policy positions the majority of the electorate agree with might work in New York City but that doesn't mean it will work in places where every day is opposite day

I don't think rich people are insane, personally. I think that's an insult to mentally ill people, who are generally kept from being wealthy by virtue of their condition, which is not a choice. I think wealth, which is, just makes you evil, bc your attempts to justify it make you a monster

If I was really rich, I would not complain about mayors refusing to meet with me; I would just buy a lot of Lego sets and spend extended periods in Tokyo, Italy, and France

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

where were you when dick cheney shot that guy in the face

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

am i full of regrets from wasting my one precious life (the end of which is approaching by the day, faster and faster and faster) or did i go to bed a little later than usual and it's cloudy outside. impossible to say. probably the first thing

im gonna do this but be really nice to the guy i created, make sure he's well-adjusted and chill. be a good dad

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

I honestly think it's just that he doesn't talk down to people. His great innovation is to not treat the voters like contemptible idiots he has to deceive.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

I've thought about this for years. Leave god out and it's ideal living conditions.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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this is why I call it abuse at scale

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At one point, the camera turned back and you see it’s the ENTIRE class chasing that dude off, wow.

i just love hornet sm!!!!!!

Depression is so time-consuming. Like, GIRL, I actually have so much to do!!!

I’m sorry to see her go, but what a life.

Just made the strange discovery that I cannot make @reactorsff.bsky.social articles show up in duckduckgo search results? I went to find this review of The Raven Scholar because it's my favorite book of the year and this review is why I read it, and nothing I tried brought it up.

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)