TONIGHT!! Portland folks, come out to Always Here Books to hang out with me, @jamiepacton.bsky.social, and @what-eats-owls.bsky.social at 6:30! We'll be talking all things D&D, rolling dice, and being generally queer at a bookstore near you!

I am about to get on a train but I have THOUGHTS. Essentially: too many stories start with a baseline assumption of desire between romantic leads. You see it with complaints about insta-lust, enemies-to-lovers who never actually hated each other, etc.

the thing about trying to make an example out of a comedian is, even to a comedy outsider like me, it is crystal clear you have to have hokage levels of charisma, presence, and wit to make that your job and not go broke. they will make you a global punchline with 10% of their capacity for meanness

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism." @readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom): reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

the relentless march towards low rise jeans must be stopped at any cost

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

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Inside an Anthology: This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor Today on the site I'm delighted to give a peek inside This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor, a YA anthology out today that features queer stories about tabletop games! Here's the gist: The magic of tabletop RPGs lives in the creativity…

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

There is no civility in parading monstrous, dehumanizing views in a costume of good manners. There can be no healthy debate when one party fundamentally believes the other their inferior.

They don’t want a civil war they want clout

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy

A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court judges have voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting to overturn the 2022 election. https://cnn.it/3VIY1Cn

in a shocking, completely unforeseen plot twist, after 18 hours of the right sending bomb threats to HBCUs, calling for violence against democratic electeds, and seeding misinfo about "trans bullet casings", the fbi's only person of interest looks like the male loneliness epidemic

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

When the left "practices politics" with twice the research and half the vitriol of Kirk, the same people wring their hands and say cancel culture is going too far

Anecdotal data, but it is wild to me that the iPhone 14 came out just shy of 3 years ago, and now it's considered so outdated I'm having trouble finding a replacement for mine's deteriorating case

If we had a functioning media they would be asking every talking head on their shows this very question.

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it's hard to know how serious this will be when the outcry from the right over a dead man is indistinguishable from the outcry when they changed the cracker barrel logo

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Welp.

What an expertly called shot

People confront Trump at a DC restaurant. He smiles at the camera as they chant “Free DC, free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time.” Trump’s masked agents have snatched residents & he’s unconditionally backed Israel’s genocide of Gaza. Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and JD Vance seen alongside.

every horrible person who does this wants to "flood the zone" and subject us all to hot garbage bc they're hoping people won't make the effort to wade through their bullshit to get to actual good things made by humans so pleaseeeee support creators *now*

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

'Flow' cost $4M. 'Hundreds of Beavers' was shot in 12 weeks and cost $150,000. Artists rethink what movies are, techbros rethink how to shaft the people who make them. www.theverge.com/news/773584/...

thank god something’s gone right

this bread is terrible. but the circuses? also really terrible

I'm a USA Today and NYT bestselling author who got a rejection this week from a big 5 publisher saying "the slightly elevated voice may present some barriers to entry for our commercial readers" so this checks out 🙃

"Thousands take to the streets of the nation's capital as regime declares war on third largest city" should be a bigger deal all around tbh.

Painting some feelings yesterday 🥲 I do love my saturated colors and my girl knights!

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mamdani had his fourth meeting with jeffries, and jeffries continues to withhold an endorsement in a race against a corrupt cop, a fascist, and a sex criminal who intentionally handed the state senate to republicans and gerrymandered against the democrats.

Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…

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Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.

Nothing quite like the confidence that your writing research for the day has irrevocably ruined your advertising algorithms for the foreseeable future

Why not at this point

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

I beat the main game of Expedition 33 a WHILE ago, but tonight I beat the Secret Super Difficult Boss and the only worlds to conquer are trophy chasing. What a damn game.

Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️