My big problem with AGE OF ULTRON was James Spader’s voice. It is so distinctive that I couldn’t suspend disbelief when I heard it. It was too obviously a voiceover. Better would have been to use someone whose voice we wouldn’t have immediately recognized. Anyone else feel that way?

Amen.

But...but...but... SLEEPY JOE!

In a box in my garage, I have some old Gold Key Star Trek comics. I really do miss comics, but the cost to entertainment ratio really seems out of whack. I used to read comics once, then bag them and box them. They were quick reads; quicker now. Books and TV series take hours. Movies feel richer. 🤷‍♂️

I did not like the bridge design on Disco or SNW. It was too big and too busy. You never really got to know the bridge crew the way we did on TOS, TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, or DS9. There was too much focus on the leads and not enough on the core bridge group as there should have been. 1/2

Lebanon needs to disarm and disband Hezbollah and deport any who are not Lebanese citizens. Then it needs to embrace peace. The IAF is not hitting Lebanese military sites; it is hitting Hezbollah sites. If the Lebanese Army destroyed these sites, the IAF would have no need.

Describing your work as "very similar" to an existing work is a bad call. It makes your work sound derivative or a copycat. In publishing, we often say that books are "in the tradition of" another author. The implication is that readers of X will also like Y, but not that Y is trying to be X.

Thinking I need an RPG to keep in my car for when people double park in the school pickup zone. WTF level of entitlement is that? 11 out of 10?

I made a dent yesterday in the number of submissions I have to read, and then I woke up and I had received even more than I had responded to yesterday. Oy! So, I'm going to share a few things you might want to know before submitting: 1. If you use "was" as a verb a lot, I'll reject your book. 1/7

The Washington Examiner — one of the most reliably pro-Trump, right-wing publications in America — just ran a piece titled "Donald Trump is losing his mind." Let that sink in.

Trump shuts down the investigation into his own 'assassination' attempt. #MAGA why would he do that? Think hard on that, I'll wait.🤔

Did JetBlue admit to surveillance pricing? Even though they denied it, multiple companies have been caught red-handed using the shady practice. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8

Cannot wait. youtu.be/H-43VeYGiPM?...

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Ah, the comments have the receipts.

@nbcsandiego.com Could you investigate the nightmare that is Miramar Road? The lane closures have so little warning. I wonder how many accidents have taken place. And, seriously, how long does it take to fix one road???

Now would be a good time for @housedemocrats.bsky.social to publish their take on what they would do in 2028. We are watching Project 2025 become a reality. What's the Democratic plan to counter it when they win back the House and Senate and, hopefully, the White House.

Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution. This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians. The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

I suspect the only think keeping publishers from fully turning over copyediting, proofreading, and art creation to AI is that the cost to do so is prohibitive. Right now, humans may be cheaper for these services. Unfortunately, that won't last.

Other states can play the same games. Now you potentially lost 9 seats in Virginia. Cry harder.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

If you are submitting to us (and other agents), please take the time to properly format your manuscript. Single-spaced? Really? Oy vey! No. Here are our guidelines. Others may be less concerned about such details, but proper formatting lets us focus on the _writing!_ zackcompany.com/manuscript-p...

Big news out of @ewgofficial.bsky.social yesterday: EWG sues EPA for 7-year inaction on glyphosate in oats, citing risks to children’s health www.ewg.org/news-insight...

Great news. I just hope it means we get them in the US.

Successfully reset a password today. I have no idea how.

so basically we’re right back where we were a week ago, except a bunch of trump officials and their friends are now a couple billion dollars richer from betting market crime

I wish the people screaming that Israel is committing genocide ever bothered to read anything about the Holocaust and the actual genocide of the Jews and what that word means. www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Russ Vought on inflation: “We went from 9% to 3%.” Inflation was 3% when Biden left office. It’s 3.3% today.

You got a wonder how the Trump administration didn’t see the potential for this name change when they named the operation.

Trump is leading our troops into a literal minefield abroad—and leading American families into an economic minefield here at home. This is NOT “Operation Epic Fury.” Let’s call Trump’s Iran policy what it is: Operation Epic Failure.

Was anyone else waiting for a titan to rise up and eat the capsule?

How is it that I am paying for a Claude subscription, but I get cut off and told I need to wait four hours to finish what I’m doing???

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

BLOOMBERG: Despite claims from some CA venture capitalists about high taxes and mismanagement driving startups away, THE OPPOSITE IS HAPPENING. “CA startups raised 62% of all US VC funding in 2025—up from 54.2% in 2024, 46.9% in 2023, and 47.2% a decade earlier.”

Nutella should get some kind of award for "Best Product Placement."

Does anyone know what happened to the planes they had to destroy? I read they were disabled, but how?

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Rewatched the Devil Wears Prada last night, in anticipation of the sequel. Then went and looked at the trailers for 2. Meryl Streep does not age. It's amazing. And the movie holds up. Honestly, it still gives me post-traumatic flashbacks to when I started work at Simon & Schuster.

Watching the Artemis II crew approaching the Moon and not sure if I am more surprised to hear them talking about Microsoft OneNote or the fact that more of this wasn't choreographed. It seems pretty seat-of-the-pants.

The number of service members and civilians shot and killed on US military bases over the next 2+ years is going to rise quite a bit.

TRUMP CANNOT LEAVE NATO. Three years ago Congress passed a law that the president cannot leave NATO without Congress' blessing. It takes 2/3 of rte Senate to vote to end US relationship. It's unfortunate that the lame-ass media doesn't confirm info before they run with it

As we begin Passover this week, I want to wish all who celebrate a meaningful seder. As we celebrate the freeing of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt, I cannot help but hope for the freeing of Israelis from the terrorist forces surrounding them. Wishing them much peace and safety to celebrate.

Hail Mary is the Armageddon of Gen Z.

Saw Hail Mary with my teen today. He loved it. It’s definitely a bit in the long side, but they don’t lose your attention. I hear the first cut was four hours long. I can’t imagine why. There just isn’t that much story.

Woke up to no power. Seems someone drove their car into something important. Very annoying.

Is it weird that I stared longingly at the gefilte fish jar in the fridge? My wife said I couldn’t eat it yet because it’s not Passover yet.

That last post was written while sitting outside of my son‘s 90-minute improv class on Saturday morning.