Just spent an hour trying to free book shipments from Asia being held for tariffs even though books are exempt from tariffs. No luck so far. This is all so incredibly stupid.

Menswear guy subtweeting a nation.

Time to break out the chart

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Happy National Video Game Day! 🎮 We asked AEW’s stars to share their all-time favorite games – what’s yours?

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Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Re: LRQ, the hypocrisy sauce on the BS sundae is the manufactured outrage about a fictional naked little kid depicted in a non-sexual context while the same people maintain total silence about the real-life sexual abusers in positions of power.

Anyone who thinks this isn't a big deal or won't impact anyone aside from some angry nerds, please understand this is part of a broad and aggressive political movement toward censorship and social control.

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Late HBD to our emo prince.

I know the horrors are manifold, but one of the things that personally I find just so pathetic and gross is how all women in the soggy cheeto's ambit have to look like blow-up sex dolls.

New #tech thing if you use the Firefox browser!

*typing next to a 5-foot TBR stack* It's not a sickness, it's an honor.

Absolute madness, and basically destroys the international zine and records and indie comics mail order ecosystem in one fell swoop Not at the top of our country's current atrocities and crimes, but god this is fucking stupid and shortsided

people love bringing up japan when it comes to deporting immigrants/ creating a homogenous society, but if you bring up japan's anti-gun laws it's "woah woah woah"

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

HAHAHAHA they couldn’t get a grand jury to indict our sandwich hero I’m dying www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Like 94% of online discourse would be eliminated if there were a general awareness that "I don't like this" =/= "This is not good."

Efforts to remove “sexually explicit materials” or books with “sex content” has chilled access to art in schools. - @penamerica.bsky.social

The New York Times thought "Harvard President Might've Paraphrased Instead of Cited Many Years Ago" was the biggest story in the country for multiple days, requiring numerous top headlines and follow-on pieces. Then, as now, a noticeable variable was Black Woman in Prestigious Job.

If the cheeto dictator removes JPow from the Fed (which would be yet another illegal act), Americans are gonna find out real fast what it's like to live under hyperinflation.

Awesome, there go our sample book shipments.

Great piece by @mattalt.bsky.social on Jump's success and the extreme mental/physical demands of manga serialization.

Meanwhile, UK is trying to Hadrian's Wall socials, US is trying to pass KOSA, SCREEN, and a mess of neo-Comstock laws, payment processors are Justice Pottering smut, and the EU is considering breaking encryption on all chats. Again. 🙃

Starting to see direct impact of tariffs hit my little professional corner. In the last week several artists have halted shipping to the U.S. and at least a couple book projects have been put on hold. Bigly feeling the greatness now.

University of Chicago being gutted because of insane debt loads and wasting money on crypto is incredibly ironic after what their school of economics put the global south through. Behind, the neoliberal boomerang.

*climbs onto "Yoko Shimomura needs 100x more recognition & accolades" soapbox, inhales* First of all--

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

AHEM. 🎉 (If you haven't read this yet, do it to find out what the frog thing is about )

@sakaimii.bsky.social knocked this one out of the park. Absolutely chuffed for them, editor @sarasaraht.bsky.social and the rest of the team who've made this series such an unhinged delight to read.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

CHIEF: I’ll need your badge and your service weapon. ME: [puts a badge and a Quiznos Turkey Ranch Swiss on the desk] CHIEF: Both of ‘em. ME: [hesitates then bends over and unstraps a McRib from my ankle]

I've always tried to restrict moral judgment to the act, not the person, but: fuck these guys. They're terrible people happily empowered to do terrible things.

Also super psyched that daily essentials (tea, coffee, food, personal care goods) are all about to get a lot more expensive thanks to the end of the de minimus exemption.

Even though trade books are (thus far) exempt from tariffs, I'm not looking forward to the knock-on effects of a broad disruption in logistics given how many of our titles print overseas.

Piece of shit ICE fascists are swarming Little Tokyo. Posted up outside the Japanese American Museum threatening people with internment. Impossible to overstate how disgusting these people are.

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

This would make me finally learn Linux.

Slightly diminish a band: The Old Pornographers

this is from back in May, but while youre calling your representatives about the SCREEN act and KOSA, its worth including a mention about the 'Interstate Obscenity Definition Act' (IODA). remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"

I Like Clay BUTTS and I cannot lie Terracotta can't be denied On a funeral urn When a dude got burned And an Etruscan went and died...

I keep hoping against hope that we'll back away from the cliff, but too many forces seem intent on a Wile E Coyote sprint off it.