This weekend 's WTAF moment is brought to you by Blade and Bow bourbon. - #Arsenal won - #CharlotteFC won - #CarolinaPanthers won. - Fixed the shower valve. - Bought groceries. - No big ice cubes in the freezer? WTAF? #BladeAndBow #DrinkResponsibly

This is my congressman. This is the only smart thing he's done in Congress. Unfortunately, it won't happen, and he knows it, so this is a performative popcorn fart to try to make his constituents believe he's looking out for them. Better idea Ralph: Donate your pay to the York County Food Bank.

How do you know when, as one of the biggest software companies in the world, that you put out your genAI too soon? When you can't get it to do things like update a calendar or to-do list from within the calendar application itself. #Huh

Pick your prefix. #HeLiesWeRise

No longer THE ESPTEIN FILES. Now THE TRUMP FILES No longer ICE. Now THE SS. No longer GRAND OLD PARTY. Now GOVERNMENT OF PEDOPHILES. No longer THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT. Now TRUMPISTAN. No longer WAITING IT OUT. Now FIGHTING BACK. New York, Illinois, you're up! #TAKEBACKALLCAPS #TAKEBACKDEMOCRACY

Hey NRA and you gun hoarding nut jobs. What's happening in this country thanks to your I'll informed votes last year is why the 2nd Amendment is in the Bill of Rights. Don't you think your right to bear arms is moving up the list of things he's going to cancel? Hey! MAGAts! You up? #democracy #huh

I think I fell in love. youtube.com/shorts/Fq8S2...

This is how I look when I write.

As a person in the South, it amazed me that the person who personifies everything southerners hate about New Yorkers, was not enough for them to vote for someone else. He empowered their racism, misogyny, greed, xenophobia, and ignorance. This is the only explanation.

I don't need any of those reasons to boycott McDonald's. The shitty food is enough. But sharing this anyway because these things matter. #vegan #veganStrong

Brilliance

Spanish breakfast beans with a vegan omelet and Mexican Chiapas coffee. A perfect start to a day of writing query letters. #vegan #WritingCommunity

Presidents continue to rule by pen, not process, and we just let it slide. Wrote an essay on how executive orders got so powerful, and how we can fix it (without rewriting the Constitution). Give it a look: substack.com/home/post/p-... #Democracy #Politics #ExecutivePower #LetsFixThisThing

Had to create an evil POS for my WIP. "Former speech writer, turned spin doctor, turned digital propaganda tactician. Once called 'Roy Cohn without charisma' , and ' The Joseph Goebbels of TikTok.' His most famous quote, 'I'm not a racist. I hate everyone equally.'" #WritingCommunity

:sigh : 38:53 into the first episode of the new season of Foundation. I'm sorry but this dialog is atrocious. It's like they took an 80s cop movie and pushed through a 20-aughts dialog filter. It's an affront on the genius that was Isaac Asimov. But it may be the gummy talking.

I'm openly atheist. I studied theology (multiple branches) and that's where my studies led. This is my choice. I support people making a choice for what works for them. This video is where Christianity is meant to be. Not where MAGA and Christofacists in the US, think it should be. Please watch.

Must listen.

What's next? A giant Republican space laser to act like a magnifying glass on all these warring ants?

Yikes. I think ChatGPT might be living in my head because I said almost all of this in the day it happened. open.substack.com/pub/themouth...

Sometimes I need to repost this, especially when then Christofacists need air time. To be clear, believe what you want. I support that. Just don't try to legislate that I need to believe.

It's like that Tom Hank's flick from the '80s: The Moneypit. Everything with this guy take two weeks. But then two weeks pass and you ask him again and he says "two weeks." www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

"And that is that the Trump administration is like a pirate ship. Even those who signed on hoping to benefit or be protected from harm are still aboard a pirate ship, and the top pirate — Trump — will eventually turn on them." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1m...

In some lighter news and for something wholesome for the timeline….here’s Steve Carrell yesterday at Northwestern University's class of 2025 commencement 🤣

Putting it in the the simplest terms for the intentionally ignorant.

The crowd size was huge at Trump’s birthday parade! 😂

A Bench for the Bench substack.com/@theartofdav...

Morning! TACO is sure making Gavin Newsom look like our next President.

Looks like a scene from every zombie apocalypse movie ever made. Guess what MAGA, you're the zombies in this story.

Dear investigative journalists, how about using FOIA to find names and employment history of the "federal agents" abducting people, to determine if any of them are or were active members of white supremacy or domestic terror groups? Or has FOIA also been compromised in this new era of greatness?

The 1st Amendment is first for a reason. It's fundamental to all other amendments. It's fundamental to liberty and living in a free society. Whether you're a government hack or president of a floundering news agency, violating the 1st Amendment is violating the Constitution. Grow a spine @ABC.

Perfection

Ok. Editing done. Beta done. It's query time. Get ready agents. # writingcommunity # agentquerypalooza

Just because you're a straight white man of faith doesn't mean you are part of the problem. But if you aren't doing anything to combat the problem, you're also not part of the solution.

Look, after several hours in front of the TV, it's really simple as this. Tom Hardy should be the next James Bond.

Bobby D. Afraid of no one.

In a world of increasing ugliness, beauty is still attainable.

While they sit, banners and signs down, I think every one of the peaceful protestor should turn and face the violent actors, point at then and shout "Shame!"

Jake Tapper was as much of a journalist as Tucker Carlson.

How I arrived on Bluesky:

#WritingCommunity #WritingChallenge Probably outside my lane here, but in another thread I suggested we have a challenge where we write an oral book report as if given by someone who hasn't read the book. Since I recently read an essay by H.W. Brands on Animal Farm, I had an idea. Here's my shot.

@charlotte-fc.bsky.social Charlotte FC. Stop dribbling in the box and SHOOT! Toe, instep, heel, doesn't matter. SHOOT! Shots make goals even if they aren't perfect off your foot. Too much dancing, not enough shooting. SHOOT!!!!

It feels right now like the reasons for hope are diminished. Trump is making a new piss tape every day, and the entirety of the GOP is distributing it with the message that he’s delivering a successful rain dance during a drought. A third of the country seems to believe the messaging.

Repost if you’re still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. ✋🏽

Good have stopped at "JD Vance is wrong."