Saw "Send Help" and I wish I had a group of people to discuss it with because it inspired so many thoughts.

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

This is Love Canal all over again. Environmental racism is a scourge and the only correct response is fuck AI.

Headlines like this make me proud as hell to be New Mexican. The Epstein 'truth commission' would investigate crimes committed on Epstein’s NM ranch, exposing perpetrators and accomplices whose names have been redacted. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legisla...

Imagine bragging about being so fucking basic. You don’t work or create or take joy in storytelling or connecting with readers. You’re a machine who uses machines and smiles creepily about it.

I'm going to win.

I love all the AI commercials telling viewers about shortcuts for life during the Olympics, a sporting event famously known for athletes who have put the hard work in for decades to get where they are. Just perfect.

Generally speaking, the minute you see the word “Fabio” attached to an article about romance other than as history, you can throw the entire thing into the garbage. It’s a sneer, designed as communication from one person who thinks romance is stupid to another.

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

“That sounded great but can you give me another one five percent slower?”

Please quit Substack!

We are living in a culture where in the same breath a talking head will say, “Sure, raping girls is bad, but isn’t the real problem that people are so sensitive these days?” Disgust fatigue, y’all.

The only good part of this bullshit is that most of the comments are a variation on “the fuck is wrong with you?” But seriously. Anyone trying to minimize Epstein can jump directly into the sun.

I am adding "disgust fatigue" to my lexicon.

I saw The Fugitive for the first time two years ago and was texting everyone I knew. “Have you seen it??? It’s so good, right?” They were amused by my surprised delight.

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Genuine, non-snarky question: who is the new Beatles movie for? They have been written about as a group and as individual artists to a staggering degree. I suppose my general disdain for biopics is prompting this question so perhaps there is some snark.

new yorkers survive in the city long-term by traveling in a kind of invisible force field bubble that maintains another body's amount of space between you & everyone else whenever possible. the snowbanks are collapsing this & everybody is riding a knife's edge of irritation that is starting to give

Yes. There are many on the MAGA side who love her. She wouldn’t spit on them if they were on fire, and honestly I think that’s the appeal.

When is the media going to stop this bullshit?? Good on Abramson for calling it out. But be so for fucking real, media. Trump does not rattle. Or care. Or feel anything but smug superiority.

If you're an adult who was vaccinated, you should get your titers run to make sure you still have immunity. Vaccination can wane and/or you may not have generated a strong immune response. That was ok when we had herd immunity but we're likely about to lose our "measles free" status.

I get that Ratner is a shit fucking racist sexual assaulter and doesn’t need an excuse to be awful. But, like, Chris Tucker has some of the crispest diction I’ve ever heard (and I direct audiobooks) and has never spoken in broken English. This is so stupid. Eject Ratner into the sun, please.

He was also in the best adaptation of Persuasion. Maybe my favorite adaptation of a Jane Austen novel.

I just roasted kale after massaging it with oil, and my whole life is changed.

Call me a filthy commie but I think if we're going to have a carceral legal system it's probably more important to prosecute the child sexual predators and murderous fascist goons than kids who shoplifted, and if we're doing the opposite maybe we're doing everything wrong Just a thought

I will be forever grateful that I got to direct her on two audiobook projects. Nikki Giovanni was a gem and a singular talent.

Always love seeing this in the world. @theferocity.bsky.social

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

Of course they do! The pastor works for ICE. They are probably loving the attention. Ghouls.

Lived in Providence for 7 years. Love that damn city still.

Bwaaahahahaha GOOD.

Catherine O'Hara changed the way I say "baby," I only say "bébé" these days, what a motherfucking icon

I fucking loathe Scott Jennings in a very specific way. Also, I rarely advocate for the ignore a bully advice. It doesn’t, in fact, magically diffuse them. But oh wow, I wish the panelists would start pretending he wasn’t there. Fully dead eye that space and refuse to engage with him.

This is our statewide hotline in MAINE. 207.544.9989 Text is great for non-urgent sightings SALUTE protocol is highly encouraged

2026, how fucking DARE you take Catherine O'Hara.

Listen. The average person just doesn’t need training to know that it’s wrong to kill people. This is not some big complex problem that requires expertise to get right. If ICE is killing people, it’s from a lack of morality, not a lack of knowledge.

Anyway, you can give $5 tax deductible to PBS for their app and get Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc along with Lupita and Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night and not pollute all of Memphis while you’re watching it.

Everything about this is cursed.

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I’m gonna be over here re-posting all the “Darren Aronofsky’s AI movie can suck it” takes. It’s nice to have a purpose.

Oh God I forgot he made THE WHALE. Even more the heck with that guy. Bleh.

And it makes sense that it needs constant cute because AI is notorious for looking terrible in long form. What a terrible idea in every possible way.

Fucking evil piece of shit.

The idea that body cams are supposed to do something is so absurd. The problem isn’t lack of documentation. Literally everyone is recording encounters with ICE. Just pathetic.

I’ve said this before but a well written romance is the backbone of so many beloved films and tv shows across genres. If you take the romance out of HEAT you have no movie. Point Break, Brooklyn 99. A lot execs and writers now don’t understand this.

When I was asked to audition for the audiobook of a biography about Tucker Carlson, my first instinct was absolutely not. Then I heard the title. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

I work in audiobooks and have had to tell so so...so many people that the romance genre is a huge tentpole in print, ebook, and audiobook sales. And yet is still treated like a shameful secret.