I count six major retailers offering "early access Black Friday" sales as of November 8. It's fine. Everything is fine. Move along. Put it all on a credit card. It's fine.

exhuming mary wollstonecraft shelley to take her to task for her failures of feminism

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Yeah none of us are allowed to opt out of the patriarchy. That’s what makes it the patriarchy

“individual employees asked to change behavior in response to catastrophic mistakes made by their high-level leadership over the past 3-7 years” really feels like the overarching story of the current times

Any politician who votes to give more of our tax money to the grifters who have already gotten too much deserves to be primaried into the sun

Everyone commenting that nobody wants this — nor does it address the reasons people no longer shop there — is obviously right! But I wanna point out another thing: This very nefariously transfers ~blame~ for the company’s performance (ahem, repercussions for its choices) onto store employees

It gets even worse: Due to the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, small states are also over-represented in the House, so less populated states have multiple veto points in the system. There is actually no place in our federal system where the national majority rules.

This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care. If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

I'm looking at this book and now I want all my future books to have my own version of this back cover statement.

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

I always come back to how insulting the idea is that I need a plagiarism chatbot to help me “organize my thoughts” and “come up with ideas,” something I am perfectly capable of doing myself and never asked for any help with

Happy 3rd Publish-iversary to my first book, Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man! It has been a wild (and stressful) past three years. I didn't have as much time as I wanted to debut Viv to the world, but I'm glad there are people who love her as much as I do! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711852...

I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this. Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage. Let people find joy where they can, please.

Isn't it funny how the same people that keep saying "Get over it he won," have absolutely lost their shit that someone won a Mayoral race in a city they don't even live in?

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

'Maybe we'll cancel SNAP and 10-20% of all flights through *Thanksgiving* and *Christmas*' is just an insane political position. You do that and the annual Turkey fryer injuries won't be from turkeys, but from folks attempting to fry whole GOP senators for Thanksgiving.

*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man Why are people

Let’s hear it for the wisdom of America’s conservative youth! In 1913 there were about 500,000 cars on American roads, roughly one per every 185 people.

Long time listener, first time caller, just out of curiosity, what happens when Senators continue to confirm a lawless President’s appointments? I’ll hang up and listen.

laura loomer out here looking like 4 missing persons sewn together

Folks looks at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Friday night:

Why is there a rope line now? Is he selling tickets?

This feels like a "too many cooks" gag

Every state and local government needs to tax the hell out of centi-millionaires and billionaires right now. Like, immediately.

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

Republicans don’t care if you starve or die from lack of health care, as long as they can prevent the release of the #EpsteinFiles.

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

the government: we’re reducing flights across the board spirit airlines: you gotta catch me first

Leland turning on the fan! #twinpeaks @markfrost.bsky.social

Mamdani is already cleaning up the NYPD!

NEW: Trump is asking Supreme Court to act by 9:30pm tonight to block the ruling that requires SNAP payments to be made.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

“I’ve got a great marketing plan, we’ll get the dumbest motherfucker in our industry, one that just nobody respects, and we’ll have him say the most asinine thing possible and that will be our pull quote, it’s surefire

"people in cities hate farms and the rural way of life" wrong. People in cities hate leaf blowers

Author John Higgs talks to me about his new book on David Lynch tomorrow. Saturday 8th. Tune in from 5pm. slackcity.org.uk/planet-of-so... @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social @johnhiggs.bsky.social

Young women voters under the age of 29 logged soaring support for Democrats in races across the country, cementing them as the most Democratic voting group in the country by age and gender. https://bit.ly/3LAHNcN

Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale in GREY GARDENS (1975) She was BOTD in 1917

I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!

Really very pleased with this chat I had with @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social about how we both discovered The Monkees via the BBC's relentless children's schedules repeats, and the unexpected places that it led us to... timworthington.org/2025/11/05/t...

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

The Federal Aviation Administration‘s unprecedented order to scale back flights nationwide because of the record-long government shutdown took effect Friday morning. Follow AP's live updates.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Donald Duck: the orange juice made with pure rage.

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

"Is he dead? Is the SOB dead? He better be dead. He stole some of my time in the damn spotlight so he better be goddamn dead." LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND CHILDREN OF ALL AGES, I GIVE YOU THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!