🎧The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman @stephenking.bsky.social #KirbyHeyborne @simonaudio.bsky.social @audiobookmel.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks

🎧 To Kill a Badger by Shelly Laurenston #ShellyLaurenston #CharlotteKane @tantoraudio.bsky.social @audiobookmel.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks @TantorAudio @AudiobookMel ift.tt/dg3a4Ux

Finishing this audiobook as we speak. I’ve enjoyed so much, that I might just start over at the beginning of the series. There’s so many characters and such great world building, that a refresher is in order. That and I just love all the characters so much.

🎧 The Nowhere Child by Christian White #ChristianWhite @littrelly.speaking @macmillanaudio.bsky.social‬ #LoveAudiobooks #JIAM @audiobookmel.bsky.social‬

What question was he even supposed to be answering here?

We saw every movie and read every book about robots and AI killing us and said “yes let’s make sure that happens to us for real.”

Oh, they’re laughing at him, but it has nothing to do with his transportation.

We definitely are in the era of "rich dipshit dickheads disrupt something good because they think they have a better idea, but they don't, and then that fails, and then they have to go back to the good thing but have ruined a lot of shit along the way, oopsie-doodle, still gonna get paid, bye."

“There was HBO Go (2008), HBO Now (2015), HBO Max (2020), Max (2023) and now, once again, HBO Max (2025).” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/b...

🎧 The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup #SørenSveistrup #PeterNoble #HarperAudio @harpercollins.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social

Every single commercially successful book I've ever written got rejected the first time I pitched it. Every single one.

He did a dinosaur one on Apple+. So this seems like the next step. I love it and would watch.

Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.” No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.

🎧 Moon City Vice by C.T. Phipps @CT_Phipps #AlexFreeman #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social @AudiobookMel

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Today I learned that the Onion has horoscopes. 🤩 theonion.com/horoscopes/ Virgo (August 23 to September 22): Remember: Always be thankful for all you have. And vengeful for all you’ve lost. Yes. Yes, I shall.

The unexpected sound of a #porcupine asking for food is … polite. Despite their spiky defense, porcupines are gentle herbivores and they’re surprisingly vocal. It’s common they chatter or hum when they’re hungry, especially in human care

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

I want to go back to a time with @theonion.com just made me laugh. Not laugh and then want to cry and then want to punch something. They hit too close to home sometimes.

I wish scientists would put this much effort into saving the Red Wolf which is still here, but with grave numbers. Less than 20 in the wild and 270 in human care. www.fws.gov/project/red-...

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."   The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. PS. - George Orwell, 1984

WTF people. There shouldn’t be this much litter on the side of the road. That’s like a semi load of litter. Be better people. Great job to the volunteers that picked up after a bunch of adult children.

This is an amazing interview. I hope the leaders of the Democratic Party will listen and pay attention. youtu.be/TnzTnALI720

How do we call for a vote of no confidence in the Democratic leadership? We’ve had the same people for years and they aren’t getting the job done.

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#Conservation The # of tigers grew from an estimated 1,706 tigers in 2010 to around 3,682 in 2022, making India home to roughly 75% of the global tiger population. Communities near tiger habitats also benefited from the ⬆️ in tigers due to revenues brought in by ecotourism. phys.org/news/2025-01...

BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says they are removing ALL American drinks from the market. The LCBO has a monopoly on drinks distribution in Ontario. Trump just torched $1 billion of US exports. Holy shit.

Historians will write books about this dark period in US democracy. This will be the cover photo. It was taken inside the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia on Wednesday. (📸 Anonymous source, printed in The Washington Post)

And that wasn’t idle speculation. The ADA came about in large part because of the dramatic protests of disabled activists. This was the “Capitol Crawl” in March 1990. The ADA finally passed in the House soon after.

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Happy Year of the Snake! 🐍 The Lake Erie Water Snake - once near the point of extinction before being delisted from the federal Endangered Species List in 2011 - is a #GreatLakes success story about the power of public education and habitat protection #LunarNewYear blog.nature.org/2017/01/23/r...

Trump’s ICE raids are made much less effective, and sometimes fail, when people know their rights. Here are some links to know your rights trainings that are taking place this week.

I wish I were making this up but Ohio Republicans have made their #1 priority this year making sure that university classrooms are a safe space for Holocaust denial - literally, they have just introduced this as Ohio Senate Bill #1

No one gave us our identities and no one can take them away. www.teenvogue.com/story/dear-t...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day

This is basically what C-3PO did in the original Star Wars movies and everyone was constantly telling him to shut the fuck up

If you gave me this house, I wouldn’t live in it. The only thing it that I liked, even a little, was the spiral staircase. It was pretty cool. The rest makes me want to hide in a bunker.

I’m not a fan of the sharing of misinformation. But this is no different to me than The Onion. And what did they expect when you got rid of all factcheckers.

Got some light fluffy snow overnight to add to what we already had.

Steve Harvey is aghast

Took the pups out to play ball in the snow.

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.