ICE has not been able to kidnap so much as 1 kid on an LAUSD / Los Angeles Unified School District campus. Remember this as the FBI targets our school district.

NEW on @indicator.media: I found an AI-generated podcast network that has published 350,000 episodes in the past month. That's 11,000 episodes a day, or about one year's worth of audio content. You'll be shocked to find out it's not generating original material.

We went out to visit California City Detention Center and found a whole new fleet of vehicles waiting in the lot. @lataco.bsky.social

A thing to keep in mind in the Netflix vs. Paramount bidding war for Warner Bros. Netflix does not propose to absorb CNN, TNT, TBS. It would spin them off in a new company like Comcast did with MSNBC. Whereas the Ellisons want to show Trump they can bring CNN to heel, as they have with CBS. Clear?

Last night’s viewing. Highly recommended. ASTONISHINGLY TIMELY. Bonus features are a trip, too.

"The larger project is not about Republican dominance. It’s about creating a government and society where men are dominant and women submit." @pamherd.bsky.social on the real impact of the anti-American, anti-woman, anti-democracy SAVE Act. Kill it please, senators. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Douglas Fairbanks vs Noah Beery in THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920). Fairbanks did most of his own stunts and his brother, Robert, helped innovate ways to make them look even more impressive on the screen. Note the slightly lowered table height.

That’s because the show runners and senior writers for those shows got their training in before the 2000’s. Once networks started pivoting to reality TV, they stopped investing in young writers, closing off the pipeline for new ideas, which became obvious when those prestige shows ended.

Done. This might be my new favourite book on writing. Maybe only tied with @stephenking.bsky.social’s. Very honest, very straightforward, and very practical. It’s about the job and not about dreaming of the job title. Thanks @johnaugust.bsky.social and @clmazin.bsky.social

California this is all kinds of bad happening. We MUST NOT let the jungle primary leave us with a default MAGA governor! Many in the dem field would be FINE! Leadership needs to get it together, check egos, draw straws, and consolidate the field before it’s too late. prospect.org/2026/02/09/c...

It turns out that the only thing standing between us and a version of the pentagon that closes airspace to shoot down party balloons were those diversity trainings at work

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Thank you, and also HUGE kudos to the remarkable VFX team who created some of the most amazing physical miniatures I’ve ever seen, especially for the dam break sequence. #OldSchool #Awesome www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKe...

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Petition to stop Canadian company mass harvesting seaweed off the coast of Ireland. my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

Had a smile on my face the whole time I was watching the new MUPPET SHOW. Especially when I saw Schmigadoon! choreographer Chris Gattelli in the audience! (he's choreographing Muppets now) Favorite number: "Islands in the Stream." Can't wait for the next episode! ❤️❤️❤️

Men keep proving why the birth rate is dropping and why women choose the bear.

Jenny Cohn is always on point.

The mind-blowing concept behind the revival of "The Muppet Show" is: "We're reviving 'The Muppet Show.'" Turns out to be a pretty good idea. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/a...

Attacks on gender equality and women’s right to bodily autonomy and to make decisions about their own lives are growing. Protection against sexual and gender-based violence, and support for survivors, is a high priority in Norway’s humanitarian efforts. tinyurl.com/4jc4afm5

This is awesome! Analog rules!

Damn 👀👇🏾

you're never gonna believe who's suddenly worried about judges being inappropriately influenced and biased by private organizations ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

“This January, the first cohort of books in the [JSTOR] Path to Open pilot flips to open after a three-year embargo.” Open Access for the win. about.jstor.org/products/boo...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

So you can't copyright anything you write with it, and if you use it to actually create something, they will own a piece. This company and this entire business model is for Suckers and Dopes only.

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Great shout out to Rebecca Lindsey and @climate.us !!! So thankful for ALL of these efforts! 🧪 🌊 cc @dantoearth.bsky.social

California is down with this plan. Solvang will be the new capitol. We will have train travel, single payer healthcare and aebelskiver.

Oh, Ollie. What a perfect, necessary poem for Minnesota right now. By @ollieschminkey.bsky.social; shared with permission. Help however you can: www.standwithminnesota.com

For Renee Nicole Good, for her wife, child, city, country, and every person she died to protect... it's fundraiser time. I'm giving $1 to Community Aid Network MN for each repost this gets. AND $1 for each new follower I get. And if YOU donate to Community Aid Network MN, tell me and I'll match it.

What? The AI companies have misrepresented what they're doing and how it was done? That's unpossible!

Big and surprising copyright opinion in the 5th Circuit. In Vetter v. Resnik, the panel affirms the District Court, holding that when songwriter effected his termination rights under 17 USC 203, it applied to worldwide rights and not just U.S. rights.

Or maybe it’s just everyone taking advantage of a head sick president for their own corrupt and crazy agendas realizing they don’t have as much time as they counted on. But damn.

At least eight states have deeply concerning anti-library, anti-literature bills on the docket for their legislative sessions so far. Here's what they are and what you can and should do at this point about them–whether or not you live in these states. *WE* save us. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...



Fellow AI-loathers, this is glorious.

There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve. If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel. Just. Keep. Writing.

Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days: REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY. IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.

NB that Media is a pillar of the 7 Mountains Mandate religious/Project 2025 crew plan to control the media to enact their revanchist social policy agenda. The Bored Ape billionaires are convenient facilitators, to the detriment of us all. See @jennycohn.bsky.social for great reporting on this.

Why we fund science

Once again, leading by example. Thank you MacKenzie Scott.

Both deals are bad www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times, hard mode no Stars, LOTR or Marvel. youtu.be/WDbQLcub5R8