The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Can’t process that number. Unspeakable evil.

@kellylink.bsky.social Ever since you changed your Bluesky name, I've been imagining the Derry Girls in Derry up against IT. Somehow I think they'd triumph.

We say men are less emotional because we coincidentally don't define anger or reacting because of ego as emotions.

We’re up to 124 wins - including 35!!!! red to blue flips — and 9 more going to run offs. We still have 37 races left outstanding, but far and away the best election night @runforsomething.net has ever had.

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

Billionaires should not exist.

the great thing about Musk's comp package being heavily incentive-gated is that it guarantees a decade of systemic financial fraud at the heart of the market. good job everyone

If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

What the fuck is one person going to do with a trillion dollars that isn’t evil? What could anybody possibly need that for, and why do the folks at Tesla value Elon so highly? I am genuinely confused.

Seconded!

INVESTIGATION: American taxpayers already spent $6 billion to develop GLP-1 drugs, and then pharma lobbyists bought enough politicians to make sure drug companies were allowed to charge Americans the world’s highest prices for those drugs that we already paid for. This is how corruption works 👇

In addition to new Neo-Victorian, Gothic, Steampunk-inspired wares, reminder, we have fandom things! Like a 4th Doctor lanyard my partner painstakingly translated from knitting pattern into computer code to exactly mirror color & segment, small-batch printed: torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/8227...

"Maybe it’ll forget me. Maybe something else will take its attention. Maybe it’s time to run." We're excited to share an excerpt from @angelaslatter.bsky.social's witchy new fantasy novel A Forest, Darkly!

Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.

Not all gyros wear capes.

SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER

New Torch & Arrow listings include hair things! Always asked for them but I'm selective on what I restore/add to! Bat clips: torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/4399... Neo-Victorian: torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/4399... Owl Gorget: torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/4397... Shop: torchandarrow.etsy.com

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

The self-fulfilling cycles of marketing in the publishing industry are frustrating, terrifying, and career ending, because, in part, this move completely torpedos the midlist.

one of my least favorite new publishing "truths" is that books only deserve consistent marketing & publicity if they are already doing well, it's the new "needs experience to get experience" 🤡

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the language of "civilization" here is obviously fraught but also uh sick burn, Europe

F*CK BILLIONAIRES, the 300 page FULL COLOR, OVERSIZED, softcover graphic novel will be completed soon and then sent to the printer (!!). If you are interested in the book, the ONLY guaranteed way to buy it is to PREORDER. A twist-filled whodunit howdunit thriller. Preorder link in my bio.

My constant calls to her office have finally borne fruit

It's still my birthday week, so if you feel inclined . . .

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

What the hell

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Then when the bubble bursts, the US taxpayers will already be on the hook. “Too big to fail” redux. Meanwhile these folks will continue to collect on their massive compensation packages.

Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈

this. this will probably be the biggest impact of Mamdani’s win. this is why one race in a city on the other side of the country from where I live is gonna help us all

“This story reminds me why I read science fiction. The Rainseekers is unflinching and profound, shedding light (and rain) on the search for purpose and wonder.” — @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author. @tordotcom.bsky.social

Whoops I meant to link to the tiktok but my dog distracted me. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpPNmNu/

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

HEY MASSACHUSETTS! You know how Salem in October is INSANE so you don't go there then, yeah? Well now that it's November, Salem regains calm magnetism and it is THE PERFECT TIME TO STILL DISCUSS SPOOKY STUFF. Come talk to me about AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC at SALEM PARACON on Sat 11/15! salemparacon.org

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

I just learned about 'justice sensitivity' last year, and hoo boy does this help me reunderstand a LOT of behavior over the years. A lot what is labeled as oppositional defiance isn't OD, it's anger at injustice and that so many people just shrug and accept it because, well, it's 'normal.'

Two weeks from today, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative will host "Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond," our final workshop of 2025, with speakers @jennahanchey.bsky.social and Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed! Free and open to the public. Join us in-person in Tempe or on ASU Live!

I may even have been accidentally right about this being so a demented POTUS could find his way about. Fortunately ketchup bottles are already labeled.

What CAN'T they buy with their money and power? Us, apparently. 😁

so many good pictures out there

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Thread!

Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State. Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.