i don't believe in the antichrist and also i'm like 25% convinced he's the antichrist. happy easter

"Your posts are worse than Bieber" "Shirt look like a shop rite bag" "You have sold out the fans ." Every Accusation is a Confession. —DRIL

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

I tried very hard to use mastodon in the months between Musk buying Twitter and getting my Bsky invite and it was fucking miserable. I could only find two (2) twitter mutuals to follow on there who ever posted anything and the vibes were rancid. then harry potter discourse destroyed my instance

hey, I wrote about this! episodes.ghost.io/in-defense-o...

went long on ToB today

"It's a variant on that apocryphal Truffaut quote about how every anti-war film ends up being pro-war: Books that wrangle with abstract ideas of manhood in a traditionally masculine prose style often wind up valorizing what they're trying to critique."

many people are agreeing with this to say that the serendipity you can only get from changing your plans on the fly is what makes television great. I agree, and also I kind of think it's what makes literally ANY kind of writing great!

hello again to my holy matrimony

absolutely cannot get this image out of my head. i should be working on my book

This is NOT what I signed up for

If there's 1 thing that I care about more than any other policy related to trans issues, it's reversing Trump's anti-trans EOs, especially the one being talked about here. It's the one that's been the basis for the rest of the administration's attacks. Rahm is unacceptable.

layers of beauty here. like a sonata

just mistyped Norman Mailer as Normal Mailer and that's a free handle for anyone who's been looking for one

In this week's 26 Episodes, @emilystjams.bsky.social on what Deadwood has to say about the soul of America

people are I think understandably fixating on the lurid details here and thus glossing over the real story: his name is Byron Noem, which is possibly the dorkiest name in human history. like try saying it aloud right now. it's like a pair of glasses wished to become a real boy

the instant I saw the Noem news I knew, somehow, that this would be Emily's take

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I think this is fine as long as he keeps the original cover art

On this week's Pluribus, you've gotta be cruel to be kind.

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: there’s a site i go to a lot that isn’t the best way to follow breaking news operator: is it a news site me: not really operator: why don’t you go to a news site me: i don’t know operator: jesus. ok. how many ambulances do you want me: 75

I think it's really cool that this is the week where we're publishing our pet readings of what the daemons in His Dark Materials mean. I think mine's a lot better though

this shit is so awful for so many reasons but one of them is that, like, midwestern progressives are not particularly centrist! walz is further left on most issues than hochul or newsom! jb pritzker is the governor of the midwestiest state of all! it's just offensive

3.5% is "percentage of the total population in the capital the day an Eastern Bloc nation falls" numbers, godDAMN

holy shit! for context, this is 2/3rds the ENTIRE population of st. paul, about half the population of minneapolis, or 3.5% (hey, it's that percentage people like!) of the population of the WHOLE FUCKING STATE

extremely glad I went to No Kings, even if it did leave me with the very annoying thought that St. Paul and Minneapolis deserve a much higher-quality rail link between their downtowns lol

almost died in the fucking pit at this

This is how Minneapolitans talk about going to St Paul.

proud of this one! thank you @emilystjams.bsky.social for the opportunity to go long here. little preview!

Lily Osler ( @lilywrites.bsky.social ) with an essay on what Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series taught her about identity and selfhood!

This framing is scientifically illiterate on multiple fronts: regardless of whether T-dominant puberty leads to permanent athletic advantage (it likely doesn't), many women, cis and trans, have a Y chromosome but didn't go through T-dominant puberty, and the test they're using is for the chromosome!

the quoted article here is a pretty gross example of the institutional anti-trans bias of papers like the Guardian! it uncritically accepts the IOC's "inherent advantage" and "scientific consensus" framing despite the fact that recent meta-analyses have found little to no advantage

if Greta plays her cards right those Narnia movies are gonna hoover up both the Potter apostates and the disaffected adult Catholic convert moms who've realized JD Vance hates them; a powerful coalition. Very narrow path here, but Gerwig's a skilled contortionist.

(my sincere take on this As A Christian is that HDM, a series of books written by an atheist w/ mystical tendencies where the repression and cruelty of the Catholic Church is harshly but thoughtfully critiqued, is WAY healthier for kids, spiritually, than like 90% of evangelical kids' media)

jumping on The Discourse to say: let your weird smart possibly gay children read His Dark Materials!! Philip Pullman had a brief just-asking-questions phase about trans kids but iirc he legitimately WAS just asking questions and has since been extremely pro-trans. also the prose is actually good

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

I'm really proud of these Pluribus reviews and hope more people read them!! This one is about how the show's slow, deliberate pacing is in fact its character and theme engine:

In this week's Monday Rundown: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Hoppers, and a eulogy for a beloved cat.

I don't know what the discourse around Lindy West's husband is but I do want to use this moment to note that he cowrote Macklemore's song "White Privilege II"

In this month's mailbag: sitcom remakes, ranked-choice voting takes, and a whole lotta Oscars! episodes.ghost.io/march-mailba...

"buff.ly the vampire slayer" would be a kickass username for someone who shortens urls a lot

I've got some spicy Plurbs takes in here! Little preview!

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift