So yes, of course, learning to do new things, especially creative things is important at any age but there is a real & unprecedented urgency at this time for art to make a difference & especially to have the voices of young people heard.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

this is mesmerizing

this is so beautiful and so heartbreaking

It was ever thus: remember how it took dozens of women coming forward for yrs for anyone to begin to take seriously that Harvey Weinstein & Bill Cosby were serial rapists? This image is worth a thousand words but our words are worth virtually nothing as individuals, when it comes to men who rape.

It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend

This movie had not come out yet when I was a kid, but a cousin of mine tells me their earliest memory of me is a thankgiving when I must have been <7 and apparently showed up in a homemade headband and told them I was there to represent the interests of Native Americans

"The Apologists" by @tadethompson.bsky.social is going on all my recommendation lists this year. clarkesworldmagazine.com/thompson_11_...

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...

Oh dang the article that started the avalanche of Biden Old push notifications from every major news outlet was written by a woman who was sleeping with a *different* presidential candidate *at the time*? Now does everyone understand what I mean by "ratfucking operation"?

“What is crime” is one of those deceptively simple questions that just begins to completely unravel as soon as you start pulling at it.

fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh

You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925

1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI. Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech! On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill. We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives! Rsvp link in thread!

PERTUSSIS?!? PERTUSSIS Babies are dying of things I only read about in Little House on The Prarie

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

LISTEN UP! December 1 is Monday. This means I only have another 6 days to get an advent calendar to you.. Those days include Thanksgiving and a Sunday. I will be doing a post office drop tomorrow! This is your last chance. I can't guarantee it'll get there by Monday, but it could! SquidFacts.net

The thing is we've known that housing the homeless is cheaper than neglect, we've known that Ubi is effective at eliminating poverty, we've known that heavily subsidized housing and education leads people into the middle class, we've known all of these things in some cases for 70 years.

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

the gestapo were infamous for often not accepting the papers of the people they victimized, in fact.

- Disney would be forced to make the "King of the Elves" Philip K. Dick story adaptation they abandoned - Pixar would be forced to make their abandoned stop-motion movie "The Shadow King" - "Phantom," "Reverse," "Dreaming Machine..." basically everything Satoshi Kon was working on when he died

So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.

“You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

The three spirits:

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

I'm really upset by all the articles I'm seeing that treat him like he's not a murderous psycho

One of the more interesting twitter fights I ever got into was when anti abortion laws were starting to ramp up, some folks who i don't know how well meaning they were, started posting herbal abortifacient recipes. To which my response was a not at all measured NO DO NOT EVER DO THAT 30 tweet rant.

It's tomorrow across the pond, but today in the USA we're over $36,000 thanks to 250 good people who've mashed the "Donate" button: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera... Sending cheers now to contributing editor Toby Buckle, who only writes bangers for us, such as the one published a year ago last week:

“You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

Is this @rize4eva.bsky.social’s daughter 🤣

just saw someone on tumblr describe HP as “the first fandom” like. I know you people are desperate to keep funding a transphobe bc the thought of reading any other book is too hard for you but this is housewives writing kirk/spock fanfic in carefully xerox’d fanzines erasure and I won’t stand for it

feeling extremely something to see some peanut go "you haven't given people a reason to *not* pirate books" juxtaposed with said peanut talking about the kind of queer representation they want in media unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help

A movie that takes place where you’re from: www.imdb.com/title/tt0093...

A movie that takes place where you're from: www.imdb.com/title/tt0311...

FFS, if you don't want to use Amazon, use Kobo. Or pay a dollar on Itchio. And if you're really skint, borrow from the library! Yes, libraries have ebooks, and Libby is a free app!

Daily bunny no.3148 will be done in time for Christmas

The result is that, while not openly against trans rights in the way right-wing regimes are, liberal states end up de facto oppressive for trans people outside a fairly small swath of gentry. One in five of us ends up incarcerated, we're an overwhelmingly working class demographic. You do the math.

We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now. "Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.

merciless life.

Yes, school refusal due to bullying and/or mental health issues absolutely should be covered (I had a period of school refusal, so I get it.) But it's a bit bizarre that there is no mention in this increased school absences story of the recently introduced virus that kids get regularly now.

Like, you could write an entire book length case study in "ways Roblox completely fails at Trust and Safety". I advise every parent I know to get their kids the fuck off Roblox, or at the very least, directly monitor who's contacting them and what they're playing *extremely* closely.

The Thing

it's wild to think that about one CEO ago ago, people were looking at Google and Apple as brands they wore in their personal lives as badges of honour and in the space of less time than it takes a cicada to mature the consensus is now that they are the enemy of public safety

If the IDF kills 50 people with a bomb it’s a test of the ceasefire; if an Arab teenager throws a rock afterwards, then the ceasefire is over

this is how I post

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Reminded of the one time I made the comment in my white collar crime class that I said "if we can garnish wages, we can garnish profits" Fines don't mean shit. If you won't let us throw them in prison we should take money in ways that hurt so they don't do it again