Fascinated by how the people who lost their minds over student loan forgiveness are currently running ads on my TV every 10 min promising that they'll forgive your student loans if you join ICE

Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]

"We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but that’s just how things go when you only control all three branches of government."

Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” hits #1 today in 1983 It was originally “a vampire love song,” said writer Jim Steinman, “for a musical version of ‘Nosferatu’ .. When Bonnie came along, it was the perfect match .. her voice had that haunted, gothic quality .. pleading and defiant ..”

CONGRATULATIONS TO NO ONE

Updated x5 with this CBS2 story www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

It’s a window into the chasm between how Black and white Americans view race. For too many white people, racism is still not a dealbreaker. They’ll denounce (some) violence but protect the worldview that fuels it.

The best part about fighting a demon is, you can fight dirty. It is necessary and correct. Thanks again to @innerworlds.bsky.social for giving this fiendish flash fic a home! I had a blast writing it…it was almost too much fun 😈

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

I got to playtest and work on Pathfinder Quest and can attest this game is going to be awwwwwwwwwesome :)

There's sort of a keyfabe that happens in both Congress and the media where Trump is basically treated as a normal president because a world where we admitted this is not normal and that democratic liberties are slowly being eroded requires the media/political class to take a stand.

My second fav US city for a reason...

Still a banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9L...

Trans men are men Trans women are women Nonbinary people are nonbinary people and so on Just let people live their lives FFS (and if that is a problem for you then see the steps in the previous post)

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."

"The Brownshirts wanted everyone to see them beat people in the streets. They did public terror. ICE does plausible terror so they can go out and get tacos on the weekend."

Patrick Freyne in The Irish Times 08 March 2021

ELDERLY KUNG FU MASTER: At the top of this mountain lives the man they call the "The Invincible Knife Master Who Kills All Challengers." He- BRASH YOUNG IDIOT: Sweet! I'm gonna go up there and fight him! ELDERLY KUNG FU MASTER: ...he kills all... uh, challengers. Invincible. Okay. Have fun!

The first of this year’s cherry tomatoes; all from the seeds of last year’s Big Boy

"I’ll admit that, during Grundle’s first reign, there were things he could have done better. After all, no slime-covered, fourteen-foot swamp-thing is perfect."

Between Monday and Thursday, Fox News mentioned Sydney Sweeney 181 times, and Jeffrey Epstein 18 times.

Coming soon! A special prerelease edition of THE MUDDY GOOSE GUIDE TO THE WEIRD NORTHWEST, a playable adventure brought to you by Demagogue Press and Frances Pai, and edited by @erikgrove.com, will be on the Fairwood Press table at the Seattle Worldcon. My story "Greening in the Dark" is within!

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Josh Johnson

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Evergreen

It's @donatoclassic.bsky.social birthday! Let's celebrate with a special early look at his appearance in Know Direction 305, all about Lost Omens Shining Kingdoms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwu...

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just smashing the "Americans actually hate the realities of mass deportation and we should be hitting R's on it, not running away from it" button again and again

Cuomo right now

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OK, Secretary Noem, then show us the receipts that you extended those contracts. Turn over documents detailing exactly when you renewed those contracts. There needs to be bipartisan oversight and Congressional hearings over these truly unacceptable failures.

Tech bros running the billion-dollar companies cramming genAI down our throats forget their positions could also be outsourced to AI. In honor of this fact, @apexmag.bsky.social and I present my humorous story "How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO." 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

Please don’t “both parties are the same” me in the year of our Lord 2025. It’s actually insulting to my intelligence. These MFers stood up a God damn concentration camp surrounded by alligators in the first 6 months of taking office. Please GTFOH with this bullshit.

And as part of the gender-affirming care bans win: SENATE DEMS DID THAT. Like, you can be unhappy with individual statements but when the chips were down, SENATE DEMS BACKED TRANS PEOPLE.

The fact that only 5% of college professors voted for a far-right narcissist whose policies will destroy our economy and democracy shows that universities lack real intellectual diversity.

Okay, that's pretty good.

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The mother of Adrian Andrew Martinez is pleading for answers as her son remains unaccounted for nearly 24 hours later. ICE kidnapped Adrian yesterday while he was on break in the Walmart parking lot in Pico Rivera. FREE ADRIAN!

Fight the Empire.

Sending the Marines to shut this down is 2025's Footloose remake.

Saw this elsewhere. 👏👏 If the American press covered the U.S. they way they cover other countries.

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch