I've always wanted to go to this festival (and visit Angoulême in general), and now I want to even more.

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

My gripes with GenAI are multifaceted, but the massive flow of resources and capital into "AI" as the U.S. falls farther and farther behind on green infrastructure and climate mitigation feels especially stupid.

one will power the globe for generations to come if not forever, while the other one convinces vulnerable people to kill themselves and/or others. a tough question

As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There are no words for how evil this is

This is a sign of deep societal sickness.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

The goddamn nerve of Jeff Bezos' newspaper to talk shit about raising the minimum wage at a moment when workers at Jeff Bezos' online superstore -- who are paid so little half of them in one study were on SNAP benefits -- are going hungry. The fucking arrogance.

Could a Tech CEO make it through an understaffed double shift waiting tables in a packed restaurant? I'll bet you a trillion dollar pay package that the answer is no.

bro are you fucking kidding me

Possibly the best day for sandwich puns in human history.

MUSTARD AND ONIONS FOR EVERYBODY

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

Wokeness was load-bearing for the economy.

Fuck all the way off Douthat.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

John Woo you ridiculous, wonderful, melodramatic bitch. (Watching Face/Off again).

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

One thing I've noticed during my time in a corporate law firm is that the people with the best offices seem to be in the office the least. I think there is a metaphor in there somewhere.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

I know the centrist dems are still queasy on Defund the Police but "reallocate a good chunk of the police budget into social services" just isn't a very good slogan.

we really need to get cops out of the business of “checking in” on folks struggling with mental health shit

Goodnight y'all. We can win. Tomorrow the fight continues.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

🗣️📣 NO TRANSPHOBES IN THE BIG TENT

There are more of us than there are of them.

I knew this was going to be a good omen for the day ☺️

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

I hope Democrats unveil their new “TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYONE” policy tomorrow. America is ready.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Chuck Schumer: retire, bitch.

Seeing someone awful died (no, not that one, sorry) is a great way to start the day.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

A good omen.

Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded. Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.

It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc. A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

For some topical perspective: these 10 richest individuals could personally find the entire SNAP program for roughly 6 years from just the wealth they accrued in the last year. We need a wealth tax so desperately.

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Love you always, Chicago

I lack the adequate language to describe what I think of every person in power that’s responsible for this, never mind the people carrying it out

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”