Called my senators!

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced... 👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

OMG I TURNED THE PIC RIGHT WAY UP AND AHAHAHAHA

Is that a lil blep? That is a lil blep! (Dang, too late for #caturday.)

Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution. These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.

As someone who has previously been a starving writer treated like a disposable tool, this is both hilarious and hitting very close to home.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

New story up at GNS: A sly fox proposes marriage to the King, promising to keep his deepest secret in return. Surprising everyone, even himself, the King accepts. Read “A Good King” by Sarah McGill giganotosaurus.org/2025/10/01/a-good-king/

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

Went to one of these last night and it was a lot of fun. candlelightexperience.com

In addition, it is extremely libertarian to confuse values for rules.

Vince Gilligan: “I have not used ChatGPT, because as of yet, no one has held a shotgun to my head and made me do it.” Fair.

Ah. Private equity.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

LRT: for real, do not let people ignore the context of that. It's Lynch as the character of Agent Cole giving his response to transphobia among agents with regards to the trans woman who is now the FBI chief of staff. It's a great quote! But it's deliberately about not being a transphobic POS.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Not interested in arguing about the toxicology of caffeine so here are the ChatGPT numbers:

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

babe wake up they just subpoenaed Sam Altman in front of a live audience

is that a lot

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I admit that I find myself thinking this a lot. www.offmessage.net/p/fascists-d...

Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.

Fine these assholes into oblivion

The motivated reasoning of people in a profitable industry actively harming the Earth. Just like in petroleum where you either get outright climate change deniers (mostly engineers) or "we don't need to modify our behavior because human ingenuity will magically fix it in the future" (geologists).

I attended a webinar about local response to data centers and I REALLY recommend the recording if you have an hour free to watch. www.cleanegroup.org/webinar/loca...

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities. www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

Cherokee street magician. Trying to preserve our Native American Magic Culture. If you like my work, please, please, please help support it, any little bit helps a lot and is greatly appreciated. cash.app/$lostcitymagic www.paypal.me/JeramyNeugin

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

to be threatened by kindness is the weakest shit I've ever seen.

Something really funny about getting LLM-slop spam trying to neg me about the popularity of a book *I wrote for Activision-Blizzard*.

Yeah man same. I did appreciate how Frankenstein (2025) was very clearly engaging in a sharp critique of that very tech bro mentality, but anything that makes it look cool, especially in that Tony Stark way they obviously idolize -- I'm really not interested in.

There are no words for how evil this is

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

Not all gyros wear capes.

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Each piece of amber will be scanned in full at a resolution fine enough to spot features a few micrometres across (a micrometre is one-thousandth of a millimetre — about one-hundredth the width of a human hair). 20 chosen specimens will then be magnified further still for an even sharper look.

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Billie Jean knows what she's talking about. She was the primary source for this story on anti-trans bias at NYT we ran last year. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...