Standing on the corner [or, you know, posting] screaming "White House Scandal!" has always worked

there's a whole dark world out there that exists among the rich and the ruling class and it's slowly unraveling into public view. something about wealth makes people sick, antisocial. they have to be dealt with

For anyone who doesn't know; Ireland's co-governing party began its existence as the Blueshirts, a quasi-fascist org modelled on the Blackshirts and the Brownshirts. When Simon Harris demonises migrants, he's just being true to his roots.

ok i also made a quick (client-side) interface for searching through the latest epstein stuff. It's just the emails. It's very rough! antiboredom.github.io/epstein-emai...

I put "Chomsky" into the epstein emails database and he was like trying to discuss palestine while also fielding epstein's stupid language science theories so that's weird

just saw a Tesla get pulled over by a cop #blessed

i still get emails from this project

seconded

cc: @elisabethnicula.bsky.social

Also if the point is to tar other people with the same brush, like, fine, go nuts, they all go in the fucking bin right along with Trump, no one here is in any kind of mood for anything but burning the whole fucking thing down

The Asteroid miner who's deeply divided over whether there's just one rational soul for all rational beings or whether you can, in fact, have individuality absent material qualities

enjoying this deep history of Santacon, a festival i have an intimate and complex relationship with, by @annamerlan.bsky.social over @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

Hmmmmm i'd prefer to read gary indiana's emails

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

ICYMI: I wrote about an unsettling Barry N. Malzberg novel from the 1970s about a troubled ex-president for Zona Motel. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-by-...

i've always assumed defending heterosexual rape of minors is part of the Republican long game but guess we're gonna see if they go for it now huh

Current* conditions near Leland, MI:

i'm leaving new york because of frankenstein's wrath

Sam Kuhn's third short film, "Even in the Wind", is unnerving beautiful and haunting, and features a wonderfully naturalistic performance from Sonoya Mizuno. Worth seeking out if you can.

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Looks like Sarah Kendzior’s suspension isn’t an error. I don’t know Sarah, but I’ve followed her on and off for like 15 years and this is very surprising to me. I’m not big on assuming the worst based on partial information but this feels bad.

There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/

Convincing you to read my (unpublished) novel by sharing the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

how did the screenwriters of GOLDENEYE, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS deal with the fact that Bone was now an entirely different human being? simple, they ignored it

again, had forgotten they killed off Bond

Ramsey just said the creator economy is "counterrevolutionary"

This veterans day I'm thinking about the guy who caught my best friend smoking lucky strikes when we were in high school: "You know why we smoked these lucky-side out in the war?" uh, no? "So the GODDAMNED GERMANS wouldn't know whose GODDAMNED CIGARETTES they were"

happy veterans day to the shade of my grandfather, who liberated Auschwitz, punched a Nazi and took his Luger off him, and once told me Nazis were all "sons of bitches"

forgot* that i'd written a story, of a kind, about AI driving humans to psychotic, if not suicidal, breaks. the first story in this @bigechoscifi.bsky.social piece www.bigecho.org/4-paranoid

McBain's FUZZ (1968), which is treated as the ur-text of the 87th Precinct novels despite being the 22nd, is the first he published after taking a year (1967) off, which would be the last gap until 1982

"With Yule Brenner as the Deaf Man" hits so hard

This is literally the plot of “Cyclonopedia,” which I enthusiastically recommend to some - but definitely not all - of you.

Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.

Current* conditions near Gary, IN:

Made it 8 pages before i laughed, out loud, at @somers.bsky.social's THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR

forgot* that i'd written a story, of a kind, about AI driving humans to psychotic, if not suicidal, breaks. the first story in this @bigechoscifi.bsky.social piece www.bigecho.org/4-paranoid

It’s giving suburban Thai restaurant

Current* conditions near South Haven, MI:

NEW! I'm doing a video podcast (vodcast? It's literally not even available as audio lol) about my favorite thing to talk about: ~consumerism~ @emilystewart.bsky.social and I talked about rEaL eStaTe for the first episode. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLZ...

If you're not reading the New York Times you're missing out

OH at the playground: "Is it dried blood or regular blood?"

me: no, i never assume - it makes an ass out of u and me! prison guard: fine, *adopt* the position

Got to see Assayas' A NEW LIFE (1993) last night & it's pretty clearly the first film where he figured things out. Seek it out if you can. Thanks to Nick Newman for programming

This, on here, is where I first heard of Mamdani

mayor zohran sir please immediately dispatch the boppers, gramercy riffs, turnbull ac's, hi-hats, electric eliminators, rogues, lizzies, orphans, punks and warriors to chicago to join the fight against ice

Famous “girl dad” Dick Cheney has died

One thing about Dick Cheney is that he had zero rizz. No one, not even Republicans, liked him. Now you can do all sorts of evil stuff as a politician, but you have to have memetic charm. Really the last of his kind.

Great thread. I’ve taught myself a lot about American copyright history and current laws over the past year— it’s v interesting & not what one might expect. And incredibly important to understand right now.