I really love Mara Jade, but the character is somehow, simultaneously everything good (well-developed and drawn over time) and everything bad (SPECIAL OC DO NOT STEAL) about the old EU continuity. There's probably a way to retool her for the modern one, but you have to ask why

And, this sort of shit is why so many of us were so disappointed when SCOTUSblog allowed itself to be sold to The Dispatch. The Supreme Court has pending before it a major case over the constitutionality of anti-trans laws right now, while they published this utter bullshit from Singal.

I was asked to talk about my thoughts on flights and airports today and y'all, I was so ready.

I bet we could get more than seven law professors to back this idea.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Any number of Americans are willing to make clumsy bad-faith arguments in an effort to unperson and unstate millions of human beings. Some of those Americans are throne-sniffing prominence-chasing law professors. Decent people should treat them with contempt. That’s MY free speech culture.

It's a beautiful day, and you can buy your copy of OMENS OF CHAOS now, nudging us toward the numbers we need to make the bestseller lists and secure the possibility of a sequel! (Lists are measured release day to the following week: I should find out next Wednesday if we made it.)

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m going to write a 10,000 page reflection on life in this strange new world in which Google is no longer useful. To be entitled In Time of Lost Search.

In retrospect, perhaps the least accurate thing is that deportations are the above-the-fold headline. Telling in itself.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

The primary mistake that everyone who is not Trump makes about Trump is that he is doing an act, especially given that literally everything about him is outsized and transparently phony. The most important thing you have to understand is that he is not - there's simply nothing beneath the surface

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

The only appropriate response. bsky.app/profile/scif...

Someone: *makes a reference to wishing for something from Shenron* Me: "Guess they didn't show Shenron Deference." #lawyerbrain

Here we go again...

*cheeky grin*

If you stop for 10 seconds to think about this headline and subhead in the context of how The Free Press has covered Zohran Mamdani, your head might explode.

Work tragedy! Thankfully I have enough bags to cover me until I can get a replacement.

Before the first Trump election I was talking with someone who complained about “goddamn immigrants taking jobs away from Americans”. My immediate rejoinder: “oh, you mean me”. “What do you mean? You’re not Mexican.” That was when I knew we might be in for it.

I've seen more people talking about how we need to "open the straight" in the past week than I have in decades of consuming gay porn. Spelling matters y'all.

If you've ever wondered why this is true, it's because right-wing media has billionaire sponsors and left-wing media does not It is truly that simple

It's weird to not be talking about pre-orders anymore, but now I get to talk about first-week sales. First-week sales + pre-orders = our initial sales number, which is what has the potential to put us on bestseller lists.

Say what you want about President Trump, but... No, that's it: say what you want.

"so we talked to the author of the 25th amendment" is a good lede

Half our politicians are complicit and the other half are still trying to maintain the polite fiction that our government is accountable to the people. And when somebody tries to shoot him, his faithful just get a new fashion accessory. We are all drowning in a sea of not-knowing-how-to-fix-this.

Looks like an official TACO bsky.app/profile/john...

Do I know anyone who is at or former Google who can help with an account access thing? Old friend lost her husband and can't access his Google account because of authentication, and doesn't know who to talk to about straightening that out.

It's hard to stay task-oriented on what will be either TACO Tuesday or the day before War Crimes Wednesday.

Some weirdo wrote a thing that I read this morning that still moves me deeply. I can plant the seeds I can plant.

Literal LOL bsky.app/profile/croo...

The world sucks, if you need something to read that is just magic, dragons, teenagers, bad decisions, and one sassy talking bird, all wrapped in Rumiko Takahashi's comedy style, may I suggest our webcomic? sidequested.com And if you like it, go for the book!

I've been sick for years. American foreign policy culture is one of periodically fucking over the world and then being surprised five years later like "oh my god, an unstable region! how did that happen? maybe we need to bomb them!"

Turns out that having no actual political grand vision, i.e. just maintain the status quo through technocracy, is a really bad way to run a railroad and also totally unprepares you for someone like Trump, who you can ONLY defeat through a positive ideology of your own, and an offer of the future

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

It’s obviously got to be Minneapolis. We haven’t turned away from the horrors, let us prosecute them.

Welcome officially to the world, OMENS OF CHAOS, the book I fought for fiercely and am so very, very proud of.

Texts with @lostsubways.com while he's in Japan.

Imagine you're slipping the surly bonds of Earth and touching the face of God but then you have to get on the phone to listen to a child molester ramble about how Bette Midler is nasty

I feel like my skyline has to have SOMEBODY with the right background for this.

They were lying? No. This is my shocked face.

They're busy printing First Amendment pocket squares.

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

This is a textbook example of the dual loyalty trope, a form of antisemitism that has been used to marginalize Jewish communities for centuries.

Still hunting.

Surely you mean fowl play. And no, if Grip was a raven, she was unkindnessed.

This is a fun question with a splatted jellyfish of an answer, so: It really depends.

Dear @hbomax.bsky.social, maybe update your caller ID? I enjoy The Pitt but I don't think you want to lean that far in.