Well, fuck.

Just the experience of watching strangers on the internet debate the merits of your story based on your perceived rapeability is enough trauma for a lifetime

Did I mention that I got the VIP merch and meeting package? I got to tell Yoko Kanno that I have never seen anybody enjoy themselves on stage as much as she does. Also:

That was indeed the real folk blues.

People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.

The letter fragment I've seen from Swalwell's attorney threatening defamation bears several things that, in my experience in this area, makes me immediately suspicious of Swalwell and his attorney and reflect meritless thuggery. /1

jellible

You still occasionally see people complain about Democratic politicians getting successfully nailed for sexual misconduct, while Republican politicians like Trump are seemingly able to shake it off. The difference, I think, is that Democratic voters now generally don't tolerate this sort of thing

Tonight's entertainment!

But how does he know when It will happen? Oh. He thinks it'll be 20 Jan 2029. Heh.

Genuinely feeling like Mamdani has finally figured out the thing the left has historically been The Worst at. The left needs to: (a) use government to do Good and Popular Things Normal: [✓] Mamdani: [✓] (b) TELL PEOPLE VERY LOUDLY AND MEMORABLY EVERY TIME IT DOES Normal: [ x ] Mamdani: [✓]

we literally did this with Elizabeth Holmes and nobody learned anything we just went straight into this chapter with zero legislative changes or culture changes we just let these morons run our country/world/lives

Because a whole lot of Pitt fans are new to fandom, and the cycle begins anew.

I need a macro for this.

What are the odds that Adams thinks that he’s becoming Governor of NY State and moving to Albany?

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

My kingdom (or the share of same that represents a reasonable price for a piece of professional software) for a product that is Scrivener but with working multi-device sync

Yo. If Side Quested webcomic gets nominated to the Ringo Awards, *I* will send goats to @kbspangler.com 's place. Seriously. DID YOU HEAR ME, @neolithicsheep.bsky.social ??? ringoawards.com

Friend on FB: "If you write and record a song that uses all the same chords in the same order as a published song, but uses a different melody, does that constitute infringement on copyright?" Several musicians: "If so, all music would infringe." Me: "George Harrison has entered the chat."

The Onion from a quarter-century ago or every cold call to an IP lawyer? YOU DECIDE!

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.