Seriously - if any of your social media companies informs you that stuff from your accounts has been turned over in compliance with a federal grand jury subpoena, SHUT THE FUCK UP IMMEDIATELY and stay shut up until you consult an attorney. Who will also tell you to stfu, but professionally.

For example! Here are 5 US Kindle copies of @seananmcguire.bsky.social's Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (2018-2019) #1, which is the *very first ebook I ever gave away*! #KindleBookGiveaway

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

del Toro: don't worry del Toro: i'm going to acknowledge byron with a big quote at the end Shelley: Shelley: why del Toro: because, you know del Toro: he's del Toro: um del Toro: i mean it kinda fits? Shelley: Shelley: put my fuckin quote at the end Shelley: i wrote the fucking thing!

Fork insider alleges forks are in silverware drawer.

Neil Gorsuch turning to the other five: "Are we the baddies?" Alito: "You're JUST figuring this out?"

See also, the latest Moon Channel about the large overlap between K-On fans and right-wing incels (with stops at Holden Caulfield and Humbert Humbert). www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDne...

There are lots of circumstances where I have no moral qualms about copyright infringement. Copying for no other reason than "I really want to read the thing but I don't want to give that author money" isn't one of them. You want to read for no better reason than personal enjoyment, do it right.

There is not going to be a way to "avoid getting sued over this" because that's basically just a description of book piracy. Even the most fair-use friendly courts will hold that "making it available for free because the author is a terrible person" is not a transformative use.

anyway ludicrous to think the right question is “how did DHS lose its way??” and not “why did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power served”

Also I just wanna say that the idea that me too was a walk in the park and it could happen to anyone at random... Literally go fuck yourself.

Congratulations Grand Master @nkjemisin.bsky.social!

what IF, instead of the sunday sads, you got sunday shinies? www.peculiarityshop.com/meg-s-corner

Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread? Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.

I WANT TO HOST ONE OF THESE

"...if they're Republicans."

Okay! Picture dump of the Persona 5 cafe and a bonus "I'm recreating a day in Japan anyway, why not go to a 100-yen store?" First up, the travel. 7 wasn't running, so I took LIRR. The sign "To New York" is a bit incongruous; Flushing is in Queens...but you can almost believe otherwise, looking out.

I'm at the Persona 5-themed cafe in Flushing! (It's an anime/game cafe with a rotating theme, to be specific.) Pictures later.

Add on "and it's the Pope" and you get a religion thesis too.

This is important context from Julie K. Brown. With alt text.

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

The entire fandom’s (and Retro Studios) initial assumption: “Oh she hunts down the baddest monsters in the galaxy and gets paid for it, right?” Nintendo: “What? No. She’s like humanity’s motherly guardian. What are you talking about.” www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/04...

It takes A LOT to render me speechless. This did it.

When you split hairs about pedophilia versus ephebophilia and you aren't in a clinical setting, this is who you are (either knowingly or not) standing next to and providing cover for.

Someone needs to follow Dersh around for the rest of his life yelling "PEDOPHILE COMING, PEDOPHILE'S HERE" like that bit in MR. SHOW

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

the Bee gets most of its clicks pandering to the absolutely dullest caricatures of the left possible so most of their work is dogshit but occasionally they’ll punch right and purely from a comedy standpoint it’s almost always a million times better

A friend: "Art meets fair use question. Is there a bright line point--" Me: "No." (It turned out to be more First Sale Doctrine than anything else so it was as much a "you're good" as any possible question can be, but still.)

Hey #LawSky, I'm looking for a referral to a lawyer who handles business disputes esp. around dissolution, in California. Anyone here know anyone for that? DMs should be open too, if you prefer to send privately.

Duh.

Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.

ouroboreos

Today in coolth, someone online just told me about their experience singing a filk I wrote (the lyrics to), not knowing I was the writer!

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Always and forever.

There are so many stories. Too many, not that any are acceptable.

as a CSA victim, it’s a great day to be on an airplane with limited connectivity if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center

Wikipedia: Where you can dream about things that no one's done in real life for decades.

We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity. If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.

Also if someone needs a quick roll over for editing a prose piece or a comics piece please hit me up! DMs are here

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New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!

I love that there is a new translation of this. I don't know how to feel about this from the description: "In an age when the idea of a 'planet B' seems tempting..." I feel like taking the line "there is no Planet B" and saying "well, maybe there should be!" is missing the forest for the logging.

For those who wonder why I get so bent out of shape about NCMEC and the air cover they provide to Donald Trump, see the text with that Instagram photo. "The critical importance of NCMEC's mission to protect children". Just, you know, not *these* children. They're on their own.

I'm feeling decadent.

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Holy batman this whole thread

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I hate that this is so legible to so many people