Fine, it's been years but I'll try again.

What Trent Reznor makes on the farm. Nine Inch Bales

This is it. The most boring (complimentary) way to say this over and over and over again. Start every speech with this. We need this to become the default moral stance, and it sadly is not.

This kinda mirrors my thoughts on the matter, and an issue that I do genuinely think is killing us: right now we treat the first person to DO SOMETHING about a problem as the cause of the problem, which disincentivizes actually giving a fuck about anything.

We have Carnegie Hall and the Carnegie libraries and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk being racist eugenicist Nazis hoarding their wealth.

In January, Clavicular sang Kanye’s “Heil Hitler” at a club with Nick Fuentes. Netanyahu has long given his hechsher to far-right antisemites like Viktor Orbán in exchange for political support, but Clavicular can’t even offer that. Netanyahu just likes to hechsher far-right antisemites.

The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives

"Going to get"? In the words of Clue, TOO LATE!

Bitter K with the last word.

Do I know anyone who's a member of the Chairman's Circle at the Roundabout Theater in New York?

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!

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Ave to Wheels on Genius!

fact: a jeremiad is a prose work in which the protagonist is a bullfrog

and what will the sword-wielding magical girls stand on top of?

I appreciated this Wired review of this chair that I will almost certainly be buying and also I love that whoever created this graphic knows exactly who this chair is for www.wired.com/review/amsea...

WAIT WHAT

Exactly this! Purity culture assumes that authors or fans have the kinks of their characters, and judge them for it. Meanwhile, so many creators, even many who get praised for their empathy, their strong female characters, their "purity," turn out to be abusers.

"'And my immediate reaction, on reading the story that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale — with its $44 billion endowment — does not,' she continued."

All I'm saying is, they say these things come in threes, and this could be the best three of all time

*whispers* Rule of Three.

I don’t feel particularly invested in the label “Zionist” one way or another, but the fact that Lander is being defined as outside Zionism by more right-wing Zionists, simply because he opposes the genocide and supports Palestinian sovereignty, has a lot to do with why “Zionism” is seen negatively.

Interesting. If true.

It's the end of Genosha as we know it.

Tonight's entertainment!

For fuck's sake. It's the same four people too. @kradec.bsky.social, you're there. Help?

Asking for help for a couple of bills, namely coned and some rent. Could use any help so i don’t have to deal with heat stroke over the summer ko-fi.com/weredawgz

Had some spare singles in my wallet, and a strip club would be too icky. So I bought lemons. Now I had a bunch of lemons. So.

@petersagal.bsky.social has announced that Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me will soon have a show in Huber Heights, OH, outside of Dayton. Huh. They always bring in local celebrities or interesting people, but who lives outside of Dayton, that the Wait Wait crowd would-- No. He wouldn't. Hey @scalzi.com?

I promise I am almost done Platnerposting but I want to point out that the establishment hates this man like he killed their whole families. They smear him as often as they can, label him an antisemite, drag him for being Muslim, etc Total rape allegations: 0

Which explains why Trump doesn't, because he neither has a conscience nor cares about the Constitution. Too bad the Times is still soft-pedaling him.

Me: *wearing D&D shirt, gets on apartment building elevator* Guy: "My employee told me that if I was on the D&D...system, I'd be Lawful Evil. What is that?" Me: "Well, it's...has a moral code, follows the rules, but just...goals are evil." Guy: "I don't think I'm evil." Me: "Lawful Evil never does."

Citizenship application out the door! Should arrive at IRCC on Tuesday.

At last, almost four months since submitting my request to a French form I could barely read and almost a month since I sent in the $350 CAD they invoiced me for, I have received a certified copy of my grandfather's Canadian birth record. Back to the citizenship mines.

"Why are audiences not coming back fro second season of our shows?" "Because they're waiting to see if you cancel it like everything else, and also there's too long a gap between seasons." "No, that can't be it."

My dad recently said, about something else, "You can't expect a pirate to plant," and I seethed with rage that he did not drop this insanely useful metaphor ten years ago.

The audience wants to watch charismatic people solving moderately difficult problems, delivered in weekly doses with occasional short breaks. That was what the market *told us* over seven decades. It created international cultural dominance and enormous wealth. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Not all criticism of AIPAC is antisemitic: there are plenty of criticisms that aren't. But the number of accusations this week that opposition to the Senate candidacy of a rapist with a Nazi tattoo could only happen because of a (((conspiracy))) is not one of them.

The point he was trying to make, is that it's not OK to call 911 on all of the Black and brown people doing normal New York neighborhood things that you don't like just because you *feel* unsafe. He was being interviewed by Aria Hughes, who does not tolerate street harassment or 911 weaponization.

Also, it skews data and thus damages support for immigrants.

Brandi is excellent and if you need somebody, call her!

this is the sort of thing i was getting at in my Glonzo article there is nothing wrong with disliking AIPAC or the causes/candidates it advances, but when it becomes a generic villain you throw out in random contexts it should start to raise some eyebrows

Character was weaponized by the GOP as a means of attacking people they already don’t like, but that doesn’t mean character doesn’t matter. Moreover, it doesn’t mean a candidate must be perfect. Character isn’t about never making mistakes. It’s about owning up to those mistakes honestly and openly.

"Just fact check and verify what the 'ai' puts out, you'll be fine." (libraries gone; textbooks gone; web search gone; personal libraries logistically impossible; no time in newly abbreviated deadlines for verification) "OK. How?"

We all live in hope. We can all fall for a con. Jill Stein will forever have my ten dollars but maybe you can get your Platnerbucks back!

Once upon a time I was falling in love But now I'm only falling apart There's nothing I can do....

The best time to throw that whole man out was months before the primary. The next best time is now. And now that he is gone? Collins hasn't won yet. This isn't the end for Maine. Platner shouldn't get to define the conversation and claim that it's done.