Seeing the governor of Illinois quoting Andor wasn't on my bingo card.

The folks who think their reason du jour causes autism is because they don't understand the difference between causation and correlation and they don't understand that increased ability to recognize a thing doesn't necessarily mean higher prevalence of a thing. To wit: they are not smart.

We'll see how the broadcast goes tomorrow. I hope he doesn't apologize. He didn't say anything out of line in the first place.

ABC just needs to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and put this all to bed like... today. It would make everything so much easier for them.

Remember that scene in Andor Season 2, where that Imperial lickspittle is racing to the communications room to flip the switch to turn off the signal in hopes he cut it off before Mon Mothma said anything bad about Emperor Palpatine? Just thinking about that show on Disney+ for no reason.

I don't think we were torn. I think most of us were like, "Oh, cool. That makes sense."

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

"It’s a reminder that attacks on trans people are nothing new – and that many of them are straight out of the Nazi playbook". Laurie Marhoefer, historian on gay and trans history in Weimar Republic and Nazi regime. theconversation.com/historians-a...

No one’s on Mastodon. So I hope @bsky.app gets its act together and you all sign up for my newsletter. mailchi.mp/bd13f8c016fa...

Hey! If you’re in Portland and hit @powells.bsky.social downtown, I might have stealth signed copies of my BattleTech books…. Grab ‘em while they’re there!

Tector-class Star Destroyer (variant). First Appearance: The Muppet Show S4E17.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

I don’t find Jimmy Kimmel all that hilarious either, but he should still be on the air. Having a government threatening comedians is not a healthy sign of freedom and shame on ABC for capitulating.

Antifa isn't an organization. It's just a portmanteau of the words anti-fascist. So, definitionally, if you declare that antifa is your enemy, that makes you a fascist. Period. Full stop. I don't make up the words, I just define them and use them properly.

Robert Redford was one of the greatest actors of our time. And he directed one of my favorite movies--Quiz Show--top 10, easy. His loss was staggering for the world of art and cinema. His work in my home state was profound with the Sundance Film Festival, Institute, Ski Resort, etc.

This looks rad as hell.

Listen to Cargill. Not just about this, but just generally, too.

lol new clown car just rolled up

Because capitalism doesn't make any goddamn sense.

I love seeing Fox Patrol ‘Mechs, and you’re right, that grass just makes them pop!

I had a dream last night I was moving into a new place and getting settled in. It turned into a literal nightmare though when I realized there were no bookshelves and all my books got left behind…. This realization jolted me awake in a cold sweat. Talk about the most banal night terror…

"Practicing politics the right way"

I really love this book.

I had a dream last night I was moving into a new place and getting settled in. It turned into a literal nightmare though when I realized there were no bookshelves and all my books got left behind…. This realization jolted me awake in a cold sweat. Talk about the most banal night terror…

Always relevant.

You know what I haven't heard about in a long while? My car's extended warranty. I'm glad I somehow put that to bed once and for all...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

see, the dictionary said it, you have to listen to me now, it’s just WORD LAW

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

(Politics / * anything * in the US)

For the edification of the Early Shift: The Chain Story Project is back with its sixth round of free fiction, this week's story being The Village of Morvoss by Thomas Grayfson. Please download, enjoy, like and share (especially share, that helps so much). www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

I just fired off my story for Battleborn Magazine to the editor, @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social who is a gentleman and a scholar. There's still time to back the magazine, too. So do it. www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

Fuck

This. 100%. Guns don't make anyone safe. They make no one safe.

So, this is the university where I was part of the documentary team that recorded death threats against Michael Moore for coming to speak in 2004. They now allow weapons on campus. Charlie Kirk sucks, but no one should be shot at a school. Period. Full stop.

Catbus. The fuzziest public transportation available.

New episode! @swankmotron.com hosted the Authors of Star Wars panel at @swatdc.bsky.social with @delilahsdawson.bsky.social, Timothy Zahn, and John Jackson Miller! fullofsith.libsyn.com/fos/episode-...

This is what happens when you have a government that isn't obsessed with "lethality" and infected with brain worms and culture wars.

I liked it better when being into crypto meant you wanted to smooch Bigfoot.

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I have a new short story up on my Patreon. I'd be honored if you joined up (it's only $1 for a short story every month). It helps me keeps the lights on and I really love the stuff I get to do with it. www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

I cannot stress this enough. So many books come out each year, very few get any real marketing, and then most vanish. But any time someone recommends or even just thoughtfully critiques one, that helps bring it back onto the public's radar.

QRP with something watery 🌊

I'm utterly fascinated by Spike Lee's remake of Kurosawa's High and Low and found so much interesting stuff in the adaptation. And it's times like these I wish Roger Ebert were still alive for me to read about what he had to say about it.

We're 1/3 of the way there for this indie horror collection I have a story in. Back it for a copy now, I really like the story I have in there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/crl...

Always fascinated by people flexing their lack of empathy as if it somehow admirable and not both embarrassing and yucky

This looks like another homerun.