As per tradition:

We have made it to vacation What’s that you say? The baby is teething, gassy, sleep regressing, and dancing on the edge of a fever? Ah yes, travesty Are we shocked? After 19 months? Of course not Are we prepared? I am insulted that you asked, sir, how dare you. And also of course not

Happy solstice. Remember always that the light returns as the cold sets in. Hope returns even as everything gets worse.

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An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

Game of Thrones ending explained: Who are Jon Snow’s parents?

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Queens of the Third Age

A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Mighty Mighty Arkenstones

I stopped writing where my tribal warrior character and a seaside innkeeper he met are being gay and post-coitally adorable af and why would I ever want to finish writing that when just the fact that the two of them are trapped in that moment is the thing giving me such needed joy right now?

*”Night of the Long Knives” by Hans Zimmer intensifies*

Translation: We know exactly what’s not working, but also have no interest in changing it

Teenager me: everyone in charge is so stupid Young adult me: politics corporations and science are incredibly complex topics that require thorough research and discussion and we shouldnt jump to conclusions Me now: everyone in charge is so stupid

"Luigi Mangione cannot take a bad picture" is rapidly reaching "mass can neither be created nor destroyed" levels of scientific validity

Not enough ppl talking about last night’s real winner

Deranged take on the typeface debate: When working on a draft, I use Comic Sans 😬 It’s so stupid, so unserious…and tbh feeling stupid and unserious knocks out a lot of the mental blocks And changing to Arial/TNR/Calibri (depending on the project) when the edit’s done is a nice finish line treat

“Hey Gemini, define ‘glass cannon’. But for like… an entire military.”

The app itself has also been hot garbage for the last six months. And it wasn’t exactly purring like a beloved shitbox before

I’m just gonna go ahead and assume every writer is currently being spammed by job ads from LinkedIn that list as “Author”, “Creative Writer”, “Writer (Gaming)” but are really just “Help Train AI to Eliminate the Posted Job”

Actual dialogue just now (I turned on the tree lights while she was in her high chair) Me: That’s a Christmas tree. Can you say “Christmas”? Syl (pushing herself out of the chair to get enough air behind it): BITCHIN!!!

Goddamn potatoes are fuckin superhero roots bein all coy n shit like 👉👈 ewwww guys i’m just a leafy little 🌱 short king bunny boy ewie 👉👈 meanwhile Down Below™️ it’s all 🥔💥🥔💥🥔 I AM A DIRT GRENADE THAT EXPLODES WITH AWESOMENESS 🥔💥🥔💥🥔 (no i’m not explaining myself i’m vibin with my fries fuck off)

Dude took the Franco bros’ look and was like “I have notes”

Counterpoint: *John McClane voice* Who the fuck asked you?

50/50 chance in the next year Musk and the rest of the manosphere are going to suddenly discover Paradise Lost and Stanley Fish, and reader-response is suddenly going to become a rightwing literarature thesis topic 🙄

R&G Are Dead was the first play I ever directed. It prob wasn’t the best show to pick for the school at the time, but it was definitely the most fun I had creatively in the 7yrs I was there Plus the two leads were insanely talented and hungry for the challenge. And they nailed it

idk why but I feel it’s important to point out that the tree being plucked in this situation is an eastern black walnut, which is fairly rare in VT and only really grows in our exact little corner it’s also an immaculate wood to work so I do sympathize with the fucker’s salivating over it

A red squirrel (aka the REAL Red Menace) has been piling walnut husks on our front porch It’s been endearing, despite the mess This morning it made a threatening chirp at us and scared Sylvie as we left the house I am considering committing WWI-Canadian-Army-level violence on this fucker

Oops all ‘splosions

Syl just pointed out the window and yelled “Pretty! Pretty!” We took it as a teaching moment, and explained to her that “pretty” and “November” are what’re called “antonyms”

UNBAN ME FROM TWITTER YOU COWARDS

This game is old enough to be drafted and still has just the most wholesome community of diehards 😊

It's profoundly different to cover a U.S. president than state or local officials, and too, much harder to vent publicly if you're female. But if in my reporting days, if anyone from a police sergeant to the mayor of Baltimore told me, "Quiet, piggy," I'd immediately insist he go fuck himself.

You may not outlive them in years, but you must outlive them while you're here!

Non-zero chance he gets charged, flees to one of his pals in Argentina or Hungary or wherever, claims persecution, and tries to rule from abroad More likely none of this goes anywhere obv, but if it does, that feels like his play. The most un-clean break possible, and one we are least ready for 🙃

Look, all I’m gonna say on The Current Topic is that moderation needs to be consistent - if you’re gonna drop the hammer for quoting song lyrics and getting pissed about child rapists, yet you let slide accounts that say trans people shouldn’t exist, then yeah, there’s gonna be some questions.

majoring yn English ys punk rocke

When one of my relatives was in the throes of late-stage Alzheimer’s, her kids & grandkids used large-print nametags to help her remember who they were when they came to visit. Anyway…

In honor of last night's victory by a progressive, I offer this memory of the greatest big-city mayor in U.S. history, a man of the left who also governed as a socialist. If Mr. Mamdani goes on WNYC this Sunday and reads the funny papers to kids my heart will burst. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_G-I...

*walks into bsky* *sees majority of posts are joyful* *screams internally and smiles at the same time* *realizes, is tired* *goes to bed, prays to wake up to find it was all real* 🛌

Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning. They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.

I remember after 2016 it felt like there was this big shift in legacy media either away/towards the regime. It had a certain ratio to it that felt somewhat near 50:50 Nowadays the ratio doesn’t feel anywhere near that. More like 10:90 Anyway kudos to WIRED and (for some reason) the Financial Times

Last night, Lizzy confessed that she’d never seen any Terminator movies I thought about sending her the T2 trailer to convince her to watch them with me Y’all…this shit is hysterical. It’s like a Tropic Thunder parody of a trailer. I can’t show her this, she’ll think I’ve gone insane 🤣

Y’all I’m only following this game by refreshing a Google search and it’s still stressful af, how the fuck are you all maintaining survivable blood pressure rn???

It's official. Food stamp funding has not gone out. I will not be posting a wishlist right now. I have food in the house. I'm okay. If you do not have food in your house, please reply with your wishlists. If you have funds, click those links. We'll see if my midlist clout is good for anything.

Shit, I finished a whole chapter in less than a month??? 😳 And a mid-plot climax chapter, no less… Only three more to go and we’re onto Act 3! I’ve spent a decade on this manuscript, and I’m pretty sure >50% of it’s been written in the last year. Fuckin wild… 🙌💥Momentum!💥🙌 #writesky

Look I’m not saying Platner deserves any benefit of the doubt. I’m not a Mainer; that shit’s up to them But if we start blurting out “What if they pull a Fetterman???😱” at every progressive candidate who gets any real momentum in rural America then we ain’t winning shit

Casual reminder as snap benefits are fucked but if you witness someone steal at the store no you didn't Be more like the kid from terminator with this dope ass mullet

Peeps are srsly sleeping on the Away Days podcast by @hanrahan.tv His coverage of the Rio favelas (which touched on BOPE and their utterly vicious tactics) was as harrowing as it was fucking heartbreaking

Cackling