A SENIOR ENGINEER: “Hey Sean, I know you’ve said many times you’re not comfortable with attending networking events for the company, but why don’t you represent the company at this awards ceremony?” ME:

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

The first big "scoop" by Bari Weiss is a feelings-over-facts poorly sourced non-story that spells Mamdani's name incorrectly. Just incredible stuff.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

I can’t help but think all of this rebranding is to find new ways for studios to skirt around guild agreements for residual compensation.

Wow. Things must be really bad. Jake Sherman is practically on Johnson's comms team

One of the major reasons ICE goons don't show their faces is they don't want their wives and kids to see what they're doing. Instead of cheating on their spouses, they're cheating on the US Constitution.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Annual reminder that Christopher Columbus was a terrible person, even by the standards of his contemporaries.

More than a decade ago, I sat down with @marcmaron.bsky.social in his garage to tape something new called a podcast. This time, he came to me to record his last episode. We talked about the power of conviction, decency in an age of division, and the true story of America.

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

Mr. Martin Scorsese, director extraordinaire.

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

How about a little Simple Man from the other day’s jam session?

Happy Columbo’s Day

Drop some awesomeness

For #MuppetMonday, let's have some Akira Kurosawa flashbacks! #1: Animal in THRONE OF BLOOD. Mixed media on 8.5 X 11" bristol board.

For #MuppetMonday, let's have some Akira Kurosawa flashbacks! #2: Waldorf in IKIRU. Mixed media on 8.5 X 11" bristol board.

Columbus sex trafficked Indigenous children as young as 7 years old. Columbus is basically the original Epstein, no wonder Trump idolizes him.

And there we are - EVA-Trek 306’s first draft is done! That now means I’m at the halfway point of writing season three after just a couple of months. I think I should handily hit my goal of having all 11 episode’s first draft scripts done before Christmas!

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Late night doodle. 🖖🏻

For all the California design engineers in the house: “HCAI review is done.”

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

And there we are - EVA-Trek 306’s first draft is done! That now means I’m at the halfway point of writing season three after just a couple of months. I think I should handily hit my goal of having all 11 episode’s first draft scripts done before Christmas!

This is the opening anecdote to an article in 60 years about the collapse of the American consumer market

‘Piracy Is Not A Victimless Crime’ warnings on blu-rays hit a little different in the era of AI

If you didn't already avoid the Salvation Army for their transphobia and bigotry, you have a new reason to avoid them in the feeding ICE

Why should we respect people who hate folks for existing just because they’re uncomfortable and actively wish for or work towards their death

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky. No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Work harder and die

I am dead serious when I say Mamdani should be assembling a private security force in the event he wins remember when NYPD kidnapped DiBlasio's kid because he suggested maybe they should murder fewer innocent citizens? yeah

When I think of violent criminals … Winnie the Pooh and Cookie Monster are top of the list. Hide your honey and your baked goods! Portland is rubbing off on Chicago. The inflatable animals have arrived at the Broadview ICE detention facility chanting “this is what democracy looks like”

The people willing to go out over their skis on this despite the fact that Weiss has zero experience running a broadcast newsroom and the reporting she has done herself has been littered with holes are just telling you they agree with her ideologically

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

This is a terrific round-up of JD Vance's terrible, no good Sunday Show spin today from @rollingstone.com: "J.D. Vance struggled to defend the Trump administration’s decisions when journalists asked him basic questions during a round of TV appearances"

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

You are worthy of respect, of friendship, of love. Sometimes you may need to work harder to bring it forth, but never doubt that it is within you.

If I had a nickel for every time the canonicity of a Star Trek Online ship has been announced by an New York Comic Con trailer for a Star Trek TV show, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's fucking awesome that it's happened twice. 🧵

Trying to finish the draft of EVA-Trek 306 today while marathoning four different movie versions of HAMLET. Not a bad way to spend a lazy Sunday.

Major cities folding this fast is not a good look

Drawing 683 / 2025 Artwork 85: Nurse Jiai, Rentarou’s 35th girlfriend #君のことが大大大大大好きな100人の彼女 #100人の彼女 #100Kanojo #KiminokotogaDaiDaiDaiDaiDaisukina100ninnoKanojo #100カノ #hyakkano #the100girlfriendswhoreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyloveyou #イラスト #fanart #イラストレーター #イラストグラム #anime #animeart

You ever think about how perfect Bo Burnham’s INSIDE was such a perfect comedy special for the darkest days of the pandemic? And for that reason, it’s exactly why it’s phenomenally difficult for me to rewatch it.