Thank you, hadn't cried yet today

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this

I have an instance running right now that's been trained to be extremely critical of e.g. if a character isn't working or a scene doesn't fit the themes I'm building, but I can totally see how someone could fall into this trap if they were just using the default voice

GPS satellites move at 1/100000 the speed of light, causing their clocks to tick slower by 7 microseconds per day, and orbit at a height that makes their clocks tick faster by 45 microseconds per day. Two relativistic effects, both at the 1 part in 10 billion level, both essential for GPS accuracy 🧪

June — 1991 The Dark Queen is master of Ragnarok Only the Terran fleet stands before her Oceans are now Battletoads

Folks online are criticizing Boots Riley because his new film was produced by Megan Ellison, the daughter of Larry Ellison, and they see this as an ethical lapse. It made me think of Roger Ebert's review of Reds, a reminder that the movie business - all art, really - requires patronage.

Did we ever discuss the time Nixon's VP Spiro Agnew wrote a novel?

The bar exam isn't an exam so much as it is a guild-protectionist hazing ritual, and if it had anything to do with the actual practice of law it should be open-book.

Well, given that you almost certainly oppose any reforms that would provide healthcare to either of them, it's a bit of a moot question.

You funded a genocide and send police to beat protestors. You failed and were arrogant as you did so, and smug in defeat. Dem will probably win huge this midterm and going forward for a little while, it's just a shame most of them will be these corporately captured ratchet theory statusquoites.

Disney has exactly two franchises that are made for endless sequels, and they've squandered them both. The first, Fantasia, because they're too cowardly to create real art. The second, The Rescuers, because they're too cowardly to go back to their roots and tell tales about child abuse.

Not to toot my own horn here but all of the bad guys in my story are bad not because they're generically bad but because of the choices they've made (and continue to make). One of them even makes a different choice at the climax and stops being a bad guy!

Or write one! I've spent so much time in my little constructed world the past few weeks I have no idea what the news is or what people online are upset about and I feel verdance returning to my soul

Weirdly, she said that exact thing to a friend of mine when they were filming Election at my high school and Reese was wandering around lost and my friend offered to help her. She's always been a nut! @pftompkins.bsky.social

The material point is that institutional and pro traders pay top $$$ for systems and automated microtransaction devices that your average retail trader doesn't have. I work in finance. Most people playing equities or options may as well be at a casino. At least they give you drinks while you lose.

Au contraire, mon frere. Getting tipsy and feeding foliage to a giraffe off of an observation deck on a nice day is one of the finest experiences there is.

Neighbor kid just sprinted out the door and around the corner doing the Weapons run and I have concerns

Okay this is a fair cop, but on the other hand it makes Cosette as if Michael had actually made good on his promises to Scott's Tots

ok this song is good now

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet

I understand the sentiment but this isn't at all right. A lot of that "unproductive" land is habitat for pollinators and the other creatures that make the "productive" land productive.

I have so very many projects to work on and I don't need to add this one to the pile but on the other hand I know me and also it's hilarious

In the Catholic Church, the faithful are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, who investigate crime, and The Devil of Hell's Kitchen, who beats up the offenders. These are their stories.

Didn't think Saw of all franchises would get a woman-led reboot but the premise is novel

So far haven’t seen any nudes in the photos from the moon trip why are they covering up the truth

There is no McTry.

I keep thinking about this passage in this reporting from LA’s No Kings violence. There’s a really easy way to try and verify this information: talk to one of the dozens of independent reporters who were there, in person, and could tell you what they saw with their own eyes

I would suck off as many Disney executives as needed if I could just pitch my Jabba the Hutt Yakuza origin story as a rise to power tale mainly told through the eyes of his various henchmen, bounty hunters, and assassins

My Redwall novel about them reaching the New World will be the seminal story of the 2020s

TALES FROM THE CRYPT IS ON SHUDDER REPEAT TALES FROM THE CRYPT IS STREAMING ALSO A NEW SHOW NEXT YEAR

There's a funny parallel in fashion, especially in chilly weather. Gals: no pockets, have to carry an additional thing. Guys: too many pockets, can't find a goddamned thing.

Clover says have a cozy Thunderstorm Thursday

> What are your orders Mr. President > Decisive victory in Iran > Decisive victory for Iran sir just like you ordered

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

Iran's more-successful-than-anyone-expected nuclear program has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now

Bourgeois lefties in countries with functioning worker protections and social safety nets stop telling poor people in America to go on general strike challenge; difficulty: impossible

To paraphrase the old saw about the bourgeois French revolutionary: "My people are marching. I must find out where they're headed so I can lead/stream about them."

Finally came up with a name for the nonbinary anarcho-libertarian shrew in my story who becomes an elected officer of a prairie dog commune and then rides a black bloc of crows into the battle to perform street medic work and mutual aid, goddamn I am loving writing this book

At what point is adventurism the only option?

Really happy to see that Mayor Mamdani has taken his team's social media skills and used it to publicize what good government looks like. This is good politics and good policy at once.

A bit embarrassed to admit it, but I'm actually getting a lot of good use out of the Claude AI with this novel I'm working on. It's not doing any of the writing for me, that's all mine, but I can feed it chapters and it asks really good prompts as I develop my characters and themes.

Both CO2 and methane are reactive gases, meaning they interact and make changes with the surfaces they contact. This means every bed, car seat, chair you've ever farted on retains a memory of you. You're welcome.

Burnt? Oh no my friend, that is caramelized cayenne honey on the pork I'm about to put in these ramen bowls.

Don't argue with a horse. They'll just drag you down to their level beat you with experience. And hooves.

HEARTWARMING: Gorgeous Mind Control Porn Comic Actually Has Good Dialogue