I have seen some idiots defending the Valnet “pay per session” model as a meritocracy for writers when it is actually, very obviously, a machine explicitly designed to destroy writing. Paying people based on raw traffic financially incentivizes the fastest most disposable sludge imaginable

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

One of the things you learn living somewhere with cold weather is that communities are safer when ice is cleared off the roads.

So a week ago, the NWSL rejected a fair deal between Spirit and Rodman that met the terms of the CBA, only to turn around and create a marquee fund of some description so Rodman could be paid that money anyway outside of the cap? Make it make sense.

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Hades II while the baby contact naps is pretty much how I’d like to spend all my time for the rest of eternity, please and thank you

We’re excited to share an update on the live-action Assassin’s Creed series 📺 Netflix has greenlit the show, with Robert Patino and David Wiener set to serve as showrunners! Get a closer look here: 📺 ubi.li/VvD6I

emily dickensen did not use a thousand em dashes for people today to be all "oh em dashes are a sure sign of AI use"

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it: aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...

On Blue Prince, conclusions, grief, and continuing on. www.gamespot.com/articles/blu...

"If I were Senator Schumer, I’d be very concerned about his chances in 2028 because it sure looks as though Rep. AOC has all the momentum. I don’t see this trajectory changing if Mr. Schumer remains incapable of grasping its contours — or unwilling to." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/down-goes-...

Viral videos and podcasts did not help a socialist win over a third of Staten Island. Be fucking serious lmao. Thanks to Zohran Mamdani, establishment Dems woke up to a jarring new political reality this morning: If you care about things people will vote for you. www.garbageday.email/p/if-you-re-...

Some good news!

Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill. Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸 Pass it on!

Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.

Brandon Sanderson says The Wheel of Time fandom "deserved better" than a cancelation after "the best season," as over 120,000 fans desperate for a season 4 sign petition.

Meta sued by Eminem's publishing company over alleged copyright infringement

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

Sign got a lot of usage tonight #ACFC

How was that not a handball?? #ACFC

Show us your writing process in a GIF.

CHRISTEN PRESS IS STARTING THIS IS NOT A DRILL #ACFC

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Catching up on Hacks, and it’s been a while since a spoken line delivered a physical blow quite like “I told them to wait until it gets good”

Carrie Fisher kissed my cheek and threw glitter all over me. Absolute gem of a human #Maythe4thbewithyou

Christen Press to Riley Tiernan for the most dramatic of goals to seal the victory!!

Hear me out: what if we DIDN’T replace ”Sinners” in IMAX 70mm at AMC CityWalk with some more Marvel mediocrity on Thursday?

Anyone else notice Ellie and Dina riding past the Grand Tetons, which are…decidedly east of Idaho? #TLOU

Finally started Blue Prince. Having a blast. Definitely underestimated the size notebook I need to keep track of everything

Finally had time to watch the #WheelofTime finale and am wrecked. Beautiful and devastating television - and I’m so curious why they made THAT change from the book. My god

This whole thread

#TheWheelOfTime is outperforming other major fantasy series with its highest-rated season yet. The numbers speak for themselves. This show is hitting its stride. It’s time. Give us Season 4. #RenewWoT @sonypicturestv.bsky.social

This is Alyssa Thompson’s year 😍

#renewWoT join us in the plea to renew WoT Season 4! @jeffbezos, @ajassy, @SPTV, @PrimeVideo, @AmazonMGMStudio, @SonyPictures, @TheWheelOfTime #ThankYouAmazon, #ThankYouSony The story did not end at this battle! I am so grateful that my favourite books are now a TV show.

millennials who came of age circa 2008 like

Exactly this! There are a couple characters I can’t stand in the books (cough Rand, Mat, Liandrin) but the show has made them incredibly compelling #WoT

Between water racing in Mario Kart World and the Harry Potter game, we have full surf and terf representation.

Full respect to Cory Booker and what he accomplished. Good to see an elected rep listen to his constituents and do something, even if it wasn’t what we had in mind. It was a little anticlimactic to see the Senate immediately transition to confirming Trump’s NATO nominee 😂

GOP leaders tried to block a bipartisan measure to allow proxy voting, but nine Republicans joined with Democrats to overcome it.

It really is that simple❤️ #studioghibli #ghibli #hayaomiyazaki

The worst part of my day is telling my dog, a 40lb pit mix, that she cannot play with the feather on a string with the cats. The roughhousing is just too intense, but she’s so sad 😭

Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.

A big win for accessibility in gaming! 🎮 The Accessible Games Initiative unites the industry to create a shared language for discovering accessibility features. We're proud to support this effort, and of our teams' role in driving innovation. 👉 www.accessiblegames.com

GOAL OF THE SEASON!! #NWSL