Watching the English dub of The Cat Returns with my son and, despite the stacked cast of voice actors, the one that made me go “hold up, is that—?” was René Auberjonois.

Spotted on the same car: “Stomp my flag, I’ll stomp your ass.” “Live free or die.” We’ve got different concepts of freedom, bud.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

“Well, Iran’s regime is corrupt and—“ DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

never look at your phone when you get up to take a leak. someone might have started an idiot war

The only thing I ever read by Dan Simmons was Hyperion; even that, his most influential work, had a lot of shit worthy of a side-eye.

Ah, Dan Simmons. Huge mixed feelings - he both wrote a book I eagerly pressed upon everyone I knew because it was so thrilling and well-written (The Terror) and a later book I actively warned people away from because it was so hideously reactionary (Flashback).

ai companies be like "please pay us to make your quality of life worse"

Writing advice: flashbacks are bad Me: what if I put a flashback inside this flashback

I don’t want to read stories about AI. Every time I see a query letter on r/pubtips whose plot features the 2026 conception of AI, I want to grab the author by the shoulders and shake them.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

Yeah well Writers Helping Writers is clearly a garbage group. Yeah, let AI flatter you flat. In fact, why even have readers? Edit to generative AI's "standards" and have chatbots read it and give you reach arounds while you let your smart fridge sing you to sleep.

Went to B&N to buy The Wolf and the King, and it was $32. No, I can’t do that. Bring back the mass market paperback.

Muting “xx” so I don’t have to further expose myself to this newest nonsense.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language." I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.

Ursula K. LeGuin's famous story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" got its name from seeing "Salem, Oregon" in the rearview mirror: Salem O backward.

"We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend."

This is what’s baffling me. Most of what this administration does makes sense within the context of fascism, white nationalism, and rat-fucking stupid crony capitalism. But kneecapping your ability to protect against disease? Do the rich really believe they’re immune from EBV?

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"

Incredible, horrific piece. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

The Disco Elysium music is *chef’s kiss*

"If you tax billionaires, they'll just leave!" Well, if they don't pay taxes, there's no net loss, so happy trails, motherfuckers.

Holy fucking shit. (CN: police violence. Also sex but mostly the police violence)

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

don't carry maga's water for them. don't try to work out how there's some secret loophole in the constitution that magically ends democracy. there isn't. that's the whole fucking point you fucking dopes

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

spouse needs an inhaler because his blood oxygen saturation was low due to influenza and the insurance company demands “prior authorization.” Like, you expect us to predict catching a disease and having a complication? Ffs, America.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

I say this as a victim and as a lawyer and as a journalist and as a woman in public, no one, literally no one in power, cares about victims of sexual violence. This is why they promise women more police and prisons (allegedly to help them) while fancy men who are friends with Epstein go free.

Influenza B confirmed. If this is what it’s like with the vaccine, I shudder to think how bad it’d be without it.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair. USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries. They are giving you actionable information.

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

if you’re not bothered by still being on Substack, don’t worry! neither is Neil Gaiman

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It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason