This thread. It's all worth reading.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I need to put out a request for help. My wife, a Senior Technical Product Manager with over a decade of experience.... can't seem to get responses to job applications. Anyone out there know of any PMT (TPM) positions available? We're running real thin now, and can use any help we can get.

Speculating, I'd say abstract nihilism. "Notices bulges" etc is copypasta. "Uparrow" etc is a large attack in Helldivers 2. "Bella Ciao" became popular again from Money Heist, lots of TikTok clips. "Gay lmao" is probably, to him, casual homophobic gamer speak, nothing more. Depressing brainrot.

If you think you're going to fix this country with your gun, you're wrong. You won't make anything better with that. You will instead make things worse for everyone you presumably care about. Talk to someone. Find therapy. Maybe put that energy toward helping people instead. It works better.

So I want to briefly mention what next steps look like for people who are left out of the loop on this settlement. There are many of you.

Yup. This right here. Every advice site and opinion everywhere for the last I dunno how many years said you don't really *need* to register copyright, because you automatically have it legally. It would hold up in court in an individual case. This class action probably screwed countless authors.

I have read Trump’s “war department” EO. This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law. He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes. If you’re in the media and you don’t harp on that, you’re failing.

I have to wonder if these guys couldn't have just fucking split instead of killing some random fishermen. Maybe there's an explanation for that, but could I believe it?

I sincerely hope Newsom's weird fans and liberals at large are starting to understand why you can't budge a single solitary inch on a single solitary issue for a single solitary marginalized group.

Huh. First post here to gain any real traction. Not like I'm trying super hard, because I've felt icky about social media for a good while now... but man, I really wish it was for something happy or funny and not "oh hey I guess we're just murdering people in international waters now."

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Like this is just not acceptable, sorry

Everyone knows, but I'll say it anyway: the US Coast Guard and also the Navy have decades of experience in stopping and searching boats for drugs. Which, y'know, proves or disproves the presence of drugs. Without blowing anyone up. If any of that is the actual goal. Signed, a former Coastie

Just backed this! Dear My Readers: if you like my Good Intentions books and you like comics, this is for you! It's smutty and funny, the characters rock, the world building constantly jumps from silly to magical and inspiring, and the art is great. (Also filthy. Don't say I didn't warn you.)

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places

It's anecdote over (pretty sparse) data, but enough friends & acquaintances have gotten covid lately to keep me wearing that mask in busy indoor places until my next booster. I'm not consistent. It still seems better than not bothering at all.

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

I know this video has kind of a "hear me out" pitch but I tried this last night and it's freakin' fantastic. MUCH easier than the usual constant basting stuff.

Oh, hello, plot bunny for Good Intentions 6. You're very silly. I approve. But it's gonna be a bit. I've got another book or two to get through first. Maybe hang out for a while?

Really freakin' weird how Trump wants this image as the strongest, shoutiest, I'm-in-charge person, except he ALSO very clearly wants to be Putin's little buddy. And none of the glaring evidence of Russia's relative weakness changes that. Dude still lives in the '80s.

If you have any interest at all in military matters, this is very much worth the read.

yes and-ing John Waters’ classic “If they don’t have books don’t fuck them” by also not fucking anyone who uses generative AI or gives their ID to YouTube

Don't ever lose sight of how Trump claims everything is awesome and he has totally fixed America, while simultaneously he says everything is burning down and he needs to pull every emergency lever all at once.

But we have Cuomo at home. The Cuomo at home:

One frustrating part of being a writer is how you can spend all day writing pages you KNOW you're ultimately gonna cut by half or more, but you have to get it all out there so you can see what parts to cut and what parts should stay. It feels like a waste of time, but it's part of the process.

Fun fact: Once upon a time, you could deduct your losses from theft and scams from your income on your taxes. That got killed in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with no explanation. Businesses can still deduct, but not individuals. This is a mess just waiting for someone who cares enough to fix it.

Hey, if you're in Seattle and you voted for Harrell in the primary... what the actual fuck?

Generative AI offers one of the main thrills of being a billionaire. At the push of a few buttons, you, too can cheat countless strangers out of their hard labor.

The level of attentiveness needed to cook well is actually a good vehicle for teaching men both to be attentive and to be attractive. This is true of a lot of detail-intensive hobbies.

Lower Decks.

Next president (yeah, yeah, I know) has my full permission to tear out and build over this stupid ballroom and to put the Rose Garden back. Yes, it's a frivolous waste of money and far more important things will need fixing, but I'm good with doing this, too.

Oblivion NPC conversations are the most realistic depiction of living in 2025 ever made: “Did you hear? The emperor is dead and hell demons are overrunning The Empire!” “OH NO!”’ *beat* “I hear Orbash Iron-Ass is the best blacksmith in town.” “Yep. That orc knows how to make an axe.”

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

This hurts. "Three weeks after a retirement concert" is more or less what I always expected, and I think close to how he wanted it, but it still hurts. Goodbye, Ozzy, and thank you.

Hey, readers! (My readers, specifically, but I'm not exclusive!) I've got a poll about possible indie audiobooks of some of my work up on my Patreon now (set to public, no sub needed). If you like any of my stuff, I'd love your input! www.patreon.com/posts/pollin...

I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

What a headline.

everyone will see the initial images of them trying to project force, but they got chased out by a bunch of normal americans bearing fruit and foul language

Absolutely sick. Billions of dollars for this ridiculous cosplay and security theater. Fighting a fictional 'invasion' as a pretext to terrorize their fellow citizens. Few police states who don't even mind the police state label would be this brazen.

Current mood: That awful moment when you finish a story draft and now you need a title for it.

It’s here! Good Intentions 5: DEVIL IN THE DETAILS is out now! Alex knows any call about his father is bound to bring bad news… but the demons, hostile angels, AI cult, and the angry ancient whale god are all a bit much. Ebook and paperback are out now! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF8G1P8T

Sephiramy is a great artist and a great person. If you've got aid cash to spare, this is an absolutely worthwhile direction.

Your life in the US is not improved when someone is deported. Their lives, however, are shattered. They don't just stop existing. If you have never considered what happens to someone when they are deported, it's time to start. This is a cruelty made of stupid lines drawn to divide ordinary people.

PLEASE NOTE: SCOTUS did NOT declare that birthright citizenship is no longer the law of the land. The majority opinion addressed the appropriateness of the breadth of nationwide injunctions as it relates to plaintiffs who have standing to sue.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

I'm a big believer in content warnings. If a book isn't for someone, that's cool. I don't want to give anyone a bad time. I also believe content warnings can be fun.