Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Once he's gone and they try to backpedal their part in all of this, every single one of his enablers in Congress, the media, and corporate America needs to get their face rubbed in that stink every time they open their mouths in public.

My personal list of "People I Thought I Knew Who Turned Out To Be Goose-Stepping Dimwits" is growing longer every damn day.

Elon's swastika-shaped plagiarism machine now generates CSAM on demand? Wow, such world-changing and essential technology.

The complete boxed set of Calvin & Hobbes.

Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.

If AI is inevitable, then why do so many terrible people spend so much time, money, and effort trying to get us to use it?

AI is the tool of the exploiter, and artists who use it are class traitors.

Wherever they can, they're cutting blue-collar jobs with automation and white-collar jobs with AI, while promising that everyone will totally have everything they need when everything is automation and AI, trust me, bro. Well, who the fuck do they think is going to have money to buy their products?

I think it's hard to overstate just how much damage the "short term gains at any cost" mindset and incentive structure of venture capitalism has done to the economy and the social fabric of society.

Love how our tools are never allowed to be good enough the way they are. We still use hammers that haven’t changed in 200 years bc they already work, but if they were proprietary tech of HammerSoft they’d work like shit bc investors demanded growth so now HamR v200 uses AI to guess which nail to hit

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

How very quaint our snark at Romney's "binders full of women" seems in retrospect.

Denny's is egalitarian, but I think a case can be made that the true and universal consecrated ground in American culture is Waffle House.

I wish I could remember where I read it or who wrote it, but I distinctly recall someone putting forth "Pneumatic Elf Babes In The Valley of Baby Oil" as a book title to match a certain publisher's cover art for fantasy novels, and it's been my go-to snark for such sightings ever since.

One thing that readers/fans don't always get is that when they see a bunch of writers hanging out at a con hotel bar, it's not elitist snobbery or "getting an in", it's usually "friends catching up". It's a pretty small field and most of us have known each other for many years.

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Let's take a moment to remember the reason for the season

And Tiny Sim, who DID die

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, had seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror, unheeded, without knowledge or luster or name.

"And when Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

The wholesale crippling of American soft power in the world is going to be the most damaging thing his administration has done in the long term. It takes decades to build and nurture what they destroyed in just a few months. Nobody trusts our word or believes in our good faith anymore.

“Yes, sir. A battleship, with lots of guns and missiles. And lasers too. Will be the biggest and strongest ever, absolutely. What is it going to be called? The Trump class, sir. All the guys voted.“

If you're late to the party, let me assure you that Resident Alien is a fucking delight, and Alan Tudyk is a goddamn comedic genius.

Wake up, babe, first Democrat campaign ad of the midterm election just dropped.

Someone needs to convince that Mr. Beast dude that he’d be a natural at boxing.

<points at menu item> "Ia! Ia!"

We're getting Jake Paul AND Andrew Tate punched in the face as PPV events in one week? IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE. I don't want to seem greedy in the face of such blessings, but if we get the Big Beautiful Obituary before Thursday on top of it, I swear I'll start going to church again.

Getting paid to beat up Andrew Tate. Bro got the best temp job assignment in the world that day.

He doesn't give a shit what I think, and he certainly got millions of dollars he can use to dab his wounds, but it's pretty satisfying that the first time that obnoxious YouTube douche went up against an accomplished heavyweight boxer in his prime, the YouTuber got his clock cleaned comprehensively.

I love the meme that goes "the #1 movie when you were ten is going to be how 2026 will go for you", and people post movies that I could SWEAR I saw in theaters maybe ten, twelve years ago TOPS.

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Extra turbo bonus points for the term "Skeletor-horde of dipshit cryptids".

One thing I've discovered about myself is that I have a really hard time separating art from known shitty creators even if I liked them before they revealed their shittiness. I have no desire to ever watch a movie with Will Smith or read anything by Neil Gaiman or JKR again.

Me to my editor: "Look, you have 5% of the draft. The initial deadline is being met."

Two days before he kicked off the war with Ukraine, with 200,000 troops already staged at the border for the invasion, this motherfucker and his foreign minister still categorically denied they were planning to invade. Nothing he says can be trusted.

I will go to my grave with the firm conviction that the J.D. in J.D. Vance's name stands for "Just Dance".

So weird how the same people who for years told everyone "if you can't afford kids, don't have them" are now all "why don't people want to have kids anymore?"

An excellent blue jay selecting from this morning's table d'hôte breakfast.

So what I've learned from the speech last night is that the economy is the best it's ever been, everything is going awesome, and also it's all Joe Biden's fault.

Bluejays swooping in on some FREE FAT.

I think there are only three kinds of moral alignments in humans--people who'd shoot a puppy for financial incentives or the promise of higher social status, those who'd do it for free because it scratches an itch for them, and those who wouldn't do it for all the money or back-pats in the world.

MONGRELS is one of my top five werewolf novels of all time. And for a buck ninety-nine? Total fucking steal.

Every creative knows that the ideas are by far the easiest part of the process. I have notebooks full of ideas, more than I can ever turn into stories in my lifetime, and I get new ones every day. AI will just stunt your ability to have new ideas as you let it serve you remixes of stolen ones.

Rob Reiner had more talent, ability, and humanity in his little finger than all the cruel, dimwitted, soulless sociopathic ghouls in that joke of an administration could scrounge up combined.

Counter-snark: "Wait, I thought America made itself tyranny-proof by making gun ownership a constitutional right?"

Journalists who are afraid to ask hard questions aren't journalists, they're press release stenographers.