Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

The real way that AI tools have revolutionized my life is that now I spend precious time searching in vain for a setting that turns them off.

“I used ChatGPT once, so I’m obviously the best prepubescent robot inventor in the history of the world.” By Erica Lies & Leila Sales Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/if-i-reacted...

When I saw the NPR headline "Trump says he's pursuing Greenland after perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub" (🙄🤦🤯), the first thing I did was text @ericaliesalot.bsky.social to say "We NEED to write a humor piece about this." Less than a week later, here it is in @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social!

This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.

"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation... “Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

White folks. Watch this. Twice if you have to. And don’t just listen to her. Understand what it is she is saying.

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. bit.ly/49SpwBk 📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii

Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

At nearly 1,200 events across all 50 states and DC, Americans honored Renee Nicole Good and mourned all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. #ICEOutForGood

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

The fact that all these second amendment "we need ahr guns to resist guvment overreach" losers are now cheering on ICE versus citizens who are standing up to the government (with NO weapons) tells you everything you need to know about the hollowness of their ideology. Sad little scared boys.

Today is the last day to order West Virginia University Press books for 25% off. Get Epic and Lovely at an epic and lovely discount! wvupressonline.com

We’re counting down the best of 2025!

Found @modaviau.bsky.social ’s Epic and Lovely in the wild! Highly recommend—it’s so funny and also epic and also lovely.

New Research Reveals Ancient Egyptians Received Significant Help From Parents While Building Pyramids https://theonion.com/new-research-reveals-ancient-egyptians-received-significant-help-from-parents-while-building-pyramids/

I’m so pumped to have my first solo piece in @mcsweeneys.net today!! It’s a New Food review and it’s a wild ride. Thank you to @lukevburns.bsky.social and everyone in his class for helping me make it so great. Read it here! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wil...

They should do MyChart Wrapped

My whole day is like, “I go to work and look at a medium screen. I walk home and look at bigger screen in between looking at a tiny screen.”

This Cyber Monday, I our literary icons encourage a gifting economy in this piece I wrote and illustrated www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/k2...

This Cyber Monday, I our literary icons encourage a gifting economy in this piece I wrote and illustrated www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/k2...

I watched all of Stranger Things and the boy thing I understand is that now they have three dragons

John Oliver's season finale was great, glad he focused on public media, and how important it is to fund. Red states tend to benefit from it the most. He has an auction site up to help raise money, johnoliversjunk.com, which even has an actual Bob Ross painting on it (but it's at 1 million).

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

The real flaw in the new Lily Allen album is that now I’m just at work singing “Pussy palace, pussy palace” out loud.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

this is Austin erasure

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

You know me, always ahead of the curve…

I've always been critical of the professoriate's tendency to dismiss entire states as unlivable. But holy hell, I'd rather work at Costco than take a faculty job in Texas or Florida right now. Reminder: one of the easiest things you can do to support faculty in these states is JOIN A FUCKING UNION.

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

🚨‼️ EVENT ALERT‼️🚨 WVU Press welcomes author Mo Daviau to Morgantown in joint event at WVU’s Colson Hall with author and WVU MFA graduate Kanza Javed. Can’t wait to see you there! #morgantownwv #event #reading #booklover

Because nothing says “nightmare” like plantar fasciitis—Scary stories from me in @pointsincase.com

Because a Friday afternoon meeting by request is the stuff of nightmares, I wrote you this piece out now in @pointsincase.com on the scariest tales for the grownups: www.pointsincase.com/articles/sca...

Frankly, terrifying

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

In Chicago, we haven't forgotten about Silverio Villegas González, the father of two shot to death by ICE 8 days ago. A Biden administration policy called for body cams “in all aspects of ICE enforcement activities.” But Trump's ICE is a masked, unaccountable goon squad. There's no video, ICE says.

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest." – Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky @texasaaup.bsky.social

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

I have no love for Charlie Kirk. I've been eye rolling for the past week while everyone on both sides have praised him for his "free speech" views. That said, its deeply ironic how much he would hate the crackdown that is happening in his name of anyone who speaks about him in any unflattering light

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

We have truly crossed a new threshold when The Man Show Guy is too far left of a voice for our current set of chauvinists to tolerate

i do not think americans want to live in a culture where jimmy kimmel is considered too edgy for television

Chicago!

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party