These lying freaks want you to believe they’re braving Sarajevo but they’re going into 100% peaceful tree lined neighborhoods and cracking skulls.

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric. It’s not. /1

It's always "We need to put aside our differences and come together" after they do something so beyond the pale they can't handwave it away anymore

He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Baby name sites are great for finding interesting character names and meanings behind them (especially for characters who come from far away places) Really messes with my ad profile though 🤣. #writing #writingcommunity

These online right wing freaks don't just hate their own country in the abstract. If you are reading this here, they hate *you* specifically. I don't know what our future holds for living with these people, but people should remember that toleration in Europe started behind a sword and a shield.

Some people are responding to criticisms of this as if people were saying “impeachment is obviously the right strategy.” No. The point is that “impeachment isn’t the right strategy because the GOP may start to be responsible” is an unfathomably stupid and insulting lie.

This widely shared post, which claims to show Venezuelans celebrating the fall of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, is false. The video was actually filmed in Miami, Florida, and not in Venezuela.

“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.

The oil change place I’m in has a fancy coffee “menu” over their Keurig machine. High class.

Love waking up to the news that this admin is speed running events in the near future dystopian novel I’m writing. Probably won’t get it out before I’m just writing a history book. (To be fair my preemptive war was in the Middle East. Guess I should have put South America on the bingo card)

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Waking up and checking the news

William Branson Donahue—president of College Republicans of America—says that he is promoting “integralism, not theocracy,” but his post misleadingly omits that “integralism” is shorthand for “Catholic integralism” & that the doctrine seeks to “integrate” Church & state. 1/ x.com/realwilldona...

The idea Christians should be in positions of power is central to today’s Christian right, but it took root decades ago. “We should be taking over every area of life,” one leader said in 1985. (Published Oct. 2024) By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social

Emails waiting and ready to circle back now that it's the new year

I’m Not That Chris Brown, still working on a near future project about the singularity. Really a thinly veiled exploration of deconstructing evangelism. I had a short story published in an anthology this year!

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

The inexorable arrow of time plows forward toward your obliteration. Assigning an arbitrary cyclical period and attaching a cultural expectation that we feel some sort of optimism and hope for renewal is some real baby-brain shit. Eat arbys for yet another rotation around a nuclear maelstrom.

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

well, 2016 was a hard year, but we made it through. hopefully 2016 will be better.

A year ago, I was partying in the street in Mexico with a few thousand people. This year, I'm sitting at home eating a piece of cheese. I recommend either as a fun way to ring in the new year.

Not surprisingly, Avelo continues to fight in court, dragging out their eventual loss. But I've got a new set of billboards up in New Haven, supported by Indivisible CT and many of you (via www.avelno.com). The messaging definitely hit a nerve. The hate mail is, uhh, interesting. #avelNO

I had some more thoughts about that Wall Street Journal article that said downtown Dallas faces a "crisis." If you would like to read my thoughts (some of the story is BS), I am sharing them for free: www.dmagazine.com/micropost/i/...

It is that community which made - makes - us 'fit,' in evolutionary terms. The fact that we will pack bond with the roomba and apologize and feel bad when we accidentally kick it? That's us. That's the most human you can be.

A significant number of Congressmen and their staffs have been identified as having friendly relations with a straight up neo-Nazi outfit called the Liberty Lobby, run by a man named Willis Carto who has busts of Hitler in his office. Strangely, it seems few are all that concerned. The year is 1967.

Being able to take feedback on board is a critical skill for writers. And that does create real problems for marginalized writers, who need the additional skill of learning to identify and quietly ignore bullshit "feedback" without seeming arrogant or resistant And then there's these fucking guys

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War. Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

The point of DOGE was to data mine the entire federal government and use that information for future government contracts.

A warning from the lawyer representing the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA! Beware of GFM scams: her client is NOT crowdfunding at this time.

Wake Up Dead Man was awesome

remember to watch some version of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians to celebrate the holiday. It's public domain so you can just watch it on wikipedia if you want, but I recommend the MST3K version or one of the other riffed versions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_C...

Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Maybe my new thing is silly Christmas memes.

Home Depot “gold” trim sales expected to go through the roof.

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

I should mention the charity is St. Jude's Children's research hospital. Also the stories are really great. I have my copy now! #writing #booksky #authors #writingcommunity