as i argued in this episode a few months ago, i think there is actually a coordinated propaganda machine encouraging people to use cars as deadly weapons, but kristi noem won’t admit that it’s fox news.

got curious about what democrat yea votes on laken riley act are saying about renee good and a majority have nothing so far but there's actually a good bit of saber rattling from people who seemed to have no problem inflating dhs power til a different president was sworn in

If you're in the Bay Area and you want to show up tonight to protest ICE & honor Good's memory: - 630 Sansome St. SF at 6 PM (organized by Bay Resistance and Indivisible SF) - Fruitvale Plaza, Oakland at 7PM (organized by Legalization for All) - Fremont Park at 6:30 PM (organized by NorCal Resist)

Please stop reposting that BNO News account. All they’re doing is reposting information from Minnesota journalists but without any credit or sourcing.

It slipped by me that this he's same clown from the Coates interview, but it's almost reassuring that the whole apparatus from the White House to their installed press consistently award people who prove themselves to be pliable idiots with employment. So long as the bending is toward their ideals.

And the follow up.

One more time.

Chattanooga stand up, and such.

Union formed on Dec 18, 2025. Studio closure confirmed on Jan 7, 2026.

great reporting here from @alexshultz.bsky.social www.hardresetmedia.com/p/an-ai-gene...

I covered the retirement of a very old-school heroic figure who cannot be replaced. defector.com/hiroshi-tana...

It's mid-season, which means another round of blends being culled from our regular rotation! Here are the 27 teas moving to secret-menu-only status after March 3rd! Plenty of fair warning to stock up on your fave retirees!

🚨 COMING SOON!!🚨

New year, new column, same me. "Songs the Lord Taught Us" is a way for me to scratch my itch to do more personal writing. trickbag.substack.com/p/songs-the-...

Another reminder of this before the first What's Good of the year drops. Donate to Trans Youth Emergency Project or Al Otro Lado, maybe get my extra copy of Armand Hammer & The Alchemist's Mercy.

One thing Wiki gon' do is drop a banger that's tied to a fashion brand's lookbook (he's only done it one other time, but that was the lead up for his album with MIKE and The Alchemist, so) youtu.be/w2K9Cg1yh2Y

Here's Ep 1 of Better Offline's CES Coverage - I'm joined by Robert Evans, Ed Ongweso Jr., David Roth, Scott Stein, Lisa Eadicicco and Matt Binder to talk NVIDIA's tepid press conference, LLMs in TVs, smart glasses, and Robert's exoskeleton. open.spotify.com/episode/1a5P... linktr.ee/betteroffline

been thinking about what it meant that BotH came to us with this story I think it points to how alt-weeklies and small music venues used to be part of the same independent culture ecosystem. Arts infrastructure as a public utility — but totally separate from city govt. We so desperately need it

Punted on this 'cause there haven't been any new sign-ups since Friday, I'll shoot out another email only post with the details once anybody new subscribes to the blog.

With alt text. For context (since I saw G. Willow Wilson repost this and note that you couldn't publish it today), I remember Brubaker getting push back for his run when Bucky Cap put hands on a fictional version of the Tea Party.

Email Only post going up at around 5PM PT re: donating to Trans Youth Emergency Project and Al Otro Lado and maybe getting my extra copy of Mercy. Check out the blog below for details, as well as a massive year-end playlist.

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I'll try to shoot another reminder about this tomorrow before the email goes out, but be sure to subscribe to the blog if you want details on donating to Trans Youth Emergency Project or Al Otro Lado, with me sending one of y'all my extra copy of Mercy in return.

I was planning on trying to build myself a NAS this year, but given how things are going it might actually be cheaper both in the short and long term to just pony up for a subscription to a cloud service. Bleh.

Not a traditional What's Good this week, but I made a year-spanning playlist for you, summed up some of my writing for the year, and an update on that copy of Mercy I want to give to y'all. Tap in. blog.djregular.tech/whats-good-2...

Breaking some news for @coyotemedia.org here. Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

i need to hear a great deal more that i bet i won't before i buy into any of the botting stuff but i'm on the edge of my seat about whether this frames stake as a gambling racket

It's National Science Fiction Day! And I thought drawing a little BLACK CLOAK might be a great way to mark the occasion.

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

He JUST DM’d me these links last night on IG. Been watching episodes on Vimeo since

To be clear, these weren’t ticket sales because Netflix set up the contracts of the actors so they wouldn’t have to pay them for theater screenings. We can tiptoe around the wording however you want, but this was the studio continuing to profit off a bunch of former child stars with predatory terms.

happy new year, everyone. if you came to our tour with PUP & @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social you may recall we were raising money for the unhoused & immigrant families in d.c. at the shows. we ultimately raised $2.5k and donated that today split between legal aid & cash assistance.

Forgot to note another positive, sorta, in that all the optional bosses and side content I did allowed me to basically one shot the final bosses. It kinda makes more sense narratively than if I'd had to struggle at it.

I really do love how the Prince estate basically told Netflix "Yeah kill that Ezra Edelman documentary project, we don't actually want people thinking he might have been flawed and human or anything, but we'll be happy to partner up with your autohype plans, sure!"

Started the new year with new music! filthyrecs.com/products/vsi...

Decided to roll credits on Clair Obscur so I wouldn't have to take it into the new year, and I'll give it credit for standing on business with its endings, re: the themes/thesis. Doesn't change how bad of a taste the narrative left in my mouth, otherwise. And if they make a sequel, they're cowards.

Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.

porn magazines' fiction sections were, however, a genuinely important vehicle for supporting genre authors. basically all the people who ran them seem to have been nerds

I have a sickness that if I dislike a game that a bunch of people enjoyed vociferously, I have to wring every bit of juice out of it just to be sure I'm not just being a hater. This observation brought to you by defeating the optional bosses of Clair Obscur.

OKAY I'm doing a soft launch. I've set up my first newsletter, which has a small personal comic & pre-prod artwork from The Mummy as well as thoughts on 2025 & my *biggest professional disappointment* for the year in it. You can sign up for the newsletter here: pencilbooth.com/faitherinhicks

You're probably not going to find my No. 1 album of 2025 on anyone else's Best Of Hip-Hop/Rap list. But I can tell you that the artists who've topped some of CABBAGES' previous year-end lists are now staples of other outlets'/journos' year-end lists. So... www.cabbageshiphop.com/2025-best-hi...

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

Tracie Thoms is a celebrated stage performer and hard-working actress with a massive CV, but she still finds time to appear in all kinds of shorts and indies in the horror space, because she just loves the genre. I think that’s neat.

Entering an IHOP while Fat Joe (post Pun, pre "Lean Back") and his crew were exiting. I chunked the deuce to him as he left. Waitress said, "That rap group like ta' run me raggard, askin' for stuff that wasn't on the menu!" Reading between the lines, they wanted bodega style sandwiches.

Reminder: This email's going out around 3:30 pm PT today. If you haven't signed up to get the blog in your email, don't sleep.

This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

Going to be sending out an Email Only post tomorrow re: my extra copy of Armand Hammer & The Alchemist's Mercy and donations to Al Otro Lado or the Trans Youth Emergency Project. If you aren't already subscribed to the blog, you might wanna get in before then. blog.djregular.tech/whats-good-y...