My favorite thing to do while watching ice skating is to daydream about what music I'd use in my program, as if I can even walk across an ice rink without falling on my ass.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Ah. The sweet, sweet joy of watching the Patriots lose.

Well ... I think I may have found the worst commercial.

Was just saying this to the husband, like I know I was much easier to please in my youth and now I’m cynical and cranky, but istg the few years have been absolute ASS

I mean ...

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Anyone done this yet?

Listen, God, if I've displeased you, you can just send me a text or something. No need for spiders crawling on the shower curtain while I'm shampooing my hair. I think that's a bit fucking much, don't you?

Okay, I gave up on this story being a flash fiction weeks ago, but FFS, we are now strongly veering towards novelette, like, come on. Come. On.

JD Vance could go to space and he would be booed by any life out there

In lieu of a newsletter, I present this blog post, in which I briefly discuss the horrors of January, my favorite recent reads, and the various mystery shows I've been comfort-watching.

Please for the love of god how do we remove this man from office.

OOOH. 👀

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

Because I'm the absolute worst about skincare, I've resorted to putting a daily alert on my phone, reminding me to put on lotion so my hands will stop cracking and bleeding. Because I'm a very normal and good person, the reminder is "it rubs the lotion on its skin it does this whenever it's told."

Jesus Christ. This is absolutely raw. Mind the content warnings but for those of us who have been abused there's... Yeah.

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they never stopped to ask if they *should.*” —THE ACTUAL POINT OF THE FUCKING MOVIE THESE PEOPLE ARE DEBASING!!

It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice

This is legitimately the neatest thing I've ever seen.

The man who murdered Renee Good didn't need a bodycam because HE FILMED THAT SHIT LIKE IT WAS HIS IG REEL

Is it Groundhog Day again? Again?

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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Kinda stunned to see my story "Four Questions with Something Like God" make the Locus Recommended Reading List. Truly a lovely surprise. 💜

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)

"one doesn’t have to be a physician to conclude that a person can’t get skull fractures on both the right and left sides of their head and from front to back by running themselves into a wall." apnews.com/article/immi...

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

So the very last thing I needed was a new daily game, but ...

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university 1. The Vampire Tradition 2. Ethics in Medicine 3. Intro to the Study of Language 4. Film History 5. Intro to the Study of Fairy Tales

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

🚨TONIGHT’S PROTEST IN MINNEAPOLIS IS INSANE: CNN is STUNNED. Share this widely! “I've covered many protests… I've not seen a crowd like this before.” It’s 8 degrees. “It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people.” This isn’t a rally. It’s a movement. @calltoactivism.bsky.social

Heartbroken to hear about Catherine O'Hara. I loved her work so much. An absolute icon.

Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?

Look it's the TV version of TRANSCENDS THE GENRE! Everybody drink!

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

When the Angels Left the Old Country by @sachalamb.bsky.social, which I've had on my radar for literal years and am very much enjoying now that I'm finally reading it.

Abolish and prosecute. Every last motherfucking one of them. Six people this year. THIS YEAR. It is January 26th.

BYE BITCH

Congrats to everyone who made the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot!

LOL to the contact form which suggests "Thank You Senator" as a possible subject line. TBH, I will be thanking my senator—before immediately asking him to do better and more—but that particular example strikes me as, uh, WILDLY optimistic right now.

Nation's largest nurses union repeats calls for ICE abolition, pledges to do "everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people."

The fact that both Good and Pretti's killers remain at large is in itself damning. On the most neutral, quote unquote law abiding sense, indict them and give them a free trial, as is their right under the Constitution. But even starting that process is something those in power are desperate to avoid

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

Thread: John has been having a bunch of health issues and now has rib fractures that will require time and rest Please consider chipping in Also buying all his books because they're fabulous and he's such a kind and amazing person