Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Dante has his own bed but he likes to be close to Kennedy. Also he is very cold and needs sweaters.

KIMMEL: “He’s gunning for our journalists too — they want to pick and choose what the news is… it’s so important to have a free press, and it’s nuts we aren’t paying more attention to it.”

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

My only piece of writing advice is that if your thing DOESN'T include characters saying things like this, it is bad and you should throw it out

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

I really wanted to ride 1000 miles this year, and I hit it today!!!!

Finally started the second Malazan book of the fallen book something like five years after finishing the first one. I forgot how good his writing is. The quality is shockingly good.

Hic Sunt Dracones.

After you reboot a Mac you can’t use your fingerprint to unlock it until after you enter your password…shouldn’t it be the other way around?!

I cannot IMAGINE wanting someone else to write the ending for something an author has carefully made and I've loved for years. That's so silly to me. These people don't like ART. They like BRANDS. They like FANDOM.

I saw this quote this week, and want to share it for anyone else who might need it 💙: "you'll never feel ready because ready isn't a feeling—it's a decision."

Here, fixed it.

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...

Last night I hit 50k words on the novel I started writing a little over a month ago!

Cracker Barrel is what you get when you take Southern cuisine and remove Black people.

I for one am concerned.

“Fist of the Beast King” is the coolest sentence ever uttered by man.

I’m almost a month into writing this novel, and I’m 43k words in!

I live around men with huge arsenals they collected to fight tyranny. Turns out “tyranny” is being asked wear a mask or kids having access to books or women having access to healthcare or gay folks getting married…

I know so many more words when I'm not actively writing

Something like five years after I finished the first book in the series, I’m about to start the second Malazan Book of the Fallen novel. I’m prepared to be ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS about what is going on. Why am I like this?

My fiancé just told me she hates hamburger helper, and I don’t know how to process this information because I truly thought hamburger helper was universally loved.

I started writing a novel just over two weeks ago, and I’m 27k words in! This is my first time sticking with a word quota in a long time, and I’m having a blast!

Working up to doing a 100 mile ride and riding 1000 miles by the end of October! Making progress! 385 miles to go!

whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives. (gift link, no paywall) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

Mike Johnson Sends Lawmakers Home So They Can’t Vote to Release Epstein Files www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Jeff Daniels speaks out.. He's everything that's wrong. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.

ATTN: If you're one of the Treasury employees that handled Epstein's Suspicious Activity Reports, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...

It’s been several years since I got a new guitar, and I couldn’t be more excited about getting this one! A Reverend Double Agent OG. I love the color! #guitar

I hate when I check ‘remember me’ on a website and then it does not, in any discernible way, remember me.

The new Superman movie was so good!

I have a neighbor who mows his lawn 3-5 times a week and I find it utterly insufferable.

I know I’m very late to the party, but I started playing Disco Elysium a couple days ago and it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. Big Transmetropolitan vibes. #discoelysium #transmetropolitan

#AppleTV you'll never get another opportunity like this! #SaveWoT #TheWheelOfTime savewot.com

Finally getting to really train again after a long, rainy winter and spring. Working up to doing a 100 mile ride this year!

Amazon put almost no marketing into this show and it was still doing great. Imagine if a streaming service actually cared about it and really pushed it. That’s what Wheel of Time deserves. #savewot #wotsky #thewheeloftime #wheeloftime winteriscoming.net/the-wheel-of...

I mean, why would some other streaming service want an established fantasy epic on par with GOT that’s firing on all cylinders creatively, with a fun, fresh & colorful voice, a dedicated, rabid fan base and a clear roadmap (with ending)? 🤷🏻‍♂️ #SaveWOT #TheWheelOfTime winteriscoming.net/is-it-possib...

Sony, #SaveWoT. Find it a new home, please! #TheWheelOfTime is the best fantasy show and you can’t leave us hanging like that.