#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social "Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation." If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."

How do I tell apple to never under any circumstances use my phone as a webcam and to stop harassing me about it?

Sounds about right.

This infuriates me. They're embedding an AI in Kindles that is empowered to analyze our books without our permission and tell the reader about them....likely inaccurately. We have no recourse. writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...

It should be mandatory that all credit cards and loans be paired with a savings account with an identical interest rate to combat predatory lending.

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

When I started writing my current WiP I was nervous I wouldn’t have enough story to make it to 100k words. I’m now at just over 110k words and there’s a solid chunk of novel left. 😬

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

The thing that frustrates me the most about writing serials as how people don't take serials seriously until they are ebooks and paperbacks. My serialized novel is still a novel even though I am publishing it episodically. I go just as hard for my serials as I do for my regular books.

Tonight I hit 107k words on my manuscript! Very close to the end now!

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

These 8 useless Democratic Senators are all wealthy and have feathered themselves a lovely retirement nest. They don't need to be in these positions anymore. They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage. Demand more and better, folks.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Next year when everyone’s insurance premiums skyrocket and republicans blame it on democrats and lots of people continue to say “both sides are the same” even after the shutdown and everything that went into stopping this is gonna be real wild.

Wrote a thing about agents. If you’re a new writer or are actively querying, hope this helps keep you safe! gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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!