Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike.

#Bonsai at the Bowers! Orange County folk (and LA folk willing to schlep down to Santa Ana in the rain): Kofu Kai's annual show is this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Bowers Museum. FREE! Cheryl's got two trees on display: a quince and a cascading jade. www.bowers.org/index.php/pr...

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The strike is not about whether or not you approve of Starbucks coffee. It's about the workers, who like all workers deserve equitable treatment and fair pay. That is the issue. Why bring up your personal feelings about the coffee? Nobody in this conversation cares. Start another thread about it.

ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

MY NAME IS JOHN CRICHTON AN ASTRONAUT

39 Years Ago Today: An episode of FAME I co-wrote with Hans Beimler -- our second produced TV script! -- got a "Close Up" in TV GUIDE magazine. Not bad for a little show running near-invisibly in syndication (and a troubled script that went to "Third Blue" [i.e., multiple rewrites/revisions)... 🧵

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.

anyway I love trans people and I love this decisive, unambiguous win for the “shut the fuck up about trans people, you freaks” caucus

Don't cross a picket line.

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

Today, we are all bitch. Our job is bitch.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

I want you to think about the worst person you know and how miserable they are and use that as motivation to keep going we are going to win

If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

The worst people you know are upset and I think that’s wonderful

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

Well, my "Person of Interest" / "Farscape" crossover fanfic novel (currently at 400,000 words; I think it's going to need a little editing) where Sameen and Aeryn team up is entitled "The Shaw-Sun Redemption."

Truly. All the science fiction I have writ has been entirely 100% based and substantiated piffle.

Don't miss the alt text.

Huge thank you to the comedians, musicians, artists and writers who are just as mad and bewildered as the rest of us but are still doing their best to make life worth living for everyone.

This. Also, I will not be watching your film or TV show about how people in Hollywood are awful to each other. That is my “I gave at the office” deal for the foreseeable future.

WGA Members and Aspiring Writers: Please beware of a link circulating for a “WGA TV Career Launch ScriptFest.” This is NOT affiliated with the WGA and could be a scam. Do not give them your money.

IT'S FUNDED, YAY! But there's still time to get in on the fun! Go indulge yourself and/or gift a friend with "The Great Halloween Puzzle & Podcast" by @craigengler.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/448...

Dear Democratic Apparatchiks, I will never in a million fucking years vote for this man for President. Trans rights are human rights. Do with that what you will.

the only thing that involves more pitches without anybody winning is a screenwriting career

Lucille Ball is the reason why Star Trek made it onto the air at all, and the first Star Trek convention ever held was organized by Joan Winston, but sure, pop off on how only us menfolk are real Trekkies.

Dear Canada: American here. Trump’s a crook and a madman; there’s no percentage in dealing with him. Fucking. Bury. Us. Put export levies on your oil and cut off the electricity. Hit us while we’re down. There is no poverty that can be worse than the moral and psychological poverty of Trumpism.

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

Let them eat balls?

I want you to remember this when I inevitably refuse to support a candidate that doesn't pledge to hold ICE/DHS accountable. I'm sorry in advance for how "near-sighted" it will seem. I promise I will have thought long and hard about it.

I pray that a future president if we still have a democracy will erase every trace of Trump's existence. Raze every edifice he's built; strip his name from everything, restore the White House as if he never lived there & turn Mar-a-Lago into a Black, LGBTQ, women's, AAPI & immigrant history museum.

Bonus primary points to which ever Democrat promises to demolish whatever fucking monstrosity ballroom Trump builds

I keep seeing friends who aren't thrilled that Word is newly enshittified. At the risk of sounding like one of Those Guys, there is a magnificent, full featured, entirely free alternative called Libre Office that works on all platforms. I've used it exclusively for over a decade.

When this is over, no matter the effort and no matter the cost, we tear down Trump's ballroom and restore the White House to the way it was. And then we take a wrecking ball to Mar-a-Lago.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

As a grateful consumer, I approve as well

Withhold your vote for any Democrat unless they commit to holding the fascists accountable. "Not being a literal Nazi" is too low of a standard to hold politicians to. If we don't hold them to a higher standard, the right will continue to win in the long run. Demand change.

The voices of a thousand architectural historians just cried out in terror, and then went silent

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only. . (And I'll be astounded if anyone other than @moviessilently.bsky.social gets this one.)

uh, AI *is* the enshittification trap?

#NoKings #YesOn50

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Update: looks like a WHOLE LOT of folks had the same idea.