Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

Hanger wasn't happy that those ICE commercials were airing during Dynamite like the rest of us. That's our Men's World Champ.

if you’ve ever even quietly thought “i would just move,” now’s your chance to pony up and make that possible for not just someone but three someones.

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4... Jane Goodall has passed. She was an incredibly important figure for wildlife conservation, and especially in understanding the great apes and advocated for great ape personhood. Tai'shar!

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Appreciate Aaron calling this out, and it's why I've been hammering this home at every event I’ve been speaking at. We need to be prepared for when Trump tries to break our democracy permanently.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I hate hate HATE that my favorite football team is co-owned by the Wal-Mart heirs & a war criminal

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

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I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

California! Set a reminder in your phone to call the gov’s office to tell Newsom to sign these five bills. The guy’s mercenary as hell so if he thinks the wind is shifting in favor of trans rights (it never shifted! Trans rights are human rights!) we could flip him. Info below. Call: 916.445.2841

OK fantasy book mutuals, I have a question: Is Alchemised by SenLinYu worth picking up? #BookSky

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Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it. This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops.

Subtly downgrade a band Utensil Coheed OR Cambria (you have to pick one or the other, in this economy) Secondus Backdoor Boys Slapping Pumpkins Deaftones Soundplanter Alice In Velcro Frustration Against the Machine

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY ROLL THE CLIP

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Jimmy Kibble Is that a thing or

It is vital for everyone to look at this thread

Kimmel’s writing staff doesn’t seem cowed by the events of the past week. @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

i have to keep hyping this, it is release week 😭 ty for letting me fill up your skyline ❤️

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

Whoa oh, black Betty

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

All politics are identity politics. If you don't think your identity influences your politics, you identify with the majority...which is an identity. "Yeah i'm a man but that's not what shapes my politics" is either a lie or a misunderstanding of what "shapes my politics" means.

loling at the idea of the rapture people quietly cleaning up the notes they wrote for the people left behind and putting them in the recycle bin

Reminder: THE INTERNET IS A PALANTIR. DO NOT BE DENETHOR.

What the fuck is a Chotiner

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

Two great pieces today on the Kirk madness. The first by the always brilliant @michaelharriot.bsky.social

How are people getting an antifa label on their posts what is this, twitter?

I haven't watched Kimmel in like 20 years or something but I'm watching him tonight

George Herriman is arguably one of the first major black artists in comics. And the only reason for that is because NO ONE KNEW HE WAS BLACK. He was light skinned enough to be white passing & hid that fact into old age so that he WOULD be able to continue drawing largely due to rampant racism.

Weather in Austin: First day of Autumn? PSYCH ITS TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT FOR YOU FUCKERS SUCK IT THIS IS BASICALLY AUGUST HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES PUNK ASS

Anyways...

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Zen koan: If you open ten blind bag comic book issues, and they’re all A covers, did Batman’s parents even die

I think maybe the thing that bugs me the most about the very concept of religion is: billions of people are worried about having a good next life & not working to have a good life with the one that they already have

Well, yes, that’s what authoritarians pretty much always do - declare an Outsider to focus the forces of the State upon. It’s up to everyone who considers themselves “normal” to recognize that *they’re* also eventually on that list, and we’ll save a lot of lives if we fight now rather than later.

#Malazan Jaghut? More like Jagoff, amirite? This Imass knows what I'm talking about