My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

When you are a new creator, whether in prose, comics, or other media, it can be very tempting to agree to every convention or other event that you're asked to do. Exposure is great, right? And it's wonderful to be wanted.

It's very simple. The next film should be about four Bonds: a cyborg one, a bloke in a suit of armour with a big hammer, a teenage one who's cloned from the DNA of Bond and Blofeld, and a fascist one that's secretly an artifact from Bond's homeworld. Then the real one should come back with a mullet.

As of right now, icons are $10.00 off over on my vgen! Get yourself some personalized tokens for you virtual games, today! #vgen #commission #vgencommission vgen.co/sonybaloneyart

Every time this happens to one of us we all lose. They tighten the noose with every layer of censorship, with every action they take on someone. It never loosens before reaching the next person and we need everyone, *everyone*, to fight back with us or it never will. Censorship will choke us all.

One of the reasons this administration seems shocking in its stupidity as well as its cruelty is that most people’s conception of evil comes from stories that are written with ordinary decent people in mind as their audience. 1/

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

More regional variants in Laken! (Reupload ft. updated design for Breloom!) Part of my Great Lakes fakemon pokedex project!

I love to get this question, honestly. Because my response is "I have never once caught covid." Nobody has yet tried to argue with me about masks after that line! It typically results in an awkward "...oh." and a rapid change of subject or disengagement~

Hey, uh, Target? Who is this for? Because lemme tell you, requiring your employees to try and engage me in conversation if I pass near them is going to make me shop somewhere else. Don't make your staff try and waste customers' time like this. Yeesh.

"my taxes shouldn't be used to feed other people" keeping everyone's sorry asses alive is literally WHAT CIVILIZATION IS FOR 😭 its the *entire* point

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all. Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.

weathers changing. more time for gaming

virtue signalling is good actually

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

I mean, Ian and Ina kinda already got Neverwas'd by reality themselves. They wouldn't do that to someone else, they know how much it sucks!

i think it's good actually that a videogame prominently featuring AI voice acting is finding success while my VA friends haven't found steady work in years and have their rates forcibly ground into dust over the few reliable gigs left but hey the game is really fun right!!!!!!!

So I'm gonna be honest. I'm in a bit of trouble. I asked my family for help and turns out, we're in a really tight spot. As I have state, I am DESPERATELY looking for work. [email protected] sonybaloneyart.com vgen.co/sonybaloneyart

"That's so evil I don't believe you're telling me the truth" is such a specific problem with our electorate.

If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.

For every $1 in benefits fraud, agencies spend $3.72 trying to detect it, based on the unproven assumption that means-testing lowers the rate of fraud. But there's evidence to indicate that trusting people to self-report what they need would be cheaper overall, even factoring in fraud/abuse.

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Unless you're able and willing to do something to actually *help* a person in situations like these? And I do mean genuinely help, not "call the authorities and delude yourself into thinking the cops will improve that person's life", then practice the mantra of That's Not My Business.

In addition to L.A. food banks, pantries, community fridges, and other food donation programs, we see free Cambodian chicken rice porridge, kids goodie bags, and a program that allows you to buy a meal for someone at a growing chain. The full story: lataco.com/free-food-la... By Hadley Tomicki

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

Become “profoundly irritating” Pick up the phone. Let MasterCard know you’re a thorn in their side stop-paypros.neocities.org

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

I'm already sick and tired of that stupid as fuck Twitter voice to text bot, the moment I hear or see gen ai in someone's project it's dead to me Folks truly aren't getting that gen ai is the stain of absolute lack of faith in your own work. It screams low quality and scam off rip

I did not realize that the fabled Teen Vogue politics section was one person.

Bernadette: Hard cider Kayla: Iced coffee, lightly sweetened, no cream May: iced herbal tea. Mint in the hot months and ginger in the cold months. Dice: various fruit juice mixes, they're always up to try that kind of sweet drink Mary: grape juice in a wine glass. 🤭

I believe the people going “we have to overlook Platner’s Nazi tattoo because he’s still better than Mills” need to think real long and hard about what happened with people like Fetterman and Sinema.

Had a thought about the relationship between fanfic and other forms of fiction But not really, it’s just kinda a launching point Fundamentally, fanfic is most often someone playing with writing. And I mean play in the academic sense; using skills and rules in a risk-free context to develop them

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

in case you were unaware of why “guys who claim to be into evolutionary biology and have the age of consent in every country memorized” have been getting a lot of exposure over the last twenty years

I have a zero tolerance policy for Nazis! Sorry! If for some goddamn reason you had a "Nazi phase" and want to have anything to do with this particular trans Jew, I'm sorry, but you have to prove that you've done massive personal and communal work to rip out that wiring That's just how it is

Basically, I'm 100% against Nazis, Nazism, Nazi symbols, and the ideas of Adolf Hitler And I'm old enough to remember when that stance was so widespread in American politics and culture that it was considered boring to even say

I am going to put a series of pictures together about Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, posting them each once a day! Today's topic: Why should you play FFT:TIC?

Legitimately, kinkshaming. I see so many queer people weaponizing their disgust response against other queer people to signal they're One Of The Good Ones™. It's just untermensch all the way down. If you've got some sly shit to say about furries, I don't trust you.

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

That is hot ice

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

My fellow Democrats, he sucks.

tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude

You know there's something a bit...off...about that flag. Can't quite put my finger on it...🤔

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.