My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤

I feel it is important that we honor British film pioneer George Albert Smith. Yes, he helped pioneer editing, closeups, science fiction films, etc. but I think we can all agree that his greatest contribution was as an early trailblazer in the Cat Video genre.

Some have suggested not doing anything, while others push to do nothing. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

i'm trying not to constantly post about it but all the shit about epstein is boiling my head cos it's not actually news. the media has completely failed in their role to make it clear the news here is the authorities were fully aware of both epstein and his network.

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Biden (conservative, white supremacist freak) and Starmer/Trudeau/Carmney are such horrible leaders of the supposedly left-center parties in the anglophone world 💔💔

I knew the Reiner family tragedy would lead people to say some fucked up things about people living with addiction, but it's still hard to see that stuff. If you've lived with an addiction or loved someone who does or has, you know cruel generalizations don't help anyone or anything.

I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting. I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.

Finally got my hands on this bad boy. I enjoy Chaw’s reviews, so I’m looking forward to this monograph ❤️ @mangiotto.bsky.social

“Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?” @graceblakeley.substack.com

At a minimum, a Democratic President and Congress, when re-creating these indpendent agencies that Trump is gutting, or repairing other damage he's done - all with the consent/concurrence of the SCOTUS majority, must write the legislation to include sections removing SCOTUS appellate jurisdiction.

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

Halle Berry telling gavin newsom to his face that he's a misogynist piece of shit is extremely satisfying.

(2/2) Noah Feldman and Neal Katyal will lose their shit. Ezra will say Roberts et al are doing justicing the right way. The Atlantic will do a special issue opposing it. But letting effete centrists gate-keepers control left-liberal discourse is why we are in such bad shape to begin with.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

The Supreme Court of the United States is an illegitimate body, and every Democrat should run on negating and replacing it

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"

For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

this is just gutter racism

Alito and others think the offense is in pointing out the government is lying, rather than the government lying bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Trump was ok with Mamdani calling him a fascist while next to him in the Oval Office not because trump is a good sport ever but because he believes everyone else is as empty and cynical as he is, and that Mamdani just says those things for the base and couldn’t possibly mean it even tho Zohran does

This varies by person and I may change my mind from day to day but how I divide eras of American film: Lascaux Cave-1895= Pre-Cinema 1895-1904-ish= Early Film 1904/1905-1912/1913= Nickelodeon Era 1912-1919= Early Feature Era 1920-1927= Studio Feature Era 1927-Present= Talkies

If he weren’t much weaker than many people act he would be giving orders instead of whining on truth social. bsky.app/profile/pale...

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There's A LOT in this dissent, but this is the worst part imo. As a matter of law, after Rucho effectively legalized partisan gerrymandering in 2019, Smith is correct here. But that's the real outrage: That a judge can rightly say, "Look, they wanna rig the system, and we need to let them."

keep thinking about how some estimates have the War On Terror killing 5 million people. Five million All that, plus all the US monetary / political tolls / destabilization at home & abroad — All so the american empire could collapse as the Celebrity Apprentice host tells the Syrian leader he’s Hot

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

I remember watching this at my grandma's house. I was 16 years old and I LOVED David Letterman. When he kissed Julia Roberts, I had such an overwhelming, visceral pang of jealousy that I ran to the bathroom to cry.

Look, it's great to buy locally or from small businesses if you can, but also, Amazon makes the bulk of its money from Amazon Web Services, & I doubt any of you finger waggers are boycotting that. If you don't know someone's life, & if you haven't been asked, mind your business.

“my political principals say we shouldn’t help people from starving to death” oh that’s cool hey can you come into this dark alley with me real quick

FOX: So you would ask Speaker Johnson to recall the House? GOP REP. KEVIN KILEY: Not only would I, I've asked him to do it repeatedly. There's no justification. And honestly, it's Republican voters who should be most upset about this when they delivered a GOP majority and now that's being wasted

I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess

What a queen

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

For @unclegrambo.bsky.social and @deciderdotcom.bsky.social, I drop the Top 25 horror films of the 2000s just in time for Halloween. decider.com/2025/10/31/t...

I see this little argument about Wonder Woman being brunette… Reminder! Wonder Woman is within all of us, and sometimes, she has blonde hair like Sabrina Carpenter! 💫

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.