If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

free idea: an astrology column called "the schmaltz in our stars," you're welcome

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)

Molly Shah directed Waterworld.

no apologies for my choices / nessuna scusa per le mie scelte

“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.” – Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

i love getting to write a strongly worded letter, but I like opening my door to not find my doormat not covered in an actual pile of feces EVEN MORE so hard to please me, it is

you're a right thinking person. do it. totally worth it. no regrets.

This Is Just To Say They have elected the pope who does not like MAGA and who Vance was probably hoping they would not Not sorry, he is Augustinian part Black and so woke

Cubs win! Cubs win!

SCHISM JOKE IS BEST JOKE

my dog is waiting on pins and needles I assume a swiss guard will be at the door any minute now

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a note for the cardinal electors, his name is pasticciotto, he is located in rome a scant 3km from the vatican, and there is no rule saying a dog can't be pope

made an explainer for those unfamiliar with smoke-based conclave communication methods

BOOP IT OR LOSE IT

Prepariamoci.

il mondo di oggi, troppo spesso #arte #disegni #italia #roma

good job, crabs

I don't know much about the papacy. But that's funny.

made an explainer for those unfamiliar with smoke-based conclave communication methods

I looked into the media hysteria around a trans woman allegedly competing in the Boston Marathon yesterday. What I found was that every single anti-trans headline about the issue could be traced to a single person. It's 2025 & media literacy is dead.

this is pandering directly to me and I am, as the kids once said, here for it lithub.com/what-if-the-...

“That should be free.” “Why?” “Because I want it, but not enough to pay for it.” That attitude is sort of amazing to me.

post an iconic blonde

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

jesus would move to ghost or beehiiv or buttondown

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

free slogans for whoever's making the tshirts for people trying to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped: Ice ICE, baby. I'll take my ICE crushed. Let's break the ICE.

that nail-biting moment when the fascist leader of your country meets with the fascist leader of your other country f-, could do without, would prefer not to do business with again

@mostlymartha.bsky.social what a tragedy to live on opposite sides of the world, we would totally be friends

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fyi, words mean things and "crew" does not mean "passenger"

Trans women are women, trans people are people, neither of those things pose any threat to me as a cis woman or anyone else on this planet for that matter.

Trans friends, no amount of legal shell games and weaponized bigotry will make you anything less than perfect beings exactly as you are and wish to be.

Boo-urns. Se sei vecchia quanto me, capirai.

friday to-dos: clean bathroom, fold laundry, find perfect hiding spot for my retirement eggs

broke the record and then kept going, passionately and coherently we call that the NJ flex

this is just to say that i make art which may or may not amuse you (se parli italiano, in particolare l'italiano di roma. se non lo parli non avrà molto senso). schizzibizzi.com

i know this feeling. did you used to pay to subscribe to pipe wrench? you should give some of that money to @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social.

We are knee deep in fascism and people are, in March (damn near April) 2025, starting substacks to… resist fascism?? You can’t do it. IT CANNOT BE DONE. You can’t resist fascism when you pay 10% of your revenue to the Nazi bar which then literally pays revenue to Nazis. You’re buying Nazis drinks.

never not here for news about giant stuck boats www.bbc.com/news/article...

could not be happier to give my moneys to @marisakabas.bsky.social and @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social if you love independent media, real journalism, and feminism and have some moneys, you should consider doing the same

Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇 I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.

fixed it

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

counterpoint! it's david tennant.

tutta l'italia tranne le donne