This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

Reflect on the eve of now by reading this incredible article by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social "But at least it was my strange run. Living in a semi-authoritarian state means you’re always outrunning something, so you might as well blaze your own trail."

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

i don’t actually have it on hand but i’ve been searching for it for years to no avail. If anyone has the post of that person who dreamt during the 2016 presidential election that a magazine came out called ‘SHIT YOURSELF?’ with a nude hillary clinton on the cover.. PLEASE give it to me i need it

"The use of seat belts during car accidents has been linked to countless debilitating conditions in children, such as friction burns and mild bruising around the neck and shoulders."

I love this so much I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

Take only pictures Leave only footprints

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

SEX SADDLE REVIEW! I've got my VVD Rider Desire review up on the blog today. You KNOW Bluesky is going to drop a content warning on this bad boy, as well they should, because ...it's a sex saddle. eliawinters.com/vvd-rider-de...

Time for my favorite back-to-school game: am I sick or just exhausted?

i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

When trying to find the place where the cat horked up a hairball, just ask yourself, What's the hardest thing in this room to clean?

it's fridayy

If the weather doesn't have you hot enough, THREE-WAY SPLIT is there for you! Just 99c right now. --She owns a sex toy store, they own a brewery --New England small town --No one expected FEELINGS --Paired and triad scenes --Yes the swords cross --Surprisingly cozy high heat a.co/d/fFHKgbT

If the weather doesn't have you hot enough, THREE-WAY SPLIT is there for you! Just 99c right now. --She owns a sex toy store, they own a brewery --New England small town --No one expected FEELINGS --Paired and triad scenes --Yes the swords cross --Surprisingly cozy high heat a.co/d/fFHKgbT

This is again a reminder that college isn’t supposed to just teach you a job but is supposed to teach you how to think, because that job you’re training for might not exist when you graduate

I'm on the blog today reviewing something pretty unique. eliawinters.com/vvd-vkini-re...

If you're looking for some high heat polyamory to read to distract you from *gestures outside,* THREE-WAY SPLIT is only 99c this week! This book holds a special place in my heart for many reasons, and I hope you love it, too. a.co/d/e8LurCE

I’m like a bird in the sense that I will scream at you if I want to fuck

Hi folks! This Saturday, I'm part of an author panel about sex toys in romance novels. It's part of #BookstoreRomanceDay and it should be awesome. If you're free and interested, I hope you attend! www.eventbrite.com/e/toy-story-...

I refuse to use AI because I am not stupid. I know how to read, write, and think for myself. I know that tech for profit is exploitation, and that the main purpose of AI is to increase corporate profits while reducing the workforce and making the populace easier to track and manipulate.

Michaels Design Team Lead: "We want a Halloween bird. In a costume. A mummy or something." Designer: *sweating* "Okay." Lead: "You've seen birds before, right?" Designer: *sweating more* "Of--of course."

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

There is a whole event on Saturday talking about sex toys in Romance novels with @eliawinters.bsky.social & @msthienkim.bsky.social with moderator Kathy Burnette of Brain Lair Books. The panel was born out of a convo between Elia, Kathy, & me before last year's Road Trip panel.

Even if you don't purchase smut, it should be common sense that the right for anyone else to obtain it shouldn't be completely up to modern day crusaders and credit card payment processors.

New toy review up on the blog today! eliawinters.com/funzze-vibra...

Opening an app and immediately forgetting what you wanted to do is the modern equivalent of walking into a room and forgetting why you're there.

80s kids movies understood, and accepted, that children were more emotionally complex and capable of handling heavy subjects than we give them credit for, and a lot of media being sanitized after actually condescends to that truth.

The success of Sinners tells me the theatrical experience isn't dying. People just want good fucking movies. The success of Superman tells me it isn't superhero fatigue. People just want good fucking movies.

dress for the job you want

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive. We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

When the humidity is high, the bathroom door sticks if it's shut all the way. So we only barely shut it. The cat has learned this, and she likes to slam the door open and visit while I am trapped on the toilet.

Let there be ART!

Everybody focuses on Prometheus's unending torment but nobody talks about how great it must have been to be that eagle with a fresh meal served up every day.

“you come up with a mean nickname to call this guy on TV?” “sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked”

I want top sheets back. I'm staying at a hotel with my mom right now and our "compromise" temperature has her sleeping in all her layers and me baking like a potato. I DO NOT WANT A DUVET ON ME RIGHT NOW.

Sorry when I sent a draft for "feedback" I meant "praise." Should have been more clear.

happy pride month!

After regaling chat with the harrowing tales of me not having any hot water or gas for a week, we are now trying to figure out how to make a profit in Stardew once again...

TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Imagine for yourself a world where the government felt disabled people deserved to be educated for no reason other than it would nurture their spirit and enrich their lives. The program was far from perfect but reading about it now makes my heart full.