I haven't finished it yet (so I can't verify if it sticks the landing) but I'm six episodes into Wayward on Netflix and so far it's a really engaging, interesting spooky thriller about a boarding school for troubled kids that's CLEARLY EVIL Good October vibes with some really excellent young actors

The DOE has refused to release a list of cancelled awards, but I obtained a copy and dove into the numbers. Here's what they revealed. techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/l...

it's wild that we just let a bunch of billionaire assholes release this technology into the wild without any safeguards or even vague attempts at regulation seems bad

It is 2002, my high school has lost its mind post-9/11 and the fact that I don't have an American flag patch on my backpack means I support The Terrorists The top 40 radio station plays I'm Proud to be An American every morning at 7am Randy B is beating up kids he thinks are gay down the hall

Has anyone ever seriously questioned him about this and gotten a response? Like, has someone managed to Choitner him by going "hey do you regret that wildly off base tweet" or does he just get to pretend it never happened?

The prequels (just barely, sorta, maybe, kinda) work because George Lucas was working *towards* something: the fall of Anakin, the birth of the twins, the end of his friendship with Obi-Wan. The sequels, in addition to a lack of a coherent story, have no end goal or overarching vision.

hey! that's my book!

that is a BIG baby (I don't think my kids hit 13lbs until about 3 months)

Bree covers most of what I was going to say in this thread (thank you for that, Bree) but to expand on this, what people are reacting negatively to is not the presence of sex in tv/movies, but rather the fact that a lot of it is just there to signify "this is for adults" and does zero character work

Should be a bigger deal how many of these people are in a cult.

I do think it’s conspicuous that no real public conversation has emerged over the reality that the rise of AI means that women and girls no longer have a choice about whether their image is made into porn; that this is now a cost of entry for their participation in public life.

Shana Tova to all my Jewish beloveds I see you and I cherish you and I am grateful you exist here in this world, and I am holding you in my heart with so many blessings and good wishes for a sweet new year

I cannot stop reading Tana French, so now I'm on The Witch Elm (also just finished History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook, which I highly recommend for all my mystery/romance moots)

Nael, age 6 must be at least a teenager by now, and possibly a little older? I hope wherever he is, he knows he's famous

say what you will about Elon Musk, but the man is bravely experimenting with how embarrassing one human being can be before the combined weight of the world's collective cringe crushes him

Anyway Me Too was a women’s free speech movement.

It’s true that freedom of speech has long by been content-dependent. You can’t shout “fire” in a crowded theater, etc, but also some political speech—specifically sexual misconduct allegations and pro-Palestine advocacy—has long been much more likely to get you fired, ostracized, punished, or sued.

W-w-wel-welcome to the re-- [deep breath, tries again] Welcome to the resista-- [clears throat, shakes head] Welcome to the resistance, K-- [my past self from 2004 hits me with a flying tackle]

Her name was Melissa Hortman. She and her husband Mark were shot and killed in their home in an act of vicious political violence. She was Minnesota’s Speaker of the House Emerita. They were dog lovers. Amateur bakers. Great parents. Best friends. You should know their names.

I am hardly the first person to point this out, but: what is the point of life if you're going to spend ~1/3 of your waking hours with trying to live longer??? You could be doing LITERALLY anything else and it would be a better use of your time

I want to be clear about what I'm saying here. I'm not denying the danger. I'm not denying the threat. I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration. They don't have the power to work on that scale. Tho they want us to believe they do

PSA to parents and caregivers of kids who will be Trick or Treating: we ordered costumes online and most stuff isn’t coming for two weeks, and some stuff isn’t scheduled to arrive until mid October (even with ‘zon Prime) so this is not the year to procrastinate 😬 (Also it’s all STUPID expensive)

Kind of makes it seem like they think this guy is a conservative.

Before leaving the stage, the FBI Director then sprayed his teeth with silver paint and asked the assembled reporters to "witness" him and informed them that he would "die victorious on the Fury Road."

I want to CRY (with happiness) when I think about this, even though we do not live in New Mexico and are out of that stage of life

My crabbiest opinion is that if you buy a giant pickup truck that does not fit in a parking slot, you should not be allowed to use parking ramps at best there should be Exile Parking in the farthest reaches of the ramp where no one but other pickups should have to navigate past

I tend to have fonder feelings for the Clintons than most millennials and I would not hesitate to drive that bus straight over him

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Everything else aside: while pregnant, you are basically told taking any meds could theoretically, maybe, possibly hurt the fetus. It's incredibly tough, like when you're 8 mo pregnant and get a terrible cold but can't take any OTC meds. And...are pregnant people taking tylenol that frequently???

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

the wake up dead man announcement is not the dead man news i was hoping for but i will take it as a stop gap

Alyssa Cole is on my forever-autobuy list, she’s got the range!

[shows up ten minutes late with Starbucks] I understand why thematically Takedown wasn’t going to be the right song to defeat the Saja Boys but you gotta admit it’s a fucking banger

went looking for Kpop Demon Hunters halloween costumes on the 'zon (the Heir wants to be Rumi) and e v e r y t h i n g has a $10 shipping fee tacked on

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

it's really sad how cathartic it is to see an elected official be actually mad, out loud we need so much more of this

As I sit here and wonder if the siren I heard was taking *kids who've been shot* to the hospital, I need Dems to start running on a "no guns at all for anyone" platform. I don't care what it takes, we can't live like this anymore (I live several miles away, it may be other emergencies I heard)

It's literally a crime to encourage a vulnerable person to commit suicide. You can't put a search engine in jail, but after reading that story I'd be OK with putting Sam Altman in one. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

The idea that you should be able to rake in money experimenting on everybody’s teenagers, vulnerable friends, struggling siblings, lonely parents and every other lost soul in the world simply by arguing for your own inevitability and potential is abhorrent to me.

is there a worse mechanical sound than a gas powered leaf blower I honestly don't think there is

When people on home renovation shows claim they want butcher block counters because “they want to see the scratches and marks to show it’s lived in” I feel like I must be a totally different species because I cannot think of anything more stressful????

To whoever screamed “LOOK! IT’S SENATOR WHAT’S HER FACE!” at the State Fair, I hope you have an incredible day 😂

kids, i think i'm going to do it again! if you have any romance news you wanna share (giveaways, ARCs, discourse, etc.) shoot me a DM to be included in my next newsletter.

Bring back mean, angry, judgmental feminism because this has gotten out of hand.

LRT: the hostility of male-dominated humanities fields (like International Relations, Diplomatic History, etc) to anything like gender studies has seriously impoverished our understanding of the world

trump's fundamental view of international relations is that of a rapist, but the field is extremely hostile to leader psychology and also to gender studies and so has been largely incapable of dealing with him in any realistic way.