This keeps on getting worse and worse. I am not renewing my print subscriptions to F&SF and Asimov's. (F&SF seems to still be on hiatus, the last issue I got was 1.5 years ago? Summer 2024? So crushing, I really liked it, Sheree's a truly great editor)

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

TRAINS www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/f...

If you live in Seattle, go here and track your ballot. Make sure it is counted. Because this mayoral race, which Katie Wilson now leads by 91 votes, is epically close. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Here’s how a 50-year mortgage would work

We were fighting united. Then the Senate caved.

Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.

I can feel my brain running out of my ears

what a beautiful day throwing out a whole man "AITA for divorcing my husband because he was so misogynist that he refused to parent our daughter bc it was 'girly' at times when I had to focus on our special-needs son?" slate.com/advice/2025/...

what a beautiful day for a breakup (boyfriend refuses to propose because he's grossed out that girlfriend kisses cat on cat's perfect, beautiful, adorable little nose) boyfriend does not deserve nice things including but not limited to girlfriend, cat, kisses, love slate.com/advice/2025/...

what a beautiful day for a divorce (summary for those who can't get around the paywall in next skeet) slate.com/advice/2025/...

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

They have goddamn Kirkland DOC French wine and it’s really pretty good.

you know, humanity had a good run for a while there but

I would like to thank the 11 of you who get me

Like, do they really think employees walking around with forced rictus grins is going to make a BETTER shopping experience?

Jesus fucking Christ

someone call the dropula cop on this guy

it isn't but i'm trying my fucking hardest.

why spend money on groceries if you can instead not feel hungry anymore? go to trumprx dot com to learn more

My 1974 HP calculator surpasses human intelligence in key tasks

Did Women of Valor Ruin the Workplace? I tried to buy some real estate, but by the time I considered it, she already considered it AND bought it AND planted a vineyard there by her own labors. And whenever I complain to HR, her loins are girded with strength and her arms strengthened with might.

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals. I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons. We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely! imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

I dunno the gender of this poster but I sort of hope they're male because I love the idea that we have reached the point where sea lions are treating *everyone* like women.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

We’re not even pretending that commercials are marketing products anymore, just naked corporate overlord commands

Americans: food stamps are shut down, we can’t afford the basics, we’re going to buy less this Xmas season Sephora: oh, no, you little bitches are all going to SPEND like we tell you to www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpwHkFU/

Any London based game devs out there, I think this would be an important demo to show up to if you can. The UK industry has to show Rockstar and Take Two higher ups that union busting will not be tolerated.

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

I mean yeah? I’m not surprised that even they managed to absorb some of the melting pot nation of immigrants stuff.

"my husband would rather die than wash a dish" "I do 100% of all daily cleaning/tidying tasks except for his laundry" "gets defensive and pouts if I ever bring these things up to him" "scolds me if I scoot a chair a few centimeters rather than pick it up" DIVOOOOOOOOORCE slate.com/advice/2025/...

I’ve had a lot of fun in my life telling Youths who were too young to remember it about the time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, which might be a fun treat for you too today if you know any teenagers the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell

The idea that we are somehow obligated to engage in the PVP-based social media mode out of some kind of moral principle is bullshit.

People blocking you, whether artisinally or via blocklist, are doing you the courtesy of signaling that you will not vibe well with each other and self-selecting out of the pool of people on Bluesky you will potentially have to deal with.

What a profoundly strange thing to focus on, about a very normal-looking photo in an article about a woman giving $80 million to an HBCU.

Ok, there are no good billionaires, but MacKenzie Scott might be the least-bad billionaire. Focusing on HBCUs, DEI, and disaster relief right now sends a message. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

A lot of AI discourse has this problem to it. You get a lot of people talking past each other about labor and efficiency and whether AI works or not, meanwhile some guy who works for a16z is posting on X about how they are going to enslave humanity and turn all matter in the solar system into GPUs

The problem with the “don’t the tech people realize they are talking about doing chattel slavery with AI” discourse is some of those same people, or the “philosophers” they like to cite, talk cheerily about returning to chattel slavery for human beings

If you think about all the post-COVID reductions in workplace accommodations, it seems like it would be parsimonious to assume the driving animus of wanting to replace human workers with now-deemed-sentient AI is that they want to treat it inhumanely.

Does anyone seriously think these people want AI girlfriends so they can treat them *well*?

“Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed to do that.”

twitter hiding replies from me is how my stalker was able to reply to me for months talking about raping me and cutting me into pieces without my knowledge. he was violating my protection order and i didn’t even know it. it kept him out of jail.

“Fuentes said that “your wife ultimately is subordinate to you” and intimated that no-fault divorce gets in the way of relegating women to their supposed natural lower status.” You know how every mass shooter turns out to have a history of IPV? That’s who’s running our country.

Framing consent as women controlling how sex is distributed is making me feel insane. As if sex is a commodity solely women have and provide????? Access to women's bodies isn't a fucking resource scarcity issue

1) that 44% is terrifying and also unsurprising because all these college polls have basically said that many men would happily commit SA as long as the q isn’t phrased that way 2) where is the option that goes, “*all* people who might be involved in a sexual experience must actively choose it”???

Wishing everyone exactly this Halloween vibe: Memento mori, but keep it chill (the Greek ευφρόσυνος means something like "cheerful, merry").

Honestly, if you’re willing to leave your child alone with a pastor, you’re a negligent parent And if you’re a pastor who’s willing to be alone with a single child (who’s not your kid) your church should immediately fire you abc30.com/amp/post/coa...

Wishing a good Shabbos to Ephraim Stone, who laid the bait today to identify a whole mess of accounts that needed blocking, and to everyone else.

🧵This is an area where it pays to be precise. It's technically true that "Once a Jew, always a Jew." But a Jew who converts to Christianity (including "Messianic Judaism") is considered an apostate. And apostates are excluded from the Jewish community.