It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all

Jerry is the best. This is lovely. They did such an excellent job filling out his character as the seasons progressed. Jerry really fucking ruled and was a real ass kind and insightful guy and it never felt out of place that he was married to Christie Brinkley

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

Yeah I've started blocking accounts that I see posting generative AI videos. I've seen four or five different accounts that post videos of people yelling at ICE with a caption like "THIS is the way ICE should be treated!" instead of any actual details on where the video was taken. They're all fake

i am levitating

Thirty years ago today, the scientist Clair Patterson passed away. He campaigned tirelessly and effectively to remove lead from gasoline, paint, pipes, and food cans. The drop in violent crime that correlates with this change? Massive. Science hero. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_P...

Gonna finish decorating my Christmas tree while watching Mortal Kombat 😭 what great actor; what a loss.

It has never been a secret that I love Mortal Kombat, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's influence on Shang Tsung is what *made* him into the way the villain was represented for decades. His work was always amazing in what he did, but he will always be my first (and my favorite) Shang Tsung.

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

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Over on Whatever, it's Day Three of the 2025 December Comfort Watches, and today I'm looking at The Untouchables, and how, for one film, Brian De Palma got out of his own way (at least for me): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/03/t...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

I have been thinking a lot about hie we are simultaneously told that the guys behind AI tech are the most brilliant ones to walk the earth — and yet they require the creative output of the rest of humanity to make their product go, and they resort to stealing it, to boot.

A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed. It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it. ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.

an actual lefty candidate managed a 13 point shift left from 2024 on midterm-level turnout in fucking Tennessee we are going to win

Y'all, polls show the TN race is a DEAD HEAT. A few votes per precinct may decide the outcome. EVERY VOTE COUNTS. EVERY CALL COUNTS. please sign on and make some calls now if you can! Shifts today (training at 4p and 6p CST) at: www.mobilize.us/grassrootsde...

as much as I hate the incessant newsletters to Buy Buy Buy, giving Tuesday makes me wish I could just max out the budgets for a lot of people doing amazing work. I don't know how billionaires exist.

A friend of mine got me a tea advent calendar this year and I am excited to spend the next 24 days trying New Tea First up is Manuka Honey Chamomile Herbal Tea.

The campaign to fund Monsterotica has 25 hours left! We've hit our funding goal, and we're $1300 from our first stretch goal - which will get many backers an extra art print, and get all our authors a raise doubling their earnings. I'd love help spreading the word!!

what do you MEAN I'm supposed to do work now, isn't everyone off until the new year

ANNOUNCING...THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2025 POLL!! Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!

Your Moment of Food Safety™: 4 days is the maximum length perishable leftovers should be stored in the refrigerator. Time to clean out those Tupperware containers and/or old margarine tubs full of Thanksgiving whatnots.

Do you live in Tennessee, Georgia or New Jersey? There might be an election for YOU on Tuesday! Or you might know someone who has an election on Tuesday!

Potential broad-spectrum antiviral. Shows efficacy against some of the worst shit. Utterly amazing news.

okay OU game is over, I have consumed dinner, now I need to drag myself off the couch and fold my laundry but consider

The first half Saturday was about as ugly as a football game could get. OU’s defense limited LSU sophomore quarterback Michael Van Buren Jr. to seven yards on 4-for-10 passing in the first half. The Sooners and Tigers were tied 3-3 at intermission.

this OU/LSU game is going to give me a damn coronary. OU's up by 4 with 1:18 to go and LSU has the ball

This is why non-romance people need to read more romance, honestly: will-they-won’t-they is fine but it is not the same narrative as “they did and then they did again and then they keep going but eventually someone’s gonna find out and then they’re REALLY fucked.”

Daily thought about writing novels I’m glad I figured out that I actually make the book great when I revise it. My 1st draft is ideally a joyful race to the end, and to do that, I have to trust myself. But great ideas happen after that too! And they can’t happen until after the 1st draft is done.

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Happy Small Business Saturday! Duck Prints Press is a small business! Come get some queer books and merch at a big discount!

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This is why I pay for the World Wide Web. Because it delivers ART!

Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg #ShareGoodNewsToo

This Duke/Arkansas game has got me stressed ouuuuuuut

If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers

It's not even Thanksgiving and I've already lost Whamaggedon 😭😭

i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills

If you see this post an anime you love

Making these this morning, and posting the recipe again because every time I do, people love it. They really are so good, and your kitchen will smell glorious. Gift link: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...

Local Cat Sits Directly Behind Woman's Feet While She Does Something At Sink; Is Shocked, SHOCKED To End Up Lightly Stepped On!

they should really give everyone the whole week of thanksgiving off, it’s not like any work gets done mon-wed with half of every office out anyway

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Between Thursday and next Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

I do this all the damn time, especially when I am tired; edits on the last short story i turned in were 25% combining scenes and 75% fixing all the damn tense screw ups

I did think that was going to be the case, yeah (Not that I trust companies but this isn't my first rodeo on people misinterpreting conditions of service providing)