Britney Spears arrested, celebrities getting crazy thin, Bill Clinton testifying, & war in the middle east. If we really gonna commit to the millennial revival I'm gonna need early 2000s prices back & toss in a little Y2k panic. Maybe some 90s era triple stacks while you're at it?

Meanwhile, between power failures and hardware crap and actually trying to get some *WORK DONE,* I've had a longish day. Suspect I'll turn in soon. Want to assist a jobbing writer? Here, buy some ebooks WITHOUT paying a space-program-owning billionaire a commission. 🙂 ebooks.direct/collections/...

*eyes high school alumni* Maybe I SHOULD run for office.

So because all his other bullshit and Trump support went to ruin, this chode looking fool is putting his finger in the wind and hoping that the trans misogyny will be a cover I wish him the worst

Dolly Parton is literally the only good billionaire and proof we don't just actively hate people with money simply for having it. We hate you because you're all fucking monsters.

For those who may not remember, funding an adversary in a proxy war in Afghanistan was a big part of how the US bankrupted the Soviet Union.

My friend Piper really needs help with her medical costs. She has advanced cancer and is trying to get some quality of life as her time runs out (yep we're there) Please consider supporting: Link to her Patreon: www.patreon.com/piperjdrake Buy her books if you can, or RT this?

Pretty sure this isn't true. But Jimmy Hoffa attempted to go into hiding and was most likely killed to prevent him sitting down for an interview with Chotiner.

That's not true. But the British withdrew from India in 1947 because there was a rumour that Chotiner had requested an interview with the Queen

It is @bandcamp.com friday, ppl. @dessadarling.bsky.social @emmaruthrundle.bsky.social @thefallingdream.bsky.social @ghostcopnyc.bsky.social @unwoman.com and more all have new stuff out right now, and you should very much go check them out.

Hey fuck you Target CEO Michael Fiddelke. These ICE goons kidnapped two of your employees - one of them was a teenager! - and dumped one of them, bleeding, in the parking lot of Walmart.

Tired: Firefly. Wired: Killjoys.

Surrounded by muppets.

I know I keep saying this, but I get a perverse sense of relief when things like this happen due to the war because oh hey, reality still exists. It’s not all just content. Cause and effect are still a thing. You haven’t totally lost your fragile grip on sanity.

They've been training it on the written-down thoughts of a lot of creative, sensitive people who are looking at a lot of established global orders collapsing around them, not to mention climate disasters, etc etc. Of course it's showing symptoms of anxiety. THEY'RE OUR SYMPTOMS.

John Colicos was the first man to portray a Klingon on Star Trek. He was a veteran of the Stratford Festival. He acted in The National Dream, voiced Apocalypse on X-Men: The Animated Series and much more. This is his story. 🧵 1/9

Oh yeah. Now stock market REALLY go down the hole.

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HAH. Among the other papers Mom sent home with me from Thanksgiving were my childhood vaccine records and YES. I did get two doses of the measles vaccine. Which is good considering the size of the outbreak just south of me. 🤪😬

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Honestly? His grammar is the least of my issues with Mullin. His grammar is incorrect but whatever, it's his casual brutality and white Christian nationalism I have issue with.

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Everyone knows about Al Pacino playing Ricky Trips, right?

It's a toss-up between Much Ado and Ricky 3. Depends on what sort of mood I'm in.

The thing about the stock market is that you don't need to have Special Knowledge to get in, just a certain amount of seed money and a whole lot of patience, and it gives you much better odds than the lottery. The other thing about the stock market is that yes, it is gambling. Just... better odds.

To reiterate something I said to my boss that ruined yet another one of her Mondays, "We're going to have to reeducate the entire world on cyber security in short order as everyone seems to have forgotten everything." This is less about the package attack and more about the triage bot.

@countmystars.bsky.social this looks like a job for you (I also tagged you in the thread itself for context.)

I did not know a theremin could do this.

Today seems like a good day to express my most crotchety old-woman-living-in-a-chicken-leg-hut opinion which is that I hate the term 'backlist,' why can't we just use the term 'body of work' instead because THAT'S WHAT IT IS 'Backlist' is so DISMISSIVE of everything not the new hotness, I hate it

This is horrifying and also a typical response from the police. Cops have told this to countless women whose partners have threatened to kill them, myself included.

They're putting in the guy who thinks Ayatollah Kho/ame(i)ni is some kind of immortal power-mad zealot? That ... I don't know why I'm surprised anymore.

you wanna hear some good news

Fantasy fans will know who Charles de Lint is and want to read this. As for those who don't - well, as hint on how the story plays out, it doesn't go well for ICE in Newford. They get disappeared to the "other world". There's magic in Newford and the magic is angry these days.

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services

Well. This is terrifying. And explains a lot.

Hey Elkton, MD, and surrounding Atlantic states: Remember Monty’s tragic glow-up post-Humane Society adoption? You can have a full-of-potential handsome tripod of your VERY OWN to spoil all the way to eventual glory 👇👇👇

Ajinomoto Foods N.A. is recalling additional 33 million pounds of frozen ready-to-eat and not-ready-to-eat chicken and pork fried rice, ramen, and shumai dumpling products. Dates for TJ's chicken fried rice, vegetable fried rice, Japanese-style fried rice, and chicken shu mai in the link. #recall

T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”

China has added or rejuvenated over a million hectares of wetlands since 2012 through 3,800 restoration projects, backed by new national and provincial wetland laws. This includes 903 national wetland parks, large-scale monitoring systems, & 92 km² of new mangroves buff.ly/dlYj3D6 #ShareGoodNewsToo

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

Bumping this for the daytime crowd, as I'd like to get a heating-oil order in tomorrow if I can. 🙂

next Bandcamp Friday is March 6 so go ahead and put this on your wishlist, that's right it's a new EP of haunted sounds from me to you. Strange Objects, available now on Bandcamp and Itchio thefallingdream.bandcamp.com/album/strange-objects thefallingdream.itch.io/strange-obje...

I’ve seen it said that the conclusive proof for innate sexuality is the continued existence of heterosexual women over the age of 30.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

I was thinking about that "if you were going to run for something and wanted to seem rugged" question, thinking about what my grandparents did. Then I realized I could possibly trade nepotism points (small ones, but still) for another 5-10 years. Then I remembered who I went to high school with.

A sitting senator broke a Marine's arm. And yea.. the video is as horrific as it sounds.

Okay. I'm on my last couple shots of rabies vaccine and my last few antibiotic pills. We hauled Murdock in to the vet and his UTI that he's had for maybe a month now while we threw different antibiotics at it is gone. (And the vet said yeah, go ahead and finish the course because it's good practice-

Also, y'know, still desperately trying to cover my now overdue rent for this month. bsky.app/profile/deet...