This is correct, and part of why Senator Kelly needs to fight it, in courts of law and courts of public opinion alike--not just for himself, but so other vets aren't intimidated out of speaking up

I was telling someone else this morning that this is increasingly inching to say, how Xi disappears his military generals. It's moving the Overton window in a way that we should all extremely uncomfortable about, and not assume things will get back to normal, because weak.

As we step foot into an uncertain new year we're announcing the newest BattleTech community initiative organized by the Star League discord server: a brand new fan anthology of short fiction & art by the community, for the community - OUTREACH!

Dear Hockey Gods, I'll take loss three if Gabe is okay. Deal?

My new website is up! It's good! Go check it out at vbmykal.com and maybe give my painting account a follow over at @vbmykal.com !

Looking a LOT like the 2022 team pulling off these comeback wins.... #GoAvsGo

Nonononono #GoAvsGo

How do you DO? #GoAvsGo

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.

A reminder to keep working for a better world. You are not beholden to the actions of evil people.

Me realizing the Hockey Hall of Fame is really close to the train station for my trip in February.

TW: Domestic Abuse Apparently, Tennessee has a new domestic abuse registry, and cis men are freaking the fuck out. As a person who has front row seats to my mother's domestic abuse? Let me tell you? This needs to be a thing in all 50 states. Make abusers terrified.

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

it is always so much fucking dumber than you could possibly expect, even when taking into account the fact that it’s always so much fucking dumber than you could possibly expect

Can we talk about the throwing arms on Merry and Pippen? Like MLB level pitching skills to take down Uruk hai like that with rocks.

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Happy This Is The Year AI Collapses, y’all!

Everyone always quotes the gorgeous "there's a crack in everything/that's how the light gets in" but my favorite lyric in that song is I can run no more with that lawless crowd While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud But I've summoned up a thundercloud They're gonna hear from me

It's VEE-olah of course. 😁

Good morning. The Colorado Avalanche are 30-2-7 #GoAvsGo

Happy New Year #SFFChat! I'm KB Wagers, author of queer space operas the Hail Bristol trilogies and the #NeoG Adventures. Last year I wrote four short stories for my Patreon crew which was a whole new project for me. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again in 2026.

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

YOU CANNOT KILL ME IN ANY WAY THAT MATTERS

Artists: May your best way of being honest with yourself reflect in your work. May there be a huge jump in your sales, propelling you into the new year like a rocket. May your every creative self-challenge increase our supply of cool. May you rock/jam/fire shit up accordingly. Peace & be well.

To my immigrant friends, Queer comrades & Neurodivergent folks; We will win. 2026 will continue the theme of struggle, loss & oppression AND we will persist in our insistence for radical change & compassion As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Wedgewood on Blackwood: "He tells me he loves me and I love him back." YES. *punches air* More platonic expressions of love among grown men, please and thank you. 😭 #GoAvsGo www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7a-...

I apologize for NOTHING

Update: I emailed the opt-out address listed on their website and got a reply. But, I never. Should. Have. Had. To. Opt. Out. I’m so tired of these tech companies & their entitlement. DoorDash putting small restaurants on their apps w/o permission, AI scraping our sites, & now this? It’s exhausting

"The USPS posted a $9 billion loss" is an interesting way to phrase "The USPS cost each american $25.94 last year."

I don't know why (the why doesn't really matter) but I think these two series are the best books I've listened to in ages. On a whim I started the Indranan Wars series by @kbwagers.com and I just finished The Farian Wars. The arc of the storyline and the writing, resonates. So Good (Go read them)

MTG is an evil Nazi. They are all evil Nazis. She would gladly send you to a camp. They all would. That's the end game. You can add sugar to dog shit all you want but don't waste your time telling me to try it. Fuck off. My grandfather killed Nazis in WWII. Some of us read history books.

Who do I know near Oakland who needs beautiful voids? [alt text: repost contains two photos of black cats, one staring up at camera with big yellow eyes, the other rolling on a blue rug, green eyes blurry from motion]

We LOVE a Chu Chu hug

Val goalie hugs are the best hugs. #GoAvsGo

Oh, you think you can beat us? That's cute. 🤣 #GoAvsGo

Perry is such a little piece of shit. #GoAvsGo

TBR 2025 Wrap Up: 115 books on the shelves. 41 (might finish 42, we'll see) read 12 DNF'd Favorite Book: Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

It takes a lot to not be a nobody in the book field, even people with published works. Nobody is going up to the pagan queers at book conferences and saying "oooooh you're a pagan queer? you're the next big thing!"

They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +

Anytime someone uses the argument "we have to use X to stay competitive" I know they're just talking about money and I stop giving a shit. Because it's not really about competition, it's about more money for rich people.

No, we don't have to accept hallucinatory, ecosidic creative stealing LLMs. The genie not only can be put back in the bottle, we need to do so. Accepting this as the state of affairs that we have to accept and going forward is an enormous mistake. www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

pretty sure this approach is the only reason i ended up doing reasonably well on this godforsaken site and in this godforsaken career

A shoot out win? In this economy? 💀 #GoAvsGo

I'm not sure my heart can take this game. #GoAvsGo

Re-upping this in case someone needs to hear it going into the weekend and New Years. You aren’t alone— this is the hardest time of the year for so many people, and there’s *nothing* wrong with you if you’re one of them.

Important Denver sport facts: RJ Harvey and Gavin Brindley are both 5'8"

The exec that said "we thought it was farther along then it was" is absolutely the greatest issue right now. Not only is it not capable of doing any of these things on a broad scale, it will do them significantly worse than any employee. Going all in on something to boost stock value that fails.