It makes me livid to see smug centrists and journalists mock Bluekyers as snowflakes who fled Twitter to be in a little club. We fled Twitter because it’s an active right wing propaganda apparatus, and that’s not me saying that, it’s the literal goddam owner!

Reading this and worrying again about whether Angel Bob is conscious or not. (I suppose one reason the p-zombie is terrifying is because you don't know what's happening inside its head, like someone wearing a mask, only in reverse.)

I'm still reeling from IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, Panahi's queasy thriller about how authoritarianism dehumanizes not only through horrible living conditions, but by pushing the persecuted to be the worst versions of themselves in pursuit of something like justice.

Sama'a is trying to give her daughters the most normal childhood she can in the midst of Israel's genocide, but she needs our help to feed and shelter them. Please give what you can. tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

I’d missed that NaNoWriMo managed to kill itself in a single year purely by crassly endorsing AI. Amazing. You don’t get self-immolations like that often.

This is a hell of a read, and that special kind of essay where I know I would never have had the background knowledge or aptitude to draw the conclusions made, but those conclusions are explained clearly enough that I understand how they were reached. If that makes sense. Anyway: it’s good.

I have been waiting for this to go public for years. It does not disappoint.

mamdani is a no go, but marjorie taylor greene the transphobic, racist, homophobic antisemite bigot - they have room for her, they got room for nazi tattoo guy. no room for you though.

WIZARDS

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Tomorrow morning on Eruditorum Press, ON INCOMPUTABLE LANGUAGE: AN ESSAY ON AI. Ten thousand words exploring the case that computers cannot and never will be able to pass the Turing Test. Don't miss it.

Though @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social is over, its presence lingers still.

Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to people actually involved in the creation of young adult literature about this issue. It’s been a difficult few years, and we’re grateful to be heard.

I’ve seen more Locked Tomb cosplayers at Thought Bubble than at FlameCon, which feels like a failure on the part of the latter.

Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice and, just as importantly, never overestimate how much the distinction matters.

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

too real lol

Having a twenty year old blog, I get reminded of this all too frequently. 😬 (If I ever cite an old post of mine, click on any links in it at your own risk, y’all. I have no clue which ones go to active pages and which ones are being cybersquatted by Malaysian porn bot farms.)

When John Lees recommends a horror book you pick up that horror book. But in case you’re feeling slow and that’s not enough I will add that yr beloved CPUK considers anything @erikapriceart.bsky.social puts out a must read. Run, don’t walk.

I love this.

Sometimes, it’s nice to meet your major influences.

This is why I am so vehemently down on people scaremongering the trans community. The assault on the trans community is one on our dignity, trying to drive us to suicide. Scaremongering does their work for them. Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.

Periodic reminder that someone needs to pay @imgarysuarez.bsky.social a large sum of money to write a book about the post-Y2K business dealings of 90s alt acts, entitled, "So Much for the Afterglow."

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

The Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler): Expressed philosophical ideas that were in my mind but hadn't had words for before Assata (Shakur): An autobiography that gave me the kick in the ass I needed After (Francine Prose): A childhood favorite about the encroaching presence of fascism

@victorlavalle.bsky.social BALLAD OF BLACK TOM And @djolder.bsky.social SHADOWSHAPER The only two books that have ever made me sit and journal to process what they meant to me after reading them Changed my heart in terms of how i could reshape the genres i love to look like ME

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

I've yet to hear a good argument for it by the way. Like... how is it that these publishers can afford to rent the office space but not afford to pay their workers a livable wage? Shifting to remote would save them soooo much money? Or even moving the office to a more affordable area.

Repost with an iconic fictional band

Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines. "Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue." The movie takes place in 2027.

JAMES BOND ISN'T: a deep critique of the british empire JAMES BOND IS: a drunk gambler losing a fistfight to a fat guy

Gonna be real honest chief I'd rather blow my brains out than share Gemini gems with anyone

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Genesis (social media) Genesis released "Land of Confusion" #OnThisDay in 1986 as a single from "Invisible Touch".

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

Bernie Wrightson’s Marvel Universe • Spider-Man from “Hooky” (1986) • Thing from “The Big Change” (1987) • Hulk from “The Big Change” (1987) • Dr. Strange from his Special Edition (1982)

In a few days!!!

I'm just not seeing the point in it in a post-Mr. Robot world and not done by the Wachowskis.

thanks yeah that's what we're all clamoring for

Sure, why not?

Remember, this man takes advice from a fake married couple that live in his head. youtu.be/dijMKwZMU2Q?...

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

I think we just need to destroy the Democratic Party. whatever replaces it could never be THIS bad

If the Democrats were a real party and not a bunch of spineless career politician cowards these 8 senators would be ejected tomorrow morning.

Mamdani is going to impose Shin Gojira Law. The horrors of annihilation will be experienced mainly through board room meetings.

Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read. Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work. He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country

Yeah, why bother shutting it down if this is your exit strategy? Trump was losing. He looked awful, slashing food stamps for the sake of it while building that stupid ballroom for his Great Gatsby parties. And now the Dems just hand him a win. Fucking pathetic even for them.