You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

I literally never want to get a text from Al Franken. How do I stop this. How do I say, "I will never, ever, ever consider giving you money if you have Al Franken text me." Who do I have to convince that this is bad?

EXACTLY THIS. When Elon fucked the algorithms to keep links off-site, my posts about new books went from thousands of likes to <100, overnight. Not wasting time on X was an economic necessity.

There are two beliefs that seem common among certain kinds of people. The first is that people on the left who voted third party or abstained cost Harris the election. The second is that in order to win the next election, we must pull Trump voters from his camp.

They keep calling it DHS law enforcement, but this is your reminder that picking up people on the street with no evidence as to their status is not enforcing any law. It is terrorizing people.

Home-grown potatoes truly are more delicious, and the texture was AMAZING.

My potatoes are probably ready for harvest! Now for the fun part: I planted one potato I got from the store that had started sprouting. How many will I have?

This is amazing.

You, too, can pay one million dollars to be abused by this president

I don’t know if anyone else on my timeline is watching Killian Jornet’s project of climbing all the 14ers in the contiguous United States, but it’s incredible watching him.

One of the things that the situations with South Korea and Canada are really showing is how abusive our government is.

How many times must I unsubscribe from John Hickenlooper texts? Please just let it STOP.

If you take out all the tendentious bullshit from the original complaint, it becomes clear that there is no case. The judge is pretty much telling Trump to say, in plain language, “they endorsed some other candidate for president and that’s why I’m suing.”

So @mostlybree.kitrocha.com asked me to give a publishing analogy of how hilarious this is, and this is my best shot.

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

So to be clear, the judge is not striking the complaint down because Trump has not made a claim. He is striking it down because it is incredibly long and argumentative.

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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

A weird definition of vulnerable where "being detained for months" is somehow less bad than "lost extremely plum job held by maybe half a dozen people per year."

The judge in the Bartz v. Anthropic case filed a list of questions and concerns to be addressed with the notification form in the class action. There's nothing in particular I want to pull out, but I think it shows that the judge is thinking carefully about fairness to the parties.

"The real danger to constitutions has never been machines, but decisions made by human beings." Yes: for instance, a decision made by human beings to pretend that a machine is a human being with feelings that we have to take into account instead of applying logic? That's a danger to constitutions.

This is the way.

This administration, placing damaging economic tariffs and making fifty-first state jokes: wait what you don’t like me??????

hey what level is this in terms of "road to fascism"

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

I didn’t deserve this.

Embarrassed. Is it one or two r’s? Gets me every time.

3. Is that they don’t care about free speech but love sexual harassment

Sometimes I think about the fact that the man I forced to retire from his plum position in the federal judiciary for sexual harassment represented Donald Trump in his Twitter lawsuit appeal and how one of his former clerks was Brett Kavanaugh and another former clerk was Trump’s former head of OLC.

You do not have to like Kimmel or Colbert to understand that this is fundamentally wrong and a pretty big tumble down the slope.

This was me! I did it! Thank you all for reminding me to go check.

Thanks for reminding me to check to see if I had a Hulu subscription (I did) which I rarely use. Canceled. Sent feedback. Live in fear, motherfuckers.

I already was not going to buy another Samsung fridge because mine is garbage that my husband and I have had to DIY fix multiple times but this would cinch it

who's gonna start the dumb appliances and small electronics company and make a killing? i do not want screens, bluetooth, internet, wifi, NOTHING.

Here’s AI trying to tell me that this person’s 2000+ English language readers will leave me reviews for one of my Italian editions.

There are a lot of people whose commentary on protests (“why is it a problem? Simply do not do illegal shit”) sounds a lot like people saying it’s okay to talk to cops—as long as you did nothing wrong, it will all turn out just fine.

It couldn’t happen to a better company. 🤗

In today’s tea newsletter, I talk about how fascism is like a disease. Specifically, it’s like scurvy. I also talk about a beautiful tea from Nepal that almost didn’t exist.

As a separate intellectual exercise, I have signed up for an additional protest in a state I have not been to and am not planning on visiting using a throwaway email, just in case domestic and foreign emails are treated differently. I will post all emails I receive to that email here.

As an intellectual exercise, I have signed up for a protest in a foreign country I have never been to and will not be in using a throwaway email address, and will post all emails that I receive to that throwaway email address here.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

I can‘t believe people are getting so mad about @angryblacklady.bsky.social saying that you shouldn’t register for a protest. Just show up. Don‘t register.

The thing about organizations wanting people to RSVP for protests because contact lists are useful to them is absolutely true and it also has absolutely nothing to do with whether it's in your best interest to RSVP for a protest (it is not in your best interest).

Welp.

I think this ruling is basically correct. Most of the people who are disagreeing in the comments have not read the elements of first degree murder in New York.

SO MUCH THIS.

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

This lawsuit is asking to be a vehicle for overturning NYT v. Sullivan (which established the actual malice we know and love for public figures). It is a request to overturn longstanding precedent that allows us to criticize our politicians and remove our free speech.

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