There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it

These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa (You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles )

There's a point, well below a billion dollars, where the amount of money you have lets you rid yourself of anyone who can be a check on your worst impulses, and replace them with people who tell you those worst impulses are somehow valorous. Rare is the billionaire with someone to tell them "no."

Just edited three words into the latest manuscript purely to avoid having a zero-words day. And you know what, I'm fine with that.

A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro

It was the one pure thing we had left.

One week from today we launch Blades '68! Get ready for danger, intrigue, and unruly action under the artificial light of an electroplasmic sun. An official expansion for Blades in the Dark. Follow the project here and download the free 40-page preview now: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

But also, this may be one of the best conflict-of-interest statements ever?

whatever rowling is trying to hide it's something that would look even worse than how it looks to delete your entire yacht location history immediately after someone noticing your signoff turning up in the epstein files

A lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.

There were a flurry of "spontaneous" replies last month to various posts i made. All written the same way. All trying to link to the random substack about how innocent he is. My first thought (after blocking) was: "Oh i see someone's publisher has hired a bot farm."

My government at the moment seems less bothered about that, but very concerned that it doesn’t upset the CEOs of the foreign tech companies who have stolen from, disrupted, insulted, attacked, disenfranchised and impoverished everyone I know. Not keen.

Worth pointing out that a few years ago this would have ended the campaign and his career. If we want our society back we need to start by making people afraid to say vile shit like this again.

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Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.

In celebration of the imminent Blades ‘68 campaign, I thought I’d talk a bit about its graphic design. BUT FIRST let’s compare and contrast with the graphic design of Blades in the Dark, a landmark in the history of RPG layout. Type nerdery ahoy 🧐

Good god. We've spent a decade with the British media - including the BBC - claiming that the 'gender critical' movement wanted to 'protect women and girls'. And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.

Boy it's a good thing the UK government isn't up to its eyes in deals with the company founded by one of these guys

Amazing coda here.

Incredible machine. No notes. The worst people in the world should keep giving it money.

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There are only 4 spots left on the Milford Writer's Retreat, 9-16 May at @gladlib.bsky.social. Includes an en suite room, breakfast & dinner, & access to a SILENT library where you can write to your heart's content! More info here: www.milfordsf.co.uk/retreats.htm

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

And I think about everything I've read about the signal groups in Minnesota, too, and how folks are just going "welp that needs doing let's go do it" and it really is a vision of a community-driven world that it feels like the most senior of our elected officials can not fathom.

It's a shame everyone is talking about stochastic terrorism now. I used to love the book fairs they did at our school.

The right way to get into the Epstein files.

Amazon has placed a VERY specific product warning on the published edition of the Kenneth Williams diaries. The incident that prompted this surely deserved more media attention.

Animalgesics. #art #pills #moles

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Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes. As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them. Effectively a mark of rank.

The conspiracy of the ruling classes has almost always been one of broad tolerance and studied obliviousness within a shared understanding of mutual interest, they have always had the most meaningful class consciousness, it does not require actual conspiring it's just how one acts

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange: 'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?' 'Yeah, you can do it.' 'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'

billionaire: we billionaires earn our money through hard work and our extraordinary intellects. we are simply more perceptive and insightful than regular people mr nonce: hmllo billi,onirr, wuld u liek 2 visit my sexcrime. Island. ? billionaire: deborah, hold my calls

A lot of people predicted, based on his past actions & stated beliefs, that Trump would go full Hitler if nobody stopped him. We were called hysterical and told to calm down.

I wish that this was not unreasonable money. X is, unfortunately, correct about how much the vast majority of writers - yes, even the ones you think are doing well - get paid.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

Marcel Proust, whose novel In Search of Lost Time is known for a scene in which the narrator dips a madeleine into a cup of tea, originally wrote the scene featuring tea and a slice of bread-and-butter. His editor persuaded him to change it. Proust's most famous scene was introduced by his editor.

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If you needed another reason to admire Ursula K. Le Guin, her work routine carved out time to deal with correspondence, cleaning, cooking and being stupid, as well as nearly 5 hours’ writing.

Only published last week, already REPRINTED TWICE, fab reviews. We happy? We are. Check out Book 1 of Peter F. Hamilton's coming of age generation ship saga. "The twists are frequent and thrilling...readers ready to suspend disbelief will be continually surprised and delighted" Publishers Weekly

Adds to the list of things that seem fine www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Wait until you hear how old Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights are.

In a country which does not take constitutional reform seriously - yes, it means that a 1911 Act can be used in a legislative matter. The 1911 Act was expressly intended to be temporary. It is hardly the Act's fault that nobody has got round to proper House of Lords reform since.

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The cost of the paperback version of my short story collection Into The Dark is going to rise at the end of Jan to $9.99 (or the equivalent in your local money). 📈 (The electronic version will stay at $2.99, so if you prefer reading on your Kindle there's no rush.) books.fatpigeons.com/y14l8u74pl

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Wow, that was a close run thing, wasn’t it? What with Sex Matters asking all of the “Silent Majority” to stop being silent and Speak Out - a clear majority certainly did speak out, but it wasn’t the one they wanted!

Badenoch thinks her Tory left/centrist voters are baked in, they have nowhere to go. She is wrong. They can go to the LIb-Dems whilst holding their nose. Labour think their left voters are baked in, they have nowhere to go. They are wrong, Greens say hi. Parallel idiocy.