"They looked at us funny" is not an objective.

Inside me are two wolves. One sings "Love Will Keep Us Together." The other sings "Love Will Tear Us Apart." They are both on infinite loops. Someone please tell me how to reconcile these wolves.

This is not the February I'm used to.

All my heebies jeebied.

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

While Cardi B is now well-understood, archeologists still haven't deciphered Cardi A.

I think they've started using AI to translate from groundhog into English, and I don't think it's reliable.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Justice Beast Literature Anglo-Saxon Poetry Science and Literature of Time Travel (seminar) Historical Linguistics

Has anyone compiled a list of the various flavors of doomerism that infest social media? "No elections," "martial law," "he'll just ignore the courts," etc. Trump authoritarianism is neither inevitable nor immovable. Things are bleak but people are pushing back, and it's not futile.

1. ICE will kill you. 2. Trumpists will lie to justify it. 3. Because they are all thug trash.

Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.

I once flew on a puddle-jumper from Monterey to SFO. We had to line up on the tarmac to board, and Caspar Weinberger was about three people behind me in line.

Kings of Leon Redbone

Their argument: If you were to raise a $13 drug to $100, that would be a 700% (actually 670%) increase, so if you drop a $100 drug to $13, that's a 700% cut. It's impossible to know if they're really that stupid, if they're assuming their the American public is that stupid, or both.

Brutal indeed. But respectfully so. (And there is an alternate universe in which I am the target clientele, but I think that would be even worse than this universe for many reasons.)

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Every year for Hanukkah I like to share panels from this special holiday comic I edited when I was on staff at Marvel. There remains a dearth of specifically Hanukkah stories in comics and this one only ever appeared in print once. Every year I am proud to share and celebrate the light of Hanukkah:

What the hell is Dershowitz holding in this photo?

I contain multitudes Oh Oh shit My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance

Not 2Zoo 2Topia?

Alan Fucking Dershowitz??? Where Americans "actually are"??? Oh, Bari, most Americans are not probable pedophiles who have gone completely off the mental rails. it's just you and your friends.

13 Nov 2025 -- Leaders of Unitarian Universalists, Reform Judaism, Presbyterians, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal Church & others faiths sign landmark group statement of support for trans and intersex people. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

@durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov Please do whatever you can to prevent your colleagues from agreeing to this CR, which gives the Republicans what they want and gets nothing for the people most in need of help.

Dear @schumer.senate.gov, what makes you think that even if this did anything of substance to help people - which it does not - the Trump regime would comply with spending requirements anyway? They've already shown they don't care and will sirens or deny funds as they see fit, law be damned.

@bcdreyer.social, could you please begin a campaign against people who don't know the difference between "vice" and "vise"? Particularly journalists and their editors? (And maybe judges?) Nobody claims Chicago is in a "vice hold of violence."

Here is a comprehensive list of why people on SNAP, are on SNAP: 1. They need food assistance. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

This. 1000% this.

Good lord.

"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out." Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have. open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

The Red Death has an opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Bari Weiss is basically Laura Loomer with a bit less paranoid vitriol. And now she's in charge of CBS News.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

#PlotTober Jake has several goals, all connected: Find out who killed Noriaz; pay off his debt to the demon Sallax by finding Taron Acousi & the stolen key; and determine why the angels, demons, & spirits will no longer contract with him (and hopefully fix that and regain his access to magic).

Superb writing.

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can. Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone. #skystorians #midievalsky #historians

How absolutely annoying. I went to update Bluesky (saved posts, whee!) and Google Play popped up a sponsored link to install Truth Social above the update link.

Wicked pissah

Recommended reading

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

I know nothing about this game, but it looks gorgeous.

Absolutely fucking insane that Trump's Reichstag Fire was some 20-something called Big Balls getting beat up by a couple of teenagers.

Slightly diminish a band: Imagine Iguanas

If Trump's new census excludes undocumented immigrants, then he'll be able to say, "Look, we got rid of all the undocumented immigrants!" But he'll have a hard time justifying continued ICE activity if there are none.

A must-read.

I just finished the second Ana and Din mystery by @robertjbennett.bsky.social, and even though I'm usually pretty decent with words, I cannot explain exactly why it's so fucking good. The worldbuilding, the intricacy of the mystery, the strange character of Ana... It's a heady stew. Read his stuff.

"This neighborhood was built on certain principles, and it’s extremely important to maintain those principles and also not say them out loud where they could be used in court."