Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

Lmao

Given this happened in LA there's a near certitude that someone on psychedelics saw this.

Imagine being stressed out about life and the state of the world and then you walk outside to clear your head and see this

It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️

i shan't be quote tweeting the original quote but this is untrue for many reasons, most notably that your entire life was labor from waking to bedtime. peasants weren't clocking in for 5 hour workdays in the field and then scrolling reels on insty all evening.

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

Your mom and dad love a show called Keebler Ranch and you can’t look it up, there’s no information about it, but 30 million people watch it every week and there’s a line of frozen entrees at Walmart called “Gus Keebler fixins”

ICYMI: the 3rd part of my novella's out, a dark fantasy where folk hero Kelwas helps a half-feral girl lift a curse that turned her brothers into ravens and reunite with her family while the shadow of Old Gaunt looms over them all Y'all like stories within stories? buttondown.com/crosshatches...

I bought some hot pepper plants at the garden center today. Yes, I do fancy myself something of a farmer.

This gave me chills. Watch.

What’s a book we haven’t covered on Bar Cart Bookshelf that you’d love to see a drink for?

Update: IT'S OUT Do YOU know him? Have YOU heard of Kelwas? buttondown.com/crosshatches...

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation

The key flaw in “let people enjoy things” is its acceptance of the idea that enjoyment is spoiled by criticism. If your enjoyment of something is ruined by someone else disliking it, that’s a character defect. You’re being a narcissistic child. Grow the fuck up.

No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.

The victim was a 19 year old transgender woman. She was stabbed to death in the laundry room of her student apartment complex. Seattle police just released these pictures of the suspect. If you know who he is, you can call the tip line at 206-233-5000.

Scientists anticipate we will hit the Intellectual Property Singularity by approximately 2032, at which point the one content available to the masses will be a single grey cube owned by Disney.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

New Review - a historical ghost story that is fantastic fantasy I strong recommend The Girl With A Thousand Faces by @sunyidean.com out now! Huge thanks to @torbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/5/...

RuPaul posted a video talking about the rise of fascism. And while what he says is very in character for him (he's just going to "party and dance and have fun and laugh"), I can't get over how much he looks like the Turtle Man character from Dana Carvey's 2002 film "Master of Disguise".

I just want to work. I just want to work!! Even fake job listings are drying up again and I'm no less burnt out. I feel disgusting. I'll keep chasing work and I'll keep fighting for a place to stand, but until that day comes, unfortunately we still very much need your help. I'm so, so sorry.

hey that's white supremacist fascism

7 months to go

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

god bless a man who had the gift of true righteousness. also a man who looked absolutely goddamn crazy just truly one of the weirdest looking guys god ever made

BREAKING: Democrat Chedrick Greene, a firefighter, just won the pivotal special election in Michigan's 35th Senate District. Greene is currently leading by more than 20 points. Kamala Harris won this district by less than one point in 2024.

I think about this comic all the time.

Personally, it's been very frustrating to feel like I've been writing some of my best stuff while the market for it rapidly contracts.

Between the brutal marketplace, the shrinking publishing industry, and the baked in lack of respect for the arts, every writer and artist you know thinks they must suck at this, whatever their "this" is. Always a good time to use social media for some good and remind them how awesome they are.

It's gonna be a doozy folks

Church of Scientology says the TikTok speedruns are 'hate crimes' Ex-Scientologist and niece of the church’s leader appreciates the trolling, calling it 'the only thing being done to make Scientology uncomfortable and to turn them into a joke so that [they don't trap] new people' (via LA Times)

I am very tired of people who create the cool stuff everyone loves dying prematurely and/or in poverty while every publisher under the sun is seemingly tripping over its own dick to figure out how to pay even *less* for the creations that pay for their yachts and country clubs

Pleased and surprised to see my weird short story, "Blanquitos" among the suggestions! If you're so moved, consider nominating it for the ballot! www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

I, as an undergraduate senior philosophy major in the year of our lord 2013, wrote a Philosophy of Mind paper in which I argued that LLMs would not produce consciousness. Where's my Google salary?

How llms work is literally on wikipedia. Its stats at scale. Stats at scale isnt thinking, it wont ever be. It will never be sentient. Its all so silly. They need you to believe this can become AGI for stock prices. That's it.

lol, imagine doing this for climate change. just imagine.

yall holy shit

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

🗝️🐇The Bone Door UK Tour 🐇🗝️ The first event for The Bone Door tour is in literally a week! So I’ve brought together all the times and places you can catch me over the next month or so! I will have tour exclusive swag with me (including The Bone Door tote bags) while stocks last.

As if we ever believed these private donors existed. We've known since day 1 that we'd be left holding the bag for this abomination

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ahhhhhhhhh it's real ahhhhhhhhh! Beyond excited to get to interview Stephen Graham Jones at @cymerafestival.co.uk!!