this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

If Hawke can get nominated, he could make a real run at the win. But that’s a big if.

Icon.

I don't use LLMs for a host of reasons, but one that's way up there is how much interacting with one of the chatbots feels like being in an evangelical Christian space to me on some molecular level I can't pin down. Too much attempting to placate me, not enough actual pushback.

I bought a little cup of maple yogurt because I love the flavor maple, and I have concluded it is not a flavor that should be added to little cups of yogurt.

What's interesting is that if I'm reading the article right, Netflix nets none of that money, which is all in concession vouchers the theaters used in lieu of tickets. Anecdotally, the theater I went to yesterday was PACKED.

Nobody I would rather chat Pixar with than Griffin, to the degree that I recorded this ON MY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

The nice thing about these is that once I receive the posts from the other universe from the angel, all I need to do is copy-paste, which is why these posts take almost no work at all and don't keep me up late writing them!

Niche tabletop RPG skeet incoming: I kind of want to hack Blades in the Dark to set a game in Zootopia. This has been a niche tabletop RPG skeet.

Crowley's Little, Big but the enormous special edition that came out a couple years ago. I want whoever's holding it to sweat.

i was just thinking about this. when a fascist squeaks by, it’s a mandate. when a progressive wins by a landslide, he needs to be deferential. it’s such bullshit.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

Taking the child to see 2topia in a theater, hoping she can handle it. I saw my first movie in theaters (a Rescuers rerelease) when I was almost exactly her age, so it's making me a LITTLE MISTY, to be honest.

Mandy Patinkin singing with the PS 22 chorus before @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s inauguration

Dakota Johnson and Renate Reinsve should play sisters.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

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goddamn do they swear all their politicians in at midnight or just the ones who can stay up that late

Pretty fucked up that we have a whole holiday where we tell kids they have to get to sleep or else Santa won't come, then a literal week later we have a whole holiday where they have to stay up or else the new year won't come and time will begin to decay.

I've felt weird talking about this given *gestures*, but this has been the best year of my life professionally. I'm so grateful to the people I work with on YJ and everyone who took the time to engage with my book, even those who didn't like it. I hope you'll indulge me further in the years to come.

This is amazing journalism, and a heartbreaking story. Don’t read the comments if you want to retain your hope for humanity.

Looked up the cast for the next Hunger Games prequel - based on the genuinely quite good book - and they have absolutely nailed all the younger versions of characters from the first trilogy. Like Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman? Elle Fanning as Effie? Please!

In 2026, I will fix my sleep schedule. I will also publish a couple books, continue writing for television, and go on raising a toddler. *pause* In 2027, I will fix my sleep schedule.

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Once again!

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

Emily's lips to God's ears. There is a foot well in the door and a wellspring (of uh, other feet?? Unclear) flowing up and in and we are writing such such such good books you guys ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

this is very true and i read A LOT of amazing books this year but i do hope that in 2026 we get more books by black trans writers

Another Year of Interviews are in the books!!!! Looking forward to 2026!!! Who should I get on the show this upcoming year???? #comics #comicbooks #beardedcomicbro

And Tiny Gawain who did NOT die

The Green Knight was my last Christmas watch for 2025, and my gosh, I find that movie thrilling and profound. I think it might have one of my favorite ending passages in film history??

going to force @threnody.bsky.social to watch all of Everwood long before she gets to any number of established television classics because I need her to know what it's like when a town is nice and people kiss there

2025 was by far the strongest year ever for novels by trans writers from major publishers -- and that's before you get down to smaller presses and self-published stuff, which were also cooking. God, I hope it sustains in 2026 and beyond. A lot of these books sold well! The audience is there!

And even though I've read 198 books this year, only six made my list. Only two of the authors are #onhere - @pagankennedy.bsky.social and @emilystjams.bsky.social - but you'll have to subscribe to see where they rank... scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/the-colour...

The right #1 and the right #13.

Very Ari Aster core

You have to admit, it is darkly funny that she was right about the elite pedophile conspiracy all along but accidentally joined it.

world's weirdest tontine

This is a public health crisis and cis people acting like it isn’t because it targets trans children primarily (even though it will affect cis children too!!) is nasty business

I took advantage of my in-laws' copious amounts of space and lack of cats and spent my holiday doing a JIGSAW PUZZLE, specifically A Book Lover's Christmas from Laurence King. It was excellent fun, and it healed my considerable burn out!!!!! (For maybe a day.)

“Beethoven foils this plot” should be at the end of all film summaries.

And at some point in 2026, The Terror: Devil in Silver from @victorlavalle.bsky.social, Karyn Kusama, & me.