I'm watching a very exciting game of curling where I want both teams to win. 😅 USA v Italy, can't we just be friends and agree to share the spoils of victory?

Non-white white supremacists are grimly fascinating. Collaborators never fare well in the regimes they serve, yet somehow there's never a lack of them.

I think it's absolutely delightful that every time I set my phone brightness to the annoyingly dim level that doesn't make my aging eyes hurt, the phone waits an hour or two and then says, 'No. You are Wrong." 🧐

1) Good, obviously. 2) Why is Green Day playing the Destroying Families with Sports Betting Party Powered by Demolishing Independent Artists?

Have we considered setting the IOC adrift on a small raft in the middle of the ocean? I feel as if it might fix some things. Keep them supplied with food, water, and sunscreen, sure, just... away with them. Far away.

I wonder how much the journalists at the Washington Post might have softened this inevitable blow if, instead of helping Trump take and keep power, they had worked together to form independent newsrooms dedicated to ethical journalism.

When a newspaper begins printing fascist apologia, how long do journalists continuing to work there remain "good"?

People focusing on the scope of the betrayal and her moderate reaction seem to be missing two things: 1) She is wealthy and wanted to remain wealthy, therefore 2) She kept her ex-husband's secrets and stood by silently as children were trafficked. She's not a victim, she's a co-conspirator.

So, first, holy shit, and second, does anyone else remember Will Stancil saying everyone should calm down because we were never going to lose Roe v Wade and no one would suffer any real harm if we did? We need to hang these comments from his neck like albatri. 🧐

Poverty. My grandfather's family came from the shores of Lake Como, the most beautiful lake in the world, where they *really* don't like poor people cluttering up their views. My grandmother was Sicilian, and apparently there was some kind of conflict. So poverty with a side of an unhappy Mafia Don.

At least I know I'm safe because I use incognito mode! (imagine a superhero-cape-blowing-in-the-very-dramatic-wind emoji, but sarcastic)

Uh... If you can win a Tony for contributions that don't even get your name on the play's Wikipedia page, and a Grammy for someone else's music, then I'm going to start claiming awards based on the movies I've watched. 🧐

My mom went to an Air Force high School in Germany. As a senior, she knew of a freshman named Priscilla. She remembers watching limousines pull up to the school so this 14-year-old child could "date" an adult man. That man is the King of Rock and Roll, and we call that child rape a love story.

People making jokes about this might want to consider that they are also mocking the wife Gates passed the STD to, and someone who in the best case scenario was a sex worker who couldn't refuse clients with STDs, and more probably an underage victim of sex trafficking.

It's almost funnier knowing that since it's Norwegian (and should be Jo Nesbø, btw, shame on Netflix), it's Detective Hoo-leh. 😁

If this quisling bullshit unites @democrats.org, then every Democrat so united needs to be primaried and turfed out of office and politics in general.

This is very cool and also an object lesson in why alt text is good. These are all circular logos with a bird in the phoenix rising posture of the Rebel Alliance logo. Unfortunately I can't identify the birds. Alt text shares useful information for people with and without visual impairments alike.

Oh, my heart...

Everyone stop dunking on the vice president, he's 100% correct. It took two hours, forty minutes.

1) Good, 2) Put some helmets on, hitting your head on the ground is dangerous, too (ask me how I know), 3) In a just world we'd expand this to replace football for all genders, because everyone deserves to graduate without CTE.

What the hell? "Hey, we saw that you like filming yourselves breaking the law and brutalizing innocent people. So we'd like to pay you more money and give you free cameras to help you with your hate-streaming career." 🧐

This misleading headline seems carefully designed to reduce confidence in Wikipedia as it fights for its continued existence as the Last Unenshittified Website. They're just making "AI" companies pay for what they've been doing all along. So why present it this way? 🧐

Because someone I follow is enthusing about it, I feel the need to call mournfully into the void: "Chiropractic" is not medicine. It is a spiritualist hoax turned into fake medicine because that's more profitable. At best it releases endorphins from the damage it inflicts, which can be severe.

I've never opened ChatGPT for any purpose whatsoever, and never will. And I'm presently in a place where I cannot write, because my 24/7 migraine gets worse with any mental or physical activity. Stealing from writers is not writing.

Repost this with your home river! I partly grew up near the Monocacy River in MD, though I wasn't very outdoorsy so I can't really claim it. And an honorable mention to the Everglades, the River of Grass, and its resident alligators who occasionally tried to eat me. 😁 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lc6...

Thirty-plus years I've been predicting that treating Darth Vader and other villains as protagonists, and favoring the aesthetics of evil, would lead us to very dark places, and being derided for it. When I say I hate being right, this is what I mean.

I've been thinking about this a bit lately, and the conclusion I've reached is that obviously saying "fuck" is no reason to clutch pearls, but I would also like elected officials to avoid it. Faux outrage be damned, but it's so often empty and performative. To wit: What is Frey actually *doing*?

And I thought I'd seen it all when our dog Bear (black German shepherd, about 120 lbs) played with my cat Spike (tiny tabby who thought he was a big tough bulldog, about 5 lbs). 😁

Top Democrats say, "Do not, under any circumstances, reelect us.". 🧐

It's always interesting to see where people, especially authorities in the subject, draw the line on language changing through incorrect usage becoming popular.

Bullshit like this is why I lived with low-level persistent fear until I learned my biological father had died. You never know when someone in power will decide your parent is not your parent because they don't approve of the relationship or you don't share their genes.

Every time people start talking about Walz as a good choice for our next president, he jumps in front of a microphone to say, "No, no, not me. I'm not the guy you want." 🧐

There's a post going around saying that prosecuting the police is a long shot and doesn't change their behavior and maybe we should focus on changing that? Maybe we shouldn't only prosecute murder if it sends an effective message. Maybe we should prosecute murder because it is bad and also illegal.

We're not confused, we just hate the theft / plagiarism / surveillance / planet killing / revenge porn / CSAM machine that's being forced into every aspect of our lives.

Wasn't it just yesterday people were being castigated for ever thinking these actors and this director and this production company would make exactly this movie? We were so naive in the distant past of 24 hours ago.

First, good job everyone, keep it up. Second, it has always been strange to me how much that place looks like a diner I made in Fallout 4. 🧐

If we want to redeem ourselves, so far as such a thing is possible, we will have to remember that every single person involved in this is guilty of murder, and yes, that includes the 23-year-old who was afraid of imprisonment and so followed illegal orders.

A thing that happened that I think about frequently: in a 2016 workshop critique of a "hobopunk" story I wrote someone said of my entirely fictional country-wrecking president, "I don't think you should blame this on Trump. He's just been elected, and anyway there's no way he could do all you say."

LRP: @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social, I know exactly who I was at 23, and I would have taken imprisonment over following an illegal order and murdering civilians. The Milgram experiments were garbage. Most people will not, in fact, commit murder on command. And I, too, come from a military family.

Logging off from the What Fresh Hell Machine to try (and fail) to catch a couple hours' sleep before logging back into the What Fresh Hell Machine to find out what fresh hell is being served up this morning, and surprisingly not liking the answer. 🧐

I get that this is humor, but it's what my mom did and it worked. 🤷‍♂️

Simple resolutions for everyone for 2026: 1) Use alt text, and use it correctly. To do otherwise is to be ableist. 2) Get off Substack. To do otherwise is to fund Nazis, and frankly to fund Nazis is to *be* a Nazi and the grace period on y'all somehow not knowing that is running out fast.

My last movie of 2025: Dune, about defeating an evil fascist empire through the power of Kyle McLachlan's hair. My first movie of 2026: Conan the Barbarian, about defeating an evil cult through the power of Arnold Schwarzenegger's badly dubbed grunts.

Happy New Year, I guess.

Mmmmmmmm... Shai-Hulud. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sgu...

Listening to "Song Sung Blue" on repeat, just to Neil something.

Does anyone else remember when mushrooms used to be good, and you could sauté them instead of having a mushroom boil? 🧐

Yes, it's bad that these people keep naming their companies after evil or corrupted things from Tolkien, but there's a potential bright side: when Sauron was treated as a friend or was in servitude, he tricked and robbed his would-be masters and brought about their downfall. There's always hope. 🧐

If "AI" is so great, why do I get a dozen weather alerts a day with things like "SNOW EXPECTED 0.1 INCH" or "RAIN STOPPING IN NEXT HOUR"? 🧐