I have been trolled EXPERTLY TROLLED.

that's exactly why they lock the doors, you sick freaks!

Reposting with alt text, from the "no one's looking at the news right now and they'll have forgotten about it by next Monday" document dump of Jack Smith's deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

WE NEED SOME ORCAS We're holding out for some orcas till the end of the night They gotta be strong and they gotta be fast And they gotta be smooth black and white

My end-of-year publishing roundup: I had zero books and zero short stories come out this year. I did write, I just didn't write anything that came out in 2025. In 2026 I have a novella coming out from Tor! You can preorder it! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

New Year's is come! Parties! Fun! Hangovers! And of course, you'll want to cure your hangover like medieval people did, right? So you go to the internet, & find that eating raw eels w/ bitter almond was a "traditional medieval cure." DO NOT DO THIS! IT WILL FUCK YOU UP! 1/4 🗃️🧪

Ok team, we can bring these words back into usage! 💪 Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!

full cost breakdown: $0.25 - Charlemagne, who built the empire with murder $0.25 - Louis the Pious, the indecisive son $1.00 - the grandsons who butchered each other afterwards $0.49 - Nithard, Dhuoda, and Angelbert who wrote the histories and suffered $0.00 - Bernard of Septimania, fuck that guy

The big Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is live! 25% off all pre-orders, including my own upcoming THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! A grumpy dragon pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. Need a monster in your life? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dragon...

If you leave a Waymo’s door partially open the company has to pay a human $20 to come close it, please use this information responsibly.

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this is the answer to why every single tech company pushes their "ai" incessently: they need to find something that it can actually do to justify the resources they have spent on it. they can't just cut bait, they have to get a return on the investment at any cost

George Conway, Bill Kristol, Rick Wilson and those guys are dragging the Democratic Party to the right because all that matters is that you despise Trump. Even if everything you stood for over twenty years lead to Trump. You just gotta be Never Trump or Used to Be Trump. It’s embarrassing

The bulwark is not your friend

Tetley Abednego would never eat with a Fuckwit like me.

New subscription to @theonion.com immediately paying dividends

The story: fox5sandiego.com/news/califor...

🧵 On December 30, 1936, thousands of General Motors auto workers courageously sat down on the job inside the plants in Flint, MI, and shut down the most powerful corporation in the world. 📸 @reutherlibrary.bsky.social

Trump Admin Nazis are claiming that Somali Americans are stealing our tax dollars. Let’s talk about why that’s a load of horse shit skepchick.org/2025/12/soma...

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/c... - an important read. (gift article)

Also re-upping this interview about Murderbot and real, or the lack of real, AI, one of my favorites of the year:

went to the austin kinokuniya and the store manager sure is Going Through Some Shit. also man bro should not be running a bookstore bro should become an artist

given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards

I'm tempted! Every time I passed a body of water, I was evaluating its kayak and canoe potential. I posted a Bentonville pic on my newsletter site. I don't post photos here because Bluesky is against art and nature and anything fun; my fun stuff is over here: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

Can't sleep, surprised to see that THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST ebook is on sale for two dollars (in Canada at least) though! Even after thirteen books I always get a little jumpscare when I see my name www.amazon.ca/Butcher-Fore...

Matthew Cunningham-Cook takes apart some of the wildest claims about Somali fraud in Minnesota. prospect.org/2025/12/29/c...

Who doesn't love a dinosaur? Who doesn't love a rainbow? Who couldn't love RAINBOW DINOSAURS! We have four adorable little guys just looking for a home. http://thebrokencirc...

The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.

Farthing, my alternate history mystery novel about why good people do bad things is $1.99 as an ebook right now in the US www.amazon.com/Farthing-Sto...

Hi hello I have a LOST DOG! We found this young lady skittering across the street at around 11:00am today (12/29/25) near 6613 East Green Lake Way N between N 66th St and Sunnyside Ave N in Seattle! (Next to Green Lake Park)

A retired Tennessee policeman who spent more than a month in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook post is suing the authorities responsible for his arrest. 
Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, allege in the lawsuit that those responsible violated Bushart's First and Fourth Amendment rights.

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

Haven't seen anybody trampled like this in a while.

Illness and repeated harassment from antis has kept us from fundraising this past month like we need to. Anything you can give to our end of year fundraiser is greatly appreciated! Tinyurl.com/psafsupport

I’m learning today that much like clownfish after Finding Nemo, there is now a boom in sales of tree vipers after the release of Zootopia 2.

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Are we cool with a Democratic presidential frontrunner raising money from billionaires to oppose a billionaire wealth tax in a transparent effort to show loyalty and make connections ahead of his 2028 campaign? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...

It’s live! If you’re inclined, help the sled poodles get back on the trail and get some sweet merch at the same time www.customink.com/fundraising/...

There's no oscillation. A program designed to force a white supremacist society to include people who are being unnaturally restricted is not discriminatory, and is good. White christian conservatives wouldn't be able to handle actual discrimination. They can't even handle equality. Weak.

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I want to point this out not necc because it's so clearly generated by LLM with light human editing, but because as my eyes skimmed over the classicly bland, milquetoast word salad, it reminded me of how critical having a unique voice is in this business. It's the one ownable thing we have.

Not only does this have the sing-songy rhetorical stylings of an LLM text itself, nothing about it appears to be true. Contracts are a 4000-year-old social practice; how did they become incomprehensible to the unaided human mind last year?

how about one of you wealthy liberal groups on here counter these bullshit ICE ads that air during NFL games with accurate information? it’s not that hard to figure out messaging but let’s talk more about why i should vote for dems.

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

Izolde is a wonderful human being whom I can personally vouch for. She's working on getting a job as well as cheaper housing, but December is a rough time to be trying to figure this stuff out. If you can spare a few bucks, that would be much appreciated.

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)