this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

🙅 No Kings, no Emperors

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

I'll say it again: Block them all. Protect yourself.

Block them all. Protect your self.

This is all true — don’t engage, don’t dunk-post, just block — but don’t forget they or their anonymous unblocked minions can also just screenshot you, and you can’t detach a screenshot. The tools here make you much safer from brigading but the threat environment here DID just change.

Here’s a block list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

Remember when we were all like "just block the arseholes and don't even acknowledge" and it worked really well for like two years? Well here's a really good opportunity to reassert that position

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Remember our mantra: Don't Engage, Just Block.

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

It’s hard to put into words what it means to lose D’Angelo. Not just the man, but the sound, the feeling, the very essence of soul that he embodied.

Fucking disgusting variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

David Cross folks.

@scalzi.com Thank you for THE SHATTERING PEACE. It felt really good to re-enter a storied setting that I consider "home" in many ways. Bluntly, I needed this distraction from the real world. The original OMW is one of my all-time favorites. I hope you get to write many many more OMW stories.

is remembering writer Peter David on his birthday.

Looking forward to this monologue.

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

The Aries 1B lunar shuttle model created by Derek Meddings for Kubrick's "2001" was thought lost, but after spending 40 years in a potting-shed in England it was rescued ... by Tom Hanks & Christopher Nolan. airmail.news/arts-intel/h...

For @comicsjournal.bsky.social, I wrote about the long career of comics writer Peter David, who died this past May, and tried to understand what legacy he'll leave behind. www.tcj.com/the-professi...

A big problem with US conservatives is that they view people disagreeing with them as an attack — but they view them actually attacking people as “a disagreement.”

I'm sure it's a good post and everything, but... c'mon, Mayor Pete. Substack. SUPPORTS. NAZIS. Get it together, man.

Leave Substack.

I can

I feel like I should just re-post this every week.

Talking to people in 2025

This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.

They support Nazi's for christ's sake. There's other sites out there. You can migrate. It'll take a little time, but that's the price of being a writer nowadays. Nazi's. They. Support. Nazi's.

Sometimes I see someone linking to something on Substack here on Bluesky, and I actually read it. I almost always want to go reply to that person's post and write "Hey, this was really good/informative/entertaining whatever, now please gtfo Substack." So many writers have moved. You can too.

yo this guy is cooking

@jayjaffe.bsky.social Thank you for mentioning THE WORST TEAM MONEY COULD BUY. I'm halfway through it and it's incredibly entertaining, informational, and fascinating. Great read! Long time supporter of FG. Love your chats and writing - appreciate you and everyone there.

I only know two things about running cons. First, it is hard. Second, you can always make it better. The first I learned by running a con. The second I learned by watching someone else run the same con. miribaker.com/2025/08/22/o...

Holy shit, what went on here is all sorts of wrong.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Democrats need to understand the anti-trans backlash is almost entirely about shifting anger away from the oligarchs and onto a powerless minority. Dems response should be: the most powerful people in the world are robbing from you and want you to blame someone else. Trans people deserve freedom.

@philjimeneznyc.bsky.social Hi there. I absolutely positively loved the Donna Titans Annual. Great writing, great art, great story... all of it. Really, really well done on every level. Thanks for everything you did here.

@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social You wrote about being present-in-the-moment in your newsletter, and as someone who struggles with this as well, I just wanted to say: Thank you for not writing about your vacation. It sounds like you enjoyed it, and that's what matters. Be well, Craig Calcaterra.

Remarkable: Zohran Mamdani's video about returning to Uganda racked up 4.5 million views on Instagram, 56% among non-followers, per data given to me. He is forging a new answer to Dems' digital woes. I talked to his advisers in depth about it. Fascinating. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1984...

Hulk Hogan and the Lawsuit That Changed Journalism and America talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/hulk-...

Sort of MAGA devouring itself or maybe auto-erotic-asphyxiation, not that there's anything wrong with that. www.postandcourier.com/politics/pau...

@tadethompson.bsky.social Beautiful story about Katrina. Thank you for sharing.

I want to tell you something about my Doctor Who book. If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina. Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities. 1/