Almost every single thing that some say others 'haven't talked about' has in fact been talked about by someone (usually more than one person) and for a long time...

Too many Black ppl are holding on to thinking only voting will liberated us

Music can make us feel incredibly powerful or cathartically vulnerable. And when the right song hits at the right moment, it may just send a happy shiver down your spine, which is how I spent much of my time with Mixtape, and why I'll never forget it. My review for @gamespot.com:

pro research has taught me that human behavior comes down to incentives/motivation more than identity a LOT of the time. this has helped me better navigate/understand U.S. politics and cultural trends more than anything else.

the Dem tendency to malign academics as a cheap and lazy populist gesture, at a moment when Republicans are destroying academia while deploying cheap and lazy populist rhetoric, and while the main discernible Dem promise is not being Republicans, is neither great messaging nor great substance

“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

Possible tornadoes and a flood, but they’re still voting to nullify Black representation. It’s a tidy encapsulation of the history of southern racial politics: whites in power caring more about repressing Black people than about their own lives and welfare.

she called him her friend. “I’m from the neighborhood…we help our friends” that is not a non-stance. its not ambiguous. its not the result of a spell cast by lobbyists and consultants. thats what she believes.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

you know they’re going to be at least 45 minutes late

see how fool-ass "lesser of two evils" logic is in the context of nat. government? LOL "well yes, black people have less rights/protections but the court did some good things too..so why don't we keep 'em and just vote harder?" LMAOOOOO

thank goodness this is largely up to state dem leadership vs the democrats in DC.

The Blacksky team is working on a zine. We grew to where we are through word of mouth and along existing networks. That’s this, but offline. It’s important to me that the bleeding edge tech we’re working on is made legible to as many people as possible. What do you think we should include?

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Could really use three years off, due to my agonies

the idea that a government party/entity that boasts *several hundred* members - all with some access to the world's best experts, resources, and departments can ONLY focus on 1-2 non-controversial, non-risky, means-tested things at a time is absolute GARBAGE.

I don't think it's healthy to devote this much energy to their lies. I believe affording them this much attention needs to be unlearned altogether.

I love this essay very much!!!!

I'm still fundraising for the increased costs of my cancer treatment. I also need new glasses, which aren't cheap here. More details are at the link, but if you could toss a coin to your writer for my birthday next Tues, I'd be grateful. Thanks & please share! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

“Hush now, be still. Soon you shall be one of us.”

You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

They think you're stupid.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

Carter would've been the only former pres whose 250th anniversary reflections i'd be interested in...

1. solitude: single-player game loop 2. bottomlessness: infinite scroll 3. speed: instant delivery/gratification 4. teasing: generally satisfactory, never perfect; “maybe the next one is exactly what I want”

I feel like viral diseases ALSO weaken warriors but okay dude...go off I guess. LOL

- talking right!

in one more step towards becoming my father, i've been diving into (u.s.) western-themed shows lately, starting with the "yellowstone" universe. finished 1889 and 1923 so far. good stuff!

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law. I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

A lot of folks argue about who is more important to comics, the writer or the artist. But I'd say it's neither... Without staples, the whole thing would fall apart.

“We are glad the SAVE Act died in the Senate. We are grateful to every senator who stood firm against it. To every American who called, wrote and organized to make their voice heard, thank you – your voice matters." #BlackskyNews www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...

I hope people start showing up for you the way you show up for them

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thank you bell hooks

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Gamers! My friend Jodi Black of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and Legacy Game Tables is in a hospital ICU, on the list for a lung transplant, and she could use your help. gofund.me/85df234bb

start writing it somewhere that feels absurdly low stakes, like your bluesky drafts

Yep! When I was teaching sketch comedy one of my first lessons was start writing something even if it’s nonsense, and finish it. Halfway through you’ll have a better idea; don’t start that, jot it down somewhere and finish what you’re writing, so you start to train yourself to actually end things.

It’s 2026 and this still looks like the future.

Bad draft is a lot easier to fix than a blank page

Where does the assumption that MAGA is the target audience for The Boys (the Prime series) come from?

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it. I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

I had trouble writing this reply to your tweet, so who am I to give you advice! But sadly you do just have to write the terrible draft, so I recommend using this simple pomodoro site and setting it for 15 minutes, then, when it's done, for another 15: text-pomodoro.vercel.app

Be terrible, it's just the first draft and no one will ever see it or know you're a monstrous imposter. Just get anything, literally anything, about the story down on paper.

As others have said: you can edit shit, you can't edit blank. Also, if fear of it being bad is the ONLY thing holding you back, the ONLY solution is writing anyway. Can't make it good if you don't practice. Make it, love it, accept it, next one will be better. Every time. No matter how many times.

Writing is a way of thinking in addition to a way of producing text, so it can be concurrently true that (1) you need to change 95% of your initial draft, and (2) you needed to write all the stuff you changed/cut in order to get to the right place