great recs. all the classics

If you watched The Odyssey and you want to learn more about the historical world in which it's (kind of) set, the last quarter of my book Lost Worlds is all about the late Bronze Age and how it fell apart: www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

This is a thing every exec keeps talking about and it is driving me up the waaaaaallllllllllllllll. Yes, it’s the high salaries that are the problem, not the company leaders who slow teams down through poor decisionmaking and greenlight games that take a while to make.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

#queer #sff Lots on the list to take in but gotta say, @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social's the Space Between World was a gut punch in all the right ways. Highly recommend. bookriot.com/best-lgbtq-s...

It doesn't break your brain too much once you realize the lyric "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" is something that these people probably think is a GOOD thing.

we need the books for perverts and gay people and polyamorous people way more than we need christian books with exactlu 1 black person

Sin that must be eternally punished is a culturally Christian idea that you can and should reject. If someone admits wrongdoing and changes their behavior, that's the desired outcome. You don't continue to punish because you then signal there's no point to contrition at all, you're damned either way

you should dont understand business, henry you lose your job when you make your boss money. this is known.

After making the most successful Disney movies this year, obviously Pixar employees must now face huge layoffs variety.com/2026/film/ne...

This is our team!!! Save me from my awful ux takes.

Found something for y'all to ignore on Steam.

Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls https://theonion.com/study-finds-there-arent-enough-occasions-where-you-get-to-eat-rolls/

PSA: vitamin C makes ADHD meds less effective by preventing absorption and essentially working to clear it out of your system! try to be mindful to avoid any vitamin C intake for a couple hours before and after taking such meds if you rely on them.

“We’re not asking for permission to be here. We’re playing.” In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing in women's matches. It was, on paper, a massive blow to the Baltimore Ferals, one of hundreds of teams affiliated with International Gay Rugby. Instead, they kept playing.

Not only should this be illegal but if you have ever put down a deposit a vehicle like this you should lose your drivers license, right to vote, and right to bear arms, and be ineligible to take out bank loans or credit cards.

Skymap Games is looking for Lead Engineer for a 2D platforming game on Unreal! www.useparallel.com/skymapgames/...

The words that spewed out of my mouth when I read this. "We stole 155,000 novels and are selling their intellectual property to you!"

That's right: Burnham's going to hit himself in the head with a hammer until he develops early-onset dementia.

I have never read anything written by an economist and thought "now here is a fully sentient human being who probably smells good”

I know that most of our digital tools are controlled by awful billionaires and it's almost impossible for us to divest ourselves of all of them. But I think that X and Substack are so horribly toxic that everyone should avoid them as much as possible.

da chomp

"She said they were asking if their cats needed to be kept indoors, and what they need to do to lower the risks to their cats." Cat owners - please keep your cats indoors to save wildlife, whether bird flu is a threat or not.

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

Environmental storytelling #Starfield

accidentally leaving my greek soldiers locked in a hot horse

guy walking behind us just asked his friend “you hear any rumors?” like they’re in skyrim

my chickens do not respect ancient grains at all

honestly it just makes me so fucking angry to see these guys asking to be treated normally as if they won’t order food, go back to their van, put on masks and kidnap the people who made it for them

Compulsory heterosexuality is when a global reactionary wave upholds the erasure of queer visibility as one of its core tenets. Enforcing heterosexual existence as the only visible, legible, and acceptable form of existence. With all the hate I hold in my heart, fuck that.

Cops are great

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

Veterinary care is becoming increasingly expensive for American pet owners. As prices rise, attention is turning to a major shift in the industry: private equity firms and large corporations buying up veterinary practices across the country. https://to.pbs.org/3RedOuo

This is massively important and they are obviously hoping we won't notice.

sorry maybe this is a stupid question and I’m just a silly little girl who doesn’t understand the smart number genius guys at these companies, but, uh isn’t “I would make a lot of money if there was a fire” just going to incentivize people to start more fires

I know a lot of people have stopped paying attention to labubus which is fine but there is an important update: the newest ones have hair for some reason and look like hardworking divorced mothers from the 90s.

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Sick of my turtles kicking the shit out of me and eating all of my pizza

ODYSSEUS, BRISTLING WITH RAGE: thou dare attempt to pork my wife? while i’m on my big trip?

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

Oh hey, it got announced ahead of SDCC! I wrote a one-shot for STAGE TOUR, the upcoming video game from the makers of Guitar Hero! Thrilled to be working with @lianakangas.com, @kim-hu.com, and @dianasousaart.bsky.social on this with @darkhorse.com! Grab it at SDCC or with pre-orders of the game!

Say what you will about Disney but long before Male Influencers were ever part of the public imagination they warned us about what a danger insecure aura farmers are to the community.