Stop the Slop

This makes me unbelievably angry. We were so close to prevention and cures for so many things. Case in point: Individualized cancer treatments that reduced deaths & recurrence by half! mRNA cancer vaccines were doing well in trials to teach immune systems to recognize & attack cancer cells.

You better think.

good morning

Baby peaches in the back garden! Welcome, spring.

Truth

"If I'm gonna free this world from sin, somebody's gonna have to turn me in, somebody's gonna have to turn me in." --Jesus to Judas, according to bluegrass legend, Tim O'Brien

Can't wait to listen to all of this.

Artemis ii

Mae West for Belle of the Nineties (1934)

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

Some thoughts about writing stuff, in no particular order (this might be a long-ish thread): 1. When Old Man's War came out (2005), lots of people read it and assumed I was conservative, because of its subject matter, and sub-genre, me being a white dude from Ohio, and other various factors.

"You fell for one of the classic blunders--never get involved in a land war in Asia." --Vizzini

Students of history will remember what the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan did to the USSR. I expect similar results if the Trump regime deploys ground troops in Iran, only much faster. If you thought the Iraq was obscene and wasteful, hold Hegseth's beer and watch him drive our country into ruin.

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

Mad props to both her and the photographer.

"SOMETHING LIKE THAT"

There we go. THIS is Boston today.

Still 90 mins out and Boston crowd is massive…millions taking to the street today saying “no kings!”

Donald Trump won 65% of voters in St. Augustine in 2024

The crowd is growing here in St. Paul Minnesota at the State Capitol. There are about 40k people here right now with multiple marches still coming. The temperature has warmed up to a balmy 39 degrees, the sun is out and everybody is having a great time. ❤️#NoKings

Atlanta is showing up to say no ICE, no war, No Kings. #NoKings

Power belongs to the people. 📍Boise, Idaho

No Kings (Philadelphia)

Absolutely goddamned right.

#NoKings Houston TX

MN State Capitol. #NoKings

#NoKings in DC marchers heading to Fort McNair, where Stephen Miller lives in military housing.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Holy New York.

I read about 100 pages of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, then left the country for two weeks without the book. Coming back to it is a little intimidating. It's a brick of a book. I'm going back in.

"There is no king."

Chaka Khan just turned 73. She's still got it.

Will the Gelatinous Hateclown die in office, or live long enough to pay for its crimes?

Not now, Chernobyl fungus

WWSCD?

Morning affirmation

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Reminder: this entire illegitimate, criminal shitshow is run by incompetent, racist pigs.

They're not going to stop.

Seven-word death punch

Johnson wins the Most Nauseating Sycophant Award for 2026.

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

Well, it's tax season, and as I prepare to send my hard-earned income to the federal government to use as they please, I cannot stress this enough--fuck this fascist brownshirt nonsense.

"It is through writing that we remember freedom, as Le Guin puts it." Read @soniasulaiman.bsky.social's editorial in full here: reckoning.press/editorial-2/

Doomscrolling break... A pantropical spotted dolphin about 15 feet / 4.5 metres in the air Photo by Jessica McCordic, MSc around 2017, a research biologist for the Pacific Whale Foundation at the time - now working at NOAA fisheries monitoring marine acoustics