"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

They're out here looking for guys hanging out the passenger side of their best friend's ride, trying to holler at me.

We all know this is fascism.

It appears Tim Sweeney and Epic have laid off an employee with terminal brain cancer, cancelling his life insurance. This should be a big story. Any journalists who follow me want to write this one up? Maybe contact Epic for comment? I'm not writing for any outlets right now so can't spread this.

A lot of folks in the comments are completely unable to grasp about the compromises you have to make on low income. It's so expensive to be on the wrong side of the poverty line, and that concept breaks people's brains.

"Meet the hacks Meet the hacks Step right up and greet the hacks"

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Evergreen sentiment, tbh

"I'm doing my part!"

In my opinion, it's perfectly valid to kick open the door of every executive office and asking where the hell that money is. And I mean *literally* kicking open the door with all the bluster and anger and drama you can muster because this is insane.

It's a comfort knowing that you can just not engage with AI nonsense. Plenty of people are putting real effort into making dope shit all the time, so I can simply play one of those.

My buddy @cantocomics.bsky.social is doing weird shit, and it's all our problem. You love to see it.

"I was gonna go to court, but then...."

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

My pals over at The Fluffenbusters recently had me on to chat about the criminally underrated 1998 Dark City. Had enormous fun; a film that deserves way more attention than it gets. youtu.be/jvo8BfWGk60?...

I don't know, it seems like the American South's scuttling of Reconstruction efforts and the orchestrated attempt to soften the view of the Confederacy in US education (thanks, Daughters of the Confederacy) sets a strong precedent.

David Cronenberg's "Absalom, Absalom!"

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

Y'all out here just discovering dirty rice? You can really tell people who have never had to eat on a budget.

"Home Alone" but it's these three kids while their parents' vacation is scuttled by an active war zone would make an instant crowd-pleaser.

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

Attn. @playchampion.bsky.social

after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions

This reminds me to tell you to read my story "Scratches" in Tales of Sley House 2025 (available here www.sleyhouse.com/product-page...)

Hire Julie so that I can play more of her work! Interstate 35 is great.

iambic tetrameter ass stick

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

"2026 is the year of the horse" The horse:

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

"I agree with you. I hear you." -- the words said by someone who is doing neither of those things. Great article and interview.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

We really could have nice things if the most uncreative people in the world didn't have the keys to the kingdom.

"get back in the sneakers, Shinji!"

The world is a trash fire. Take a break with some new short speculative fiction. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Well that's just awful. Bluepoint has been doing such good work.

Extremely Norm Macdonald voice: "Yeah, Board of Peace spelled B-O-R-E-D."

That's also what I did during the 90s.

opening a restaurant with only these three items on the menu

These people think an election is not a process by which politicians try to build political coalitions in order to gain the power to get elected and enact policy but a regularly administered litmus test against the electorate about whether they deserve to live in a democracy or not.

That last nug in the jar

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

God, I wish that were me.