Listen. The suicide grooming machine is alive

WIFE: Wait so where is this retreat again? ME: The fjords

Can you imagine if 90s James Ellroy wrote an Epstein book? Fuck

Imagine how well Gavin Newsom would run ICE

How fucked up would it be to start brushing your teeth in the middle of a karaoke performanc?

Sure! to name just a few that fit in here in this nebulous zone to me, I'd suggest work by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, @kjy1066.bsky.social, @lilliekoi.bsky.social, @rlsummerling.bsky.social, @addisonzeller.bsky.social, @xaviergarcia.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social

Hey, John, be cool, man

Tonya Harding's lingering spiritual foot-print at Portland's two mall ice rinks (Lloyd Center where she practiced as as a child & Clackamas Town Center where she trained for the Olympics), setting us up for a destabilization of the city's energies when they finally tear Lloyd down later this year.

Seahawks championship and my new book officially out on Tuesday. Just a giant day for SeaTac. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING! autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

The real project of the internet, after turning everyone into Republican mass shooters (yes, your time will come), is to make me hate the fans of the art I love.

“Well, you can see that this has been a real train dream”

ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.

Literally everyone I've invited thinks I'm joking around and then stopped replying to my text for a day

Stephen King wrote a craft book called On Writing and it's the one that lit-fic people love and half of it is just ruminations on his childhood but the other half is, hilariously, about how the only way to make your writing good is to cut the wordcount by 50%. From Stephen King.

Craft is a myth invented by fragile artists who need to believe that "good" art exists and that industries like publishing are meritocracies that at least semi-accurately reward goodness.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

Spectrum of something wild and unnamable between this guy and Alan Cumming's scene in Eyes Wide Shut

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

Judge Anderson, Judge Dredd and Judge Death commission (2013) by Mick/Mike McMahon.

Groundhog Day has become effortlessly beautiful, mysteriously sacred

When the 1st person narrator is just a regular guy w/ no prejudices or idiosyncrasies except perfectly objective observation & witty, adverb-less speech.

Don’t blame anybody for not being able to do it. We can’t really afford to be doing it either, but we are. It’s not the superior choice, just a choice. If you don’t mind the ask, we’d love for people to check out the site and consider an online order tonight or this weekend Eveninghousebooks.com

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

Trying to pick which groups of friends groups I want invite to which of these and it’s hopeles, feels like I’m picking bridesmaids or MySpace top 8 www.thecinemagictheater.com/tarkovsky

I didn't think it would happen again but

I keep a conspicuous number of Ashes & Diamonds (1958) screenshots on my desktop at all times. Like A LOT, in case I die. My hope is that these will satisfy anyone looking for my secrets on my computer, and leave the files unexplored.

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I keep a conspicuous number of Ashes & Diamonds (1958) screenshots on my desktop at all times. Like A LOT, in case I die. My hope is that these will satisfy anyone looking for my secrets on my computer, and leave the files unexplored.

404 Media has published the full user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE to bring up addresses for deportation targets. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

From Blindsight, to Dune, to Babel-17, to I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter, nothing quite does it for me like “Only neurodivergent people can pilot future ships well.”

I live on an Earth-like planet

Some counterprogramming, in a world gone mad: Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

the tallest boys stand in awe of you

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The big dismemberment scene at the end of Weapons is very cathartic

Look what Cancel Culture has done to our community!

The deadly poison traps, essentialist morality, and single-hit-point player-characters of the TTRPG Old School Revival reflect a gaming community literally “crawling” through a dark and lethal geopolitical landscape

These guys are so clearly terrified. Spooked by their own wrongdoing. Alarmed that it’s all being recorded and disseminated before they can rewrite the story. Each bystander has a billion eyes, a billion ears. This is not what they signed up for. The recruitment propaganda promised glory, power, and

she's saying this cause ICE wants to leave and they wanna look like they're leaving cause they won, not cause they're cold and scared. they dunno if the next killing is gonna set off the powder keg, or the one after that, but they do know they have no way to stop their guys from killing if they stay

you can watch The Battle of Algiers on the internet archive, btw archive.org/details/TheB...

On top of being very funny (surprise!), I think this story, more than his others, will wind up being the key to understanding what mushrooms are a metaphor for in Kevin's writing.

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Like 90% of internet conspiracy theories just went away as soon as the government really leaned in to publicly and unapologetically beating up non-white people.

P sure the uncomplicated reason that the democrats don’t want to get rid of ice is bc their donors, friends, and business partners are all making an insane amount of money off of all this. That’s why their solution is always gonna be to give them even more money.

Can't karaoke Driver's License without crying so much that I cannot physically finish the song, like all middle-aged men.

Kevin and Aaron doing the same moment in their respective autofictional mains' lives (see ORCAS, or LIFE & ART & MAGIC & BEAUTY by in @xraylitmag.bsky.social) reminds me of when Westlake's Parker met Gore's Dan Kearney in each of their books and it's the most fun thing to happen to indie lit.

So many beauty queens seem to die in their thirties and forties. Half Ron Rice’s life or less. Suicides. Overdoses. Murdered by husbands. Bodies broken for what? Trying to earn a living? www.welcometohellworld.com/it-is-mortif...