He's attending dinner

Almost timely with my reading for once

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

I acquired the most cursed candy for the office Christmas game

The way this administration has instituted corruption as a standard mode of government would make Huey Long blush

I tried to pet him but he thought hand was more useful as a pillow (unfortunately hand was needed for essay writing)

and the buses, he tells me, the buses are so slow. too many cars. fares take too long. stop and go, stop, stop, stop, go, stop, go, stop, go, go, stop—no more. fast buses. fast and free

Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Opening line of ''The Desecration of City Hall,'' which you can read here: medium.com/after-the-st...)

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Sleepy literary critic

Truly, one of the worst to ever do it www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...

When the article gets too real out of nowhere

On my break at work today a new colleague sits down in front of me and says 'I'm not on my break, I'm just gonna eat this banana'. Then she dead ass looks me right in the eyes while she eats her banana. Honestly, power move

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

Again, only conservatives do this, Nancy Pelosi has never demanded the Church be less homophobic if it wants to keep her

Super proud to have new short fiction in the latest @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/terrarium.html

When's their flags at half-mast? When's their bipartisan resolution? When do these children get 24/7 coverage of their too-short lives and endless interrogation of their murderer's ideology?

But their legal traditions is also something someone dreamt up and other went along with? When it's something he likes it's sacrosanct tradition. When it's something he doesn't, it's in innovation.

You'd think that someone would raise their hand and note that 'patriotic national renewal' sounds like something Hitler might say

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Clicked a random link on a whim and was well rewarded. Tight and funny piece of short fiction hexliterary.com?p=2870

I'm sure he'll prove just as prescient about this as he was about the metaverse

boys with the time machine: wow. so this is kowloon walled city

Book mail! @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Ignore the thing in the background

It's extremely interesting that Charlie Kirk had a daily podcast, countless public appearances, and is generally one of the most recorded men on the planet and we are always being told, never shown, that he was an open minded civil debator

Went on a mini road trip to an old castle in northern Scania today. The walls and bastions have been torn down, and the moat mostly filled in but the main building is from the 1700s.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Time to break out the chart

Yes, anyone looking around America in 2025 knows that things are VERY BAD for white males and VERY GOOD for trans women

As rumors fly that Trump has suffered a stroke, I was reminded that the motherfucker has always been a loathsome piece of shit. To make more money with a different tenant, Trump threw 74-year-old widow, Mary Filan, who had recently suffered a stroke out of her Queens apartment.

Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation

Just sent off a novella manuscript to a publisher. I'm under no illusions of scoring a publishing deal on my first attempt, but hopefully I can get a personal rejection to inform a new round of edits.

can’t believe we’re gonna have a First Couch

Just finished episode 281 of @thoc.bsky.social, and the Kangxi emperor has cemented himself as one of the great haters of history. I stand in awe of his levels of petty malice and regret that he is not alive today, as I would have loved to see him get into social media feuds.

I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?

Party at my place tonight, and I decided to produce a little teaser trailer for it

Chapbook unboxing video, finally in a format Bsky accepts 🌱 I forgot to say the book title but the train sounds make up for it(?)

when the election is a month away, these guys say well hey, it's too late now, hold your nose & vote for the lesser of two evils. but when it's three years away, you have three years to get the fuck over it, apparently

Finished this atmospheric collection a while back, and the contents are as good as the cover

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

EDITOR'S NOTE: We have updated our story on Anne Frank to say that she actually died of typhus, and not from the Nazis putting her in a concentration camp. We regret the error and will find the filthy rat who dared to suggest the Nazis had anything to do with her death.

I keep thinking about how the founder of ‘serious’ conservatism — the kind we allegedly need to bring back — was a dishonest, racist fraud. A life spent making the country irrevocably dumber and worse.

huh. that must be why Bret Stephens, a Republican, is using his New York Times column to try to prevent that mayoralty from happening: because it would be so good for Republicans

But congestion pricing polled terribly. The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad. But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it. Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.

My first book will be out May 2026 🖤

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school