This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Looking forward to the pivot into the AI-avian-shoe business.

It’s written by @emmavieceli.bsky.social my artist partner on The Modern Frankenstein. How weird that you go to see a friend’s musical at a little theatre and find it life-changing and life affirming. The world needs this show.

So this amazing musical that made me cry and is about stuff close to my heart, they’re at 90% with 9 days left! Go look! Go *listen*! greenlit.com/project/unfo...

When they get to the discovery phase, he's going to realize why Donald never follows through on his threats to sue media outlets.

I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now. And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕

In this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I wrote about springtime and aligning actions with values and disagreeing with Reese Witherspoon about AI. Read the whole thing: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/180-reese-wi...

Very excited to reveal the cover for my next book, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV’s First Visionary. The book will be published by Grand Central on October 13 of this year, and pre-orders are open now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

Yup No amount of tax incentives will be able to balance that workers in other countries don’t have to pay for healthcare or crazy high college fees for their kids

Dirty Mountain Dew Cream Soda Dew finally answers the age old question, "What if we made a soda that tastes like Lemon Pledge?"

They mocked the field of gender studies as meaningless, but I think they really just knew it was onto them. They're the softest bunch of insecure little manchildren play-acting what they have been told is manly and macho. (gift link)

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.

Speaking as a U.S. Catholic, I'm not torn at all. Trump is long overdue for fucking off into the sun. He is neither Catholic nor religious in any way. He is a blasphemous stain on the body politic and a sorry excuse for a human being. What is there to be torn about?

No, Starbucks, I just want you to bring back the chai you've had for decades, the one with actual flavor.

There's a horse, and it's loose in his imaginary ballroom hospital.

I would love to see someone ask RFK Jr. what sort of parenting intervention he thinks there should be for rich white children abusing unprescribed recreational drugs.

Multiple candidates in multiple cities can and should realistically be running, in part, on a platform of ‘We will arrest and charge every last one of these ICE agents who’ve abused our citizens.’

"Mayor Mamdani has proven in 100 days of bold, principled, people-powered governance that every politician in America who has ever used the word “realistic” as an excuse for timidity, has lied to us. And as Americans, we are done waiting. "

@schaller67.bsky.social @ @atrupar.com's PN: "In short, Americans are sick and tired of Trump. And with almost three years left in his second term, he is unlikely to gain strength in the months and years ahead — a reality that may make him more desperate and dangerous than ever." 🧾 is.gd/wooL0Q

Who could have foreseen etc, cont'd.

Here's the thing. If you've spent even five minutes around religious iconography, there's no way you would mistake an image like that for "a doctor," Red Cross or not. So everyone trying to excuse him is either willfully blaspheming, lying, or hasn't really seen religious iconography.

Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.

Re that grotesque Yale report on a lack of "diverse" perspectives in academe: the majority of right leaning people (men) I've met in higher ed have been grotesque sexpests, misogynists, lazy, and incompetent. They can't hack the intellectual part and students hate them. Hope that helps!

He never learns. If he had taken his inheritance and left it alone, he would have been exponentially richer without affecting anyone else's lives. He ran some of the only casinos where the house kept losing. It's not the dementia, he is quite literally an idiot.

You'd think the EPA chief would be concerned about "the environment" but nope. One of the many things that will take years to undo, optimistically. How Lee Zeldin Shifted the Mission — and the Message — of the E.P.A. — gift link www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

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Pope Leo's patron saint is Augustine. He spent twelve years leading Augustine’s religious order. Augustine invented the "just war" doctrine. Pretty sure the Pope has a better understanding of this than Mike.

it gets lost in the shuffle of constant corruption and bloodshed but even with the memecoin ALONE, that would make him very clearly the most corrupt U.S. president in history, you could easily argue

If you are, say, a comedian and you have to go around saying, "That thing I said? That's not what I was saying, they're weaponizing that," you might want to reflect on what you thought you were saying when you actually said what you said. That line they're "weaponizing"? You said that.

I'm gonna guess that the new book about Vance's faith journey will mention nothing about the fact that Vance's conversion to Catholicism just happened occur the same year he got his first big check from Peter Thiel.

I don't know if young people these days understand that this kind of grotesque gutter racism was simply not acceptable in public... not that long ago!

Tulip bulbs. Just replace "AI" with "tulip bulbs" and that will tell you where we are.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) admitted it has no evidence that Vermont is not complying with federal voter roll maintenance laws — an admission that could further weaken its case for amassing voters’ sensitive data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As a therapist and a healthcare worker, chatbots are becoming a public health crisis, and I’m tired of hearing people who don’t see the harm every day explain why this is totally fine and just like people pearl-clutching over cellphones. It’s getting worse and we haven’t scratched the surface.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

The absence of influential nuns in his life is screamingly palpable.

In the Catholic faith, one of these men is considered infallible in matters of theology. It's not the right wing adult convert who bought his way out of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults process that converting adults are meant to go through. This is also why JD rarely sounds Catholic.

I went to Catholic schools in MA from K-12, and even though I don't practice Catholicism, I was pretty immersed in a soft liberalism from my teachers and especially from the kickass nuns and brothers at these schools. I absorbed radical principles like "love and serve others" and "don't lie."

They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Well said, @colsonwhitehead.com.

was once New Amsterdam.

Omg I'm so happy

Started out with a bankroll from Daddy. Multiple business bankruptcies. How anyone ever thought he could run our country is still beyond me.

This is why I’m watching the splashdown stuff right now.

The three most remarkable papal tweets — ever?

If it ever gets built, I look forward to its demolition. But let's not waste the time and money to build it in the first place.

what do they need pardons for

It is grotesque, and no one wants money spent on the fucking thing, particularly when the nation is such a dire state:

During an interview today for TV the reporter asked me what I’m most looking forward to about the return of #Artemis II (referring I think to the science data/discoveries) and I replied that all I care about today is that the astronauts return home safely 🙏🏼