This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

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ME AS A ROMAN PEASANT IN THE LATE 400s, CATCHING UP ON THE NEWS OF THE DAY: [shoveling olives into my mouth] holy shit ME AS AN AMERICAN PEASANT IN THE LATE 2020s, CATCHING UP ON THE NEWS OF THE DAY: [shoveling olives into my mouth] holy shit

this is it

I can't believe J.D. Vance went on TV and said "Ich bin Evil! Ich bin Evil!!! Ich bin der Evil kleine Chocolate Boy!!" with chocolate smeared all over his mouth and lederhosen. But he did. And we all saw it

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

also by shooting people. that's especially unsafe, I feel

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

oh i had this realization once

bluesky, help me out: i'm at jury duty, it's my fourth summons since 2020 (and i served that time too!), it is very boring in here. tell me what makes you enjoy a story? is there a common thread through all your faves? does it all come down to vibes? please help me i am dying

wife got nervous because i ducked into the other room with my laptop and answered a lot of questions on a video call about the family's eating patterns. she thought it was medical-related. but in fact i had signed up for a focus group about mayonnaise

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Lemon,

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chose this particular morning not to check social media. unrelated, has anyone else recently developed a new and deeper understanding of this scene

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year

i can't hear any part of this song or see any mention of the person who sings it without imagining this. for those wondering which word schmidt mispronounces, it's 'beekeeping.' thank you for your time

Oh, and incidentally. Those other writers, they are not your competition. They are your colleagues, and the kinder, more generous you are to them the better things will go for you.

A little longer now and you'll get to go to the rave celebrating his death. Just a little bit longer

muppet 'bond' movie: entirely original spy plot, kermit as like 'plames blond' and it's a running gag that he has to keep repeating it. miss piggy as second lead/love interest (a barely fictionalized version of herself), gonzo as q. entirely muppet cast except for the villain, played by daniel craig

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

still my favorite christmas post

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

I feel, perhaps predictably, strongly about this. If you also do, this post shows a way to steer your borrowing with Libby to books with a real person doing the audiobook reading.

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

as a child i 100% believed gaston was Like That bc of the sheer volume of eggs he ate, like over a certain volume they were a neurotoxin? i distinctly remember treating one of my stuffed animals for what i believed to be the very real condition of Egg Brain lmao. disney can't take this from me

right i promise this is the last time i'm going to announce a book this year haha, however I DID WRITE ONE MORE. it comes out in may! it's full of love and warmth and feelings and jokes and deli sandwiches and a dog named pastrami! i hope you like it! in may! geni.us/1469-al-aut-ch

“If you’ve got autism or ADHD just get into the habit of setting loads of reminders for yourself” The reminders:

a drum i've beaten before: the number of trans people in this country is roughly the same as the number of active scuba divers (ie, people who have done a dive in the last year). if you cut the garbage, the average voter thinks/cares about trans issues about as much as they do about scuba issues

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

also: the library! it will still be free! at the library! you can use a variety of apps/sites to access! the library! you needn't go to a location! to enjoy the library! if you request the books of authors at the library it helps us! if you check them out it helps us! and also the library! LIBRARY

unironically: if you were to boil down all the conversations i've had in my life to their most basic essentials, this sentiment would cover roughly 1/3 of them. no ragrets lmao

"read but i need to read them again when the adhd is cooperating"

FFS, if you don't want to use Amazon, use Kobo. Or pay a dollar on Itchio. And if you're really skint, borrow from the library! Yes, libraries have ebooks, and Libby is a free app!

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️

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Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

BLANCHE: Apparently wealthy men wrote to complain about how hard it is to seduce teenage girls. I also had good taste at a tender age. DOROTHY: Men are lizards. ROSE: We had a teacher like that in St Olaf. Mister Lindberg. He had to leave after he fell down the same flight of stairs six times.

Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth

Jupiter says trans rights

after all, who could expect audiences to suspend their disbelief or let go of what happened in a previous james bond film? the role having famously been played by the same man for the last sixty-plus years-- [hurried muttering from offstage] sorry, what? you said SEVEN men?