I'm sitting there, hating the mindless game, hating myself for playing it, hating not being able to do anything else, but just hoping that it's mindless *enough* that I can put it down and start what i need to do when the dopamine hits.

I'm not ignoring a deadline. I'm hyper cognizant of it, I'm waking up in a cold sweat about it. I'm not doing things I'd rather do than work. I'm desperately wanting to start doing work I love and am good at, but can't begin, and instead loading up a flash game that's all I can manage to do.

God, a thousand times this. That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis. I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.

Hey all! ARCs of my book, I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD are now available at NetGalley! #IWasATeenageDeathGod #Netgalley Click here to request: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

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Douthat is a fool, but who was the @nytimes.com editor who commissioned or approved this and why are they working there? Did they lose their job at the Anti-Suffrage Gazette? Were there layoffs at the buggy whip factory? Or is it a refugee from Project 2025's campaign to take away our checkbooks?

i think the relentlessness has made the whole bit of transphobia really tiring for the average person. they see systems and structures failing them at every turn and then look to the news to see some ghoul wailing about "biological females" and it's like hey man stop being weird i have bills

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

👀 To a Darker Shore, my childhood best friends to monsters to lovers YA fantasy is in @people.com❤️‍🔥😈🔥

They rounded up legal immigrants at their place of work on Election Day.

REMEMBER, if you are in line to vote in the New York City elections NO YOU ARE NOT you are On Line

Antiblackness is an expensive addiction but there is nothing they won't run into the ground to get another hit.

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

Truly gutting. Teen Vogue was one of a few outlets still doing real reporting on issues that matter (not just to teens). The way corporate media has caved to pressure from this administration is shameful & pathetic. If we somehow survive this regime, these companies don't deserve to survive with us.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

Man I did not realize how much I'd be going through last week. What a rollercoaster. Welp... Onto the next thing as we wrap up the spooky season! Collabs w/ @mjbeasi.com #Karaoke #Reverse1999 #R1999 #Minecraft #MyFriendlyNeighborhood #Schedule #Twitch #Youtube #Collab

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Some excitement amidst all the terror, a box of ARCs for I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD arrived in the mail yesterday! Even in this early form, it's more gratifying than I ever anticipated to hold this book in my own hands. I'm emotional. I may or may not have caught myself hugging one of them. 😅💜

“Children with reinfection had significantly higher risks for myocarditis, thrombophlebitis, thromboembolism, arrhythmias, fatigue, cognitive impairment, dysautonomia (including POTS), and abnormal liver enzymes. “ www.emjreviews.com/microbiology... #IDSky #COVID #longCOVID

It's the mega music video collab cover of Numbers by the SoCal Vocals, Shalmy Tan, and Ricky Lee! Thank you to everyone who supported us and to my collaborators who lent their voices! Please enjoy our performance! youtu.be/7N0yQ_gbqnA?... #R1999 #Reverse1999 #Acapella #Cover #Music #Anniversary

NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand. by me @ wired:

GASP

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study of MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

Most of the time, my ADHD is an asset when I'm live-streaming... and then there's that morning when I rage-quit stream over covid denial in the chat. 😅 Emotional regulation, must you elude me in these moments?

I’ll be real, I don’t care about the White House. It’s just a building. But the way this happened is the way everything has happened since he took office, with no concern whatsoever for anything but himself & his imagined grandeur. He doesn’t care about anything else & his enablers are fine w/that.

This!!! THIS. It is abnormal and deeply concerning, and if it happens, we should be treating it as something to be urgently addressed.

This Spooky Month... We're trying to be productive! 😱 Collabs w/ @mjbeasi.com @hanabikun.bsky.social @shinybottv.bsky.social @madknighthunter.bsky.social RikuoToshiro #Reverse1999 #GenshinImpact #Minecraft #Schedule #Twitch #Youtube #Collab #VoiceActing #MyFriendlyNeighborhood #goosegooseduck

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”. Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Getting COVID 5 times doesn’t make you “stronger.” The immune system isn’t a muscle—repeated infections can cause cumulative damage and raise long-term risks. Protect your immune system by avoiding repeat infections: clean air, masks, vaccination. Source: x.com/Engineer_Won...

I’ve given up on the hope that most people will ever care about others to acknowledge that choosing not to wear a mask in public spaces is a big 🖕to disabled people & everyone more vulnerable than they are. But I’m a little stunned how many folks will spend time loudly justifying it on social media.

nah, the real classical music move is to call it String Quartet No 2 and drop something in a letter to keep the musicologists busy a century later

This is so real. 😭

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?" Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Happy Spooky Month! Collabs w/ @mjbeasi.com Jadiemoon @shadowmonarch1371.bsky.social Rikuo_Toshiro12 The CAVALRY: @crescentsquirrel.bsky.social @shinybottv.bsky.social #Reverse1999 #GenshinImpact #Minecraft #Schedule #Twitch #Youtube #Collab #VoiceActing #WatchParty

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Michiganders and those within the Detroit metro area–I'll be facilitating a rad Youth Right to Read Summit on November 8 for people ages 15-22. It's *FREE* with travel reimbursement for young folks. Details + registration ---> www.milibraries.org/youth-summit...

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Kinda weird to be sitting over here during Banned Books Week knowing that while my book (which will not be published until 6 months from now now) is not yet banned… it surely will be. 🙃

Finally I can share this here in all its glory. Besides conveying the vibe of my book perfectly, I also resonate with this design personally more than I knew I could reasonably expect. I’m obsessed. I’m in love with it. I hope you love it, too. Illustration by Tracy J. Lee, design by Emma Hardy.

Page Street YA & I collaborated on an Instagram post today celebrating my debut’s cover (check out my Insta to read notes from the designer!). We also included this graphic to give you an idea of some things you can expect behind the cover when the book is released in March! I’M SORRY, NEW JERSEY.

Playing CRAB GAME on Saturday, raising money for #ExtraLife please join us and donate if you can! Collabs w/ @hanabikun.bsky.social @mjgsc.bsky.social www.extra-life.org/participant/... #Charity #Reverse1999 #GenshinImpact #Minecraft #CrabGame #Schedule #Twitch #Youtube #Collab #VoiceActing

This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.

I cannot express to you how urgent it is that we all loudly and constantly support queer media right now. It is my number one goal for this year, to support and promote as many queer artists as possible.

I crafted the entirety of a semester-long journal project while working the graveyard shift at my dorm's front desk the night before it was due, & my professor regarded it so highly, she quoted it in an interview that appeared in papers all over the country (to my eternal chagrin). Suck on that, AI.

Teenage ghost!!! Solving murders!! Saving lives!! 😍💜😍💜

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun! Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors! Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts! Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co