This paper repeats every fart from the Trump administrator without sniffing first to see if it happened but Danny Glover “said” he had a medical event like they need to cover their backside in case maybe he’s lying.

I'm so angry about this.

Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars were fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains’ teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a sword leapt from its sheath.

Safety rules are written in blood. Scrapping them is generally a decision to kill people to increase profits

Shot + chaser

"My name is Maarva Carassi Andor."

Now why might someone who gets a 10% referral fee from law firms that sue vaccine makers want CDC to cast official doubt on the safety of vaccines? hmmmmmm.... maggiefox.com/f/here%E2%80...

Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

*looks directly at camera*

The Geiers were famous for using Lupron (a medical castration drug) on autistic boys to “ take the wolf out” as they put it in a long -vanished article that used to be on the NYT website. Vile and evil men.

Past is prologue. In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests. And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now. This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Part 181 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Edo Period Dancing Fox Figurine. Carved ivory and sumo ink stain. Japan 1775.

Seems like a good day to revisit why I chose this screen name a little over seven years ago. A 🧵 It was about a week after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, and the first time (that I know of) that Trump was asked about it.

The problem with having rather openly purged DOJ of all but the most shameless stooges and loyalists is precisely this: Even once the Epstein files are released, why would anyone believe that release is complete and undoctored?

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

This is beyond everything horrible he’s already done.

Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!

I think this is the point Tom Nichols keeps trying to make us understand. This is fascist and authoritarian.

Alice fucking Wong never had a “job,” scraped by on freelance gigs, had to win a MacArthur to keep from being warehoused in an institution, and got laid off a week before she died by Teen Vogue… …and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Do we think they’ve noticed that we are 50% of the population or nah?

That’s Chekhov. In Ibsen you die while trying to impress a young woman. Or die by suicide. Or from syphilis. Or live, but are abandoned by the people you love most.

"I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally murder us, but I really need you to focus."

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

My son's book arrived, beautifully giftwrapped and inscribed with a Christmas message, and I couldn't stand it and gave it to him right away. He loves it by the way. Great gift for your type nerd!

At CONjuration, Atlanta's immersive fantasy convention... SOOO many adorable Elphabas but they were too young to take their picture without permission from parents and I didn't want to be creepy.

(alt text for previous repost) "Re: 'There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!': No there aren't, my side is the 'People Who Don't Fuck Children' side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?" — John Scalzi

This is not okay.

The irony here is painful. Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name. But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased. Exactly how disabled people often are.

He did not deserve this.

When did pedophilia become a partisan issue? The American people deserve to know the full truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every powerful person who enabled him. Every name. Every flight log. Every cover up. All of it.

The only point to this is to tie the files up in ongoing investigations.

I’m on John Scalzi’s side.

"Wikipedia was an important victory, as it will always be at the top of the search engine results. [N]ow the head lines do not mention convicted sex offender or pedophile. Instead, Philanthrophic [sic] work, Epstein Foundation, Promotion of Scientists. ...stuff has been muted, bowlerized [sic]"

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Even when it's their own daughter.

A podcast of my story "Disassembling Light", originally published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is up on It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!! This isn't even a career milestone I knew to want, but my nerd's heart is so full!!

the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless. police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks (and whatever else it is they are striking for)

Do Not Cross Picket Lines

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT