martha plimpton plays a baddie on this season of the lowdown and she’s styled so so perfectly, like if a cop from reno 9-1-1 was sincere. she walked into the show and I yelled YOU FUCK EM UP MARTHA PLIMPTON
One time at work as an icebreaker they asked "what advice did your mother give you?" and thanks to a recent conversation what was top of mind for me was "whoever needs the relationship less has the power in the relationship" and they were looking for like, "vinegar and cold water to remove stains"
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h agodoes anybody have any tips
Judge David Carter: "Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government … the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too."
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h agoReuters: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LOSES INITIAL BID TO BLOCK CALIFORNIA FROM COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS FROM ALLEGED NONCITIZENS
of all the people and entities I used to love who are now fully AI-pilled, this is one of the ones that breaks my heart the most. their ENTIRE REASON FOR EXISTENCE was to democratize human art making and insist that writing a novel was something any of us could do
Lili Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow.com · 5d agoSo, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?
You would be shocked at how much use you will get out of a tiny pocket tape measure you carry every day.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h agodoes anybody have any tips
when the server asks if u want hash browns or home fries there is no harm in asking for both u should always shoot your shot
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h agodoes anybody have any tips
meeting a lesbian couple: "so which of you is going to lose the time war"
when a client sends me a really quick stick figure sketch or shoddy paintover for feedback instead of a lengthy email i want to ask them to marry me
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h ago“It used to take weeks and weeks and weeks to tell an artist an idea” Rian Johnson in 30 seconds:
I don't want the elected dems to "reach across the aisle." I want them to "feast on the livers of their enemies and guzzle the marrow from their crushed bones." I hope that is clear!
I'm so serious: Jezebel is a ghost ship with two writers, no dedicated editor, and a crazed money guy who pushed out the co-founder of Paste and is now deleting an untold number of articles with "abortion," "porn" or "rape" in the headline. this feels cringe but someone buy it to #SaveJezebel
Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 6mo agoJezebel will turn 20 next year. If the site is going to survive, someone has to buy it from the big dummy with the keys. One option: make it its own LLC and get a fiscal sponsor. Another: do a robust subs program like @theonion.com (Hi Ben). Ads ain't it Signal chat me for the dummy's email address
The owner of Jezebel, Bill Sagan of Paste Media, also removed Jia Tolentino's seminal 2016 interview with a New York woman who had to leave the state for an abortion at 32 weeks due to a fetal diagnosis. Someone who knows Jezebel's worth needs to buy it from this man www.jezebel.com/interview-wi...
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22h agoJezebel’s new owner is reportedly deleting old blogs that aren’t “brand safe,” which means that this very timely investigation I did into a sketchy reality TV producer pushing a rape lawsuit against Trump is seemingly just gone. When I click the link it just goes to their homepage
The children yearn for Middlemarch
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16h ago“At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays, bans digital devices. Humanities 10 drew 180 applicants for just 90 spots this fall. Students expressed urge to be forced to think for themselves in the age of AI." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...
We’ve embraced this technology with functionally no plan in place and I am reminded of this every day when I see single use vapes on the ground that I know have lithium ion packs in them.
Battery fires are a structural issue. There’s functionally no public messaging on where to properly dispose of this stuff even in ideal conditions and certification is all over the place functionally, so it ends up hurting people who have to rely on this stuff to live. L
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 16h agoFires caused by the lithium-ion batteries used in e-bikes are up 41 percent in 2026 as the city slow-walks safe, outdoor charging and storage initiatives that have been in the works for years. buff.ly/ewOY4tn
Good news everyone!!! Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America is now out in a lovely affordable paperback, AND it no longer uses my deadname! With some new material too. If you haven't read the book yet, pick it up!! bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. "An investi...
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Just got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns
Holy SHIT. I am not an expert in immigration proceedings, but from what I do know, this seems pretty seismic.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h agoA federal judge found that an immigration court bond hearing was so egregiously stacked against an ICE detainee that he may simply order the release of ICE detainees, rather than bond hearings, from now on. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The NY Times will publish a hit piece on the Democratic Alaska senate candidate six days before an Election but won't mention a new rape allegation against the President of the United States.
this post is one of my favorite pieces of nonfiction writing and it was an honor to get to read it!
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 17h agoOn this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, author Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) reads post 29, "Without Egg." Here, Ursula takes a specific memory—asking for her breakfast “Ohne Ei" in Vienna in the 50s—& spins it into a whole journey involving recipes, egg cups, & multitasking.
"Jar Jar had hoes." No he didn't. That isn't true.
Zaki Hasan@zakiscorner.bsky.social · 19h agoThis is objectively, verifiably untrue.
I do think it’s funny when the current pope is like “that’s not how this should work” and people are like “uh buddy that’s what the church has BEEN DOING” as if he doesn’t know that. as if that might not be why he’s saying it now
I told my editor that I had to go to South America to find treasure and rescue my kidnapped sister, and they were just like "how will this affect the delivery date", it's like none of the old publishing traditions are valued any more.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · yesterdayI've been in this industry a minute now and I still don't have an agent who will abandon their family and fly across the country to drink wine on a curb outside a restaurant with me on a random tuesday night because I'm feeling sad and I am so disillusioned
Everyone knows people don’t buy print magazines anymore. The LIFE revival aims to buck that trend by asking some very important questions: What if magazines cost $45 an issue? And what if they were funded by the Kushner family fortune? Would you buy a print magazine then?
Life Magazine, Chronicler of 20th Century America, Rises Again
The iconic publication, acclaimed for its visual storytelling, will return as a print quarterly next month in a challenging business environment.
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In 1972 in preparation for Skylab, NASA ran a full 56-day ground simulation. It was called SMEAT, and at the request of the three participating astronauts Charles Schultz personally drew the mission insignia: a choking Snoopy with a rope around his neck.
I can vouch for Archita, a fellow writer in Kolkata who's sick & struggling with costs to support her mother through cancer treatment, as well as dealing with safety issues & repair on their home. She recently lost her father to cancer, & is dealing with all this alone. Please share widely & donate:
Archita Mittra@architamittra.bsky.social · 3mo agoNeither my physical nor mental health is great, but I'm NOT giving up. I urgently need funds for our healthcare, so please circulate/donate if you can, and if you're able to help out in any other way, pls DM. You can donate via Gpay/UPI QR code (if you're in India) or ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/architamittra
