listen: i appreciate you thanking me for stepping into the street and getting out of your way as you ride your bikes, half a block apart, down the sidewalk to the popular local coffee shop, but no, i will not be returning your thanks with anything but the WANEST of smiles

A good price. Songs written by me that appear in my novel "A Song for Katy Shayne." Pounce, friends! tinyurl.com/3b57u53s

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someone woke me up at 5:20 to go outside but now wants me to know that 745am is FAR TOO EARLY TO BE MAKING THIS MUCH NOISE

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

The Verge@theverge.com · yesterday

Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

Divers free a whale shark from rope that enwrapped it for years: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

I remember somebody saying Aaron Hernandez wasn't a football player who killed people; he was a serial killer who somehow ended up in the NFL. Hegseth is a serial killer who somehow ended up being the Secretary of Defense.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 20h ago

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

the male model book influencer to "best selling author" pipeline makes me wanna die because girls, there are a LOT of 'em

Kanopy has a staging of TARTUFFE that is starting with a queer dance club scene?? I'm already 100000% sold

my current conspiracy theory is that amazon released their RUNNER vod movie the same day as Alan Ritchson's in-theater RUNNER movie because they want to tank his theatrical career and keep him on streaming

"Do you deserve to wear virginial white? Because if you don't, you'll have to wear an off white, what we call a "whore white". So which will it be? White white?" "Yes... um, except for the gloves."

James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social · 23h ago

Almost nobody watched The Critic but everyone who did is an elder Millennial who posts on Bluesky

so lately the legacy men's magazines have profiled Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Glenn Powell ha. hahahahaha.

Trying something new on Patreon: BOOKS + PIZZA, the newsletter where I review hopefully-good books and perpetually disappointing Los Angeles pie. Up first, a freebie: YESTERYEAR. www.patreon.com/msemilyedwar...

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I deeply hate this. I have been fascinated by the fall of the American chestnut tree and the efforts to bring it back. How grotesque this is.

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d ago

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

i may have referenced zip codes 13 years before they existed in my book (oops) but a NYT best seller has mentioned the "clack of her sewing needles as she knitted" so now i feel less bad about the zip codes

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · yesterday

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.

s/o to all the other heterosexual women who learned about Anne Carson when their three lesbian best friends made them watch THE L WORD in their freshman dorms in 2004

The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterday

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

i think you all really need to eavesdrop on how boomer moms talk to their kids

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d ago

Why people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N

okay but tbf our parents were fucking pre-AIDS crisis and what percentage of this was actually date rape

Playboy@playboy.com · yesterday

According to Playboy's 1983 sex survey, respondents reported having an average of 15 lifetime sexual partners for women, and 20 for men. In our 2026 Gen Z sex survey, both men and women reported an average of 3 to 5 lifetime sexual partners. Your parents were having more sex than you.

there's a not small part of me that wants to pull out of bouchercon and just say fuck it. no one's going to come to my panel, one of my PANELISTS even isn't going to come to my panel- he actually gets to interview louise penny. my books are old. i don't have an agent. why am i doing this dumb shit.

how many years of amazon tracking my every move and jeff has determined details about my life that could only be gleaned from a thirty-second, cursory overview of my instagram

i haven't watched the new gbbo yet but i'll never not be surprised how mad some people can get over how one of the sexiest women on the entire planet eats cake

parisian-style protests happen in LA kinda frequently. against the LAPD. one of the reasons the president wants people to attack our city.

Craig Jenkins@craigsj.bsky.social · yesterday

whenever there's a big protest overseas you see a contingent of americans going 'see that's what *we* need' and then when that energy does show it's tut tutted online, demonized on tv, and sprayed with chemical agents on the street. it's language policed and/or police policed down.

woke up at two, laid around, now i do just have to get up to drive my husband to the airport. i think you're supposed to get more than 28 hours of sleep in a week, but it's been a long time...

Every worthless shitbag who tried to explain the previous speech with "that's not what he MEANT..." seriously, go fuck yourselves. Delete your accounts. Never speak a word on the subject of politics again.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"

okay, i'm finally asking: what to do to actually break this writer's block? i'm not sleeping, i'm constantly anxious, i can't think two steps ahead about anything, and this does not feel great as a foundation for writing 80k word mystery novels

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reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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you sound tired. are you eating enough ice cream?

Emily J. Edwards@msemilyedwards.bsky.social · last yr.

before twitter went full nazi, i at least got this story out in the world

you could say i've been a gamer since the 90s my game:

boy, cigarettes are BACK, kids