Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.
Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest
Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
Gotta hear both sides (liberal politics and sports)
Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
Deeply fucked that “regardless of what genitals a little girl has, I don’t think adults should demand to look at them” is considered a radical freak position in some corners
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
An essential problem that we have is that modern conservativism only makes sense if you're stupid. We treat "liberalism" and "conservativism" as being to equal but opposite poles, but actually most conservative ideas are wrong.
Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report.
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
Nine Inch Nails is easy listening for rivetheads
Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Sorry to be obvious but it’s Floodland, of course it’s Floodland, what else could it possibly be
You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"
I don’t care for these statues at all but this is MUCH worse. Keep this man away from Buffalo Bridge
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
I will go further: JD Vance has said, essentially, his own wife shouldn't have gotten automatic citizenship for being born here, which I guess would make his children with her subject to deportation
i honestly want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing to say
seems bad and also, again, there does not appear to be any actually non-evil use case for this. Were the people crying out for a toy that let them put a McDonald's in satellite photos of Antarctica or something?
seems bad!
I like this interview and not just because Emily is very nice about my editing (although certainly that too!)
it was so nice chatting with @mdelgadia.bsky.social about @darkertimes.bsky.social! we chatted about the subscriber drive, the joys of being edited, and how much we both miss websites - check it out: scare-me.beehiiv.com/p/darker-times
If someone could please give me a job I guarantee I will not acquire, at great expense, a book that sucks
👀 Fascinated by the "withdrawn by its agents" detail. So the AI use was so blatant that the agents due a huge payday preemptively withdrew the contract?
@ariadnereviews.bsky.social every time Patrick says “leg elastic” I think he’s about to start talking about his Lord of the Rings fanfic
*standing up on the plane* okay the first thing you have to understand is that Alex is actually 6’2”, it’s just that Greg is EVEN TALLER
*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu
In my early 20s I had two friends who would instantly upon exiting a movie theater switch into Critic Mode and try to out-intellectual each other thus sucking out all joy. I hated it so much I stopped going to the movies with them but joke’s on me because now the entire internet is that
You’re crying at work because your boss is so bad, I’m crying at work because this writer is so good, we are not the same (you make more money than me)
I’m copy editing someone who’s an astronomically better writer than me and folks it is terrifying (complimentary)
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
SIMPLICITY has been out for ONE YEAR today!!!! happy birthday to my little book :) we don't get paperbacks very often in the graphic novel world so it's tough to keep attention on something when it's no longer new, but i still think it's the best thing i've ever made. simplicitybook.xyz
I’m not concerned about super intelligent AI doing anything for the same reason I’m not concerned about mermaids doing anything
real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?
I should be able to mark up books I read for fun and send them to the presses to get copy editing gigs cause some of y’all’s freelancers are not coming through
We are rightly up in arms over ICE killings in the streets, but what's happening in Trump's detention camps will leave a moral stain for generations
‘This Place Is a Graveyard of Living People’
A harrowing human rights report details horrors at America’s largest concentration camp.
open.substack.com
I’m on to Mostly Harmless and it’s more about corporate media takeovers than you probably remember
An underappreciated benefit of repeatedly rereading Douglas Adams is finding new things he was prescient about each time, I’m eight pages into the first book and he’s already predicted the AI boosters’ only argument