normal person: hi nice to meet you me: here are all the deeply upsetting stories i have all at once without any pauses

Do you have any idea how many public services my taxes pay for that I am *happy* to never take advantage of while hoping everyone who *does* need those services has them available? Do you even society, bro?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

These people are monsters and worse, without exception.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

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

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2, aka Whistler’s Kitty

This epic thread appears to be *still going* and it’s 🎯 😘

Yooty@yooty.bsky.social · 6d ago

The conservative solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” and decentering men is to just remove women from public spaces.

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Mark Sumner 🌒@devilstower.bsky.social · 6d ago

DOT decides that big rocket companies (Musk, Bezos) can skip environmental review. This action was made possible by a 2025 Supreme Court ruling that gives agencies "substantial deference" to skip environmental impact statements and other requirements that are clearly outlined in legislation. …

Just a reminder for those of you working on hybrids or graphic novels, MAKING COMICS by @scottmccloud.bsky.social is still, hands down, the best technical reference out there. #graphicnovel #authorillustrator #sequentialart

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

www.scbwi.org/events/virtu...

Writers! Why be humble? Why not put this on the title page of your next novel?

“Not ever?” asked Frog. “No, never,” said Toad.

According to Publishers Lunch, publishers will be reaping much of the Anthropic settlement: “[W]hile some authors will receive nice checks as a result of the landmark Anthropic copyright infringement settlement, the big winners will be publishing companies, which… “ /1

Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol

To anyone who follows me, or doesn’t, please contribute to @richardkadrey.bsky.social ‘s extremely urgent new Go FundMe. His cat’s depending on you too. I don’t know a harder-working writer, and what he produces is always wonderful. Please re-skeet!

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Stop 👏🏼 telling 👏🏼 children 👏🏼 they 👏🏼 can’t 👏🏼 make 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 living 👏🏼 in 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 arts 👏🏼

occasional reminder that when somebody says something moronic ("there weren't any 'third spaces'!") don't engage them or battle them, their brain is cooked there is no point. if you have a thing to say on the subject start your own thread, quote dunk arguments are cringe

An hour ago I finished a reread of Charles Portis's great novel TRUE GRIT. (I reread it every few years because I love it so.) This reread, however, was via the audiobook, which is read by Donna Tartt in a pitch perfect performance that is as great an act of love from one author to another as I /1

i wish for j.k. rowling to experience everything she wishes upon trans people

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

If I added up all the Republicans that said they spoke with Mitch McConnell for “20 minutes” today, I’d have a full day of absolute liars.

We teach university to support students learning how to learn. AI will never teach you how to ask questions, how to discover a new source, or to synthesize new connections. This is not about credentials. It is about growth. It is worth fighting for our intellectual future.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

This guy, not Schumer, should be Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · last mo.

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

This is what the moderates got us.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

[I'll attach alt text below.] Rachel Hope Cleves is a fine historian with a sparkling intellect. She's a generous interlocutor who would love to encourage queer artists and storytellers. Her book, Charity and Sylvia, is excellent and well-loved by many. Now, that work has been ripped off. 😮‍💨

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

All these batshit book takes: if you write bad things, you support bad things! If you write sad stuff, you are bad for infecting readers with sadness! Skip prologues! Read only dialogue! 3rd person too harrrd! I refuse to believe any of this is real. These are not readers, they are rage farmers.

My general rules: 1. I don't quote-dunk on bad takes because they give the OP the attention and clicks they want. 2. I only screenshot-dunk rarely, and when it's particularly important. 3. I re-post or quote-share good takes because those souls deserve the attention.

We gotta pack the court, this is untenable

oh my god this is my marriage