oh wow people are pissed huh

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early."

Was happy to provide this quote.

A.L. Goldfuss@ghoulpus.bsky.social · yesterday

We're going to keep learning this lesson until we die

I can see why using the stolen material and work of their employees and contractors doesn’t bother them. They haven’t been paying people what they’re worth for years, on purpose.

Good and terrifying article. I was let go from one of the big five this year. I started on a team of ten people and then years later it was 4. And it was easily double, if not triple the workload from when I started.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Kyle Chandler is such a strange phenomenon to me personally because I never watched FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, so whenever I see him playing a dad in a movie I assume it's because Gerard Butler was busy.

Love seeing this making the rounds again and will always retweet. We published one of the greatest poems of all time, as seen in the most prestigious literary magazine of all time:

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 8mo ago

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Marg Dier, Embroidery artist traditionally trained at The Royal School of Needlework, UK #Womensart

🔵 Margaret Hamilton 1936 — 2026

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.

hey there, unconventional conventionists! after NYCC today, join me across the river for a talk about making comics for anyone who has ever wanted to!

So does divorce, presumably.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

Also, I went on a nonfiction buying ban until I finally actually read some of the ones I already own. Sorry, everyone.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d ago

Probably obvious, but a lot of publishing people think the rapid fall in nonfiction sales is primarily due to AI. Makes sense when you remember how popular self-help type are and how many people will now, say, ask ChatGPT for child rearing advice instead of buying How to Raise a Kid books.

never the wrong time for this classic

Science Magazine@science.org · 5d ago

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

this conspiracy theory is my new "Queen Elizabeth died in November but they Weekend-at-Bernies'd her through the jubilee so she'd officially become England's longest-reigning monarch"

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think it's truly like they all got together and were like "we can't let the Wokes win, everyone has to band together and promote the new Harry Potter show, I know we are usually each other's competition but this affects us all and we billionaires need to stick together as a team"

Dead parents estate work #protips: 1) Use a PO Box for all estate correspondence and forwarded mail. 2) Keep the old home phone(s) alive (even a land line!) on a burner phone. This helps secure your personal contact information from your dead parents' unsecured creditors and estranged relatives.

Spongebob The More You Know

Alt: Spongebob The More You Know

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Nothing but respect for MY Digger

Some people on this internet never flipped through a copy of BORED OF THE RINGS looking for the sexy parts, and it shows.

while your fanfiction faves were studying the blade, mine practiced tongue fu

Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck@readingtheend.bsky.social · last wk.

(hey, remember when people's tongues were always fighting for dominance? that was an era of our reading lives. I think it's over now! the tongues came home from war. I hope their dogs still recognized them.)

If anyone wants to read my next book, they can meet me in the defunct Big Lots parking lot* in my town and get handed a manila envelope. *no, I won’t tell you which one

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · 4d ago

the "adapt or die" people failed to consider the secret third option of forming a neoluddite community where I'm selling my latest video game on usb sticks in a little lemonade stand

I'm hardly the first to say this, but if you told high school me about this iteration of Kristol, it would've blown my mind harder than a Dorito would've caused a Medieval peasant to spontaneously detonate.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d ago

Is it woke to be horrified by what happened at Cornell--and by the "boys will be boys" excuse-making of so many then and now? If so, perhaps we should all be a little more woke?

sorry is this a DIFFERENT guy who uses ai for his fantasy football team? why is everyone so embarrassing lmao

Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · 4d ago

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

BOOK DAY BOOK DAY BOOK DAY THE SCARLET BALL is out today! If you like demons, debutantes, blood, glamor, beautiful things and what happens when you rip them to bits, this one's for you! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Scarlet Ball

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo, this all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Tor...

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I just threw myself onto the buy button like it was a live grenade and I was Steve Rogers. I'm very excited.

Chace Verity@chaceverity.com · 5d ago

It's October 6, 2026, and Chace Verity is back. It's October 6, 1946, and Ike Irving is back. Radio Silence, a full length standalone 1940s historical m/m romance about two radio stars reuniting after five years apart, is available now. chaceverity.itch.io/radio-silence payhip.com/b/ZoVOE

Woof

This Post Doesn’t Have a Headline Because the Yankees Dropped It

As much as the Yankees let this game slip through their fingers, the Rays piled pressure on New York’s panicked defense by making contact at a higher rate than Schlittler had allowed all year.

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BREAKING: Bari Weiss will direct the next four DC superhero movies

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5d ago

Breaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

Looks like it's bozo hours down at the dumbass factory again

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sam Altman on AI: "We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology"