The fact that this is happening is hard-core insane. 🇺🇸 needs to be unplugged. And “maybe” plugged back in again. Because it is f*<#ed! On second thought…just unplug. We don’t need it to restart.

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are back. The rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner is live at the Waldorf Astoria. Your uncredentialed correspondent has returned from her sofa in the Midwest. No press pass. No canapés. Just a dog, a television, and absolutely no filter.

I'm interested in hearing if @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social authors were aware their books would be getting fed to Kindle Translate instead of getting a proper translation.

Chace Verity@chaceverity.com · 2w ago

So @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social got caught using Kindle Translate for their translated books instead of paying translators?? Wish I could say I was surprised this is coming from the same company that had/has a cover designer leaving stock photo watermarks on covers and later using genAI, but

Just finished reading — terrific supernatural mystery with many a twist and turn. Excited to see where it goes from here...

Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HAPPY SINK YOUR TEETH IN RELEASE DAY (Digitally) If you backed our Kickstarter at a tier where you got a digital copy, check your inbox now. Enjoy!

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Oh, come on, people. The title has to be 'Graders Of The Lost Ark'.

I want a movie about the poor untenured archaeologist who has to cover Indiana Jones' teaching and do his marking while he fucks off to do 'fieldwork'.

Dork F150: "I require a tactical vest, emergency rations, and a gun to navigate the highway to Home Depot." Chinese Grandma in San Francisco: "I will cross the busiest part of town to get groceries and I will do it while pushing the world's oldest portable shopping cart onto a bus. I am 4'5''."

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 4mo ago

The big strong conservative sigma males scared shitless of cities are so goddamn funny. Any given Brooklyn grandma is ten times the man these twerps are

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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Kyle Cassidy@kylecassidy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns

The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

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A reminder that my primary social network is very transparent about surveillance and/or demands for information about users.

Others have said this, but it's true: all the money that pours into Democratic campaigns is so much better spent on buying media infrastructure.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6mo ago

It's galling to contemplate but I really think you have to admit that Musk buying X was an unqualified victory. It can't be exaggerated just how much prominent journalists, pundits, business type, etc. mistake the vibe on X for "how the country is feeling."

US Politicians are very happy to keep framing the Epstein files as partisan. Because it shifts the focus from the real issue. This was never about politics. It’s about mainly rich, white, powerful men believing they could do whatever the hell they wanted and get away with it.

Canada has a legal obligation under domestic and international law to deny export permits for military machinery that could be used against civilians. My latest on the need for the PM to cancel the export permits of the Rochel vehicles going to ICE. charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

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Canada has a legal obligation, under both domestic and international law, to block the sale of armoured vehicles to U.S.

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Every Olympics there is a story about horny Olympic athletes and I feel bad every time because these people have trained their entire lives for that competition, have incredible bodies, and deserve flings in interesting locations like anyone else.

Take that $29 million out of the budget for the police. And permanently reduce the police budget by that amount in future years.

MisterJayEm@misterjayem.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"'She is dead,'" Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing. "'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo ago

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

Welcome to 2026 to everybody in the writing community. IMHO we need less strife and more sex and love this year. And, especially, more boobs.

This is the publishing industry equivalent of wage theft.

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 8mo ago

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An important point #authors need to talk about: there are NO PAPERBACKS anymore. I’m at WW Norton and Harper Collins. They release hardbacks and ebooks and audio. Frequently they do NOT do a paperback at all. If they do, #books get remaindered. Unless you are a bestseller, you may never get one.

Panda Express implies the existence of Panda Local and Panda Late Night trains

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Wishing our friends at Subterranean Press the best of luck while they work with Amazon to get this straightened out. You can also buy their ebooks direct from them at subterraneanpress.com. (Cutting Amazon out of the picture.)

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 9mo ago

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Not accurate, those freaks goon so hard they have to take a whole month off to recuperate like it's incel lent.

I think it's helpful to think of these bloated security details as only partially stemming from a practical concern with safety - I think the model of Roman lictors, or attendants, around a magistrate (the ones who carried the fasces, rods and axes) is applicable.

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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Starvation is always a policy choice. Just like homelessness.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.