I try to hold on to the idea that the more these greedy bootlicking dolts are allowed to speak for themselves in public, the more they convince reasonable people that they should never be respected or unrestrained.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 2d ago

i can’t help it, this is such a hysterically, comically corrupt fucking presidency, just comic book villain levels of cartoonish corruption

The only way these absolute death-trip dipshits can slow down a cleaner energy future is exactly what they're resorting to now-- outright policy sabotage, withholding funds, canceling projects, etc.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

It's simple-- the only just and tenable position is total opposition to this perverted control freakery and the crazed bigots pushing it.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4d 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

Max writes great books!

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 4d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 5d ago

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.

The claim was a lie. Trump had no evidence of vandals. He makes shit up all the time. That's the big story, the never-ending story, the story that needs to be reported over and over.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation.” A major concession from President Trump’s team after he repeatedly claimed the problem was caused by vandals. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Hanging out with a big fan tonight at #GenCon

Damn it.

billboard@billboard.com · last wk.

French Producer Kavinsky, Known for ‘Drive’ Soundtrack Song, Found Dead in Paris at Age 50

Last but not least, my sword-and-sorcery novelette THE SMOKE OF GOLD IS GLORY is now available at Amazon as well as at my own store: Grab it at Amazon: www.amazon.com/Smoke-Gold-G... Grab it at my place: www.scottlynchstore.com/product-page...

And next, KAIJU AGONISTES! Amazon cancelled my f'ing pre-order and promptly apologized, but there was no un-flipping that switch, so I had to relist the book. Fortunately, it's back up faster than expected with a new monster by Doruk Golcu! Grab it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC1ZWWQ...

It's new release day! First up, THE WIZARD WHO KEPT HIMSELF SUSPICIOUS, my fair-play murder mystery about a scruffy cigar-smoking deductive investigator named Colum-- I MEAN SHIVERICK-- who will neither confirm nor deny that he can actually cast spells. Get it at: www.amazon.com/Wizard-Himse...

The world is full of wonders. A few centuries ago the only way to get Axe Body Spray was to chop an artery.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

This movie is amazing; it and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP are the crown jewels of British wartime cinema doing so much more than you'd expect.

David Willoughby@davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 2w ago

Once more, its Thora Hird taking out Nazis o’clock on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Harrowing, gripping Wartime drama ‘Went the Day Well’, adapted from a short story from Graham Greene, is screening 13:30 this afternoon

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sooooo, Amazon has cancelled my pre-order of "Kaiju Agonistes" for reasons that I successfully argued were in error. Unfortunately, they can't un-cancel it, so I need to re-list it tonight. Their customer service was surprisingly quick and helpful. Sorry about this. Will update later today.

Musk just has a hard time wrapping his head around a story where a man’s wife and child care if he comes home

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Musk seethes as ‘The Odyssey’ conquers at the box office www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Time now.

This has always been the case. “Go Woke, Get Broke” has always been clownish untruth. No movie has ever failed because of Black folks, POC, LQBTQ+, or women. There are a myriad of other reasons why some movies fail to connect. But bigoted chuds don’t have that kind of power.

Get back in the mine and dig mithril for High Lord Thorgon Firebeard, you lazy fuck

New York Post @nypost.com · 3w ago

Brantley Gilbert slams ‘aggravating’ artists who back out of patriotic shows: ‘We get paid to play music’

Huh. I saw RISE OF SKYWALKER and it was like the boat ride sequence with Willy Wonka except the ride is squirting gravel and bleach at you. Yet I also saw the 1998 GODZILLA and I honestly think that one's a stupider, more insulting waste of resources.

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

At a time when nearly every civic impulse seems to be to ceaselessly tighten the ratchet in favor of paranoid authoritarian control, just letting basic civilization keep happening seems like a radical breath of fresh air

DBJ@deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 3w ago

This stuff feels almost too good. It's good stuff I didn't even think of that in retrospect is obviously a great idea. Of course our public spaces should be available to the people who work at night!

Holy Christ, this absolute nerve of this mid-tier dungeon boss built from recycled assets with a loot table everyone absolutely hates and no original voice lines motherfucker. The earth should be salted and prayed over in his wake.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Urgent freelance art commission! My previous arrangement has fallen through, so I need someone who can look at this sad lil' placeholder kaiju and whip up a proper, looming, nicely lit and atmospherically appropriate monster I can place into this same composition. Feel free to reply here- THREAD 🧵

This, basically. He could scrape off a thumbnail-paring of his wealth and completely fund a vanity movie studio to produce exactly what he demands, forever, and... he won't. He doesn't have vision, just sullen blind spots. He covets and mistakes it for a creative spark.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3w ago

everyone has an answer to this and they’re probably all at least partially correct, but mine is that he doesn’t understand art, he doesn’t value it, and he doesn’t think it’s worth paying for. that’s true of most of our tech billionaires but he’s the distilled version of their contempt for humanity

Societies rightly spend a lot of money on regulating drug trials. Allowing large scale betting on these trial outcomes just creates incentives to distort findings. This should be immediately legislated out of existence.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3w ago

Prediction market platform Kalshi will start taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews, it said on Thursday, making drug-development odds public for the first time.

I could be Donald Gloves or Marty Gloves, works either way

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

It's crazy how in addition to the toxic racism, misogyny, ableism and all the big, historical evils, these people are ideologically aligned with all the most mundanely unpleasant things in life, noise pollution and AI slop and gambling ads and scam calls

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reader, I checked and checked again, and this is Secretary Hegseth’s actual account

10 months ago.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12mo ago

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?