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Game designer @adastragames.com, writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, discusser of certain varieties of politics.

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Just using this moment to remind people of when the “serious” climate people scolded us and said this ass was legitimate. Don’t listen to the “serious” people

06.03.2026 16:59 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Our beloved friend @sjtuckermusic.bsky.social performs three different takes on my short story "Gramma Wolf's Garden." And all three are marvelous.

Check it out today for #BandcampFriday and support an indie artist with 100% of the proceeds.

Thanks!

06.03.2026 16:27 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Book of the Year - Graphic Novel Shortlist | The British Book Awards Check out the 2026 shortlist for the Graphic Novel Book of the Year category at The British Book Awards (aka ’The Nibbies)

Actually, here's that announcement, and it's huge! Who Killed Nessie by me and @rachaelsmith.bsky.social has been nominated in the British Book Awards! www.thebookseller.com/british-book...

06.03.2026 08:54 👍 125 🔁 22 💬 23 📌 6

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

17.12.2025 19:18 👍 3708 🔁 1740 💬 108 📌 90

That's not true. But Skynet sent a Terminator was sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor and alter the timeline in an ultimately futile attempt to get out of an appointment to be interviewed by Chotiner.

06.03.2026 17:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

Oh, hey. I hit another hundred followers.

Remember, the people in this story are right around the median competence level of this Administration.

They could not organize a Girl Scout Cookie sale.

Buy Girl Scout Cookies. They support LGBT folks.

Eat them in front of Republicans. Without sharing.

06.03.2026 17:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go.

Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.

06.03.2026 15:09 👍 1573 🔁 424 💬 11 📌 10
Photos of people and a book around NYC

Photos of people and a book around NYC

This is the book tour I could afford!

"We Interrupt This Program" -- my new funny pop culture fantasy about what happens when things go ungodly (or ungoddess-ly?) wrong in a magical "Murder She Wrote" style town -- came out Tuesday, so yesterday I took her into NYC! 📚👀

#fantasy #newreleases #books

05.03.2026 14:08 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

06.03.2026 16:25 👍 739 🔁 280 💬 19 📌 39

It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West"

Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure.

Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.

06.03.2026 16:08 👍 106 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 1
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U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said Friday, missing expectations.

A nightmare employment report this morning.

Economists’ expectation was +50,000 jobs.

Actual number was 92,000 jobs lost.

🎁 🔗

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

06.03.2026 13:43 👍 163 🔁 77 💬 14 📌 16

We can put bets down on when they get killed, right? That's totally cool?

Or do we have to put the bets on the platforms run by the other amoral waste of protein because their feefees get hurt?

06.03.2026 16:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
06.03.2026 14:10 👍 3165 🔁 581 💬 49 📌 31

Good lord humans are stupid

06.03.2026 16:04 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

That sounds like a low budget sequel to a surprise low budget comedy.

Or a writing prompt for Ursula.

06.03.2026 16:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I heard USAians back in 2003-2004. Just to differentiate us from Canadians...

06.03.2026 16:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Asset forfeiture seems appropriate.

06.03.2026 16:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two massive, miltiarized, masked ICE goons with smoking rifles and a baton stand over the bloody, broken body of Lady Liberty. 

ICE 1: Of course we took 'er down!
ICE 2: She had a flaming torch!

Two massive, miltiarized, masked ICE goons with smoking rifles and a baton stand over the bloody, broken body of Lady Liberty. ICE 1: Of course we took 'er down! ICE 2: She had a flaming torch!

From our magazine, the latest by Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent.

Read more from the March/April 2026 issue: www.texasobserver.org/issues/march...

06.03.2026 16:30 👍 45 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
5 shaheds in a truck, from Wikipedia

5 shaheds in a truck, from Wikipedia

Shaheds can be dealt with, but apparently not by the US military and their broken procurement...

Shahed have been a known threat since 2019 (although that was a earlier model), and they are a remarkably low-end threat:
Performance wise they can only barely outrace a piper cub: ~120 mph.

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 63 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 6
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Chabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claims Two leading right-wing anti-Israel influencers hurl accusations that the highly visible Hasidic sect is somehow behind the Iran conflict

Obviously the way in which Tucker Carlson is specifically targeting Chabad is terrifying, but it is also a little bit funny to see Tucker Carlson try to explain Chabad to non-Jewish audiences, the way Orientalists tried to explain Islam after 9/11/01. forward.com/fast-forward...

05.03.2026 22:09 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Asset forfeiture. CBP equipment was used in the commission of theft.

It can be sold off to generate revenue for restitution.

If it's good enough for rural Alabama police departments to seize cars...

06.03.2026 16:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When life gives you a bestseller novel prompt, you take out your laptop and write...

06.03.2026 16:00 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or, as the people whose grade schools we're bombing to kill their daughters say, "Inshallah."

06.03.2026 15:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or read Tal Levin's Wild Faith.

06.03.2026 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly right.

The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.

06.03.2026 15:25 👍 592 🔁 173 💬 6 📌 2

Cmon man you can’t look like all the members of Sublime were put in the machine from The Fly together and say this

01.10.2024 22:46 👍 746 🔁 116 💬 29 📌 3

Oh, the scuffle I got from pointing out premillennialism is actual apostasy.

Christians who see themselves as good and kind people will never confront it.

"But if we confront them, they won't listen anyway."

They'll treat the symptoms, bravely, but leave the tumor intact.

06.03.2026 15:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wish more of the public understood that Premillennialism has driven GOP support for Israel over decades. Bibi/Israel's' Right Wing has used this to maintain US support across party lines.
Conservative Protestants through white Christian Nationalists support a Israel to bring on the end times ⬇️

03.03.2026 17:48 👍 151 🔁 62 💬 3 📌 0

Be sure to hydrate and bring ibuprofen in you fanny pack!

All the cool rockers who dye their hair gray and move purposefully do!

06.03.2026 15:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Graham Platner timeline and lies Graham Platner timeline and lies @capitolhunters.bsky.social / @capitolhunters Jan. 5, 2026 (updated Mar 3) Contents Summary - lies about tattoos Platner timeline Issues / Inconsistencies Why Pla...

This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/

06.03.2026 14:26 👍 437 🔁 112 💬 2 📌 17