Democrats were quicker to respond to students protesting a genocide than to the richest man on earth trying to unilaterally shut down a government agency

not sure if some people understand that part of what makes creating so rewarding is the fact that it *is* hard. It doesn’t matter if you’re been painting or writing for 80 years— every piece will have problems that need solving, and few things feel better than figuring it out.

Leaving a bag of monopoly money near your murder scene and watching the cops fail to find it for three whole days while following an unrelated bike is what being a D&D DM is like

Every show on Apple TV is something no one has ever heard of and it stars like Harrison Ford, Billy Crystal and George Clooney with a per episode budget of 700 million dollars

"For mature audiences" not as in "legally allowed to see a boob" but "can see a fictional character do a bad thing and not immediately go on a crusade against the author"

This goes hard.

“political violence” is when violence is done to a politician. everything they cause is a different thing and you shouldn’t worry about it

optimist: the glass is half full
pessimist: the glass is half empty
excel: the glass is january 2nd

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

For #AroWeek, I want to talk about the Chinese term 知音 (pronounced zhīyīn in Mandarin), which has influenced my thinking about queerplatonic relationships.

zhī 知: to know, knowing
yīn 音: music, sound

literally, a zhīyīn is someone who "truly understands your songs"

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Worldcon/Hugos people confusing Nepal and Tibet is just playing out every single stereotype the rest of the world has about Americans not knowing either jack or shit about geography and being proud of it. Just beyond embarrassing.

Bluesky takes this opportunity to remind everyone to drink responsibly

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

basketball’s all like gimme that pumpkin i need it and tennis is all like fuck this lemon you take it

Omelas Public Television hosting a telethon to raise awareness of the child

if vampires were real, age gap discourse would be much worse than it already is

this site is doomed unless everyone stops platforming people who refer to posting as "labor"

i love being on bluesky bc i no longer have to courtesy-follow the people i found irritating as hell and was barely tolerating for social-contract reasons