Looks like this has rolled out more broadly now. It's kind of fascinating to see how many "American" accounts aren't run out of America, even in spaces outside of politics

If my TikTok is to be believed, there's an awful lot of straight-up porn being consumed in the romantasy and dark fantasy spaces, and I wonder if people would "forget" about those ones when they were asked about their reading habits

This article, which is a couple years old, says that more books are being sold but that fewer are being read. That's a weird combo, and I didn't chase either underlying source lithub.com/americans-ar...

All that said, being a doomer who only sees the dark side of everything is not an actionable offense on here and Bsky banning her is another major sign that this platform is enshittifying even without a financial drive to do so

Here's a screengrab and a link to the post that Karen, I mean Jen, will either detach or block me over

bsky.app/profile/jent...

And of course changing in ways that your earlier self would hate is just a fact of growing and learning and discovering all the ways earlier you was wrong, but it is still disconcerting to me how often those two writers in particular resonate with me these days

The party's voters selected Mamdani in a free and fair primary election. The party heads have an absolute responsibility to acknowledge and abide by that. This isn't up for debate, you're flat saying you don't believe in small-d democracy, so perhaps dial back the "arrogance" bullshit, my dude

this made me laugh really hard

If you sat a cabbage on the counter tonight the government may still be closed when it has wilted and slumped