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Super loved making this into a 1.5 hour commute to go work retail today. Delightful.
(I will say that my customers were actually amazing, lots of wry sympathetic joking and mutual encouragement. Sincerely appreciated the people today.)
(I will say that my customers were actually amazing, lots of wry sympathetic joking and mutual encouragement. Sincerely appreciated the people today.)
A> when subway is closed you really see how much work it does. Sardine buses. Imagine everyone in cars.
B> it’s bananas the TTC scheduled TWO separate downtown subway closures the 2nd weekend before Xmas. Busiest time. If not emergency why not wait till January doldrums? Punishing organization.
B> it’s bananas the TTC scheduled TWO separate downtown subway closures the 2nd weekend before Xmas. Busiest time. If not emergency why not wait till January doldrums? Punishing organization.
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Super loved making this into a 1.5 hour commute to go work retail today. Delightful.
(I will say that my customers were actually amazing, lots of wry sympathetic joking and mutual encouragement. Sincerely appreciated the people today.)
(I will say that my customers were actually amazing, lots of wry sympathetic joking and mutual encouragement. Sincerely appreciated the people today.)
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This piece I did went crazy on Tumblr so I'm sharing it here. It's a pic of Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death!
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This piece I did went crazy on Tumblr so I'm sharing it here. It's a pic of Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death!
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We're 80% of the way to our goal! Let's keep this going!
Remember, all proceeds go to PATHA to support their court challenge against the puberty blocker ban. In exchange, you get some amazing TTRPGs from some awesome designers!
Let's get to that goal and help trans kids: itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
Remember, all proceeds go to PATHA to support their court challenge against the puberty blocker ban. In exchange, you get some amazing TTRPGs from some awesome designers!
Let's get to that goal and help trans kids: itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We're 80% of the way to our goal! Let's keep this going!
Remember, all proceeds go to PATHA to support their court challenge against the puberty blocker ban. In exchange, you get some amazing TTRPGs from some awesome designers!
Let's get to that goal and help trans kids: itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
Remember, all proceeds go to PATHA to support their court challenge against the puberty blocker ban. In exchange, you get some amazing TTRPGs from some awesome designers!
Let's get to that goal and help trans kids: itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
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“I cannot afford to get sick.”
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“I cannot afford to get sick.”
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
I adored Long Live Evil AND I somehow managed to miss that it was a book one until I got the ending and had to wail and gnash my teeth about it. Excited to see what's next!
Truly thrilled to unleash the cover of All Hail Chaos.
Publishing 12 May 2026, dive into the wicked, unmissable sequel to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Long Live Evil. #booksky
geni.us/AllHailChaos
Publishing 12 May 2026, dive into the wicked, unmissable sequel to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Long Live Evil. #booksky
geni.us/AllHailChaos
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I adored Long Live Evil AND I somehow managed to miss that it was a book one until I got the ending and had to wail and gnash my teeth about it. Excited to see what's next!
This is embarrassing.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is embarrassing.
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Hi all! Some really very talented pirates have made something special to carry us from now to the new year! Something new drops everyday until Jan 1st.
Check back daily for fic, and art and other goodies! Starting tomorrow Dec 12!
ourflagmeans.gay/2025/
Check back daily for fic, and art and other goodies! Starting tomorrow Dec 12!
ourflagmeans.gay/2025/
🏴☠️ ADVINT CALINDA 2025
ourflagmeans.gay
December 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Hi all! Some really very talented pirates have made something special to carry us from now to the new year! Something new drops everyday until Jan 1st.
Check back daily for fic, and art and other goodies! Starting tomorrow Dec 12!
ourflagmeans.gay/2025/
Check back daily for fic, and art and other goodies! Starting tomorrow Dec 12!
ourflagmeans.gay/2025/
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Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
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Good buddy @dansinker.com of Punk Planet and ONE MILLION OTHER COOL THINGS has a zine out of his essays from the last year. Buy that thing!
Anyway I've got a zine up for preorder of a compilation of essays from the last year and I was gonna just do a run of 150 but maybe we do 1201? Lol shop.dansinker.com/products/the...
They Can't Take Us All - zine preorder
I think physical objects are pretty great, and so I'm collecting my favorite writing from 2025's blog posts into a little perfect-bound zine called "They Can't Take Us All." It will feature pieces li...
shop.dansinker.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Good buddy @dansinker.com of Punk Planet and ONE MILLION OTHER COOL THINGS has a zine out of his essays from the last year. Buy that thing!
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Hey, everybody, #Gutterthon2025 has started. If you like what we do. If you just like the idea of what we do. If you like the idea of supporting live, free-range writers. Please consider contributing to our campaign. Even a $1 makes a difference in the life of a writer! crowdfundr.com/Gutterthon25
Gutterthon 2025: Grand Slam
Help The Cultural Gutter keep our commitment to thoughtful writing about disreputable art and paying writers for their work.
crowdfundr.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hey, everybody, #Gutterthon2025 has started. If you like what we do. If you just like the idea of what we do. If you like the idea of supporting live, free-range writers. Please consider contributing to our campaign. Even a $1 makes a difference in the life of a writer! crowdfundr.com/Gutterthon25
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I went to see how it's doing in the LA library system, and found that the entire huge library system in the city where she now lives, wisely did not buy a single copy
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I went to see how it's doing in the LA library system, and found that the entire huge library system in the city where she now lives, wisely did not buy a single copy
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The Whakatipu #takahe breeding season is off to a good start, with approx 6 nests in the Greenstone and several from the new population in the Rees. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... Great pic by takahē ranger Lisa van Beek. #conservation #rails #birds
December 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The Whakatipu #takahe breeding season is off to a good start, with approx 6 nests in the Greenstone and several from the new population in the Rees. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... Great pic by takahē ranger Lisa van Beek. #conservation #rails #birds
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"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
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Me: Slow year
Me: Only two novellas, three novelettes, and four short stories out this year, plus a handful of essays
Me: Surely I must flagellate myself for eighty-five centuries
premeemohamed.com/eligibility-...
Me: Only two novellas, three novelettes, and four short stories out this year, plus a handful of essays
Me: Surely I must flagellate myself for eighty-five centuries
premeemohamed.com/eligibility-...
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Me: Slow year
Me: Only two novellas, three novelettes, and four short stories out this year, plus a handful of essays
Me: Surely I must flagellate myself for eighty-five centuries
premeemohamed.com/eligibility-...
Me: Only two novellas, three novelettes, and four short stories out this year, plus a handful of essays
Me: Surely I must flagellate myself for eighty-five centuries
premeemohamed.com/eligibility-...
There is a fantastic selection at my local branch!
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There is a fantastic selection at my local branch!
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Sometimes I look at this when I really need it. I extra need it this morning so I'm sharing its power.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Sometimes I look at this when I really need it. I extra need it this morning so I'm sharing its power.
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I firmly believe that talking normally to strangers on the internet preserves *my* mental health. If I was on here yelling at people every day my brain would be mashed potatoes by now
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I firmly believe that talking normally to strangers on the internet preserves *my* mental health. If I was on here yelling at people every day my brain would be mashed potatoes by now
Okay, I acknowledge that this is a picky language thing, but: almost every time you are tempted to write the word "praises" as a plural, the word you want is "praise." This is a slightly weird one because we do have the phrase "sang his/her praises," but we don't usually add an s to make it plural!
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Okay, I acknowledge that this is a picky language thing, but: almost every time you are tempted to write the word "praises" as a plural, the word you want is "praise." This is a slightly weird one because we do have the phrase "sang his/her praises," but we don't usually add an s to make it plural!
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We don't have a paywall or ads or anything like that. Just a once a year fundraiser that let's us pay our real live writers and our webhosting fees--while sending out all the #Gutterthon rewards. fnd.us/Gutterthon25...
Gutterthon 2025: Grand Slam
Help The Cultural Gutter keep our commitment to thoughtful writing about disreputable art and paying writers for their work.
fnd.us
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We don't have a paywall or ads or anything like that. Just a once a year fundraiser that let's us pay our real live writers and our webhosting fees--while sending out all the #Gutterthon rewards. fnd.us/Gutterthon25...
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Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
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"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
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An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) [kottke.org]
An Astonishing Graph
For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.
This dramatic decline has resulted from b
kottke.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) [kottke.org]