We’re basically just paying for these people to have vacations and do horrible morally reprehensible things to people who don’t look like them

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

@geodesaurus.bsky.social okay, but if it's not already there, I'm writing "umm yes hello" on EVERY PAGE 🤗🤗🤗

"Babel" - R. F. Kuang

"Rose" - Martin Cruz Smith

"Diamond Age" - Neal Stephenson

"The Space Between Worlds" - Micaiah Johnson (@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social)

"The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" - N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin.bsky.social)

"A Memory Called Empire" - Arkady Martine (@byzantienne.bsky.social)

Was thinking about it earlier, so here, in no particular order, are my all time favorite books:

Trump cabinet officials embrace far-right influencer who has praised fascists Jack Posobiec hailed Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet as role models for the MAGA right.

The “unhumans,” Jack Posobiec argued alongside co-author Joshua Lisec, were behind the Black Lives Matter movement, in charge of academia, and in control of corporations, the media, and even churches.

So, of course, Trump and his cabinet members have decided to cozy up with Posobiec.

My uninformed guess about how the US will try to fill the gap in the workforce created by the removal of migrant workers: I think the gov't will push for increased prison labor. And I think the govt will fill the prisons to support this. And just a reminder: "prison labor" is still just slavery.

At least until Livejournal gets popular again 👍

This government is a shameful embarrassment. Again.

Worth a read for all Feds

Magnanimous 😊

I'm torn between Freelancer and Kerbal Space Program. Very different vibes, impossible to compare.

The Advisory Committee to the CDC Director is demanding answers. This is what leadership looks like 👏

Read the letter here:
big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files...

I hope there are a lot of emails with exactly this tone being fired off around Washington, D.C. this morning.

So it's the best time to copy and save what their website explained, before it disappears.

(in the alt text)

cover of Absolution with alligator and sunflowers

So, anyways, I'm a novelist not a nature photographer and my latest, Absolution, is about a man and his pet gator and all the misadventures they get up to out in the swamp. Along with the piano playin' wise-crackin' Old Jim. Pick it up if you like lighthearted, jocular tall tales.

What's your favorite bullshit hobby?

Margaret Atwood is gonna start kicking herself for being too soft in her depictions of dystopia

Never made the distinction, we always called it dinner, "supper" felt unnecessary. I would even call it...

Supperfluous

it’s so insane to me that people work for ICE like did you watch star wars and think man i want to be like the guys in the plastic white suits who can’t aim for shit

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

Strong choice

So.. what's everyone's plans for life under an oppressive regime?

Funny comic strip. Two fish beneath a swans feet kicking chaotically in the water. “Apparently he’s elegant up top” “bullsh#t”. Illustration drawn in simplistic cartoon line art style. By Amii Illustrates.

Perspective 🧐

Well that's a hell of a position to take