The Christmas Carol but it’s Mr Rogers, Bill Nye, LeVar Burton, and Bob Ross all telling republicans “I’m not angry, just disappointed”

And why do I have a feeling there will be a precipitous change in demographics among those remaining 😒

I think I’ll be seeing that vicious woman’s smug face and nastyass cheroot in my mind’s eye for the rest of my life.

💙

Oh, excellent, thank you!

Are there any instances of UBI in le Guin? Surely there must be…

I know Rachel Swirsky did a novella or something a while back now, but other than that I’ll have to do some digging.

Thinking about writing up an essay about UBI in fiction, mostly because I had my semi-annual “randomly remembering how annoyed The Expanse books’ (otherwise a great series) depiction of it annoyed me” event

A sense of urgency Words and images, posted for free, for whoever feels called to read them.

I’m sharing my creative writing on a new blog, for free. I wrote about why in the first post. wp.me/pgvcdp-c

Really tempted to pick up remastered Oblivion, but not sure if I want to do PC or console.

Anyway. Yeah. #WhenDevilsSing by #XanKaur on audio. Highly recommended!

Multi narrator experience where everyone not only did a great job but were actually easily distinguishable! With tasteful ambient audio elements that aren’t disruptive. Do you know how hard that all is to do!?

#WhenDevilsSing

And great characters! Brown and lgbtq characters!

Also the audio was just oooooh, 👌👌👌

#WhenDevilsSing

I mean don’t get me wrong it’s like the OLYMPICS of generational trauma but you know there’s some cool supernatural southern gothic horror in there.

#WhenDevilsSing

#WhenDevilsSing by #XanKaur is a GREAT listen. (Thanks to #librofm for the librarian ALC.)

Bayley, in a full on kangaroo onesie, absolutely slays

Bayley is standing up, thus displaying the kangaroo onesie even better

The whole side quest is great and I love it, I’ve just had that thought stuck in my head for all four episodes. Of course the motto doesn’t account for this, but charisma is charisma no matter what you’re wearing 😂

#dimension20 #titantakedown

Austin Creed on Dimension 20: Titan Takedown wearing white shirtsleeves and a brown waistcoat

Austin Creed on Dimension 20: Titan Takedown wearing white shirtsleeves and a brown waistcoat, but with a more smoldering expression

Ok bear with me, this post is made with 100% respectful eyes.

You know that subset of Pride and Prejudice girlies whose motto is the most attractive thing a woman can do is wear less clothes and the most attractive thing a man can do is wear more? Well…

#dimension20 #titantakedown

Damn. I was saving up all my zingers for when I came back here and now I can’t remember any of ‘em.

Once in undergrad I wrote about how a character in a Flannery O’Connor short story was using antebellum symbology in all her rhetoric and the professor said it was an angle she’d never noticed and she’d teach it as part of the lesson from then on and honestly I peaked

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

Dear Gov of NY:
You're against masking for health reasons but these jerks can mask up???

Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

hi, cis people!

you might just now be hearing about this. there’s a thread in here with guidance. we’re down to 16 days and i have to believe more than 5,000 people give a shit if ~250,000 of us could lose our access to healthcare.

tap in. scroll up. help out. please. ⬇️

WATCH LIVE: NPR, PBS heads answer lawmakers' allegations of bias The CEOs of the largest U.S. public broadcasting networks are appearing before a House subcommittee chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Killing public media is a part of Project 2025 and today, Marjorie Taylor Greene has hauled the heads of NPR and PBS before the House to answer her accusations that they’re “biased.” Republicans are mad that they fact check. And …🧵⬇️

www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov

MORE OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now I’m in that post-book funk where my emotions are all the hell over the place and I’m just angrily stomping around my my apartment because there’s no more book.

GOD what a mindfuck.

Also dead billionaires for the win

What I can’t get over is how perfectly it hits both the post millennial sarcastic nihilism while also having such a beating, bloody human heart at its center.