Carter would've been the only former pres whose 250th anniversary reflections i'd be interested in...

1. solitude: single-player game loop
2. bottomlessness: infinite scroll
3. speed: instant delivery/gratification
4. teasing: generally satisfactory, never perfect; “maybe the next one is exactly what I want”

...and the things that go on (and get passed between people) in those cohorts/barracks....viral, untreated infection outbreaks *WILL* have the last word on that. LOL

I feel like viral diseases ALSO weaken warriors but okay dude...go off I guess. LOL

- talking right!

The Trammps is a group I overlooked for far too long. I've been listening to them more over the years tho - goo dstuff!

same - my mom still watches the waltons and little house on the prarie if those count.

I treat the modern ones like i treated 'Man in the High Castle' - I dont really need (or want) to see the plantations. I know where *we* were....lol

in one more step towards becoming my father, i've been diving into (u.s.) western-themed shows lately, starting with the "yellowstone" universe.

finished 1889 and 1923 so far. good stuff!

its probably the only MCU film where i had an embarrassing fanboy reaction in the theaters (got a lil to happy when shuri, tchalla, and okoye walk out of the portal) - but i simply refuse to rewatch it for "homework"

The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.

I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

A lot of folks argue about who is more important to comics, the writer or the artist. But I'd say it's neither... Without staples, the whole thing would fall apart.

snacks, double stuf oreos, and 8 hrs of skylines. Do it!

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed ...

“We are glad the SAVE Act died in the Senate. We are grateful to every senator who stood firm against it. To every American who called, wrote and organized to make their voice heard, thank you – your voice matters." #BlackskyNews
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I hope people start showing up for you the way you show up for them

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thank you bell hooks

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

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start writing it somewhere that feels absurdly low stakes, like your bluesky drafts

Yep! When I was teaching sketch comedy one of my first lessons was start writing something even if it’s nonsense, and finish it. Halfway through you’ll have a better idea; don’t start that, jot it down somewhere and finish what you’re writing, so you start to train yourself to actually end things.

It’s 2026 and this still looks like the future.

Bad draft is a lot easier to fix than a blank page

Where does the assumption that MAGA is the target audience for The Boys (the Prime series) come from?

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it.

I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

I had trouble writing this reply to your tweet, so who am I to give you advice! But sadly you do just have to write the terrible draft, so I recommend using this simple pomodoro site and setting it for 15 minutes, then, when it's done, for another 15: text-pomodoro.vercel.app

Be terrible, it's just the first draft and no one will ever see it or know you're a monstrous imposter. Just get anything, literally anything, about the story down on paper.

As others have said: you can edit shit, you can't edit blank.

Also, if fear of it being bad is the ONLY thing holding you back, the ONLY solution is writing anyway. Can't make it good if you don't practice. Make it, love it, accept it, next one will be better. Every time. No matter how many times.

Writing is a way of thinking in addition to a way of producing text, so it can be concurrently true that (1) you need to change 95% of your initial draft, and (2) you needed to write all the stuff you changed/cut in order to get to the right place

There's a conversation in a Spider Robinson novel where one character says "I don't know how to say it right" and the immediate response is "so say it wrong and then we'll have something to edit".