U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Another thing is that these little pursuits to discipline yourself take your energy literally and figuratively…

it’s a good thing we don’t have socialized healthcare because otherwise we might have to endure untenable wait times for basic care. anyway the annual checkup I scheduled last July to take place in March has just been rescheduled to May

This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.

From xkcd.com/radiation/ (h/t @realitybased1.bsky.social)

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

spitballing marketing material for my book

I’m getting owned so much today, please don’t keep owning me with these, I’m running out of blocks, please

that’s right. there is a lot of very good evidence that americans are just as productive with a four-day work week and much happier to boot. what’s the point of having such a wealth society if we are not going to try to benefit from it?

Waking up this morning thinking that with all the new changes to gumroad and patreon I could spend less time doing occasional smutty pieces and more time on “respectable projects.” But man that sounds like a whole lot less fun. Like half the reason some folks learn to draw is to make their own smut.

:sighs in librarians have been yelling about this for literal decades:

i’m legit not sure what superrich people’s plan is for when the cities where they live are fully and inarguably impossible for the service class to afford to even live near. are yall gonna start waiting your own tables?

is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?

How many more fucking Brandon Teenas and Matthew Shepards and Brianna Gheys do we need?

Fuck this. Librarians are the best. I stand with librarians and against book banning now and forever.
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