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SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
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Me, submerged headfirst in Brie: Shu’ up, ’s medishinal.
abcnews.go.com/Health/high-...
I feel like I have friends on here who need this information, immediately.
I feel like I have friends on here who need this information, immediately.
High-fat cheese, cream linked to lower risk of dementia: Study
People who regularly ate higher-fat cheese and cream had a lower risk of dementia over 25 years, while low-fat dairy and other dairy foods showed no clear association.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Me, submerged headfirst in Brie: Shu’ up, ’s medishinal.
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
It is rough being a kdrama fan with Disney Plus. No actors listed for "Big Mouth" and nothing in the description tells you anything about why the episodes are talking about a "Big Mouse". Also you have to search a specific other drama you've seen and then go to suggested even to find others...
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It is rough being a kdrama fan with Disney Plus. No actors listed for "Big Mouth" and nothing in the description tells you anything about why the episodes are talking about a "Big Mouse". Also you have to search a specific other drama you've seen and then go to suggested even to find others...
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BONUS - In honor of Rob Reiner 😢
For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch (or Rewatch) "The Princess Bride" (1987) - Dir. Rob Reiner
This iconic scene starring Reiner's best friend Billy Crystal. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJ2...
For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch (or Rewatch) "The Princess Bride" (1987) - Dir. Rob Reiner
This iconic scene starring Reiner's best friend Billy Crystal. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJ2...
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December 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
BONUS - In honor of Rob Reiner 😢
For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch (or Rewatch) "The Princess Bride" (1987) - Dir. Rob Reiner
This iconic scene starring Reiner's best friend Billy Crystal. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJ2...
For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch (or Rewatch) "The Princess Bride" (1987) - Dir. Rob Reiner
This iconic scene starring Reiner's best friend Billy Crystal. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJ2...
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Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness.
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Fifteen: This is Spinal Tap
For more than two weeks, I had it on my schedule to write about This is Spinal Tap today, December 15, 2025. The day before this, director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer were (allegedly) m…
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December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness.
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/t...
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💜 BTS is/in Art - Re-Post 💜
It feels like a good day to re-post this joyous edit!
ART USED: The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (1889)
#btsisinart #bts #ot7 #apobangpo
It feels like a good day to re-post this joyous edit!
ART USED: The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (1889)
#btsisinart #bts #ot7 #apobangpo
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
💜 BTS is/in Art - Re-Post 💜
It feels like a good day to re-post this joyous edit!
ART USED: The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (1889)
#btsisinart #bts #ot7 #apobangpo
It feels like a good day to re-post this joyous edit!
ART USED: The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (1889)
#btsisinart #bts #ot7 #apobangpo
Sometimes it sucks to be the only person in a room that has seen Sideways when the Merlot comes out for cooking. Just going to not quote the line… it’s fine…
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sometimes it sucks to be the only person in a room that has seen Sideways when the Merlot comes out for cooking. Just going to not quote the line… it’s fine…
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Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
What is going on with dice sales this holiday season?
How can geeky people by hyper aware of Critical Role and Daggerheart sales but still only do special dice as D20s or D6s?
I'm bewildered by this obvious market for special D12s feeling untapped.
How can geeky people by hyper aware of Critical Role and Daggerheart sales but still only do special dice as D20s or D6s?
I'm bewildered by this obvious market for special D12s feeling untapped.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
What is going on with dice sales this holiday season?
How can geeky people by hyper aware of Critical Role and Daggerheart sales but still only do special dice as D20s or D6s?
I'm bewildered by this obvious market for special D12s feeling untapped.
How can geeky people by hyper aware of Critical Role and Daggerheart sales but still only do special dice as D20s or D6s?
I'm bewildered by this obvious market for special D12s feeling untapped.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Ooona missing translations promotes ignorance not cross-cultural enjoyment @crunchyroll.com ! Feels lazy to cut corners, anime is art and deserves better.
youtube.com/shorts/ty_70...
youtube.com/shorts/ty_70...
Crunchyroll is about to make #anime worse for EVERYONE
YouTube video by Mother's Basement
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November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Ooona missing translations promotes ignorance not cross-cultural enjoyment @crunchyroll.com ! Feels lazy to cut corners, anime is art and deserves better.
youtube.com/shorts/ty_70...
youtube.com/shorts/ty_70...
Crunchyroll is about to make #anime worse for EVERYONE
YouTube video by Mother's Basement
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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If you think your friend group doesn’t have one, please consider YOU may be the entity.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you think your friend group doesn’t have one, please consider YOU may be the entity.
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If he was born and raised in a bookstore, I’d expect him to be a better person.
"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If he was born and raised in a bookstore, I’d expect him to be a better person.
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Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books