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Very sad to say that I was laid off yesterday along with a bunch of great @salon.com colleagues My time there was short and busy: I got to write about books and relationships and how much gen AI sucks and people being horny for Frankenstein’s monster Some of my faves are linked below

very sorry to hear that

hello y'all this is very specific: but if y'all see any of these ads on MS-NOW, record it with your phone or whatever's available and send it to me, please! I'm trying to confirm that this ad is now airing on this network. thx y'all

...letting the company know how you feel and why you're taking your business elsewhere works in some cases. if they feel like a JKR/HP partnership will turn away more ppl than it will bring in, they may reverse course! bsky.app/profile/gwen...

Y'know, I was thinking, "what on Earth could we possibly get from a Scrooge prequel that we haven't gotten from the many adaptations of A Christmas Carol, which literally bake in the prequel?" Knowing this background now, the answer's obvious: a Christmas Carol that makes us feel bad for rich men.

We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.

oh look, another company begging to be boycotted

it looks like I may see The Odyssey tonight and, if I do, I PROMISE NOT TO SHARE MY OPINIONS ABOUT IT ONLINE AFTERWARDS! 🤐

Our new analysis of police stops in California finds that officers were more likely to search individuals perceived as transgender compared to those perceived as cisgender. Read the full report: tinyurl.com/CA-Police-Stops

Bon, je voudrais pas offenser les fans d'Harry Potter, mais il y a peut-être un moment où il faut arrêter de consommer les oeuvres de cette intégriste, au risque de l'aider à financer des procès et campagnes on ne peut plus délétères

so do you think her position has changed since then? are all articles written before 2026 now suddenly irrelevant? she continues to be extremely vocal and litigious in her anti-trans views. so I am not sure what your critique is here

if only we had a word for the type of person who non-consensually takes photos of other people in public restrooms 🤔

mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not

looking forward to watching this!

and none of those pieces are being written by people who understand how that level of constant abuse CHANGES you it’s not a mere tedious cleanup process, blocking today’s round of trolls just like sorting out the junk mail from the bills and birthday cards it does not live on you that lightly

Peacock (the TV station) giving the people what they want, which apparently is [checks notes] a country music rendition of an Emerson Lake & Palmer prog rock song mashed-up with "take me out to the ballgame"... 🙄

...to be clear, the most common critique I previously heard of the book was that the authors were simply promoting deregulation, as neoliberals have done for many decades now – which is certainly true! but rather than a simplistic retort, this podcast delves into the specifics, which I appreciated

"Abundance" always seemed suspicious to me in the genre of "here's one quick trick to fix everything" type of book. I read numerous critiques of it last year, but found this to be a fun & accessible deep-dive into all the things the book overlooks

ICYMI check out my latest video, summarizing a decade of my work with some laughs along the way! (this is part of a 🧵)

This anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, remember that many people with disabilities are paid below minimum wage and many can’t get married because they risk losing their SSI benefits. SSI recipients cannot have more than $2,000 in their bank account.