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We’ve embraced this technology with functionally no plan in place and I am reminded of this every day when I see single use vapes on the ground that I know have lithium ion packs in them.

Battery fires are a structural issue. There’s functionally no public messaging on where to properly dispose of this stuff even in ideal conditions and certification is all over the place functionally, so it ends up hurting people who have to rely on this stuff to live. L

Good news everyone!!! Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America is now out in a lovely affordable paperback, AND it no longer uses my deadname! With some new material too. If you haven't read the book yet, pick it up!! bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

Just got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns

Holy SHIT. I am not an expert in immigration proceedings, but from what I do know, this seems pretty seismic.

The NY Times will publish a hit piece on the Democratic Alaska senate candidate six days before an Election but won't mention a new rape allegation against the President of the United States.

this post is one of my favorite pieces of nonfiction writing and it was an honor to get to read it!

I do think it’s funny when the current pope is like “that’s not how this should work” and people are like “uh buddy that’s what the church has BEEN DOING” as if he doesn’t know that. as if that might not be why he’s saying it now

I told my editor that I had to go to South America to find treasure and rescue my kidnapped sister, and they were just like "how will this affect the delivery date", it's like none of the old publishing traditions are valued any more.

Everyone knows people don’t buy print magazines anymore. The LIFE revival aims to buck that trend by asking some very important questions: What if magazines cost $45 an issue? And what if they were funded by the Kushner family fortune? Would you buy a print magazine then?

I can vouch for Archita, a fellow writer in Kolkata who's sick & struggling with costs to support her mother through cancer treatment, as well as dealing with safety issues & repair on their home. She recently lost her father to cancer, & is dealing with all this alone. Please share widely & donate:

if dems win some of these state offices, i think we're gonna learn some interesting things about the Texas government's relationship with Musk bsky.app/profile/chad...

Hello BlueSkyburgh! So I recently badgered my cinematographer @steveyedlin.bsky.social into making my ideal iPhone still camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone's look processing and instead uses the same image processing we use on our movies. t.co/makZzhFd2Q

I hate that "do SEO optimization on your own resume by writing a bunch of variations of buzzwords and qualifications in 0 point font" is a trick that works

Professionals who work in publishing hate the AI tools being foisted on them, authors hate AI (including me, I'm quoted here along with @scalzi.com ), but other than that, it's all going great in publishing!

The Hennepin County Attorney's Office is charging James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felonies for unlawful voting and ID theft for filming themselves misrepresenting their identities to election judges during the Minnesota primary as voters who were registered in the precinct.

Dolores Huerta dead at 96. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/c...

“I guess I've come full circle when I design the exact dress for Steve Martin that I did for Barbara Stanwyck.” Edith Head (about Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid)

“Oh I don’t like old movies…” So you don’t like the most hungover Korean War vet in America tap dancing so fast that they have to invent a new camera? And his costar is a woman who is so good at smoking that she can chain smoke through entire takes without the cigarette appearing once in frame?

"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s." Incredible reporting here from @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

daily affirmations: you ARE the Highwayman you WILL knock them out you WILL steal the shoes from off their feet you DO make ends meet

Elsa Lanchester - BOTD in 1902

Are you in Philly and able to help me get these posters up in home and shop windows? Sign up to join the street team! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Martin Mull Canada, 2006 Oil on linen Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Gift of Donald Rosenfeld in honor of Martin Mull, RISD BFA 1965, Painting, RISD MFA 1967, Painting

This guy is now head of Policy Planning at the State Department. After being responsible for the deaths of millions, he has failed up for sure.

Every person or organization that pre-apologizes for this is confessing that they know you don’t want it, and inviting questions about what entity — presumably with more leverage than their own audience — is asking or paying them to use A.I.

wanted to write about this, but found it simpler to draw it instead

Preview: Visiting America – Fantagraphics to Publish R. E. Burke’s Graphic Memoir Account of Being Unjustly Incarcerated by ICE and the Stories of the Detained Women She Met. @fantagraphics.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/preview-visi...

i know it's the age of immediacy and frictionless and what-have-you but *everything* takes longer to complete now than it did even two or three years ago. it's stunning.

No. Your attitude has to be that absolutely nothing will get done. If you’re trying to “pass common-sense legislation to help the American people”in this environment you’re a fucking traitor.

[P] The Montresor at the End of This Book