Tanis O'Connor

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

Abe Simpson rant: Record labels/bands: when you reissue an album and add new material to it, please don't just fucking remove the original from streaming services. I'm trying to listen to the 1994 version, not remixes, covers, or a 7-minute song that got cut for a reason.

Abandoned cordons sanitaire everywhere you look:

Listening to "Foxes in the Snow," as I do, and I notice that Jason Isbell put the word "diphenhydramine" in it. He's so good.

Stephen Spencer and the toddler songs are as insta-repost at the Tom Holland "Umbrella" lip-sync.

"Too bad, make it work": Unionizing staff describe crunch culture and creative oppression within Wizards of the Coast www.rascal.news/too-bad-make...

@tkfocht.bsky.social

My favorite pissy obituarian didn't take on Hastert, but did take on Bakker. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/a-ca...

the sinister plot at last revealed, we just gotta pump enough mifepristone and ethinyl estradiol into the water supply to cause miscarriages in highly specific areas. harlots, get to peeing in red states! jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-e...

Get fucked, Langone. How nice that I have a 15 minute slot at a career fair this week to tell your recruiter why.

OMG, a fucking measles exposure at the neonatal ICU at CHOP?! Is there a more terrifying plsce for that to happen?

Well, at least I can hear the captain of the Randy Arozarena Fan Club do a job

Me and many of my brilliant, hardworking colleagues are facing layoffs at the end of this month. if you want to support our union and its members in this tough time, you can do so here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ad...

pls give your cover designer more feedback next time, author of DCULBAIMOOURAS whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/15/t...

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*If there's some real-world AI-Chernobyl event, all these sanctimonious AI-safety guys will be lined up and shot, while the investors will simply retreat on their megayachts jbenton1.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

Musical theater people: your local troupe can now get the rights to Operation Mincemeat, which is my favorite musical of the last several years. (If you have access to B'way or the West End, go see it before spoiling yourself.) www.concordtheatricals.com/p/97249/oper...

I saw the headline, knew it had to be @quinnae.com, and settled in for a good time.

The chant you're hearing is "FIRST! DO NO HARM!" Huge high five to everyone who came out to the protest at Mount Sinai over the hospital's deal with Trump to end gender-affirming care for trans youth. 🧵 of photos to follow!

this is an excellent discussion

Can confirm, daily viewings of Muppet Treasure Island improve quality of life, nested case-control study coming soon.

Little League World Series is on at the gym and its primary purpose seems to be showing closeups of children crying?

Why do I not start every single day with Muppet Treasure Island? When did I become a grown up?

Tom of Gotchi

“Cleveland Public Library union workers vote to strike Monday after rejecting final contract offer” — WKYC #UnionNews #contract #strike

My sister gets to the point.

"Perhaps no journalist has endured such a sustained sequence of violence, prosecution, and imprisonment at the hands of the U.S. government." Read more from FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social about the alarming abuse endured by Carlitos Ricardo Parias.

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

Two excellent humans doing a good seminar at Gen Con this year.

Excellent, harrowing reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social here. I’m proud to be a subscriber of The Handbasket www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

A thoughtful read about how flooding the zone with shit if you're well-intentioned is still flooding the zone with shit.

I am not this coworker, but I definitely do this and am proud of it. share.inquirer.com/u2r4vG

I have never called someone a cunt so many times in my life. Ma'am, please feel my hatred through the ether and know that in my mind you are being kicked real hard in the crotch.

If you aren't subbed to @404media.co you're missing out.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

@erininthemorning.com has updated her invaluable Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment map. There are now four states on the do-not-travel list--Florida, Idaho, Kansas, and Texas. Subscribe to Erin's work if you are able.

"Ten years of abuse at the hands of bigots [...]; all of that has taught me to hate, to hate fiercely. To wish ill. To dream of the moment I can say, at last, these fuckers are dead, and it is better this way. Do you understand? They didn’t just make me worse. They made me like them."

It'll be a stressful few months as I wait to see if the risk of leaving Squarespace is something we can bounce back from. In my mind, I had no choice if Assigned was to weather increasing government interference in trans speech. But a safe financial decision, it was not. Please join if you can.

yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.

What it says in the headline. I'm no longer asking. Platner seems to be trying desperately to hang on, or even gearing up to slime his exes. It would be a travesty if this were allowed to happen from the perch of a US Senate nomination. But also, entirely typical and expected. He. Must. Go. Now.

This is really all there is to say about the makings of the Platner shitshow--he obviously needs to go, now, and the political strategists who push this sort of jagoff on us need to find other jobs.