Megan

New 2026 reading thread!!!

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This lady needs to change her name, there already IS a Marissa Mayer and she's a very good author and doesn't deserve to be mixed up with this awful woman who can't even be bothered to know anything about her own children.

This Halloween, sail the high seas with @nycferry.bsky.social to your trick-or-treating destination. Free candy on every @nycferry.bsky.social route on Halloween. Which adventure will you choose?

obsessed with him

New York, we GOTTA get on this, some one tell Hochul this is the best bet for low energy bills and being re-elected forever

As often happens when you hate your job, I'm reading a new wikipedia page, this time Nicolae Ceaușescu's, and WHAT a sentence/sub-section!! It's the whole bit about that coup.

Okay, well, so far no such luck finding a pro bono lawyer for filing bankruptcy. I'm going to keep trying, though. I don't really have any other options. 😮‍💨 I seriously need some help. Even $5 guess a long way. www.paypal.me/aakeju ko-fi.com/aishaincolor

What is it those MAGA bootlickers like to say? Oh yeah. SEND HIM BACK!

as i get older, i've come to place greater importance on not minimizing crimes and harm to society. but part of that is that in order to properly grapple with harm, you cannot feed perpetrators into a gratuitous torture engine. it eclipses the gravity of the crime and obscures the debt to others

Racist, of course. But he's also saying this in Michigan, a state that has towns and cities named Dowagiac, Charlevoix, Epoufette, Hamtramck and Ocqueoc.

This is exactly what I keep thinking!

I tracked the content of Rowling’s tweets for five months, posting occasional updates until she blocked me. bsky.app/profile/bill...

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

It's that special time of year when they give the danger-kitties pumpkins to play with at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota. A much-needed timeline cleanse. 🐯🎃 (📷: wildcatsanctuary.org)

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

Pat McAfee said that a University of Utah student calling him 'corny' made him feel uncomfortable. Okay, then Someone should ask him how Mississippi student Mary Kate Cornett felt when he used his show to amplify a false rumor about an 18-year-old's sex life.

The fact they don't mention it came from incel culture online (likely where Clavicular grabbed it and popularized it) is absolutely batshit wild to me. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Using Black people’s likenesses for AI-generated ads where you cast them as stereotypes isn’t just incredibly unethical, it should be illegal www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

BTW if you live in New York you can check to see which streets are closed to cars for trick or treating here www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

Young ‘uns: this stuff happened once a week during Obama’s presidency. Dijon mustard. Moving a bust of Churchill. Inviting a rapper to the White House. Putting his feet up on his desk. They’d scream and cry for days about how effete and snobby and Black he was and how misinderstood they were.

For all the talk that phones are making kids lonely or whatever, they sure do love having speakerphone calls with em on the subway at 8am

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Ok, I’ve appointed myself the Qobuz tour setlist playlist maker but I’m so bummed paint me naked didn’t make the cut?! That was the song that made me start keeping an eye on him and open to the idea that NCT solos are good even if I don’t like their usual group music. open.qobuz.com/playlist/724...

the knee-jerk nature of so much WNBA discourse really sidelines fans from leveling legitimate criticism at the most gendered disparity in women's sports — the *extreme* lack of bureaucratic aptitude within these front offices and ownership groups

I know it’s really distasteful and dispiriting and gross to think about, but you won’t understand Trumpist politics or the status of women if you don’t understand that a lot of people aren’t just in denial about the prevalence of rape; they are affirmatively pro-rape.

FLAVIO BOLSONARO JUST GOT HIS PASSPORT SEIZED BY THE FEDERAL POLICE MORE CAKES ARE COMING AS WE SPEAK

start paying artists you fucks!!!! the potential of you reaching nirvana depends on it!

Ramaswamy’s ad aimed to enforce the stigma against rape victims that positions them as objects of suspicion and disgust at worst, patronizing pity at best. The Acton campaign now has to pitch a rape victim as something audiences aren’t used to imagining them being: competent, capable, and dignified.

bluesky is SO broken for me that i'm struggling to make posts; please accept some quoteskeets in lieu of, like this one where i'm going to tell you that Radio Silence is my best book i've written to date. come look at every word carefully chosen by a human and enjoy the ride of two sad old men

Happy National Pumpkin Day!