Patrick LaSalle

the one who had to tell him. He was so instantly struck. "No. I wasn't supposed to outlive him. He was supposed to be Checkov. That's not fair." He told me about getting to meet him & we had a pretty heavy talk about life & death. A beautiful soul. Our world is a bit dimmer without his light today.

Walter Koenig and I were guests at the same convention a decade ago. At lunch the first day he asked if he could join me and Jess, and I was like, of fucking course. We ended up hanging out and chatting all weekend. Wonderful man. Sadly was the weekend Anton Yelchin passe and I ended up being...

I'm blocking @mary1kathy.bsky.social and adding the account to my blocklists. Life is too short and the times are too serious to fuck around with disinformation and "A.i." bullshit. For accountability, here's the screenshot of the video they posted.

I surprisingly got blocked by an account I called out for posting a fake quote. It was a post spammer, so no big loss. But here's a screenshot I captured of the bad quote. So, yeah, block @antifapatriot.bsky.social.

David Axelrod and David Brooks clutching their pearls because El-Sayed didn’t roll over for a racist is such a perfect example of America’s white guy politics that it would sound made up if you put it in a novel

The Plague. It was the Plague. That's it. It was an accidental exposure of one person. No release of anything. There is no danger. This is blatant scaremongering for clicks and views. This is why I don't watch the news, but especially CNN. This isn't journalism. It's tabloid bullshit.

I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl. Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.

"I voted with Republicans to oppress people and take away their rights so I can focus on making your life more affordable." Wut?

Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

BREAKING: Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

This shit is embarrassing.

Time for Sanders to retire.

I had a thread about @sanders.senate.gov & Max Tegmark before seeing this one. Yudkowsky is an even more overt eugenicist, you don't have to do any digging to see that. He also has ZERO expertise in "AI" except for being a self described "genius" cult leader who wrote a Harry Potter fanfic.

This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.

the american paradox

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

IN A WORLD WHERE TWO ROADS DIVERGE ONE CHOICE CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE

You’re gonna want the sound on for this one folks

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

additional grist for the "gender isn't really hardware" mill

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Yep. I said this last year and I think it still holds.

Instead, we have Midwitzian warfare

this kind of seems better for everyone, if I’m being honest