David

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.

Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

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We really could have nice things if the most uncreative people in the world didn't have the keys to the kingdom.

I feel the same way about higher ed.

Yes to the colors. No to literally everything else about these things

Wearing those bad boys counts as a physical challenge

"get back in the sneakers, Shinji!"

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: January 2026 - Reactor This month's short fiction recs include strange tales, near future explorations, and at least one giant.

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Well that's just awful. Bluepoint has been doing such good work.

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face with his hands on his chest . ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face with his hands on his chest .

My reaction learning that our utopia is built on child torture

Extremely Norm Macdonald voice: "Yeah, Board of Peace spelled B-O-R-E-D."

That's also what I did during the 90s.

Squadrons has been my favorite Star Wars game of the last 20 years, and it's not even close. Of course, I played the hell out of TIE Fighter at a very formative age, but still...

FLAMING SKULL TWO FLAMING SKULLS THREE FLAMING SKULLS

opening a restaurant with only these three items on the menu

These people think an election is not a process by which politicians try to build political coalitions in order to gain the power to get elected and enact policy but a regularly administered litmus test against the electorate about whether they deserve to live in a democracy or not.

That last nug in the jar

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

God, I wish that were me.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

"Caused a sensation" is an absolutely insane way to frame how his trash led to the violent occupation of Minneapolis and the deaths of several people. Your complicity is so disappointing; I hope some day you discover shame and it eats you alive.

I really hate living in GamerGate America. 2014 never ended, and the people who saw its connection to rising fascism were ridiculed for being correct.

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* Think of the environment! Don't print paper documents!

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Glad you're making sure the most vulnerable people have the worst possible education experience. This is garbage, and so are the people pushing it.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

That man deserves his flowers.

It's not that odd if you recognize that city mayor and a party leader on the national stage are two different jobs.

I don't want to use the thing that sucks, thank you so much.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Wow. If I ever get this southern Gothic book project off the ground, I'm looking you up. This is great.