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Depression is so time-consuming. Like, GIRL, I actually have so much to do!!!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The authoritarianism gets completely glossed over to focus on the literal crimes against humanity, so people then equivocate Nazis with genocide, not all the other shit required to reach that point.

The answer is because in the US at least, we weren't actually educated about the Nazis. We were educated about the resulting war. How the Nazis rose to power, the fact that the Nazis modeled their society's treatment of the Jews on American segregation, etc. All of that was never covered.

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.

Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.

Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Anyway, here's what this all means.

US soybean farmers have two options.

Grow something else, or get welfare checks forever.

There is no third option.

The military is also one of the most diverse workforces in the U.S. Governed by violent know-nothings. Just the worst possible timeline.

Q: Can an author make a living from royalties? ~ free public post ~ The general population is slowly getting the message that things are really hard for traditionally published authors right now, in ways it was not hard twenty or even five year…

I just got my royalty statement for The Actual Star for the first half of 2025. Four years after publication, it sold 492 new copies, for a take-home royalty payment of $425.46 USD.

For perspective on these figures, please read this piece I wrote last year:

While we’re at it-

What else is RFKJ not qualified to run? We’ll go first.

❌ A middle school science fair

❌ The department that oversees roadkill removal

❌ The touch tank at an aquarium

Your turn!

A split screen of a woman and a man talking. The top is the woman (Tina Fey as Liz Lemon) saying “What a week, huh?”. The bottom is the man (Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy) replying “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.”

“Are you feeling depressed, down, or hopeless?” they ask on the descent into the abyss.

No, I don’t like you. No, I don’t want to be around you. No, I don’t value your conversation, opinions, or even your safety. Yes, the world would be better off without you, and I’m starting with not having you around me.

Make people feel REALLY bad about being in league with fascists.

“Unconditional Love” is for sermons, dramas, and love songs. My shit got conditions. Not being a fascist is an insanely low bar for you to meet.

People often mistake my commitment to wanting everyone to have human rights and healthcare to mean I love everyone or something.

I do not.

I just think baseline survival shouldn't be based on who I personally like.

I reserve the right to hate folks and never ever give them a moment of time, tho.

A venn diagram I made showing the overlap of very important literature and buzzy popular books, with the circle of books I like not intersecting with either

Climate change is happening. It is going to keep happening, likely faster and harder, even if we suddenly change gears. It is built in.

The smart, safe, sensible thing to do is to make system level decisions with those hardships in mind.

More cloud based tech, like most AI, isn't the way forward.

There are already huge technology divides in care, both within countries and across the globe.

Unless something huge changes in the way healthcare is funded and operated in the next 2 to 5 years, I don't see any way AI actually helps close that gap. If anything, the gaps will get worse.

Vincent Price shot from below so he looms over the camera, in Witchfinder General. Subtitle text: The mark of Satan is upon them.

Was expecting WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968) to be folk horror; it's in fact a brutally matter-of-fact historical drama about how true evil on the Earth is perpetrated by unremarkable, cowardly human beings, & how ideological extremism is so often a vehicle for violent self-interest.

OK I think I'm mostly over the humiliation now. Who wants a story about YET MORE UNFORTUNATE violence endured by my butt

In 1939 you could take one of many electric streetcar lines downtown to one of two main railway stations and be in downtown Chicago in 6-1/2 hours, under steam power. A remarkable achievement in its day, not just faster than our current trains, but faster than you can DRIVE it now.

As yellow bit of paper or fabric reading not gay as in happy; queer as in fuck the police.

My friends went to be Chicago leather museum and texted me this

😭😭😭😭😭😭 I need more of my soft bois 😭😭😭

It's almost Friday, TIME FLIES WHEN YOUR COUNTRY IS FALLING APART

I just didn't realise the apocalypse would be so embarrassingly crap.

Every time somebody has a little lapse in judgment or makes a mistake or loses control of their filter and I feel like I’m all out of grace, I just remind myself that everyone is burned out all the time and nobody thinks good things are ever going to happen again and honestly that helps

I just finished All the Hidden Paths (Tithenai Chronicles) and I am DYING for the third book, but there's absolutely no information about when it's coming out 😭😭😭

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

When my first son was born- and I remind you I was in the throes of sepsis and being given every drug on the planet simultaneously- they pulled him out, told me it was a boy, and apparently I dramatically flung my hand back at my husband, said “my lord! I have borne you a son!” and then fainted

I absolutely love this diagnosis by Richard Napier in summer 1618, one to which I am sure we can all relate:

'mynd mutch troubled a weake brayne'