Josh Long

Hold up

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

50 Years Ago Today, Oregon Blew Up a Dead Whale. With Dynamite. On Live TV. The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.

Happy 55th Annual ‘Oregon Blew Up a Whale’ Day, to all who celebrate

The meme of "my body is a machine that turns 'the passage of time' into 'not writing'." This is a joke about writing and how so much of writing is not writing— or at least, that's what I tell myself when I am avoiding writing, which is a big part of my actual job. I mean writing, not *not* writing. Bosses: do not look at this, especially if you are expecting something from me soon. Obviously, everything is going great. I am not procrastinating by making this meme. I am not deliberately wasting time in every possible way I can think of after already having made breakfast int he most laborious way possible, catching up on email and slack messages, engaging in some discord discourse, and checking every social media feed I have the misfortune to remain entangled with, and I fully intend on starting to write for real the moment I hit the button to send this tweet. Yes, I still call them tweets. It's an act of resistance at this point, calling them tweets. I remember there was some discussion of what to call them, and I have to say I did laugh about "skeets," since the act is comparable in some ways: it feels good in the moment, but results in something useless and gross just moments later... is this too much to get into here? I don't know if the wrongheadedly censorious people who run this platform even check descriptive alt text, come to think of it. Anyway, I should get back to writing, for real, which I will do now. That reminds me, did you catch the discourse the other day about dialogue choices in games? I don't have much to say, really, other than that creative works can be literally whatever you want them to be, so arguing about them isn't as productive as simply making the work you want to see in the world (and which I'll get back to doing in just a moment). If you want to see my approach to dialogue choices, why not play my visual novel, Eliza? If you've made it this far and haven't yet, I suggest you check it out. Okay, back to writing for real now. Definitely.

Bracketing that they absolutely failed here. And bracketing that such a failure reflects a dearth of discipline, understanding, and acumen...

They just don't got the juice, man. Absolutely sauceless leadership.

just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)

light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

"A promise of a vote on healthcare"

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.

-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds.

apnews.com/article/snap...

Can't wait to see this game come to fruition!

YouTube video by Tom Watson Ewoks on the Today Show, one humps Al roker's leg

In case you live under a rock or something www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_62...

succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Apocalypse World: Burned Over The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.

I just backed Apocalypse World: Burned Over on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Page from a Harry and David magazine that shows snack gift boxes beneath the caption "boxes of uncontainable delight"

Literally contained in a box, my dudes

What is going on

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

If anyone else is missing #NaNoWriMo this year, our wee Scottish writing group is keeping the tradition alive, with write-ins, a strong #writingcommunity, and a Quest to keep everyone going to their 50,000 words.

Free to join; come say hi.

discord.gg/FNW4XNa5

#Scotland

CEOs: Oops we got 👀 tricked into laying off half our workforce 👀 accidentally creating an industry-wide employment crisis 👀 for tech that does not and cannot even work right 👀 so we have no choice 👀 but to rehire human workers 👀 at much less pay 👀 this was unintended 👀 as we said 👀 we were tricked

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

Sam Reich at his Make Some Noise desk with the prompt "More" on the screen behind him, once and then a second time the font is bigger. A third photo where the prompt instead reads "Lactose intolerantly". A fourth photo that reads "more" with the biggest font..

live feed of me every time i eat ice cream

baseball on my TV screen with TWO score graphics on it: one for the first 12 innings and one for the 13th-17th innings

NHK graphics department forced to improvise in order to keep up with this marathon World Series game

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Nobody is really prepared for when we go cyber-hot with China. Society is going to halt.