Christopher Bowers

One of the Best Pop Horror Books of the Year Is by … This Guy? Lucky Day is weird, compelling—and very surprising, coming from the author of My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass.

There is no more delightful publishing arc than the one traveled by @chucktingle.bsky.social. Love is real, and so is kindness, and talent.

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He’s right.

Appear to have more of an issue with Mamdani than MechaHitler.

A whole lot of organizations and politicians do not understand just how minimal their 'reach' truly is on X. It's not what Twitter was. You are shouting at bots and right-wingers. Nobody else sees what you do there. Daily users are down, time on site is down, and the algorithm is hostile to you.

Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party The two men spoke about Mr. Musk’s push to create the America Party before the midterm elections. Mr. Yarvin has expressed support for a monarchy, along with provocative ideas about race

Not sure “thinker” quite works here.

You like “Star Trek” more than “Star Wars.” Deny. I like “Star Wars” way better. I’m a capitalist. “Star Wars” is the capitalist show. “Star Trek” is the communist one. There is no money in “Star Trek” because you just have the transporter machine that can make anything you need. The whole plot of “Star Wars” starts with Han Solo having this debt that he owes and so the plot in “Star Wars” is driven by money.

Yes, Peter Thiel is functionally illiterate. Here’s his attempt at summarising the Star Wars plot to Maureen Dowd in 2017:

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Some of my fellow Jews think a college kid wearing a kaffiyeh is a greater threat to their personal safety than an authoritarian government rounding up people to send to torture camps and the world's richest man who made a Nazi AI, and I'm really not sure what to say to them anymore.

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

If you are inclined to gloat over the death of kids — or the death of ANYBODY — because they live in a place where 6 in 10 voted Trump instead of 5 in 10 or 4 in 10, then I think maybe you’re not here for the hunting.

I have gay moms. I grew up around the closet, AIDS, and so many loving family friends who suffered because of these things. I will not stand for anyone doing this to any more people or kids and I couldn't give two shits if it means I don't fit in at fancy newspapers.

When they wait until the end to make a lame excuse for shitty sourcing, you know they fucked up.

The fake discourse about Mamdami is predicated upon the assumption that clicking anything that says "Black" is the DEI cheat code for automatic success.

Conveniently omitted is how (1) that's not how DEI worked; (2) he put the best he could given the form; and (3) he didn't get in anyway.

Church doubles down after preacher encouraged prayers for LGBTQ deaths A preacher from the Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Indianapolis said LGBTQ+ people "deserve the death penalty."

In his sermon, the pastor of a Baptist church in Indianapolis encouraged LGBTQ people to commit suicide.

As @ffrf.org is fond of saying: "The is no hate like Christian love."
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Maybe they will touch on this if a Substack race scientist emails them about it?

NYT reporter meeting in a parking garage with an anonymous source dressed head to toe in Nazi regalia

Every. Single. Word. Is. A. Lie. Including “an,” “the,” and “it.”

In a shipping container.

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration?

I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

When Musk gave a Nazi salute: all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath

I remember encountering someone online who was mad that the supermarket has an entire aisle with salsas and stuff. The cold, dead heart of the Republican Party is ignorant, narrow-minded blood-and-soil cultural nativism as well as political nativism. Shitty people, shitty culture, shitty values.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

It's not a new observation, but it's wild that in Alito's mind, gay people are an abstraction who can safely be kept Out There, when lots of kids (mine included) have gay, married parents who pick them up at school together, show up at birthday parties, etc.

The second is worse, in my experience. Good luck.

Coven. Easily.