Reverend Doktor Doctor Phill

But @mikester.bsky.social warned us years ago the kid was trouble. We get what we deserve.

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You can't even set fire to a volcano these days because of smoke.

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b... The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

Strong read this morning in the Observer on the collapse of Unbound, featuring @alexdecampi.bsky.social, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and myself.

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Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

[very RFK Jr voice] “i would never promote violence but it does make you think!”

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps.
Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people"

Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

garbage in garbage out

What a lying sack of shit.

Trump and Hegseth screwing over trans veterans on retirement benefits is an easy slam dunk politically for Democrats to flip the narrative on trans folks and that's exactly why they'll continue going on podcasts talking about how bigots have a point about sports.

You know LLMs aren't a real technology because there are no furry prompt engineers

why do we need the NBA when my friend Charles can dunk using a ladder

happy sweet someteen!

You’re telling me that no one can prevent this maniac from driving this country into the ground, from treating it like his personal play toy and candy jar? Is there no one who can check his brazen criminality? will keep asking until I get an answer that makes a modicum of sense.

Remember when writers didn’t use AI and instead just stole their wife’s work and claimed it as their own?

my mom went to big 5 and bought a canoe paddle

anyway, never fucking hit your kids. don't hit your kids. "spanking" is a euphemism for hitting your kids (cf swat, pop, potch) and just don't do it. all you will ever teach them is not to trust and to mingle pain with love. every strike teaches them to hide and lie.

these horrible little ceremonies where you explain the child's sin to them calmly, hurt them, and then have a tender little forgiveness moment -- it's fucked. maybe even more fucked than honest anger?

apparently we are going to have to keep tapping the sign

screenshot from a recent court opinion reading as follows MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS Jill N. Parrish, United States District Court Judge People may excel in multiple distinct pursuits. William Moulton Marston, a psychologist and comic-book writer, invented the systolic blood-pressure test and created the character Wonder Woman. The same Yamaha company for years dealt in pianos and motorbikes. Devin Michael Tew, Defendant in this case, generated hundreds of thousands of dollars from operating two different websites over at least four years: poppyseedwash.com and utahspermdonor.org. On the first website, he sold poppyseed kits his customers could use to brew their own opioid-rich poppyseed tea for personal consumption. On the second, he sold and shipped his semen to women hoping to conceive a baby through a low-cost at-home insemination process.

perusing court opinions, wondering if anything important may be going overlooked in the legal world, and--

well

let's just say this introduction threw me for a loop

Too creepy for woody Allen is a level of creep that bends the mind

We've Gone UNION, Baby! The Flytrap is partnering with the National Writers Union on freelancer policies

So thrilled to announce that @theflytrapmedia.com has collaborated with @nwu.org on freelancer policies. As a current freelancer, it's really important to me to value and protect our freelance contributors. Proud to join other indie pubs in this!

You can read all about it here:

buddy he is still on that show

oh shit that sounds amazing

mr show President Guy Whitey Corngood aka Jay Johnston with Bob Odenkirk as secret service reaction to America blowing up the moon

What the fuck are we doing here.

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god i wish

This is the kind of humiliating petty grievance that I would simply have taken to the grave

Apparently it’s #owlawarenessday