Tom Howard

Guardian’s shade game is top notch.

Vote April 21 to make it happen if you’re in VA

This thing that didn’t happen helped me misunderstand something better

Yes he uses all caps a lot but that’s easy. Any unhinged psychopath can hit caps lock. My guess is that he wants special formatting here and he can’t use bold or italics so he resorts to first letter caps. This probably drives him insane that he can’t make these words red, bold, and 48 pt font.

This keeps making me laugh whenever I remember it

But how will it look futuristic then

It’s incredible. I could’ve watched 4 hours of this and been happy. The Gene Wilder interviews alone are amazing.

In his post he had to consciously make the decision to write "Country” instead of "country" so what made that decision happen? I may be the only human being who is curious about this, I get that.

One thing that goes undermentioned (maybe?) is Trump’s 19th century essayist capitalization style. Random nouns capitalized for emphasis. This is intentional - you have to work to make this happen with texts and posts. By now it’s a brand but I wonder what really drives it.

There’s a whole dissertation out there about this waiting to happen

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series

“Benjamin Franklin, who turns up during episode two, is particularly nightmarish. He looks as if someone has genetically spliced Hugh Laurie with Anthony Hopkins, and then covered the resulting monstrosity in a thin layer of roving liver spots.”

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

telling my adorable daughter i'm not putting the drawing she made on the fridge because it's toddlerslop

It’s like the live action Schoolhouse Rock characters running the city and it warms my soul

Philly DA Larry Krasner has the right idea here, I think: "If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you." It might be less about getting results than putting the target out there.

This is an abomination, yes, but it also shows the promise of AI, which is the promise of abominations

I just can’t get over the weird thank you for your attention to this matter thing. It’s deranged.

Voters Are Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE, Poll Finds

So a quarter of Republicans are concerned there hasn't been *quite* enough murder and kidnapping. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

This is the kind of dorky government-can-work vibe that I can get behind

Weird because it’s ALL optics, the whole operation. He just wants to pick and choose the eyeballs that see it.

Book cover for Invisibilia, short story collection. Cover shows an invisible guy in a blazer with his hat falling off. Also a nice looking mug of coffee. All in all, looks like something you’ll want to read.

ARC and cover drop. Invisibilia, coming from Slant Books in April. Coffee is extra.

#booksky
#writingcommunity #coverdrop
#shortstories

I love that book

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good

Dude maybe it’s time to call it a day

Agree, it doesn’t matter at all if she was a citizen. It’s bad framing.

The ASL translator leaning into "get the FUCK out" is pretty great

This is important - it can't just be about abolishing ICE, there has to be the guarantee of prosecutions, even if that happens down the road. Everyone signing up for ICE now has to know what's waiting for them. It's not a real job and there is no immunity.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

We don't have to live like this.

Ah so it’s just about priorities