Lara Willard

Whether he's lighting up the night sky with fake stars, polluting Memphis & the atmosphere, or torching our modest programs to improve global health & feed the starving, Musk does not pay a nickel for the impacts of his fever dreams: everyone else does.

This is not how a healthy society functions.

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

I'm at a high school football game. A guy sitting behind me yelled, "HE JUST ATE HIM OUT" and there was not a single other romance reader around to exchange looks with.

I call her VeLucyraptor because she can open doors and gets into everything

She hasn't since she was a puppy! She ate some of our replacement-meal pizza off the counter, too!

By the end of this administration, it's gonna be like $100 for a single chicken wing that comes pre-infected with e coli

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.

Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.

Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

This is Lucy after she ate our dinner off the counter. Lefty Lucy, Lucy Chew, Lucy Goosey, Goose, Mongoose, Chaos goblin

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Every few months Dark Owl Publishing does something bad and every few months I come here and remind people that shitty indie presses run by racists always do bad things.

I'd focus on the positive "a lot" and worry about the unsaid rest of it if you get notes. But that's easier said than done. I don't think it's mostly negative, I think it's mostly positive.

That's good for a zero draft. Not great for a third draft.

Sound cloud?

“Best Dressed,” the Comic, Pitch, and Script With the sad news of POMEmag closing its doors August 31st, I wanted to share the comic that I wrote and Julia Hutchinson illustrated. This comic, about a woman struggling with body issues after a …

I have a short comic here that has the script :)
larawillard.com/2025/08/18/b...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

You could see if you could access the scripts of the pages you are teaching. Then the panel descriptions are written out.

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

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Charlie Kirk spent his adult years in the public, loudly fetishizing guns, violence, hatred and other horrors. But he didn't deserve to die. He deserved to live a long life complaining and belly-aching that peace activists took his guns away. I wish he could have had that life.

It's free. It's joyful. It builds intellect, empathy, and connection. It's good for your kids. It's good for you. It's good for your relationship. It's good for the environment, your local community, the whole world. Win win win win win. Go to the library. Read to your kids.

i think this bears repeating whenever Meta and AI are reported on tbh

"school shooting industry"