Nat Cassidy

Oh, I bet this’ll be pretty funny—
<fifteen seconds later>
😭😭😭😭😭

“We had to kill them because they refused to die.”

Not quite the point of this post, I know, but every now and then it’s really bracing to re-confront how we’re living through the absolute fucking worst presidency by, like, a factor of five.

Again and again and again and again and again, the lower courts do the work, issue thorough and well-considered rulings, and then the Supreme Court just goes, “Nah.”

I don’t use Spotify, but my Apple Music account is happy to continue outing me as a cliched, white, middle aged, classic rock dork.

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Working on the final new addition for this and, oh hey, have I mentioned it’s

🚨AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER??🚨

Over a dozen stories, including the Stoker Award-nominated novella, “Rest Stop.”

Available in print + e-book (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social) as well as audio.

May 5, 2026.
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Come with me …

Thank you so much!!!

My book of the year. Hits the ground running and doesn’t let you take a beat. Also has one of the most disturbing deaths I’ve read for years. Absolute masterpiece @natcassidy.bsky.social

It’s so funny to imagine Patience and Prudence recording their sweet little bobby-socks-n-saddle-shoes songs in the 1950s, having zero idea how many nasty horror filmmakers would later use them to creep people out.

Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.

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One of the most important works of literature in my life. This play opened my eyes to what was possible in drama, in comedy, in philosophy, in performance, in conversation with the past. My first play was an almost direct homage and I’ve been chasing it ever since. RIP to a true genius.

Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.

Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.

Pure, mindless, barbarism.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.

We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Give Trump the splashy headline and credit then wait five paragraphs to mention these deals were only possible because of Biden's legislation. Paper of Record! 🙄

Trump objectively IS the most openly corrupt president in U.S. history. And suing people to stop them from saying it is part of that unprecedented corruption.

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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

If anyone wants *prime* weird Kier, I highly recommend Lars von Trier’s THE KINGDOM series. My god does it go to some wild places and Udo Kier is Udo Kiering to extents never before thought possible in it.

Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present. There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar

(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value

@forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.

Um. Did he forget what happened? The dementia is really, really bad.

So unseemly. What a dodged bullet that was.

I knew it was a bad sign when the Washington Post’s masthead changed to, “We Are All Parakeets and Master Has Put a Sheet Over Our Cage It’s Night Now Sleep Sleeep Shhh Sleeeeeep”

When I was a child, a prominent politician’s career was ended for spelling potato wrong.