There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...

"In many cases, the best decision for the firm is the one that directly undermines the company it controls. The reason there are no weird blogs anymore is that it’s more fruitful to drive them out of business."

In case my position on this wasn’t clear, you can add me to the list.

Editorial note for anyone writing about Epstein, there is no such thing as an "underage woman."

a close up of a bald man with a beard and mustache looking up at the sky . Alt: A slow zoom in on Tupac Shakur's face. He's leaning his head back and blinking slowly, looking blank.

Going through the spring 2026 young adult fiction releases, and from what I can tell so far, all of the books with male protagonists are romances. I don't see any sports books, male friendship, action/adventure, humor, mystery, or dystopian books (that don't share the stage with romance).

Cast your vote for NPR's Pod Club Awards! 'Tis the season to celebrate your favorite podcast.

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But without the filibuster, Schumer and Thune would need to somehow find villains for every single vote that would upend the status quo and that's just not a viable option because eventually the base would demand party leadership either crack down or get voted out.

It's a nice racket, all told.

The GOP would have never killed the filibuster, because then it would mean their base would have *expected* an abortion ban, and voter suppression laws, and the elimination of the Affordable Care Act.

And those are all deeply unpopular. One way or another, they'd all be out on their asses.

Proboscis Dragon, for #smaugust 2018

5"x7" watercolor / multimedia

Work in progress of mushroom themed calendar

Need to get bigger coils, but did the hole punches successfully at the top and figured out my spiral binding machine.

drawing of a puppy and a kitten with the caption; "Not everyone's going to accept or understand you and that's okay. Stick with the ones who do."

Just do your thing

"The decision to buy twelve F-35 A aircraft for the Royal Air Force capable of dropping US B61 gravity, 'free fall' nuclear bombs – so-called 'tactical' nuclear weapons – risks triggering a dangerous nuclear escalation ... The move also undermines the nuclear non proliferation treaty (NPT)."

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

I attended SFF cons as a teenager.

I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.

"Oh wow you look way older"

No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.

They know what the hell they're doing.

Statute of Trump and Epstein frolicking hand in hand.

Plaque below the statue with hands making a heart shape. Text reads: In Honor of Friendship Month. We celebrate the long-lasting bond between Donald J. Trump and his “closest friend,” Jeffrey Epstein. Voice over: There Must Be More To Life Than Having Everything.

Seen just now in NW DC: statue of Tr*mp & Epstein dancing together, in honor of “friendship month”.

A passerby assured me this wasn’t here as of 4 hours ago.

4 photos. One is of a mostly eaten pecan pie, the other three are of a very large fluffy white dog who is absolutely delighted with her choices

Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!

This comic is so, so good. There art and writing are fantastic, with so much going on in the background and under the surface. Two great creators making something wonderful that gives me joy right now, I highly recommend.

How nature says do not touch: a snake, a piranha, a skunk, and a fedora guy defending Ayn Rand

It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.

a pen shaped like a sardine, with a transparent plastic tail-shaped cap

Oh also here is the other pen I got in France, it is a mournful sardine

Everything is political!

A "YOINK!" sound effect.

@kbspangler.com just posted a new update of our new project - Family Demons - and my soundfx game is STRONG.

More info on familydemons.com

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Any conversation about return to office vs work from home that does not acknowledge the ongoing pandemic is ignorant, ableist and destined to miss the mark.
Many, including disabled people but not only disabled know they cannot risk getting COVID and offices haven’t taken steps to protect workers.

The CR to open the government included no guarantees around extending ACA subsidies.

Will a vote on extending them actually happen? Who knows!

In any case, Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.

Capitulation is not a strategy.

'Death of the Author' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Here's why it made the list

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a Time Magazine “Must-Read Book of the 2025”, 🥰.

I’m pleased that they at least said the genre is “hard to pin down” (that’s an understatement because the novel contains multitudes).

Full list here: time.com/collections/...

"This could take down Democrats, too."

I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.

Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.

New piece laying this out:

newrepublic.com/article/2030...

I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra