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‘Alien: Earth’ is Terrified of its Own Queerness
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write about Alien: Earth one episode at a time or just wait until the season wraps. But four episodes in—halfway through its eight-episode run—the show feels like it’s fin...
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Alien: Earth does a lot of things I love, it’s stylish, it’s dripping with atmosphere, it gets weird in some fun ways. But it seems either completely unaware of its best ideas, or afraid to engage them.
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do you ever just get so sad??
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
do you ever just get so sad??
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one more time for the cheap seats: the worst magazine in america
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
one more time for the cheap seats: the worst magazine in america
Such a fucking disgrace. But par for the course for the Atlantic.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Such a fucking disgrace. But par for the course for the Atlantic.
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We have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown
We’re going to need a bigger boat, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
We have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown
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I wonder what it would be like to have your emotions match the context in which you’re having them. It sounds inconvenient
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I wonder what it would be like to have your emotions match the context in which you’re having them. It sounds inconvenient
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the problem with girlsmell is that there is not enough of it being smelled by me right now
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
the problem with girlsmell is that there is not enough of it being smelled by me right now
I wish I could convince my body it doesn’t have to do the whole sinking feeling thing all week just bc thanksgiving is coming up
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I wish I could convince my body it doesn’t have to do the whole sinking feeling thing all week just bc thanksgiving is coming up
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Behind the Scenes, how I made my recent @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social comic about attending a scientific masturbation conference! Just for my Comics Tier patrons (also going up on the OJST Patreon probably later today. Mama's tired.) www.patreon.com/posts/143960...
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Behind the Scenes, how I made my recent @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social comic about attending a scientific masturbation conference! Just for my Comics Tier patrons (also going up on the OJST Patreon probably later today. Mama's tired.) www.patreon.com/posts/143960...
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New from my distributor I foolishly read on this, my supposed week off.
@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social does a lot of library business. I'm dreading that January statement.
Gang, if you have ever wanted an Iron Circus title, now would be a wonderful time for you to grab one. 💀
store.ironcircus.com
@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social does a lot of library business. I'm dreading that January statement.
Gang, if you have ever wanted an Iron Circus title, now would be a wonderful time for you to grab one. 💀
store.ironcircus.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New from my distributor I foolishly read on this, my supposed week off.
@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social does a lot of library business. I'm dreading that January statement.
Gang, if you have ever wanted an Iron Circus title, now would be a wonderful time for you to grab one. 💀
store.ironcircus.com
@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social does a lot of library business. I'm dreading that January statement.
Gang, if you have ever wanted an Iron Circus title, now would be a wonderful time for you to grab one. 💀
store.ironcircus.com
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Our bill to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts is being heard at the State House next Tuesday, 11/25 at 10am!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our bill to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts is being heard at the State House next Tuesday, 11/25 at 10am!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
We need people to join us to testify in support - you can testify in person or virtually - and to send written testimony. DM us if you want to help!
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So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
why does elon always look like he’s eating his face from the inside
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
why does elon always look like he’s eating his face from the inside
tired: metamour
wired: step-girlfriend
wired: step-girlfriend
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
tired: metamour
wired: step-girlfriend
wired: step-girlfriend
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im feeling my meme again
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
im feeling my meme again
if geoff keighley has no haters im dead
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
if geoff keighley has no haters im dead
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(writing about jerking off a boomer over facetime) I watched the birds nesting deeply in the arroyo and felt a light emerge from my chest, a sort of fleeting, avian luminance that floated across my beloved country only to be shot down, murdered, by the group chats I was so cruelly removed from
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
(writing about jerking off a boomer over facetime) I watched the birds nesting deeply in the arroyo and felt a light emerge from my chest, a sort of fleeting, avian luminance that floated across my beloved country only to be shot down, murdered, by the group chats I was so cruelly removed from
all the literary finesse of a chatgpt hallucination
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
all the literary finesse of a chatgpt hallucination
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I am hearing there’s even more going on over there.
Much love to the writers there, this industry is brutal and I hope you land on your feet.
Much love to the writers there, this industry is brutal and I hope you land on your feet.
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am hearing there’s even more going on over there.
Much love to the writers there, this industry is brutal and I hope you land on your feet.
Much love to the writers there, this industry is brutal and I hope you land on your feet.
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Garbage writing from a garbage person.
this is quite possibly the worse writing i have ever experienced. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Garbage writing from a garbage person.
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If youre like me, a trans person who works in games, you owe so much to Rebecca. Hell even if you just like games you owe her. She's an inspiration for everyone like me and deserves to at least leave peacefully.
Im walking a path only available because of her. Im torn up about this. Fuck.
Im walking a path only available because of her. Im torn up about this. Fuck.
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
If youre like me, a trans person who works in games, you owe so much to Rebecca. Hell even if you just like games you owe her. She's an inspiration for everyone like me and deserves to at least leave peacefully.
Im walking a path only available because of her. Im torn up about this. Fuck.
Im walking a path only available because of her. Im torn up about this. Fuck.
Okay but. He definitely calls it a ding dong during sex right
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Okay but. He definitely calls it a ding dong during sex right