Letter from Tolkien to WH Auden, June 1953
Stories are like gardens that are nurtured — twisting along unanticipated paths, as they reveal themselves to even the authors.
If you relinquish all choices too early, give them up in the name of efficiency, fully formed from the outset — you lose something.
Wander curiously.
With David Ellison aiming to take over Hollywood, emerging triumphant on Feb. 27 in the $111 billion fight for Warner Bros. Discovery less than a year after merging his studio Skydance with Paramount, chatter in more independent-focused corners of the industry has turned to another Ellison.
[Exit Murderer.]
The unspoken third phrase in "Bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus ..." is "...and all the Jews die" but they skirt over that bit of the mythology.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
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Say hi and link to your work here!
Let's make a thread of Horror from Women that people can peruse & discover some cool, new stuff
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Apropos of nothing, if anyone is looking for an unproblematic, experienced WGA and Animation Guild writer to handle your upcoming GI Joe movies/tv shows/reboots, I’ve hosted a podcast about it for 11 years called Knowing is Half the Podcast, and I have about 20 pitches for ideas.
Anybody remember when Trump did this?
When you were a kid, did you ever meet another kid who was clearly out of their mind, and incredibly troubled and destructive, who made you really uncomfortable to be around, and you just hoped that they would grow up to… Not be like that?
And then they grew up to be even worse?
Happy February!
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Any Democrat in a position of power should oppose this loudly and immediately. Make antitrust laws a campaign issue. Fight it every way imaginable. Do not hand over mass media to a creepy dad-son dyad who want to cozy up to an increasingly loathed president bent on maintaining power illegitimately.
There are a ton of upsides to this week's STARFLEET ACADEMY, but meanwhile
@tignotaro.bsky.social in the captain's chair needs to be its own production
This week's STARFLEET ACADEMY wrote to ST:VOY vet @robertpicardo.bsky.social and he crushed it ten times over. He underlined why we bring alums. ST:DSC's hero Mary Wiseman also crushed it but she's not on Bluesky?
But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.
This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
Email to USA Hockey
Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.
I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
FOR ALL MANKIND?
I haven't pruned my browser's bookmarks in ages and ye gods all my favorite restaurants are closed
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
The Hill: Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/11/26 10:38 AM ET
Politico: Gallup retreats from political polling , again under new leadership Gallup will announce friday that it plans to measure President Donald Trump's job approval rating only on a monthly basis. 12/21/2018
If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
Can't have record low approval ratings if no one is checking the approval ratings...
Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon
Oh great. The *Mini*-Thousand Year Reich. (eyeroll)
Somebody better remind them how many years the *last* one lasted.
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
Screenshot of an X.com post by Melanie D’Arrigo (@Darrigo) stating that undocumented immigrants can’t vote and that voter fraud is extremely rare, arguing Trump and Republicans are using a nonexistent problem as an excuse to manipulate future elections. Below is an embedded Aaron Rupar post quoting an NBC question about whether Trump is suggesting the federal government count votes, and a response from Leavitt saying Republicans and Democrats should pass the SAVE America Act, which would require voter ID and proof of citizenship. At the bottom is a TV still of Leavitt speaking at a White House press briefing with reporters visible nearby.
Well put. This is a solution in search of a nonexistent problem, all to make it far harder for millions to vote. That's vote suppression, folks.
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