Stephanie Leary

really does feel like “I will personally destroy this twerp’s life” would be a unifying electoral strategy

prosecute DOGE top to bottom tbh

Cry-laughing at "Edook Fublishing" oh my god

Another day, another class action to join

TIL a LLM-based simulation of a specific person is called a “sloppelgänger”

"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next."

this whole missive will make you want to stand on your desk and yell "O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!," but that bit really got me good

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?

We better get some roller disco out of all this

can we at least bring back disco, guys in short shorts, moustaches, and actors with interestingly flawed faces and bodies

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Do they know Mohela? Can someone tell them?

helps quite a bit if I'm being honest

This is worse.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Congrats on the diagnosis! Welcome, we have snacks! Wait, where did the snacks go… they were right here a second ago…

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Going to use this in other contexts.

YOU ASKED FOR THIS!

Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

It's always time for this anti-fascist moment from Casablanca.

*squints*

He said that? This isn’t the bit from Shrek? Oooooookay.

I have tried to write a talk about the way orgs with Title II responsibilities are putting their limited money into papering over frameworks’ neglect, but I can’t mask my seething rage long enough to make it palatable

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

[Exit Murderer.]

Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesn’t include bombing people.

Jeepers, Ursula, that's on the nose.

If a man said this to me I think I would assume that he couldn’t read tbh

i don't know what more we can do beyond cutting the books up in little pieces and making airplane noises while floating a page over to their eyeballs

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.