AI has to be addresses now or never. I believe this is the last time any labor action will be effective in our business. If we don’t make strong rules now, they simply won’t notice if we strike in three years, because at that point they won’t need us. 10/end

This picket line is about to get so hot and so weird.

If you’re enjoying your weekend, thank the labor movement. And if you’re winding down with a movie or TV show, thank the working people who create the stories we love. I stand with Writers Guild of America West, Writers Guild of America East, @SAGAFTRA, and #DGA in their fight.

Meet #WGAStrike Captain ™, writer on Adam Ruins Everything (TruTV). Why she's striking: If working class people can't be TV and movie writers anymore, then only the rich create culture. #WGAStrong

WRITING ADVICE: If you’re scared of the blank page just puff your body up and make the page think you’re very large

It takes virtually no effort to toss some lie or misleading bullshit out into the public sphere; it takes enormous effort to craft an evidence-based argument against it. Just multiply that asymmetry over & over & over & over again & you get a sense of the cost of all this.

BREAKING: The Teamsters have authorized a strike at UPS. By a resounding 97%, the members of the union have authorized leadership to call a strike of 340,000 workers. It would be the largest single employer strike in U.S. history.

There should be greater scrutiny of how majority white institutions produce deadly outcomes for Black & brown people. Instead, debate centers on who can sit beside the wealthy, white students that get admitted without merit generation after generation.

Wordle 745 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 You know, it was worth sticking this thing out.

I truly think the studios have no idea what they are unleashing. The most beautiful and charismatic people in the world, united together in the age of social media? #SAGAFTRA, you’re about to get everything you want and more.

there is no reason why CEO pay shouldn’t be capped at say 10x what their lowest paid worker makes. or even 100x! what we have now is in the 1000x’s and it’s untenable. back when we had a functioning middle class, CEO’s made a reasonable function of what their employees made

Workers nationwide aren’t striking for fun. They’re not striking to be unreasonable or unrealistic. They’re not striking because they’re greedy or lazy. They’re striking because they played by the rules and still got robbed—and enough is enough. Pay Workers. Tax Billionaires.

Unions and the Hollywood strike are so popular that even Fox has to run a positive piece.

Pretty cool to see this phenomenon among UPS workers and Hollywood actors at the exact same time

The best thing about getting a dog is that suddenly you have neighbors

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going to buy a single envelope and his explanation sums up the current state of the world.

Your house is not haunted, there's a raccoon in your attic. And that is much, much worse.

This new year, I’m resolving to change nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing. My resolution is to accept myself as I am, for better or worse. Sorry fuckers, you’re stuck with this version of me till 2025.