Jess Nevins

How to apologize: a short thread. So. You've fucked up. You did or said or wrote something that angered and/or offended and/or hurt someone or many someones. You need to apologize--either because you were wrong, or because people are telling you to apologize. Which one is the case doesn't matter.

I was just flooded by about 20-25 middle grade girls, all of whom had questions. (Our children's librarian is out today). I could *not* have been happier. Middle grade girls are serious. They know what they want and ask for it. When I tell them where to go to find it, they *listen*. They're great!

It will never happen, but I'm much rather see a comic book publisher look at a complainer's social media posts and say, "We don't want you as a customer" than to look at a writer's posts and say, "We don't want you as a writer." Some people you should be proud to not sell to.

My wife: Hey we got this letter from our old mortgage company saying they sent us a check in 2022 that never got cashed. I need you to call them to get them to reissue it. Me: My wife: Me: My wife: Me: You mean...on the phone? How much is the check for? My wife: [redacted] Me: Mmm, no, not worth it.

Apropos of nothing in particular, my favorite thing that Terry Pratchett ever wrote is the name that the dwarfs have for Granny Weatherwax: "K'ez'rek d'b'duz," meaning "Go around the other side of the mountain."

Q: as a white guy, it's a bit problematic for me to compliment a Black woman who has a superb Afro Puff going. (Right?) What about a white guy who has gone full William Holman Hunt with his beard? I can compliment him on that, yeah?

I believe the fishermen and women of the world need to be warned about this and prepare themselves. When Trump and his family dies, their souls are going to occupy the bodies of blobfish the way the Heike warriors' souls did the Heikegani and change the blobfishes' faces to resemble them.

I know that Marvel's X-books are functioning perfectly well without input from me, but, Marvel, please, please listen: Your upcoming X-men event, "DNX," will undoubtedly sell event numbers of comics. If you had called it "DMX," you would have sold roughly 500 million more copies.

I seem to have gotten myself into a minor sort of a pickle. We (both college librarians & public librarians) put rolling step stools at the end of each bookshelf so that people can use them to reach the books on the top shelves. A woman almost tripped over one because she wasn't paying attention

This slipped through the cracks, I think. I've seen people mourning Afrika Bambaataa's death, and while the man made some great music, if there's a Hell, he's burning it right now. Definitely not worth your tears. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

The boy, to me, out of nowhere, while I'm driving him to school: "Will you watch some David Lynch movies with me?" Oh, my son, I have longed for this day!

How have I gotten so far with this rpg and not heard of Pytheas of Massalia before? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas

Ah! Here's a bad, irrelevant take: Men who are Movie Stars generally portray themselves as a cop/reporter/whatever. Women who are Movie Stars are expected to disappear into the role.