please recommend me good websites that are doing thoughtful writing and also humor pieces and also like. just writing good shit? being freeform and letting writers write? i feel like there used to be a lot of websites like this and now there aren't that many!!

Calling authors petit bourgeoisie is indeed insane. We are artisans and we deserve to profit from our labor. That said, digital piracy has never been shown to represent actual lost sales, and may in fact DRIVE sales. I think authors should cool out about it.

This is like the 4th product I’ve seen lately come out with a “hot honey” version. Where did this come from??

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

stick your foot in his kirbussy

getting the cheap macbook with 8gb of ram is really starting to catch up with me

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

@defector.com i really like your site and your work but why do you have a menu that you click on the right but opens on the left? that doesn't make any sense

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as a non-binary person, my fervent wish is to be left alone. don't think or talk about us anymore until you can all behave like adults. go away. personally speaking, of course

she got bottom surgery! i'm happy for her

i'm trying to cut out short-form video from my life, and i've noticed that even "bad" tv shows have been better for my brain than watching reels for the same amount of time. turns out keeping your brain engaged with one thread for an extended time is good!

it's some kind of journalistic malpractice to tell people an areon going for 30% off of $1600 is a meaningful "discount". you're supposed to get one from a shady facebook marketplace guy for $150 at most

using the steam deck to charge my vibrator because i'm a real gamer

It’s really funny to me that the “recent phone calls” tab in my phone is just alternating between @dialapod.net and my mom.

You know who has the easiest job? Whoever makes Admiral, that popup on websites that goes “hey you’re using an ad block!! Turn it off!!” but lets you click “no, show me the site anyway”. I could make that thing in five minutes in JS but they’re apparently selling it to every website in the world.

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

god doesn't let me draw because the porn i'd make would be too powerful

Really bummed how often I find someone who makes cool shit, follow them online to keep up with them and their work, and then find they spend most of their time on internet arguments and Discourse. It's even worse when I think they're wrong about the shit they argue about lmao

In case you were wondering, Burger King is open on Thanksgiving

as someone from Arizona, I can't stress to you all enough how much everyone here hates her. She managed to piss off literally everybody, regardless of political orientation. I'm a communist and I have bonded with republicans over our hatred of this woman.

Unsure why but for some reason Firefox has started locking up constantly on macOS

I know I want to keep Epilogue as the font for headings, but I can't decide which body font I like best. Presented are Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Karla, Inter, and IBM Plex Sans

This is also why a narrow focus on trans rights as somehow removed from class war, prison abolition, anti-fascism, the fight against racism and multiple other oppressions just doesn't face reality. We don't live our lives that way. Our enemies never just attack us with one weapon in their arsenal.

I just finished the CSS on my site and I already want to change it again. It looks decent but it doesn't look Correct to me.

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

it may be a lot of work, but it's almost always worth it to rearrange your furniture to make it feel like you're in a new space when you're in a rut

4 weeks from now Donald Trump turns on Zohran but not for being left wing, but because in this time Trump has become a fervent anti revisionist mlm and keeps saying Mamdani is a distraction to placate people from real revolution

this place rules

I have to admit something embarrassing: I never remember which one is Paul F Tompkins and which one is Paul Thomas Anderson. I know they're different people and do different things, but I will always say the wrong name if I bring one of them up.

TIL that in analytics, at least on Bear Blog, Instagram shows up as Facebook. I know this because I can see one person coming in form Facebook, on my newest blog post, right after I linked it to my friend in an Instagram DM

you should all be really proud of me, i thought of a cool new domain name yesterday and i didn't even buy it and i still haven't

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I always used to joke that when I change my name, I’m gonna make my middle name Kickflip, but now everyone knows Rhyme Kickflip and she definitely deserves the name more than me. So suggestions for a new silly middle name are welcome

I believe they may be alive.

This is good advice and also worth keeping in mind when designing your site or laying out your zines or in basically any situation where you’re laying out longer text!

Books are so fuckin good. There should be more of those things!

you'd think, given that i love to write and have wanted to be a writer since i was a child, that i'd spend significantly more, or even any, time writing. and that's where you're wrong.

Bad news: Senator John Fetterman's book isn't selling. We need to support our Democratic senators if we want to take back Congress in 2026. That means walking the walk and putting our money where our mouth is — even if we disagree sometimes. Support the Fetterman Book Fund! 👉 bit.ly/UnfetteredBook

I love applying for well-paying jobs I’m not really qualified for but know I could figure out, because I only need it to work once

remember when websites had multiple columns? and a funky layout? those were the days

The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2004 #WebDesignHistory

i just dont know

You think it's fun being a Cabbage Patch Kid?? I was raised by a 7-year-old single mother! I'm 43 years old and I still can't get an ID because I don't have a real birth certificate! Doctors refuse to treat me because they think I'm actually made of cabbage! This is a nightmare!

i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all

I’m so glad that most of the internet is dependent on two companies. Taking something built to be decentralized and then centralizing it was such a smart way to handle things.

The news may be little, but my excitement?? It’s a big one, folks

18 year old baby queer: Calling yourself a transbian is icky!!!!!! 43 year old trans woman: You were but a twinkle in your mother’s eye when this phrase came into existence, young one. You know not its power. Guy who just had “mend buttcrack” cast on him by a wizard: Uh. Not to interrupt, but