The weirdest date of my life ended with her spouting conspiracy theories, me drunk making up my own conspiracy theories and her saying "Oooh I read all about that." THEN she mentioned she had to go because her husband - A MARINE. HAD JUST GOTTEN HOME FROM IRAQ. This was new information.

Alright so I got home. I have to log on to the day job some more to finish some reporting. And then hopefully I can do some writing and install Linux.

I'm fairly certain I went to that exact fire station for a haunted house like, oh JFC was it 20 years ago? Shit it might have been twenty years ago. Good job firemen.

Fwiw, depending on what I count I've written 10 or 11 novels in the 20 years I've been doing this. (JFC 20 years already). The 8th was the first I thought was good enough to query and the 9th was ACTUALLY good enough to query. As for what gets formally published /shrug emoji.

Yay I saw friends now ope I'm doom scrolling. Time to sign off and go read. Be kind to yourselves, mkay? We're back in the slog of the world so you gotta pace yourself.

I uh. So. I once. Okay see so I was pretending to be Jason Bourne. And anyway look I punched myself in the face. And broke my glasses.

Sure, sometimes, I have my shit together. And then other times, I jab myself in the chin my own thumbnail.

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

This year I need to do more playtesting with TT game designers. Uugggh why does all of it have to be located on Discord NO I DON'T WANT NITRO AND I CAN'T EVEN GET MY CAMERA TO WORK PROPERLY.

I guess I am a bit of a chaos bisexual but it’s in less of an Ilya Rozanov way and more of a “Beaker from the Muppets” way

Oh yes streaming is the future of the game for sure totally. I absolutely love how the broadcast rewound for me to before the fumble, then after replaying that entire sequence it jumped to after the 10 minutes warning. A+ great experience. :|

Oh hey. That's a doom spiral. I'm going to go read and make some more donations.

Look I'll be honest if you start a post with "BREAKING" I'm probably going to ignore you. Mostly because it's primarily engagement bait things that do that.

"This product nobody wants to use because it's shit won't go away because it's not used." Anyway, how's that Metaverse going?

Annnnnd that's enough Bsky for today. Be kind to yourselves and each other.

My musketeer book in unabashedly queer with a F/F relationship at the center of this epic fantasy about monsters coming out of mirrors. On top of that though, it is very much my interrogation of gender norms. A brief thread of what I explored in this book.

How's today going? Well. I just accidentally stapled my pants.

Jesus CHRIST MINNEAPOLIS. WATER BALLOONS IN THIS WEATHER? You all are just BEAUTIFUL.

Jfc if this is real they are really like Michael Scott.

“Do not engage in a winter campaign in bitterly cold areas. You will lose not just your army, but most likely your throne.” - literally every military historian ever “GET IN THE CAR, LOSERS, WE’RE GONNA INVADE MINNESOTA IN LATE JANUARY” - the Trump administration

Hi, bisexual romance writer here to tell you harrassing real-life bisexual actors is a shit thing to do and people need to learn some goddamn boundaries. (This post is about Canadian treasure François Arnaud who’s been really doing some emotional work as an out queer dude on the PR circuit.)

Some day I would love fan art.

...I did laugh really hard at this. I needed this laugh today.

Hey you. Yeah, you out there. I hope you're finding joy today. I know the news is kind of a hellscape and there's a lot of problems. But your joy matters. Even if it is just the peace of two deep breaths before you keep fighting. Be kind to yourselves and each other, mkay? Except ICE. Fuck ICE.

I stopped and went OH MY and also the alt text is A+

WHAAAAAT?!?!?!? I cannot express enough how 10000% this is totally My Shit. Just @ me next time @djangowexler.bsky.social :)

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎 www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...

@trueref.bsky.social as an aside, I super appreciate your article "How to use references" because it's the first time I've found practical "Here's how to grow this skill" that's NOT just either "draw more" or "try drawing circles." So, thank you.

Trying to live my life so that when I die it’s a “pour one out for a real one” scenario over a “rest in piss” situation

In other news I've started a new (small) project and this new protagonist is such a dork I lurves him.

Remember there is a difference between beet red and beat red.

Laugh at these fuckers playing soldier in our streets and mock them to no end.

Big @mattfnwallace.bsky.social vibes with this

New dating strategy just dropped

Legit this is why calling them "weird" resonated so much. And it seems so fascinating that shit stopped when Dems were like "hey let's chase the centrist vote"

This is why they could never make me hate you, Emily Henry.

I forget who articulated this realization but it was one of the beautiful people here, and it was just the realization that part of why I hate AI so much is the utter hubris of it all and the power imbalance. We don't want it, we don't consent to it, they're just doing it anyway.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Hongkongers' guide on tear gas, 2026 edition: Tear gas canisters send particles into the air. When those particles come into contact with your skin, eyes or lungs, they mess you up. The goal of treatment is to get these particles off you. That's it.

Very important floof update

gotchu

With David Rosen's death, bad information about Sega as a company is starting to re-emerge across the internet. I will try to give a very condensed version of the Sega corporate shenanigans here as to clear some of the air. 🧵

#unboxing THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF DUPREE

LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

This is 100% true for whatever value of "the video". My guide to avoiding traumatizing media and how to do it more psychologically safely if you absolutely *must* watch it: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

Can I use the tape dispenser without injuring myself?

No I do not in fact need to see someone getting shot to death on autoplay thanks.