Honestly, I need to get better at wordpress. My icons are just not working the way I want them to and I have no idea how to fix them. It doesn't help that almost nobody who uses wordpress seems to actually know what's going on under the hood. Every suggestion is, "there's a plugin for that".

Hey, do you want to engage in performative reading? Go check out my book! At this point like half of it is online for free. The performance part is where you leave comments about it under the chapters. You can even link your comments here for my reading pleasure and/or horror! latest chapter:

the democrats are getting shit on pretty hard right now, but to be fair, I have never been in the position to have to choose between letting people lose healthcare or starving people AND letting people lose healthcare. IMO when a Sophie's choice is presented, you shouldn't blame Sophie.

SCOTUS just refused to revisit same-sex marriage. Probably the smartest thing they've done in the last 5 years.

Why does every social media site not have a feed I can select to show me just the stuff a person said. I don't always care what they reposted. I want to see their original ideas, please.

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

thinking about Draw Steel products after the stream the other day. And unfortunately I realized that I am not the audience for that stuff. Which is to say, I'm going to support all of it and get it all. I'm enthusiastic. But A: I don't NEED any of it and B: because they don't need to woo me.

Every time I see an ad for Zootopia 2 all I can think is that the snake is naked.

Didn’t get around to posting it back in September, but here’s my prelims round from the Devil in the Details animation/robot battle. I didn’t make it into top 16 (close tho!), but had an amazing time and got to spend it with my crew and couple of Loyal Creatures too. ❤️ mark my words, next year…

I cannot answer this question for him because I am an old white guy, but hopefully somebody who follows me has taste.

Good news for once.

I very often hear people in the fantasy space and creative writing space shitting on people who like Brandon Sanderson and acting as if they don't understand it. I actually don't think most of that is done in good faith, but just in case I thought I would mention why I think that is.

Just for the record, if anybody ever tries to sell you on an expert LLM, your being lied to. An LLM cannot be an expert. It hasn't gone to school, it's never had clients, and it doesn't know the difference but between a 9-year-old asking random pokémon questions and someone seeking a professional.

Sanderson: I think I'll leave that topic to be explored by fanfiction. Women in the audience: I'm on it!

Tradwife? More like RADwife!

This is a sign you put up because "someone" can't find the oval office. Or maybe they keep getting lost? Confused?

This is a minor quibble but as a rule anytime anybody says "Democrat party" I just assume there's something wrong with their head. It has the vibe of somebody who thinks they have struck upon something clever that isn't. Like some kid who just realized a teacher's name rhymes with fart.

Got to see @siridahl.com on Factually with @adamconover.net and that was a lovely and well educated crossover.

I love all the Facebook memes about how Mamdani is a socialist. You guys .... That kind of talk is why everybody voted for him. Socialism is not unpopular. You have deeply miscalculated. You know what's really unpopular? Capitalism. Especially when it's being cried about by rich old white men.

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A friend of mine who is amazing and moral and clever just won a local election and that is lovely.

The best time for Alan Dershowitz to, as he states, "blow his brains out" was before he raped anyone. The second-best time is now.

New Draw Steel campaign diary is up and here it is! Plus, bonus recipe video!

the first of the month passing means we get a new chapter of The Sundered God: In this one we interrogate these guys properly now that they're terrified. If you're reading this stuff, drop a comment on the chapter and let me know what you think. Comments, criticism, and conjecture are welcome.

A thing I'm learning about editing Youtube videos that might help other nerds: get the base video done first before you add stuff like images, sounds, or floating text. Because most editing programs will make it a pain in the ass to get layers to track correctly.

I just saw an article saying that Dick Cheney was known for his love of family and country Look, I know you guys were trying to write an obituary headline but that's absolutely not what he was known for. It's not even close He's known for lying us into a war and shooting a dude in the face

Obligatory selfie.

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

I just saw one of the most depressing things over on Facebook. "The most embarrassing thing about the US having another civil War is that it's not even for a different reason."

Obviously she's terrible. But she's a woman. Just let her be a terrible woman. It's not that hard actually. I can think of quite a few. If she's not bad because she's trans, she's sort of shitty despite that.

I'm Malkavian with Toreador rising.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Well hey, what’s this? ;)

American bread lines have begun. The stores are empty which I'm sure will be great for those companies and employees. Remember when I said Americans will shoot themselves in the foot before they help someone else? This is the bullet hitting.

Over 3 million Texans rely on SNAP to meet their food budgets each month. Lines and lines of cars were out yesterday in Houston starting before dawn, all there to get groceries. Modern bread lines.

Accessibility folks: when I'm adding alt text for an image with a celebrity or a character, should I call out who they are as part of the information? I've noticed that the default gif descriptions here are vague by default. I'm assuming that's for speed.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

AnaÏs Nin ran a treadle-press in the 40s and there's this wonderful quotation of hers I printed recently.

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got new insurance at work is this bad, fam

Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner

The Republicans have been promising a specific plan as an alternative to Obamacare ever since it passed in 2010. The promise is 15 1/2 years old now. That's probably why they don't seem very sincerely interested in it.

Alan Wake 2

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.