GRRM is *not*, in fact, a role model in applying that maxim.

World would be a way better place if we all stopped thinking we know better than other people what's hard for them and what is an obstacle, and that the solution that make things easier for us don't necessarily work for everyone else.

before you spam your copy paste into some random person's comments, remember writing the alt text is an accessibility issue in it of itself. are yall actually advocating for accessibility or is it rly about using it as a point of moral high ground to lob abuse at someone

Pet peeve has been wokened, so again. Avoid it like THE plague. Not a plague. Not any plague. The Plague. La Peste. Yersina Pestisei. of the Black-Death-that-devastated-Eurasia fame. Recent events, bad enough, aren't even in that stratosphere.

Folks want women to expose the men who do them wrong, but almost every time, the woman gets more backlash for being with him in the first place & everyone jumps in her face about missing red flags & “accountability.” If you aren’t a “perfect victim,” it might not even feel worth it to share.

@jleiper.bsky.social Do you by any chance know what is up with the temporary no stopping signs that have been on Fairmont for the past week? There seemed to be work going on at first, but stretching it into a weekend with no work, on a street that was already hurting for parking seems weird.

Je me souviens. Encore. À jamais.

Currently at 114 on Québec alone, with like half of that being just the Montérégie. Could probably do a better job if the circles WEREN'T population adjusted - it's getting hard to see what I have and don't have in that part especially with stupid Montreal taking up half the region.

It never fails to break my brain how Americans act like a person, a nation, a culture must be only and immutably villain or victim. 🧵

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Me, reviewing narration in a documentary show : "I mean, he's not David Attenborough and he's not Scottish, so that's two strikes to begin, but within those limitations he's fine" Priority. I has them.

I wrote this three years ago and cringe a little at the quality of my prose, but also I do stick by this article and everything in it, especially this:

I think you can't really talk about "why do Nazis love alternate history" without acknowledging the long history of works both in and out of genre that expliclty or implicitly glorify the Nazi and its contemporary fascist states as superior societies of superior efficiencies to democratic ones

Final weekend it is! ARISE! Arise, writers of Ottawa ! Fell counts awake, typed and scripted! Keys shall be shaken, wrists be bandaged! Three words days, three long days ere december rises! Write now! Write now! Write for ruin and the book’s ending!

Dear characters. When I started this story, I set ONE rule. One. It's a journal/after-the-fact-musing type of story. So, no dialogue. When conversation happens, the important bits get summarized and the story moves on. One. Simple. Rule.

It's very weird playing Clues by Sam when one of the Columns has ,next to each other, your namesake, your brother in law's namesake, and your nephew's name sake.

I mean, not that the CAQ understands any of this or its laws are in any way good, but I would argue that secularism and laïcité, while both manifestations of separation of church and state are *not* the same - that they are in fact almost polar opposites approach to that basic principles.

Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms. "fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.

I'm kind of done being all like "Good riddance to a bad year" at the end of the year, because at this point I know perfectly well that I'll be at "man I miss last year" before January is even over.

I see the book piracy discourse is going around again and all I can say is I know more than one writer producing acclaimed work that is considering jacking it in or reducing the amount they write because they don't make to justify it vs a job job. It's not only piracy, but piracy is costing us art.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

PSA: me not commenting on something does not mean I am "complicit." First of all, you need to log off and touch grass. Secondly we are total strangers so call your therapist. Thirdly there are 1,000 things happening every day and I am busy. Finally what exactly do you want me to do about it?

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 17th 2025 (Easy), in 05:41 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

People: "You know, all this worldbuilding exposition distract from the plot." Me: "...if I remove the plot then the worldbuilding can't distract from it anymore, can it?"

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 14th 2025 (Hard), in less than 18 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

As I was explaining to someone, how on earth is your teen supposed to responsibly handle a change from "no internet" to "internet" as they turn 18? A lot of people who ban the internet are just hoping to not deal with the problem as opposed to talking about safety, content issues etc

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 13th 2025) in less than 15 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Not so related to the commentary itself per se, but the image made me suddenly realize how Darmok, yes, the TNG episode, is actually, from Picard's perspective, a pretty solid metaphor for autistic people trying to communicate with allistics.

A *million* people. Lawn darts were banned forever in Canada after like 50 people got injured. Any company not run by absolute ghouls would shut this thing down. Governments should be banning the fuck out of it.

virtue signalling is good actually

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

My baby XD (posted by @magicmetalbird.com with permission).

What is a billion, if not Nine Rings and One to rule them all?

“Just” friends, as if friendship could ever be just anything. As if it doesn’t run soul deep, carved into bone like initials on a tree. As if it doesn’t have the power to save you or bring you down to your knees.

THIS IS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION! DEMOLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE IS A PROUD PART OF CANADIAN HISTORY!

The discussion of the essential role of the Spiritual and Numinous In Gothic Horror in the Gothic Horror panel at #CanCon2025 was a real needle scratch realization moment on how that also applies to early fantasy and (much like in horror) has in many ways been displaced by materialist concerns.

An part of knowing me is knowing I basically forced my mother's hand in teaching me how to read well before school (against conventional wisdom of the time). A more important part of knowing me is knowing why I did it. Not story books, encyclopedias, fact books, no. I wanted to read maps.

No I don’t, you chucklefucks, I want Norma Jean to be able to rest in peace without a bunch of technoghouls turning her corpse into a marionette.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! (Not to be confused with our own holiday dedicated to indigenous people (two weeks ago), or a day dedicated to a wayward genoese genocider (we don't do that), or any thanksgiving involving Settlers being fed by indigenous people (another country, weeks from now)

I've tried most every variant. My characters are too smart. If I have an outline, they will figure out to outsmart it and avoid adventure, If I don't have an outline, I won't figure out how to outsmart them, and they'll avoid adventure.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

I feel like if you are making this ridiculous argument that hating AI is essentially racism you have utterly failed to absorb the idea that people are not things. It's ok for me to say that these chips are bad and should be set on fire. It's not ok for me to say that about a person. FFS.

Just occurred to me that a substantial number of folks don't actually know the difference between "insult" and "slur" 🫥

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Weirdly, I don’t write my characters speaking in middle or early modern english (or Simlish!), because I’m a 21st century real world writer communicating with 21st century real world readers. Translation convention exists for a reason. This applies to that too.

Separating from OP because I don't disagree with tjhe premise, but "you don't get to chose to fight when they're punching you" is not, in fact, good warfighting mentality. Knowing when to avoid and get out of fights, even if the enemy is already hitting, is a huge part of winning wars.