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I'm so done with @microsoft.com pushing AI on me. Their latest move is to rename Office to the "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" so they can pretend more people are actually using their god awful slop machine. I'm out. My next desktop is going to be Linux. Fuck their broken windows — it's penguin time.

I'm LJ, and in under a year my debut work of literary fantasy (!) on Royal Road (?!) has become the #1 Best Rated work of Drama, Psychology, and Tragedy, and the #4 Best Rated ongoing story overall. Come and see: bsky.app/profile/ljam...

i do find the avatar movies super interesting in how they take their environmental message to heart and conscientiously clean up after themselves in your brain when they're done

Anecdotal evidence also suggests my ass is fantastic, my bank account has hit eight digits, and all the girls are just lining up to throw themselves at me. No, I won't say who told the anecdote.

Getting real cute with it, aren't they?

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Hey, you! Are you a self-publishing fantasy author who publishes to Amazon and has a solid track record of successful launches? I want to talk to you about inside baseball stuff. I'm willing to pay for your time and expertise. Please drop me a DM. If this isn't you, please like and repost.

Really, word? In what world–

Dear Patreon: I do not care about my total earning across the last thirty days ($1.5k), I care about my total earnings from active pledges ($1.34k). There is no fucking world where earnings over a rolling 30 day period is a useful metric. Why show it prominently on the App, without context??

I always describe it as "Does the image on the screen look like you could smell it?" I don't mean in a bad way. Too much modern film is visually sanitised, wiped down, to the point that if it does have a scent, it's blandly inoffensive.

"Why do you write about this so much? It's uncomfortable." Well, you see, therapy failed to convince my brain that all the bad what happened wasn't my fault. But writing others going through it continues to assure me that monsters are real and I was around too many during my formative years.

I don't understand why the secret rulers of America from Metal Gear Solid 2 are going to be popular this Christmas, and at this point, I'm afraid to find out.

I had a very weird dream last night where Obama (yes, that Obama) was making a prestige film in which he acted as himself, wherein he never became President and instead went out to California to participate in a new gold rush. ...It's just his post-presidency media career.

Call me the Titanic the way I'm meant to be unfuckable, and yet...

Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.

Motherfu–

Here we go again. The word I typed: shouldn't The word that Microsoft Word decided I'd meant:

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I am thirty dollars away from paying my monthly rent with Patreon income. And my rent is fucking bullshit!

Having one of those "If only the Chinese government wasn't homophobic and repressive to the LGBT community," moments.

My Halloween costume is Boo Radley.

I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee

Been thinking a lot about this, and I've reached the conclusion that calling Tolkien a principled conservative is a bit unfair on him. I think the correct label is traditionalist and conservationist, with a tendency toward reaction. It might seem like splitting hairs, but his works had empathy.

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

I was burned by believing that Obama might just be the real thing before he was elected. But damn, do I really, really want to believe Zohran is...

There is no higher praise, is there?

Funny I'm called an inspiring writer, because I can't for the life of me find the words to say how deeply this touches me.

My leaked texts would reveal dozens of authors writing in barely comprehensible gibberish riddled with emojis, periodically interrupted by excerpts of pristinely written, highly readable works in progress.

If only there'd been a good guy with a ladder to stop the heist, but Europeans don't value Freedom

If everyone under 35 treated anyone older than them as time travellers from the past (which they are), and everyone 35 or older behaved as though they're visiting the future (which they are), the world would probably be a happier place.

I'm definitely on my way toward making it as a professional author writing under a name I own.

Over 420,000 words of The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon have been published on the Patreon. I'm quite proud of that.

Never will it cease to be obscene that the arts funding available from Creative Scotland is not available for "profit-driven activities." Rather than incubating artists to create ongoing revenue, it's keeping artists hand-to-mouth, chasing funding. Utterly self-defeating.

I challenge the methodology in this chart b/c there is nothing to distinguish online dating via mobile app (demeaning, soul-draining, numbers game wherein profit is leeched from your suffering) vs online dating via flirting in the DMs (principled, skill-based, derived from human traditions of rizz)

They still do.

Can someone explain why all the super rich appear to be really fucking stupid? Are they just all destroying their brains with drugs or what? Anyone with half a brain can look at this 'plutonomy' shit and see it ends in violent revolution, but they're throwing their status away to achieve... what?

Princess this, puppy girl that... Some of us just want to be sponsored to write long enough to make it self-sustaining.

Ironically, my memory holds 1000 terabytes of breasts.

Increasingly I'm of the opinion that intelligence is useless without the confidence to say "I can figure this out for myself," the patience to review the subject carefully, the security to be willing to try and fail, and the determination to then try again.

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If you post on a platform you own, you will go insane.

A 7.77% reader-to-patreon-member conversion rate is really good, but I desperately need more readers to avoid going bankrupt. If you haven't given this story a try, come see why it's earned the investment 👇

Microsoft Word strikes again. This actually *is* a word, being the simple past of "wardrive," which is a jargon word referring to driving around searching for a wifi network. Why in the *fuck* is this in the dictionary?

Gock a song and make it better: We Will Gock You

Scene: having to explain to an elderly family member what a "gock" is and getting asked all sorts of follow-up questions.

AI is a confidence scam. NFTs came before it. Next up is Quantum Computing. It doesn't matter whether there's some theoretical marginal utility: it's going to be hyped up beyond all reality. Because the second the music stops and the lights come on, the American stock market collapses.

AI is cooked.

Secret ambition: get big enough that people make fan art of the characters in The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon.

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this