...really, REALLY weird peakd.com/fiction/@int... #flashfiction #fantasy #shortstory #alfarell #writingprompt

Threads like this are a great hat tip to how Lovecraft's elder gods didn't drive you insane, they drove you so sane you could no longer ignore the massive inconsistencies and lies which we have to tell ourselves just to get through the day as a functioning social creature.

I mean, that's pretty much how Christianity spread, by hand waving the statements about wealth in order to mollify wealthy patrons. It's not like those German Warlords and Byzantine Bureaucrats went without gold, finery, and the best food...

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Just ban this shit already.

"Reticulated" is probably the coolest sounding word with the least opportunities to use in a sentence.

I love all the people trying to spin this into some grand strategy when the truth is that a bunch of Iran hating Dead-Enders convinced our dementia addled madman to shoot bombs at their preferred target because he likes to see explosions on the TV.

I will hate the people who voted for this man until the day I die

When hubris pays off peakd.com/fiction/@int... #flashfiction #fantasy #shortstory #alfarell #writingprompt

I have a buddy who does picks up marketing work and writes promotional copy. He quoted $2k for a bunch of writing, but the company had AI do it instead. Three weeks later he negotiated $2.5k to edit the AI's work. Starting from a bad place is more work than just doing it.

It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.

Instead of age verification, websites should just make you describe the first time you saw someone die on the Internet. if the story makes whoever reads it sad, you're an adult for Internet purposes.

Trusting Elon Musk to get you to the moon is like trusting the uber driver to get you to your destination after he steps on the gas and a meth pipe rolls out from under the driver’s seat

I think I'll need to prune some of the folks I'm following. It's been like five years now, if you're still on the fence about the Torment Nexus that is Generative AI then I don't know what to tell you...

Friends, that was NOT Liam Ramos at the Super Bowl halftime show. Folks need to stop spreading that false information. That said, the symbolism was clear 🙏🏽

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

A Bloody Performance. A tiny story in the Saga of Sir Califrac, a series of micro fictions I'm hoping will one day be a novel or three:

Anyone falling for this shitty troll poll really needs to learn, like, any history at all. Jeb! was leading like this in 2014 and I don't think Trump was even on the polls. Nor Obama in 2006 when it was going to be Hillary v Giuliani.

Just so there is no doubt where I stand. You can't reform what is inherently broken by design.

Gotta put together a meme with “if voting changed anything they would make it illegal” text over a mosaic of Redeemers, Nazis, Putinists, etc. violently suppressing the vote

For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn (Size small)

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I don't think you can truly grapple with where we are, and how we come back from it, without recognizing this is not a constitutionally legitimate government and he is not the lawful president of the United States.

frankly very unfair that i have to work a real job instead of writing poems about my alley cats all day like an ancient chinese scholar

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

The Tsarichina Hole fascinated me, not as a !real portal to hell! but as like ... okay so imagine it's Bulgaria in 1992 and you're a former Soviet army officer. The USSR has just fallen. It feels like the world is ending. Fuck it man let's dig a big hole and commune with ancient ghost wisdom.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

It's weird how people throw around that Fukuyama quote about how if the world fills up with Liberal Democracies people might get bored and screw up politics, when, the world didn't fill up with Liberal Democracies.

Still better than Bognor. peakd.com/fiction/@int... #flashfiction #horror #shortstory #mythsillogical #writingprompt

here's the thing... Abolish ICE.

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

new youtube video! will the l.a. protests help or hurt trump politically? i say hurt! youtu.be/mOP_5IigrzE

GO THE FUCK TO HELL?

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

Oh, so THAT'S what they mean by that... peakd.com/fiction/@int... #flashfiction #sciencefiction #shortstory #amalgamuniverse #writingprompt

I had an overwhelming request for Apothecary mermay on my patreon. So enjoy Mao Mao and Jinshi mers. #apothecarydiaries #mermay

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thinking once again about The Most Wrong Tweet Ever

Sure would be a shame if people started sharing pix of this billboard. Won't someone think of the corporations???

A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching-- What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?

Weird how the people who want to split hairs over whether a single ChatGPT search is really thaaaaat bad for the environment don't seem to have much to say about the Memphis XAI data center worsening asthma among residents