this is mesmerizing

Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!

Hello #BookSky and #author friends. As host of a book livestream, I’ve been making book trailers for three years. Recently, friends have said getting a trailer done costs $$$$. It shouldn’t. If you need a trailer, let me know. I don’t use AI, I license everything. Some examples follow:

This is such a great source of information on how to fight for your rights (and for your life in many cases) with your health insurance company. Throw them a few bucks if you can.

My mother once mistook cayenne pepper for nutmeg and the sweet potato pie that year had quite the kick. A real afterburner. 😜 Ironically 10yrs later we see a posh Santa Fe NM restaurant serving almost the exact same thing, so mom was just ahead of her time.

well i guess i’m gonna have to start smoking now

Ah my heart, so happy for them xkcd.com/3172/

at the risk of oversimplifying, I think I've boiled it all down to one factor. read (for free!) and subscribe (for free!): lni.media/p/friday-s-a...

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

I took an Intro to Computers class in high school and they showed a Grace Hopper film. I was so stunned that a woman could 1. Be a Navy admiral & 2. Be a programmer, that I decided I too would be a programmer. Left her flowers 15yrs later to thank her. Representation matters!

Young love that lead to a life’s passion and wildly successful career. What a great origin story!

The bar was low this week.

Perfectly encapsulates the crazy i feel when reading the news 🤪

Made me say aloud, “I love engineers.”

Then button your second-to-top, you fucking slob.

Hi, the new season of “A Man on the Inside,” a TV show I worked on, hits Netflix today. Ted Danson is in it! Also Mary Steenburgen, Gary Cole, Max Greenfield, David Strathairn, Lisa Gilroy, Stephanie Beatriz, Jason Mantzoukas, and many more funny people. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I do not know why my "sleepwalkers mysteriously walk across a violent, divided America during an unfolding pandemic being investigated by a rogue government-built AI" novel WANDERERS is a buck-ninety-nine for your electromagnetic book reader of choice, but it is, so go enjoy an on-sale apocalypse?

John Oliver had masterful segment on public media and how pulling federal money hurt rural consumers legislators said they were defending, while making it more likely those stations need NPR and PBS. And he's doing a cool auction to raise money. WATCH: https://loom.ly/t7FRhXc

I understand he's a bully, that many of his followers are doxxers, that you're on Air Force One. But in 2016 I wanted Clinton to turn around at the debate and say "Stop lurking behind me, you fucking creep" and the first journo to say "What the fuck did you call me?" will be a hero forever

AI is like this giant fucking boat we all were forced to get on, and it's a boat they stole, and also it barely floats, and also it's not going anywhere good. So it either takes us somewhere we hate, or it fucking sinks, so either way, fuck AI.

Two thoughts immediately came to mind simultaneously: how does one not know exactly how many dogs they own, and too bad she didn’t say six-seven instead 🫲🫱

You olds don't need to hear this, but to you youngbloods out there, I come to you from the future: when the news begins talking about ways to save money for the holidays, rather than getting you hyped to drown in debt buying shit, that means shit is WAY FUCKING WORSE than they are letting on.

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

Ah c’mon THIS CAN NOT BE REAL

Parody:

Ah, THIS is the parody: (getting harder to tell them apart) bsky.app/profile/stef...

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭

This short thread by @chanda.blacksky.app is very much worth a read, especially in light of learning once again that high-status political and academic men (eg Larry Summers) can be dangerous pigs and that it’s a constant professional BURDEN to women in the same field, especially women of color. ⬇️

Timeline cleanse Frenchmen St New Orleans 2014

Omg this is real. I thought it was an AI joke, more slop to make fun of via The Onion or something, but nooo this is what a so-called journalist wrote. *And got published*. Is it the (further) enshittification of Americans? (Did Doctorow cover that in his book? Serious question.)

🤣🤣🤣

I don't want to say my cats think I have been gone too much recently, but I am saying this particular cat rather pointedly peed into one of my travel bags.

Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people. Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves. What precious fucking irony that is.

I have been getting so many spam calls that I have allowed my voicemail to fill up to try to get off the spammers’ lists. Not sure how long I’ll have to leave it full…maybe three months? My carrier Verizon has the lowest robocall prevention score, a D, so maybe time to switch. 1/2

Very alarmed to see that Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior for spurious and dishonest reasons. It does not bode well for this platform, which I find very disappointing. You can read about what Sarah experienced here. What’s this about @jay.bsky.team?! substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

This is 100% true- do not trust any social media, keep open various means of contact - back up where possible - read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social books to know why they wanted her off social media

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

I think this is one of their major pitches tbh

Hold up

This right here👇

This is a very good case in point - if BlueSky wants to moderate heavily, then moderate heavily, but you gotta hit all the offenders, *especially* the powerful ones

And yet @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @jay.bsky.team didn’t bother to suspend them🧐🤔🤨🖕

Today I am providing a free link to DO NO HARM—first in a series about how #medicine fails #women (by which I mean all who identify + acknowledge how the system fails those it *codes* as women despite how they identify). #cancer #breastcancer #recovery brandy-schillace.medium.com/do-no-harm-6...

Read this, it’s worth your time!

Nope. Wankers.

New Black Retirement community just dropped :) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I’m getting back to work. You can stay in touch with me at sarahkendzior.substack.com: my newsletter is free. Finally, please use my suspension to draw attention to other unjustly suspended people including Palestinians attempting to raise awareness of genocide, and the user Link. Thank you.