"I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution." Ernest Hemingway

Take a one-minute break and enjoy this wholesomeness. :)

This is why I detest genAI. Creativity isn't having "a cool idea, but not knowing how to write". Creativity is the little decisions at each paragraph/line for what you intentionally include or omit. Good ideas are free and abundant. They're not special. Refining them into a 'piece' is special.

A bell made of tacos? What a magnificent concept!

Great thread. Extreme wealth does very strange things to people... Hell, I think Tom from Myspace was pretty much the only billionaire ever to just peace out and quietly enjoy life.

I absolutely loved "Farewell, Africa" by Manuel Gonzales - a short story that's part litfic, part sci-fi, part chaos. 🙃 I hope y'all like it too! www.guernicamag.com/farewell-afr...

I've just sold yet another sci-fi story, wooo! 🥳 The word of the day is "indefatigability" 😎 - this story had been rejected A LOT. (It's quite experimental: about Nixon defending Earth from aliens. 🙃) But I kept submitting, et voila - my simsub magic finally paid off! Keep at it, my friends. :)

Genius:

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

The AI-as-fact-checker thing is something I hear a lot and still haven't heard a convincing case for. If you know you need to double-check its work, either you're spending more time on fact-checking as a result or you're not double-checking and just telling people that to get them off your back.

Fun fact! Most classic works of literature never specify that their protagonists are human: merely male or female. 😉 Romeo and Juliet may have been raccoons. Gilgamesh may have been a water buffalo. It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

What an amazing sentence. 🤣 (From Harper Magazine's weekly news digest.)

The lesser-seen alternative ending, where Tintin dies from decompression due to his fashion-conscious but flawed helmet.

Every trans person in the country should file a claim

Oh. Hmmm. Damn. I've just realized that I am a) not hiking and b) in possession of an actual laptop for the first time since late September. (I'd traveled with an unimpressive netbook) Aaaand that means I don't have any excuse not to start working on that cool webcomic I've always want to start! 😀

WHERE'S THE GREEN

Rare cosmic horror Nancy drop

This is ART. 🤣

"Your last name is Miller, huh? Why don't you go ahead and mill something for me." ~me on my first day as a blade runner

We have to separate work from the author: books go in the paper bin and author in the organic waste bin.

The writing life.

She teaches us to prowl parking lots, hiding between parked cars, pouncing on the passersby. She teaches us pick-up artist techniques, sans the negging. She scolds and she praises, expertly controlling each individual puppet. She scares me. She fascinates me. She will not remember me. 24/🧵

Authors, post the last line of dialogue before they smooch. She shook her head in mock disappointment. “Men. So oblivious.”

"birth rates are declining" don't care I already got born

LMAO at this list. I didn't see a single Asian novel on it... You know, that place where half the humanity resides? 🤡 And they deigned to list two (2!) Russian novels. 🤣🤣🤣 Some people's biases are subtle. Other people's biases may as well be blazing neon signs. Shame.

I finally got around to watching season 2 of Fallout. Frankly, I was disappointed... FALLOUT SPOILERS BELOW There was quite a big departure from the spirit of Fallout games, especially compared to season 1. Way fewer wacky interactions with wastelanders, less worldbuilding. 1/🧵

You, a peasant: tuberculosis 🙁 Me, cultured: vous-berculosis 🧐

This is so cool. 💖 I wonder how much more truly mindblowing knowledge is buried in old myths and fairy tales... I recall reading a wonderful short story about a high school student who took Gilgamesh seriously, found the artifact, and became a god. 😎

A trap for the most naive wizards. 😬

this is so funny like they want you to be so hyped for a pic so dark you can barely see anything

Seeing the "low fertility crisis" freaks coming out of the woodwork again. Now, you may think that the Earth's population is actually growing quite quickly. But you see, there is a special reason that it is nevertheless a crisis! (the special reason is racism)

What are the Six Genders? Wrong answers only. My standard answer to anything...the cast of the excellent rom-com horror, The Mummy (1999)

This post absolutely BLEW UP on Threads, which I very rarely visit. (Facebook auto-posts my updates there.) Many many people, mostly angry, replied with their ardent denials of the Phoenix megalopolis hahahaha

authors, please also take note of this

A thread on the murder of Juniper Blessing. 😢

This is mating behavior.

...and I'll look down through my portal and whisper, "No."

My initial plan had been to hike the PCT for 5 months, then work on some US election campaign for 3 months. The heatwaves ended my hike after 6 weeks. 🫠 6 months in Phoenix, then. Not my first time living out of a backpack. 🙃 Today's Walmart shopping: skin lotion; fruit & veg; a wide straw hat. 🤠

faith in humanity restored

This is incredible. Neelix filming Kes is kinda creepy, sure, but just look at cyberpunk Harry Kim

Things I didn't know before moving to Phoenix: that Mesa, Scottsdale, Tempe, and Glendale are all parts of the same mega-city and not, in fact, separate entities in different parts of Arizona. 🙃

O brave new world That has such people in't. 🙄🤡

This is madness. And cowardice. And pathetic. A textbook example of people kowtowing to a dictator in advance - and not even their own dictator! I'm proud to be a Canadian, but my pride definitely went down a bit after reading this... www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/cana...

"Look at you. I bet you never danced a day in your life." 😭

Mais oui, c'est moi. 😎

the arrowheads

Ted Chiang memorably and metaphorically described AI as a “blurry JPEG of the web” but in this thread we see it functioning to blot out and sanitize history, quite literally.

This is the mega-thread of my experiences as a paid signature collector in Phoenix, AZ. What a strange gig... 🙃 I'm Russian-American-Canadian - 3 passports. After my second PCT hike didn't work out, I took a bus to Phoenix to help with elections and make some coin. 😎 1/🧵