How to style a bowl cut: step 1, shave your head, what are you even doing, the only person who looks cute with that hairstyle is Atsuko Okatsuka and you’re not her, unless you are, in which case, carry on

Yes,Connie And Steve Ballmer Are Billionaires, Steve Was The 30th Employee At Microsoft In 1980.......

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

😭😭😭😭

Big Ohio Book Con is this weekend!! Will I see you there??

Angel Omega is now up for preorder! This is book 2 in my very spicy why choose post-apocalyptic dark omegaverse series with Alpha shifters and omegas with ✨powers.✨ Book 1, Rebel Omega, is also discounted to $.99 for those who want to read it! Click here for both! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS1KM54...

Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

Signage throughout the building, along with furniture and branding bearing Trump’s name, is scheduled to be replaced, with all references slated to be removed by June 12.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

I swear to you that what fascists want, deep down, is for none of us to have enough time to do anything. Forget time to market, promote, or any of that. Time to create is precious.

Big Ohio Book Con is this weekend!! Will I see you there??

Using AI to do stuff at your business is like hiring someone you would fire in the first week because they screw up all the time. And they’re more expensive and they ruin the environment and sometimes they tell people to kill themselves.

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

EVERY PLACE ON THIS PLANET is going to become less hospitable in some ways that we already know, but also in ways that we cannot possibly predict at this time. So let's sue the crap out of Exxon and Shell and use the money to help each other do better.

This right here.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Wow, do I like this new channel. Jackdaw breaks down some of the most popular lies in paleoanthropology: Might Makes Right, Hierarchy is Inherent, Patriarchy Is Natural, and Man Hunt, Woman Gather. On par with miniminuteman re: debunking mid-century sexist biases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHUB...

Submissions are now open 🪶 Holler if you have questions!

We crave that which you fear the most. Now open to submissions. talestoterrify.com/submissions

Remember the silly episodes of the X-Files? The ones that were spooky but also funny? The Burroughs on Netflix has those vibes. It’s enjoyable and it’s nice to see some of my favorite actors doing their thing, especially Geena Davis, who honestly just seems like she’s having a ball the whole time

The buzzy success of multiple horror things right now — Widow’s Bay! Obsession! Backrooms! and that’s just right now! — should be a message to film/TV folks to set their sights on the bevy of excellent horror novels out there. I say this selfishly as a writer, sure, but also as a reader of them!

I also block jackasses like this 😘

An author’s promo post just came up in my feed and the cover was obviously AI so I blocked her. Writers and artists are readers, and now she’s lost any chance the vast majority of us will read her books. I won’t even see them anymore. But blah blah “readers don’t care how the cover is made” 🙄

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

I…just…what? 🤦🏻‍♀️

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.

I’m just not looking at my unpaid medical bills. If you don’t look at them they just go away, right? 😬

Which artists and visions are these, Matt? The whole problem is that you people do not have artistic and creative visions. You are mean, talentless, tedious, philistine dullards, pretty much by definition. Hence, you have no artistic success. It's not that you just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I know this might surprise some of you, but I believe people who treat women badly are unfit for public office (and most things).

every part of this generative ai surge is anti life

When I say I won’t read your Substack this is what I mean:

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

Last night we stayed in a hotel and there was actual cable TV and SyFy was showing Jupiter Ascending, my favorite bad movie! I genuinely don’t know how anyone associated with this movie didn’t pull the plug on it at any point. It’s so bad it’s deeply entertaining and I love it…

First Shitler lost all the performers for his 250th celebration (except Vanilla Ice, lol) and now they’re taking his name off the Kennedy Center. What insane AI creation do you think he’ll make to soothe himself tonight in the wee hours?

“Everyone is yelling at me so I’m going to pretend I’ve been living under a rock for the last year and had no idea the artistic community hates everything to do with Gen AI and I’m just an innocent sweetheart tricked by Amazon 🥺”

A very kind person just told me I look like I’m from Salem Massachusetts and my hair is undyed and I’m dressed like a nerd, so this is basically the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

send this to a hard worker

Record profits are unpaid wages.

Does anyone know of any grants for organizations teaching writing in Michigan? I’m the con chair for Penguicon 2027 and we need money! Last year the writing track was very successful so I’m hoping to leverage that into funding? 🤷🏻‍♀️

This book will fuck your shit up in the best possible way, especially the ending

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

You…you can’t just declare a tiny red city (and they’re all tiny) an international hub! That’s not how anything works! INFRASTRUCTURE!!!

The fuck we are. There is literally nothing seductive about AI. We bitch about writing being hard (it IS and SHOULD BE), but there is NOTHING better than when you finally crack it and get the words flowing. AI robs you of that. It robs you of ideating and exploring and learning and CREATING.

NEW: “Immigration authorities have detained a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old son at Washington Dulles International Airport for over a week,” per her lawyers. “CBP is holding [Anabella] Gyasi and her son in a windowless holding room, according to the ACLU.”