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They say you are never more than six feet away from a rat at any point but I often *feel* more than six feet away from my closest rat, who is very emotionally distant.

UGH the unofficial 2025 roundup is live and free on my Patreon (p.s. thank you to my patrons, you do not know how many months of 2025 you literally kept the lights on) (it was not zero) (stupid bills) This post is basically "GO TO THERAPY" "I KNOW" www.patreon.com/posts/unoffi...

I don’t really understand the efforts of inventors or cutting edge scientists or world class athletes because I know nothing they can possibly accomplish will feel more rewarding than what I feel successfully biting thru an onion ring without pulling the whole onion out of the batter.

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day. Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Grok can’t “apologize” for making child porn for the same reason autocorrect can’t apologize for changing “fucking” to “ducking.” It’s not conscious. It feels no remorse. It just generates the most likely response to each prompt. Any reporter treating Grok like a person should never be trusted.

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Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Any day you can make a meaningful personal choice for your life and career while also trolling millions of racist assholes is a good day imho.

Coincidentally I made the exact opposite resolution

Oh, serious adverse health consequences or death. California, Colorado, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Montana, and Washington.

As someone who writes a lot of threads about Road House, this is a good thread about Road House

I highly recommend videos of men crashing out over Savanna’s Law in Tennessee, which just went into effect today it creates a registry of persistent domestic abusers and the boys are big mad lmaooooo

Reposting this solely out of shock that it wasn't posted by @mattfnwallace.bsky.social

T2: Judgment Day is a brilliant film because the dog lives and the dickhead dad who calls the dog a worthless piece of sh*t gets stabbed through his dumb mouth.

This:

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

I really would like everyone writing these mealymouthed-ass letters and threads and articles of AI acquiescence/acceptance to stop speaking for everyone. You are making a choice for YOU. Don’t fucking tell me what I have to do. I don’t have to accept shit.

“Kill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possess” isn’t a strategy, it’s just a killing spree

Darlings, I say this with all the love in the world—but that new bullet journal you’re about to buy that you know is never going to get used/will just get put into the journal graveyard, isn’t going to fix you. ❤️

Can confirm true in the US — one of my most favoritest novellas of all time for twoooooo bucks, get it get it get it.

If I write an open letter to the spec fic community about the responsible way to punch people in the face for no reason because I’m not going to stop punching people in the face for no reason will you all jam that sideways into my feed over and over again too? I could certainly use the publicity.

This past weekend we had dinner with our friend who is a Sbux union leader. She clued me into 3 things. Starbucks has not signed a contract with the workers for 4 years. Starbucks has more union violations than any other company in the US. Shareholders are demanding they settle. Keep boycotting.

I didn’t give permission for my exact wedding vows to be used in this post.

I still love the Solaris Presents @premeemohamed.com and I did together. Premee is one of my fave authors to do author stuff with cuz she’s just so damn ENTERTAINING. If you never saw us talking about war and words check it out!

No literary agent who is going to get you a deal is going to charge you upfront. They make a percentage. That is how it works. If someone says otherwise or tries to "upsell" you, they are scammers.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

There is nothing more pathetic than a white person, especially a straight white man, especially in America, who genuinely believes he is having a harder time doing literally anything because he is a white dude. That should be an unfunny reoccurring character on SNL, not an actual person who exists.

This describes a solid 50% of all the writers I talked to at the library last year as writer-in-residence

"You there, boy! [slurpy inhale sound] What day is it?"

Merry Christmas only to Randall “Rand” Peltzer, a wildly irresponsible man who nevertheless was willing to spend $200 on his son’s holiday present, which would be $636 today with inflation, despite being a failed inventor.

EEEEEEE it arrived! Merry Christmas to me -- my FIRST EVER appearance in the wonderful BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR, edited by @datlow.bsky.social ! My story THE NIGHT BIRDS was originally published by @undertow.bsky.social in NORTHERN NIGHTS, an anthology of Canadian horror. :)

The only reason to run in the rain is because you’re being chased. Period.

Listen. I don’t judge anyone. And I believe in deep empathy above all else. But. If you’re out jogging in the rain you’re a psychopath. That’s all.

(to the tune of "feliz navidad") denis villeneuve

I deeply love blocking someone after reading just half the first sentence of a whole dissertation-ass paragraph reply they wrote to something I posted. I feel like I stole time from them. That makes me sound like a super villain. I know you can’t hear my tone but it is not regretful.

THIS.

"I mean, it someone else does it first and *they're* successful we might try it..."

I am waiting for one, literally ONE major company, to lean hard into AI counter programming with their products and marketing. It’s RIGHT THERE. It’s worth a FORTUNE. “Hate ‘AI’ in everything? We got you!” But they Will. Not. Do it. Lemmings and cowards and greedy visionless hacks, all of ‘em.

So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year

went out to look at christmas lights tonight and at one house we saw a statue of a dog dressed as a pirate. i don’t know if this is a year round statue or some how a Christmas statue for them but i am obsessed

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”