Just booked a trip to Aurora watch in Alaska! #bucketlist

Yeah, this. A very particular exhaustion. “The optimism didn’t just collapse around them. It collapsed through them, at the exact moment they were porous enough to let it all the way in.” www.leravi.org/late-boomers...

Still traumatized by that visit yesterday to a new bookshop that was turned out to be a weird portal into a boktok/bookstagram alternate universe.

I’ve been fuming about this since yesterday. Will someone please launch Tapper into the sun, please?

✨QRP with your pride flags!✨

yeah so we're being asked to believe that computers can now write novels, diagnose diseases, design houses, etc, but I just looked at my 'recommendations for you' on a book website and the first one had cupcakes in the title. Explain THAT away, tech bros.

How your email finds me:

Upheld by a judge appointed by DeSatan. Constitution Schmodtitution. But go ahead, tell us to “just vote better.”

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I remain convinced I died of a massive stroke November 8, 2016 and have been living in literal Hell ever since. Hello my fellow damned.

How. Much. Is. This. Shit. Costing. Us.

Memorial Day isn't for Confederate soldiers, otherwise it would be called Loser Fucking Traitors Day.

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV called for artificial intelligence “to be disarmed,” a word choice he called “strong” but “deliberately chosen.” “This moment needs words capable of attracting attention,” Leo said.

LOL NYY afraid to play TB. Shoulda built a dome. #RaysUp💫

RAYS UP! 💫

I feel ya, Will.

People who don't write books assume writer's block is staring at a blank page with zero ideas. In truth it's invariably the opposite. Writer's block is when a dazzling array of options become tyrannical, team up with an unwillingness to fail, mug you in a dark alley and stick a bag over your head.

Some of you don’t remember Space 1999 and it shows.

Rescind that Nobel.

I have a fun idea for a story but the opening scene looks too much like that room in Beetlejuice. #amwritinghumor

Tell me this doesn’t sound like a threat.

This. I have actively avoided “lit fic” for at least a decade.

How to write a children's book: Step 1: Be famous for something else. Step 2: Have lunch with a publisher. Step 3: Talk about your brilliant ideas. Step 4: Tell them to turn the ideas into a book and publish it. How hard can it be? Step 5: Remember to thank them for lunch.

#HELP Windows updated despite me turning off auto updates and wiped out an entire project I was working on at the time. It’s due tomorrow. Not autorecovered. Anyone know how to find it? Anyone who comments UsE sOMeThiNg ElsE gets blocked. #writingcommunity #word #windows11 #documentrecover

LOLOOOOOL

You absolutely do NOT have to hand it to the tobacco industry, ever

Proposal summary ✔️ Chapter summary ✔️ Sample chapter 😵

There’s an ad I keep seeing for a local personal injury law firm. The bottom third of the screen features very large text saying INJURED? Call 800-XXXXXX. Every time I see it, I misread “injured” as “murdered” and now I want to write a book/series about a ghost detective agency or lawyer.

The last few days I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole watching YouTube vids on the cesspool of self publishing. What an absolute TikTok sewer full of scammers, Ai users, original “art” that looks like an 8 year old made it, 20 to 50k “coaches”. It’s all straight up grift. Not with a ten foot pole.

How does one misplace a gigantic, hardcover thesaurus? #amwriting #writingcommunity

The kids are alright. Even here in Fla.

“Pastor”

In Biden’s last year, he averaged 186,000 jobs a month. Republicans can’t manage their way out of a paper bag, much less a complex economy like the USA.

“Ah, a zookeeper. So, you just babysit the animals all day?”

There are all kinds of tools to help people with chronic health conditions write. None of them involve plagiarism engines, vaporising water, immiserating people who live near data centers, etc etc etc

And another one.

Jeeze, a lot went on here overnight, eh?

I ask yet again. Why is the “Met Gala” still a thing? If a bomb dropped on it tonight, it would solve several world problems by ridding the planet of gobsmackingly fatuous people with too fucking much money. Yes, this includes the tedious wintour itself.

This is the 💩 that gets book deals.

I am having a really horrible anxiety attack right now. Not a good place, friends.

UPDATE: LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT! #redistricting #gerrymandering #movingthegoalposts #cheatingrepublicans.

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I can’t say I don’t hope this happens to every business that buys into the slop.

Since the discourse today is “no-one reads Non-Fiction anymore,” I present my rebuttal. My reading for today. @lollardfish.bsky.social

I oNly use It fOr rESaeRch! A tale of LLM

“Up to 20 children” queuing up to swing might be the most British thing I’ve ever read.

Thank the gods i still have several years left on my completely normal passport. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The history of partisan redistricting as it affected me and my city. #redistricting #florida