Seems to me if voting didn’t matter the people who benefit most from the destruction of democracy wouldn’t be trying so hard to demolish democracy

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 187: Small details often speak loudest. Don't focus on the car crash: look for the child's shoe in the road.

Me irl

Body's doing that thing again where I wake up at 3, 3:30 like "okay! It's daytime now." Stubborn old meat suit.

Been feeling this a lot the past year. So many of us are stressed af and I’ve seen so much anger and vitriol between marginalized communities, or even within them.

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Mustered up the energy to cook myself a little lunch! Green tea noodles with green onion, furikake, and wasabi salt, plus a little dashi / soy dipping sauce. Tiiiiiny bit of chili oil in there, too, if you're curious.

Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself 1. Does this need to be said 2. Does this need to be said by me 3. Does this need to be said by me right now It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)

Bro, so much

Spent the morning playing Nerf with the nephews, ran out of energy, shut myself up in my bedroom to recover. All in all, pretty nice day so far. Merry Christmas, y'all. Be good out there.

I just got a DM from someone that pirated my game. They said (paraphrasing) that with hindsight the game was absolutely worth the price, and were asking my preferred avenue for them to buy it (Steam vs Itch). I've gotten a lot of great DMs from players, but this one is probably my favorite.

#Raleigh people, heads up: the executive director of Shop Local Raleigh, Jennifer Martin, has been caught making anonymous transphobic comments on Facebook. Go tell Shop Local Raleigh what you think about that.

There's a hospital near me that has this big freaky barista robot in the foyer. You can get that thing to make all kinds of crazy drinks for you. But no matter what you order, you're still *ordering* it. Same logic: if you ask a machine to write a novel, you're *ordering* it. Not making it.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Fantastic thread. You're cheating yourself if you don't read the whole thing.

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

Anyway, good morning y'all.

Rich people, take note: *this* is how you do it.

GenAI is inevitable and will definitely be a major part of every art form from now on. Just like NFTs!

Hosted a little hangout at my place last night for the first time in ages, which means today I have about as much energy as your average sea cucumber. Sometimes there's nothing more therapeutic than cramming a dozen people into your living room and just forgetting about everything else for a while!

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Portugal. The Saruman

Just got my copy of @rednecksrising.bsky.social's anthology, From the Holler to the Sea, which is a beautiful book full of art and storytelling and pain and love, but also... I am *actually, officially* a published poet now! Wild. Who let me do that?

Insomnia now? Cool, awesome, interesting, a brand new mystery towards which I can devote the withered remains of my brain cells

Steam Replay is out. Weirdly, I feel like I haven't had that many RimWorld sessions this year, but then I remember how each of those sessions was probably a 6+ hour binge, and, yeah... That makes sense, lmao Anyway, Caves of Qud for GOTY

Increasingly, it feels like chatbots were specifically designed with rich, out-of-touch, socially isolated boomers in mind. I mean look, it's a conversation partner with no agency, no pesky little life of its own. It will validate you, make you feel smart and relevant again. I get it. Still sucks.

Deep down, perhaps every right-leaning man wishes that chatbots could be the endlessly supportive and sexually receptive secretaries they saw in 70s movies or in porn. This is why almost every AI system is voiced by default by a young-sounding woman.

Between the #ADHD time-blindness and the #longcovid aches and pains getting worse with the cold, it feels like I've had a headache all month. Cool stuff! 👍

Wait, when did I ever buy RDR2? Oh well. Thanks, Past Jed 👍

About to stream some Guild Wars Reforged if anyone wants to drop in and say hi! If any of y'all are tired of thinking about politics and the holidays and all that mess, come watch me stumble my way through Old Ascalon for a little while. It'll be fun! #smallstreamer #streamer #gaming #guildwars

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

I'm real tired of these money-poisoned plutocrats trying to tell PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS how to feel about AI. We can make up our own minds, thank you. Most of us already have. We've decided that it sucks, and we've learned to question the tastes of anyone who believes otherwise.

"i can't explain trans people to my child!!" oh so you're stupid AND bigoted? pick a struggle bitch

Green Arrow more than said "Fuck Ice" #GreenArrow #NoBorders #FuckIce #EmeraldArcher 1. This is how the story "Sanctuary" from Detective Comics #551-552 started. Back then was INS. The kid showed his passport after this, but his brother is not in the same situation.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

New arrival!

Skies in Caithness Scotland, separated by 12 hours and 180 degrees.

I'm just gonna start posting out of context manga panels here from time to time like I used to do on Tumblr. That cool with y'all?

Bro, that's what I've been saying

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

We are not running out of good ideas. We have destroyed most mechanisms for people with good ideas to get funding and replaced those mechanisms with a few dozen guys with all the money sniffing each others farts.

Think it might be about time for another Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 playthrough...

I took my dog to the vet and met a woman with a corgi called G. I asked, “What’s G short for?” She said, “Because he’s got little legs.”

Jesus Christ, that's a banger

I'm yearning so gd hard right now

This is my lactose-intolerant ass, all winter, every winter

I keep doing so well on these cognitive exams that my doctor wants me to do more and more of them, so all his doctor friends can see how good I am at it.

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.