Love me some word nerdery

Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.

5 new books!

🎶 Out on the road today Saw a Propaghandi wrap around a Cybertruck Little voice inside my head said Dang that sucks, that could never not suck I thought I knew what punk was What did I know Those trucks are so fashtastic I hope this one gets towed... 🎶

It's the holidays, and I'm a grown-ass adult. I can just make myself some (friendly fat, no added sugar, whole grain) cookies. No one can stop me!

I have just received the most perfect d20

The Conversation: Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before Published: December 18, 2025 6:01am EST https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-warnings-are-being-ignored-ive-seen-this-pattern-before-271765 #flu #influenza #pandemic #health

Hey #Alabama. Big request. We got a survey on policies for the working class and we need this to spread like wildfire across the state so we can drive candidates on what they need to do. Thank you for your attention to this matter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Read this. Then read it again.

We're likely seeing another big Overton shift, and not in a leftward way. Sure, a handful of conservatives are sick of his BS, and *may* vote blue or abstain etc., but all that does is just make the Dem party even more right-wing. They aren't changing their ethos. We need *loud progressive voices*.

The hellish stupidity entitling someone, when hearing about gun violence in another country, to say, "See, gun laws don't work, so we definitely don't need them in the US!" is as stupid as "Well criminals won't follow gun laws anyways, so we definitely don't need them in the US!" I cannot abide it.

Theater Kids? In my collaborative storytelling game? Putting down the coded I-don't-like-the-queers-in-my-squad-combat-game obviousness, even grumpy-ass Gygax talked about becoming amateur thespians through playing the game. You're playing pretend w/ your friends, with rules to make it fair.

This is what living in a multicultural, multiethnic society produces. It is beautiful and economically successful and we must defend it.

Man, just fuck cancer. Fuck all the way off.

The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.

Oh boy, we're 96,000 words in and I've finally convinced the principal characters to bother to be in the same room together. Why are they like this? Bunch of froward, contentious gadabouts. Don't they know I have A Big Thing happening? So irresponsible.

it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law

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Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/unauthorized...

I'm writing a simple found family fantasy story & that's great, but there's also some really ugly cultural conflicts re: race, & while I totally agree that fairy stories can be whatever & don't need racism as The Problem, my characters wanted to protest our RL societal calamity & I can't blame 'em.

Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Reps privately push ban on trans care in ACA/Obamacare as part of moving any subsidy deal forward. It was stripped from the last ACA deal. This one would hurt perhaps 500k trans ppl among the 20m who need Obamacare subsidies. Even blue states would be impacted.

Wow. Only like every librarian, teacher, professor, writer, etc worth their salt has been saying this since the damnable thing came out.

I hoped to use this site to stay up on TTRPGs, hear about comics/anime/animation/etc., chat with folk about computer games, discuss all the amazing books, learn about native plants & gardening, talk about hiking, camping & the starlit sky, read about poetry and visual art, & so much music. I swear!

Our fourth estate remains complicit in the fall of the US. Generally, the press refuses to push our gov't to be accountable, is thrilled w/ MAGA darlings using center-right talking points & is unwilling call out nasty behavior. Journalists have a duty to shine a light on depravity, not help hide it.

You know how many foods, when allowed to sit in proper conditions for a few days, just become More? Soups become richer, curry becomes spicier, lasagna becomes more decadent? Well, my mother, through sheer accident, has found the worst possible application of this effect.

“Quiet, piggy.” What an asshole…

check out the Forbes cope for the death of the middle class Capitalism is already dead. Millions of Americans have no material stake in its success, and are only used by it. Tick Tock. Tick Tock.

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.

The endangered Birmingham darter faces an imminent threat from one of the nation’s largest proposed data centers in Bessemer. Bessemer City Council votes Nov. 18 on this. Help us to get the word out and oppose this plan!!

If it's #NovelNovember and I'm writing a novel but I started it in March but I've not really been paying attention to word count but I have the 50K+ but it has only been maybe about 15K in November but I'm going at a good pace, does that mean I can start back on my recursive review spirals now?

I'm at the University of Montevallo's Library taking care of my morning workaday, and I have Mom with me. I asked the librarian for assistance with a large print book, and she spent the better part of 15 minutes scouring the fiction section for a good selection. My Mom is now reading Native Son.

So, it's Veteran's Day. I hate war and how we prioritize war over everything in this country. I do not hate soldiers, because for many it is literally their only way out. It was for my Mom. I wish my dad never joined, because he died last month from drinking away the demons of Vietnam. Fuck war.

I'm thinking of the story arc in One Piece where the horrible king of Drum Island abolished doctors in the island, except for those who took care of him, thus forcing anyone sick to beg for treatment, subsequently impoverishing them & subjugating them to the crown. Not sure why this came to mind.

Bring on the Progressives. Boot out the establishment. I am so sick of them.

This is astonishingly evil. Donald Trump wants to end the American dream of home ownership. With a 50 year mortgage, most home buyers will never pay off their homes, will remain in debt to the banks and be forced to work for the rest of their lives.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

The perfect headline.

RIP Teen Vogue. This is terrible

Wondering if Spotify needs the Fox and Tesla treatment with people protesting outside their headquarters. After all optics is another big part of being a big company 🤔

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

open.substack.com/pub/kellysca... The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons. Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward #EndCitizensUnited

For more than 50 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has stood on the front lines against hate and extremism. Since our founding, we have represented survivors of hate crimes, and we have a long history of holding hate leaders and groups accountable. We're not backing down. #RefuseHate

Been MIA, family emergencies have taken over life. We have both had a hell of an October, but just a few hours with @chriskuralia.bsky.social in our house again made things much better. I have missed my person. Enormously. Hoping to have him back again by the end of next month.

It cannot be stressed enough how important mutual aid networks are about to become. These will be tantamount to replacing the cut benefits in the coming weeks. Reach out within your communities. Build connections, talk to people. Ask how you can help each other. When we build solidarity, we win!

waiting until there's a recall of oreos to pitch the headline "panic at nabisco"

This is very good

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

We were warned youtu.be/Q2wneBVssPc?...