This. This. All of this.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

@kasutherland.bsky.social and I are replaying the greatest JRPG ever made.

I love painting colorful skies like this. It’s a mind cleanser. Painting is a time for me to be alone under the spell of the brush. It’s easy to mentally escape into the places that I’m painting. I hope you enjoy the results as much as I enjoyed painting it. COLORFUL SKY, 16x16”, Acrylic, SOLD

After close to 6 months, my bathroom faucet no longer drips! God bless handymen

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.

nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.

Chapter 8 rewrites, let's go

I, too, wish to stand tall and shake the heavens

we're all thinking it

4 hour trainings should be illegal. I don't know what day it is and my brain is fried worse than an egg

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

Please back us at patreon.com/skyboxcritics so we can bring you more great pieces like this 💟 Independent sites depend on support, and you get a lot of great stuff for very little money

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Remember corporate democrats did this because of their rich donors. The rich want us to spend money during the festivities. We need to do the opposite. Buy from small businesses, resellers, thrift stores, swap gifts, or make it yourself, but don't buy from big corporations.

no money for politicians

This is by far one of the stupidest things you can do in a dev cycle

I love our little orange thief

Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

Got some of chapter 4 edited, but the flu and covid vaccines are winning the day. Time to rest and try again tomorrow

"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw" brother get this through your head NOBODY can draw we are literally ALL BULLSHITTING

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years. Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

I reviewed Bounty Star for @ign.com. It is the most personal review I've written in a long time (maybe ever) and I'm very proud of it. It would mean a lot to me if you read it. Full disclosure: I talk about being suicidal for two years in the opening because I had to. This one hit me pretty hard.

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

If it’s worth banning, it’s worth owning. #BannedBooksWeek

Right now I'm very much "Fuck you, I'm gonna write some really cool shit just to spite you fascist motherfuckers" mode

First draft of the new manuscript is done!

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

good art has no bearing on your morality. don't twist yourself into knots defending the morality of an artist you like, or denigrating the art of someone evil. you can just accept that good art is not a determiner of morality-- not for its creator, not for its audience, not for its society.

Rookie numbers y’all.

Ghost cat oil painting on this #caturday

I love Jake <3

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

How is it only Tuesday. I feel like I've lived a full week in the last two days

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Been offline for awhile with moving stuff and came back to several new followers! Ask me anything about retro RPGs

Jamie Lee Curtis on The Late Show cancellation. “They’re trying to silence us. That won’t work…we’ll just get louder”

Illegal counter Jake is very handsome

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's fascism.

Jake nappin'

Fake agency alert: Dan Baror International Literary Agency, obviously trying to trick writers into believing they're being contacted by Baror International Inc. (a real agency). The About Us page has been "borrowed", in re-worded form, from the real Baror website danbaror-intliteraryagency.com

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

I'm going to tell you exactly how to write a book. Do you see that impenetrable brick wall ahead of you? You're going to ram your head into it until long book is long.

Since I offered some free query edits recently, I figured I should take a moment and talk about what I suggest and why! "I'm delighted to present you with my novel [TITLE], a [WORD COUNT] [GENRE] which will appeal to fans of [BOOK ONE] for [THESE REASONS] and [BOOK TWO] for [THESE REASONS]."