my least favorite type of book guy is the one who mined too many comic con trailers for easter eggs before his frontal lobe developed, and now he can only read books in da vinci code mode

one angle of our multi-faceted literacy crisis that really gnaws at me is the tendency to mistake concern trolling for legitimate, compassionate concern

I see you fanfic where Shane and Ilya have fun watching Rose in superhero slop, and I raise you fanfic where Shane and Ilya get really into Yellowjackets

watching the sopranos for the first time has been crazy. writing's so good that i forget the show is 30 years old until i'm suddenly watching an actual mafia don get so embarrassed by a rumor that he's GOOD at eating 🐱 that he resorts to mob intimidation tactics to get his girl to shut up about it

second time this month I've found myself staring into the abyss (the word cloud accent wall at the podiatrist's office)

running spell check on the wip

i think all the time about how @pagemelt.bsky.social said Armand is a freaky creepy little baby trapped in a 500 year fawn response. They simply hit the nail so directly on the head that it disappeared, there is no nail and never was one

protesting LLM-assisted writing by making my sentences as baroque and impenetrable as possible

Look on my works, Chat, and despair

"he woke up and he was suddenly a big bug" ✅ "she found a nose in her loaf of bread" ✅ "and then they decided to fake date" ❌ no they did not, stop lying

tryin somethin open.substack.com/pub/pagemelt...

look at them

i'm writing fanfiction again and u kno what that means!!! time to present some screenshots from my research folder with zero context

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Viral marketing has gone way too far

Placing my webcam at a Dutch angle to unsettle the viewer

everyone please stop calling ai glasses the "pervert glasses". this is appropriation of swirly glasses from pervert scientist women

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

Apologies if this chili cheese dog brings down this whole site

oh u thought that extremely popular piece of media was "overhyped"? should we throw a party? should we invite bad bunny

i hate that we all talk like fucking incels now

meeting cancelled, which means none of my coworkers will get to appreciate today's look (extra in a kevin smith movie)

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Everytime I learn more about software I am more surprised that the entire world is not on fire, all the time.

i made an egg and vegetable scramble on monday that turned out pretty bad, but i'm burdened by the sort of brisk cultural protestantism that forbids me from wasting it, and i gotta tell you, i am not looking forward to lunchtime in 46 minutes when i will be eating these terrible eggs

MOST EARNED IT Minneapolis MOST SYMBOLICALLY CORRECT Philly MOST DEVASTATING TO TRUMP New York FUNNIEST Miami

google gemini suggested emails are saving me hours of work per week and now I'm finally productive enough to put the gun all the way in my mouth instead of chickening out at the lips

“All authors are using AI now” Not true! A lot of us use THC

seeing screenshots of fanfic on threads makes me feel like i'm trapped in a tj maxx

It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes AI?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific journalists. www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

u should be able to call into work if u find a really cool rock and wanna look at it for awhile

I can’t believe I’ve scrolled through so many of these without seeing Elliott Gould and Grover. I was INCAPACITATED when I first saw this.

me to seth in bed last night, window open, box fan on high, so hot i can't sleep: "remember that song in Lady and the Tramp about that dog being a huge slut?"

this month we're gossiping www.patreon.com/posts/154174...

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my close personal friend ilya rozanov is right about many things but the new yorker being boring is not one of them !! with the right attitude and perspective it is actually a gossip rag (complimentary)

this your man? look at the screen. themes-are-for-8th-grade-book-reports type shit. embarrassing state of affairs that when i tell people i like SFF they automatically think i mean this dork

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

The Ones Who Walk Away from Roku City

i see zero sports content on my timeline all winter and then opening day like clockwork everyone I follow reveals themselves to be a dyed in the wool baseball fan. truly the thinking poster's sport

Fuck Harry Potter. Boring ass books for babies. Why don't you read some smut like a grown up?

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

continuing to stump the haters with my charming and eclectic movie-watching habits

it wants to be edgy, but it's just reheated, repackaged gamergate schlock. there are sentences in here that wouldn't sound out of place in one of those sjw cringe compilations that used to dominate youtube. on a spiritual level, Helen Lewis is a bitter 19-year-old with a funko pop collection

every time some tech psycho giddily says unemployment could hit 30% soon I'm like ok man and then what. what happens after that usually. how about I give you fifteen minutes to skim wikipedia and then you can get back to me. its fine i'll wait

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i will defend genre romance with my dying breath but when i tell u i would rather eat a bucket full of earthworms than read a traditionally published novel named after a taylor swift lyric