Dickens: *reaching for the “add character” button Me: woah, woah, slow down there, Chuck. We’ve got 18 characters in this scene already- Dickens: *pressing the button Me: ok. Ok. That was the LAST one though Dickens: *PRESS PRESS PRESS PRESS PRESS

please do not bring lasers to the museum

This movie was a total winner. Go see it. A couple of scenes might be scary for littles but everyone else will love it

One sign of burnout is when two free days are no longer enough to feel mentally reset.

I think I’m at 12 YTD

Over the past couple years here, I discovered @jowalton.bsky.social , rediscovered @diane.dianeduane.com , and went all in on @hntdove.bsky.social

Buy LIGHTNING RUNES, it’s Boris approved™️

I saw people talking about seashells and thought we were doing Demolition Man discourse

“Any relation to Wade Boggs?”

Status report, "[Theoretically] Maintaining An Even Strain" Dep't: A painful anniversary is approaching. Doing my best to cope with it. Details: "Seeking escape." www.tumblr.com/dduane/81506... #GNUPeterMorwood

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

#writer #amwriting #writingcommunity #author #indieauthor

For 21 years we have given 50 Head Start kids a personalized bookcase and a starter set of books their parents can read to them. Bookcases 1001 through 1050 are in good hands. Tiny curious hands.

On sale today

Relatable

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Just finished, couldn’t put it down. A fantastic follow-up to Twice As Dead. Jack Mitchell is a great character

A.I. art will never happen

Showed up in my Kindle library today — my weekend is set

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Been waiting my whole life for someone to say this to me

they should make a sleep where it feels like you’ve slept

the slop i watch clients gleefully approve today would have gotten me fired on the spot in the very recent past

I feel masculine as 💩 on this Microsoft excel job

Move slow and fix things

Do you think the astronauts did their taxes already

This is so well done. 👌

Maybe a couple more cups of hot anxiety juice will calm me down

Best Star Trek crew; wrong answers only.

Did the Etsy witches put a hex on Arizona #FinalFour

Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years. Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

In a world of Elon Musks, be a Rick Steves.

Ahhhhhhhh

you fucking losers, look what my personal relationship with Responsibility And Reading Books did for my life

"It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms- all of them- may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage." ~Rod Serling

Great book. I loved all the Malkovicis

Adobe is a parasite that can only exist in a dead antitrust environment. It is a company that specifically profits off of trapping customers in horrible contracts to access increasingly more-buggy software that creatives still need to do their jobs. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-adobe/

Reporters and analysts need to stop pretending there's an actual "threat to software from AI," when what's killing software companies like Adobe is their cancerous, abusive businesses built on trapping customers rather than serving them. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-adobe/

I'll be honest, there’s at least one mean bone in my body.

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

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that’s my secret, Daylight Savings, i’m always tired

“He gotta know how to dress” No he don’t… You looking for someone that spends their free time fantasizing about chivalry and saving the day That’s the one that’s gonna pay off a mortgage

Winter Olympics were an excellent antidote to seasonal depression this year. Now I only have to distract myself for another month

Is it true that if they can arrest a Prince, we can arrest a guy from Queens?

I need more time to do all the nothing I want.

"I hate it in here," I say, pointing to my head.