I wrote about how jk Rowling’s “trans friend” destroys the whole propaganda the terf movement relies on www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/jk-r...

Re: kickstarter/obscenity: There is no purity test you can pass if someone else decides they don't want you to.

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/

Someone listened to Pinkerton, which as I’ve said before is the official soundtrack of not getting laid in high school (late ‘90s) and was like “well I can be more pathetic than THAT” and that’s how “Teenage Dirtbag” was written.

The ability for creators of all kinds to hone their craft on the dole instead of needing to come from money to get anywhere

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

For those using Firefox Settings > AI controls > off

Mike Masnick, Bluesky board member: "hey Aaron, you know that whole Streisand effect thing coined back in 2005?" Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky head of trust and safety: "can't talk now, I've nearly banned enough trannies so that no one will know liked a post by a barely legal porn bot on Dec 19 2024"

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

All my acquaintances who were very "maybe if you'd made better choices you'd have a mortgage, like me, instead of this" when I was homeless are very "oh no, my choices" right now. Almost like "doing everything right" can't save anyone in the system as it exists

To celebrate Star Wars day I write up what lessons you can learn from Han Solo when wanting to play a character who really doesn't want to go on this adventure, thank you very much.

SICKOS DOT GIF

Do you like dogs? Of course you do. And what's another thing everybody loves? Subscription models! So we bring you: subscription model dogs. No, they aren't real, and if you stop paying us, they break. Isn't that wonderful? I love being a rich oligarch tech bro living in the future!!

it is both true that the past was far crueler than we can imagine and also true that we can and should demand a better future, and there's no conflict between these things

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Nothing! Let the past be past, let something, ANYTHING fucking die in this endless liminal purgatory of a culture, manifesting our inability to deal with death, with our own mortality, through this poisoned swamp of arrested adolescent— oh wait, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE. Definitely MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.

I wrote a story called CAREFUL, SHE BITES and you can get it on my web site for any price you feel is fair. gregstolze.com/downloads/ca... Is it about vampires? Or is it just about disturbed young women in the dysfunctional systems of a toxic culture? 1/2

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

“D&D is a space to play, to formulate, to waste time. We need more spaces to come together and imagine other worlds.” Scott Hudson on unproductive play as a subversive act.

I'm reading @danschkade.bsky.social's online comic LAVENDER JACK, and I need to inform y'all that this book kicks ass. Fin de siècle pulp heroics, with a queer hero of colour taking on the rich and powerful, with great art and strong writing. You should read it. www.webtoons.com/en/super-her...

If we get to 500 paid Patreon subscribers, Chris will read all of the Jim Balent Catwoman run and tell Matt about it in a Patreon-exclusive side podcast!

It’s OK to write [NAME TBD], [JARGON], or [SOLVE THIS LATER] if you get stuck, as long as you have a way to search for those spots down the line. You don’t have to stop your momentum until you crack the thing if you tend to get sidetracked or it’s making you miserable. This was a revelation.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I struggle with music streaming because (for me!) it’s the one area where the tech customer promise is 100% fulfilled - my listening now is broader, deeper and more varied than it ever has been - but it’s also broken a ton of valuable stuff and the companies involved are as venal as any

This article is mostly fine but the headline and comment by @futurism.com are absurd. These kinds of simulation experiments are instructive for understanding the theory but they have less to do with the actual cosmic event than playing Kerbal Space Program has with launching interstellar rockets.

That booing on ANZAC day was terrible says the RSL - so we are going to give in to it and let local RSLs cut the welcome to country. The worst response to ugly racist meanness. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

" Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price [...] of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains." Adam Smith, WEALTH OF NATIONS

As previously mentioned, my 2026 project is reading every Daredevil comic. I'm up to about 1990 now, with runs by a dozen writers, and the main thing I've learned is that Daredevil, who is completely blind, loves driving cars.

Were they tipped off by the fact that trans athletes weren't a problem for all of human history until conservatives started purchasing every major media institution in 2013 or so

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

Was the Grink there

…Lucha Underground back??? 👀 #wrestlesky 🤼‍♂️

The heartwarming Bluey episode about Rusty, whose dad is in the Army and deployed but bonds with his son through letters about cricket, takes on a different coloration now that practically all of Australian special forces is implicated in war crimes in Afghanistan

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

As a kind of weird accident of how Bluesky elevated a bunch of early adopters who would not have made it on Twitter to the status of Major Voices, you get to see a lot of them develop really insane biases in real time, like "I believe AI hypesters more because I see people yelling at them".

Jesus Homina Homina Homina Christ

A special fuck you to Dymocks as well, who have been instrumental in this farce. Pulling stock and refusing to sell books featuring an illustrator because he wrote a blog that, at worst, was insensitive. But don’t worry, you can still buy pedophile Cardinal George Pell’s books from them

I won’t be publishing with UQP any more and neither will Evelyn Araluen, Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Randa Abdel-Fattah, and Sara M Saleh, among others. The list is growing. The press is dead. I wrote about why here: sakr.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.