As someone who’s studied criminal profiling LOL #StephenMiller

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I cannot stress enough how much this is NOT a nightmare for me, and in fact something I've written about several times. Humans eat hilariously weird things.

An FBI run by two Trump hacks has operated exactly as expected. It investigates whomever Trump doesn’t like. trib.al/MxlLetC Working at the FBI is now not about your investigative skills, but how Patel and other Trump aides think you feel about the president.

MAGA has infiltrated Bluesky. They coordinate their attacks. Once you're chosen, they come at you in groups of 3 or 4. They will curse you, attack your bio, and get very personal. They will then like each other's post. I don't bother arguing back. I simply block and remove their comments. Vet wisely

Well, even at the end of the year the contenders for dumbest headline/story of 2025 keep rolling in. Any headline other than “The President of The United States R*ped Children” is not worth large font.

“Beautiful”

The wsj is owned by famous leftist Rupert Murdoch

Merry Christmas and happy new year

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website https://theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/

The fact is Republicans are better for the Rich in the economy, thereby manipulating the narrative in their favour. They depend on an uninformed public!

Republicans claim they’re better for the economy, but it hasn't been true for a century. Don't fall for it. They're better for the wealthy and that's it.

Only if taken with the synergistic RC Cola.

If you’ve got sensitive mail - absentee ballot, tax return, whatever - bring it to the counter and get a manual postmark. Free and easy. If you want your own copy, you can pay a few bucks for a certificate of mailing, or registered or certified mail.

I swear, most of the US's problems could be solved by doubling the workforce and raising the minimum wage. Because most of the problems, like this one, have been CAUSED by reducing the workforce and not paying those who remain well enough to get by.

Well that sucks

if your response is to tell me why the slur doesn't bother you, please go ahead and just block me and save me the time, thanks!

LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO

For the final egg nog/soda mixer of the year, I did 1:1 of egg nog and orange Fanta. Verdict: It was all right, albeit a little on the sweet side. The best soda mixer with (non-alcoholic) egg nog, in my opinion, is root beer. Now you know. You are welcome for my selfless consumer reporting.

Nothing says the holidays like "your money is stuck like the Ever Given in some sort of electronic tube"

The SFF Reviews account is a farm bot, just like all the AI theft apologist accounts are. The only way to combat theft and Gen-AI is to support real creators. I have plenty of free stories and affordable books. Please support art you like! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWC9P4TR

"It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen." - Brigitte Bardot

Growing as an author takes some nurturing of your writing inspirations, especially the small extra daily writing moments we tend to overlook. Give yourself some time to grow. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting ..Keep Writing. Be You. #writing #author #writer ~ #booksky #authorsky

There isn't a single realistic depiction of novelists in popular culture because it would be the most boring thing ever. "It's just some schlub in a hoodie hunched over a keyboard! And they're not DOING anything. Just staring at the cursor. Oh, now they're tabbing over to Reddit."

It makes for very poor reality TV

“If there’s any single talent a writer needs, it’s persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.”-Octavia Butler #amwriting Keep Writing."Good #writing is sometimes done by persistence."- Wrtr #author #writer #booksky #authorsky

I've seen this said a couple of times today and now want team jerseys that say "Genie Stuffers" on them

I'm writing a lot about "AI" today so as compensation please accept this picture of Spice the cat being so very over my apparent enthusiasm about whatever it is I am enthusiastic about

All else aside, I ALSO dispute the idea that non-fiction &/or communications writing is not "artistic creation." Writing is creation, whether emotional lyrics, an engrossing novel, a taut screenplay, a rich science/history/non-fic book, a deft memo, a snappy ad, or an effective announcement.

40. Since @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social liked #3, here is from the recent visit to the PNW...

And now something fun. For every like this post gets, a real photo by me. I've done this before (one time I got over a hundred likes!). But let's do it again. And I will tell you about the photo Going to give you a freebie right off the bat. This is the photo I used in my post on generative AI.

#December2025🕊#PeaceOnEarth A requiem for the last #Sunday of 2025, one remembered as the year fascist tyrants thought they could end democracy. #WeThePeople say #NoFauxKingWay! #TheResistanceWillRise2026 🎼🎸 #Mozarts Requiem On One Guitar Marcin Patrrzalek @marcin.music youtu.be/s43PDheTOqQ?...

“Against The Wind” by Bob Seger youtu.be/PmrkY-EZy74?...

Reading Joe Eszterhas' "Hollywood Animal," so this one is legitimately (illegitimately?) stuck in my head.

I have a "Be nice to me or I'll put you in my novel" t-shirt that I only wear in the house because a cute threat is still a threat. I wear my "I Drink and I Know Things" t-shirt when I go out in the presence of Baptists.

Dressing myself this morning and grabbing toward a t-shirt and my brain said "no, not that one, that's a SPECIAL OCCASION t-shirt" and then I sat my brain down and had a short little discussion about the fundamental everyday nature of t-shirts

Completed the yearly clean-out and re-org of the office!

(gift article, incidentally)

I don't have any special connection to Ms. Bardot except to note that by the time I was cognizant of her she had already ascended into the realm of mythological people, like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and, collectively but not necessarily individually, The Beatles www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...

DID SOMEONE SAY BIRDS

There is the category of "t-shirts too decrepit to be worn outside the house," yes, but other than that all t-shirts should be fair game to be worn anytime, this is egalitarian nature of the t-shirt and I will die on this extremely irrelevant hill

AI in a nutshell

That, plus the “stockholders are the only thing that matters” jurisprudence bequeathed by Robert Bork and others, and the turbo effect that had on all sorts of other bad-for-everybody-else public corporation behaviors (quarterly focus, financialization, etc.). Well, then there’s the tax shenanigans…

I think it's hard to overstate just how much damage the "short term gains at any cost" mindset and incentive structure of venture capitalism has done to the economy and the social fabric of society.

For reference, one should consider how Dickhed Grenell treated Yaz Williams, an extraordinary artist who did not cancel her appearance at the Kennedy Center. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Probably obvious to everyone here, but they simply want to make it illegal (or, gasp, bad manners!) to express dissent, in any way. Please, do not fall for this, ever. Do not obey in advance, and express dissent, and in your own direct or creative ways, at every opportunity.

A lot of their cases are, apparently--at least when they want a certain outcome from the get-go. Hypotheticals and fabrications. No real harm. The only harm is what their decisions are doing to the rest of of us--and to our democracy. Most corrupt Supreme Court in history.

I assume they are suing for breach of contract, but "the job of a public artist is to perform for everyone" is quite a telling and obnoxious view of public art

“it is illegal for you not to like me”