idk I just feel like everything that happened over the past ten years essentially convinced a lot of people that: - they deserve to have fun while others suffer - the suffering in that equation is not their problem - the fun in that equation is somehow a moral good

griping about posting platforms is the lowest and least honorable form of posting next to ‘prompt about food or hygiene’

my code phrase for self harm is "watching a Netflix Original series"

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

I've said it before and I'll say it again. There are two types of horror: - The door won't open - The door won't close

May is Mental Heath Awareness Month. I've lived half of my life with PTSD from gun violence. If you would like to be more aware of what that's like in our world of hyperviolent entertainment, the first three chapters of my memoir are available as a preview: biblioshare.org/BNCservices/...

Those Protect Ontario ads are so cruel they actually make me feel physically ill, and I watch torture movies professionally!

ok so my official theory about Mandalorian and Grogu is that it is bland on purpose because the major media companies are trying to turn movies into background noise, like mood playlists for people who don't like music

I saw Baby Yoda drinkin' a piña colada at Trader Vic's And his hair was perfect

Today is world goth day. Please allow me to recommend my first book, BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, which I have been told dwells primarily on the shelves of bat lovers, mall zombies, and herse people.

"Prompting a predictive software to give you output that you polish and curate is the behaviour of a consumer, not a creator." test-obituary.ghost.io/test-obituar...

very good book!

Today is world goth day. Please allow me to recommend my first book, BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, which I have been told dwells primarily on the shelves of bat lovers, mall zombies, and herse people.

For the record, Carney has done jack-fuck to combat separatism, and his pipeline-without-a-proponent is nothing but a signal that he's just as beholden to the oil industry as Danielle Smith is, and happy to toss First Nations, other provinces like BC, and the environment under the bus to appease it.

Speaking of brick-and-mortar bookstores: Ottawa peeps, I'm thrilled to share that my collection of narrative nonfiction about life in the North is now in stock at the lovely Singing Pebble Books in Old Ottawa East! If you're so inclined, please go check this place out.

I think it's an op to leak to the press that the AI is winning prestigious Literary prizes now. The prizes were already made up, now the writers and stories are too. The prestige is a plot by the CIA

When I was 19 and in theatre school, my family went on a holiday cruise over Christmas. While moored in Costa Rica, my father and I explored the port town. Out on a wooden pier near the municipal hall, a stranger approached. He had a gun. He shot my dad. It scrambled my brain. I'm like this now.

Making vegetable tempura. Let me explain.

The Grogu that likes killing our family is back.

Woke up and the first thing I saw online was a person who defended the Glen Eden writing robot using the Olga AI fiasco to promote his own LLM tool.

The Grogu that likes killing our family is back.

TIL that the Minions from "Despicable Me" are hard-wired to serve the most evil person on Earth, and also thousands of years old, so when the movie became a franchise, the writers had to strand them in an ice cave right after the Napoleonic Wars until 1968 so they wouldn't have to be literal Nazis.

While I do prefer horror without hope, I find I increasingly resent horror without humour.

this story should have mentioned the time when Will Sloan was banned from Twitter for saying he hopes Baby Yoda dies--a story that itself made international headlines!

One of my most prized DVD box sets.

Rotta the Hutt sounds like a secret character in Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi for PlayStation

Grogu & The Mandalorian & Jeremy Allen White as Jabba's adult UFC son

if the baby yoda movie does bad enough I might start getting interested in star wars again

Well, I saw Baby Yoda walkin' with the Queen Doin' the Grogu and Mandalorian I saw Baby Yoda walkin' with the Queen Doin' the Grogu and Mandalorian I saw Grogu drinkin' a piña colada at Trader Vic's And his hair was perfect

oh my god oh my god oh my god www.chess.com/awards/Ouija...

📣‼️"I know it looks like being obnoxious or cruel or making generally low brow video content is your pathway to success but I strongly suspect most of those characters who are popular for that stuff online are plants or something. Please try to engage graciously with the world around you"

Calling horror writers: Do you have a 2500-6000 word short horror story about film, filmmaking, or watching movies? You have until July 1st (Canada Day) to submit. Samara is rooting for you! #HorrorWriter horrortree.com/taking-submi...

I spent all my time and energy for the past three years trying to be Molly Millions, but I've come to accept I'm too much of a Mina Harker

oh, *I'm* sorry, I didn't realize it was sarcasm day

some of the most profound truths only reveal themselves in times of sustained grief

After my dad's mom died, he stayed with his dad for about a month and they watched The Godfather, which is kind of a comfort movie for my grandpa but which my dad hadn't seen in years, and when we talked on the phone later he goes "Michael is such a slut"

mfw I start talking in the voice of the book I'm reading

I write a lot about hell so I feel confident in saying that 'Thicc Cartoon Devil' is one of the more torturous possible outcomes. Like, top five ones you don't want.

I can't talk about it in any detail yet but I just need to say that on the weekend I had a creative breakthrough and have become more powerful than ever before.

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live The White Stripes The Strokes REM Overnight Rush Sloan Metric St. Vincent The Decemberists Deerhoof

I devoured this book. It was exactly what I've wanted a book about music- playing and experiencing it- to be. Jeff Miller wrote a perfect book about music and subcultures and the people who create them. I immediately started re-reading it. I can't recommend this highly enough.

I like how the right claims the left control all media and are backed by George Soros when the reality is that an Indigenous film crew pranked a bunch of white supremacists and the backlash was so intense from anti-free speech anti-comedy censors that they killed the show

Chris Fleming guest stars in the new Widow's Bay, in case you need another reason to watch the best show in years.

occasionally I get DMs and emails asking me, rhetorically and rudely, if anyone gets my jokes, and I think it's pretty clear the answer is: no

still holding out for the Soap grind plate Jibblitz, sorry

Oh yeah: my standup comedy special Path of Most Resistance just now finally broke even on the budget expenses, so if you watch it from here on out I might start seeing the first payout from it (thousands and thousands of cents) … youtu.be/pJ5DFrdOyig

The right editor is out there looking for a pitch for an essay about the state of late night TV, and the upcoming anniversary of the dumpster episode of the Chris Gethard Show, and all they need to do is let me know

at risk of revealing how I live like Lenny from the Simpsons, I exclusively eat home cooked meals on a ridiculously busy schedule by using one simple trick: I use the same ten affordable recipes