Just soul-draggingly boring. A plodding narrative that did not earn its length and density.

Tupac nostalgia? What is this, 2006?

Pointing out "A solution to a problem that doesn't exist" and "An accessory to a toy that doesn't exist" being the best ways to describe commercial LLMs continues unabated.

“Oh, fishers of men? What about those of us who get seasick and can’t get on the boat, huh?!?”

Saw a screenshot from one of the helldump places and nope;

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Jesus Christ, like a sniper round right through my chest

Trimmed up/streamlined a few things @ Patreon, (nothing major, just a few little things) which is a good way to help support me as a small-time indie writer. Get essays, short fiction, serialized fiction, previews, and more for as little as $2/month;

not knowing what anyone is fucking talking about is so good for me

This is a good one.

Replace the phonebooth thing with a giant robot mech. Have Doctor Who be played by a precocious child recruited into a pointless posthuman war between the Earth and orbital space colonies over independence. Have a badass charismatic antihero antatonistin all-red with his own cool giant robot.

Shades of Orchid/Botch here, scratching a very deep itch. Thanks for the tip @megapolisomancy.bsky.social -

Random poking around with my morning internet/email checking means my morning coffee reading was about the Gunpowder Plot, which is a really good indicator of how my brain works.

This might be one of my favorite things I’ve written in the last few years. A cyberpunk neo-noir about commercialization of abstract universal forces, “Landmarks”;

Open now for anyone to read @ Patreon, my short story "Notes on a Convention." Horror cons & true crime collide;

saw an incredible car today

This is one of our comfort movies. Very excited for this.

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

Hell yeah, this series fucking rocked so much, I'm very excited Dan is re-releasing these books.

Hey NYC pals, we will send you whistles in quantities from 100-thousands to prepare your neighbors and community for this oncoming onslaught. Free! linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

We’re all sharing headers, so here’s mine.

MFW I hope the challenger is doing all right

This is objectively-correct and you can’t stop us from saying so

asking myself this daily

That fucking diseased wrinkle of a shitty fart will make a 25-minute cameo, try to get people to clap and cheer for him, and then just leave because he's tired and passing out. Come on, he ain't watching shit.

Open now for anyone to read @ Patreon, my short story "Notes on a Convention." Horror cons & true crime collide;

A trail of discarded UNO cards like a blood spatter on the sidewalk, clear signs of a vicious battle fought here.

It’s a lonely road, Barbie, the road of the ronin. Gird your arms and armor about you if you do.

Dan Stevens triple-feature tonight (GODZILLA x KONG THE NEW EMPIRE, THE GUEST, and now CUCKOO).

"Danse macabre" (2023), acrylic painting created by the Iranian artist Bahman Pezeshkzad.

This might be one of my favorite things I’ve written in the last few years. A cyberpunk neo-noir about commercialization of abstract universal forces, “Landmarks”;

Man some days I just feel like the dumbest tryhard

Playing the Internet equivalent of Russian Roulette (letting random YouTuber videos just play in the background) and man,it's very funny how many of these people back-to-back shill both privacy-protecting VPNs as well as "AI organization" products.

I don’t know why or care about horror discourse, horror will always fucking rock, nobodies and weak-boned nerds crying about being scared is like, nothing-noise.

i can really imagine coach mcgirk saying "It's a tool, Brendan." then having full blown ai psychosis later in the episode

I've decided I no longer care about my well-being and am going to publicly say that complaining about movie runtime is for cowards, crowing that you only like horror movies that clock in at 90 minutes is baby shit.

Multi-season adaptation of Mary Renault’s THE LION IN THE GATEWAY about the two Persian Wars. We’re shooting on-location in Greece and Turkey, casting almost all-locals, gonna bury the memory of fucking 300 into the dirt.

I’ll beat this drum to the day I die, but non-industry folks worried about box office numbers is one of the strangest things in the world to me. Why is an IT consultant in Iowa concerned about how much The Devil Wears Prada 2 made in previews? I don’t event begrudge it — it’s just very funny!

Conveyor-belt sushi and a beer for a late breakfast earlier, now reading on the couch in the afternoon sun. Finished BETWEEN TWO FIRES, enjoyed it immensely. Weird as shit. If this ain’t a good life I don’t know what is.

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Hey, happy birthday @wolter.bsky.social!!

With inflation, even at $70 for AAA titles, games are the cheapest they've ever been. There is also a huge indie market where you can buy masterpieces for a song. People should reserve their ire about pricing for other, actual industry problems, like treatment of devs by their corporate overlords.

GEOINT #09866 from NROL-111 (TALENT-KEYHOLE) 1. Unhinged Myth 2. Operation Infringement

There are more AOCs and Mamdanis out there, but they get clotheslined st the first hurdle while Fettermans, Sinemas, and Platners lay claim to the spaces they should’ve been occupying.

D2 MoT trailer got me a little hyped, not gonna lie.

Teaching my kid that it’s never okay to bully anyone except kids who call themselves “AI native”

I think I missed like four different arguments/discourses yesterday and today and keep seeing flyaway tertiary elements of them, which somehow makes it even worse.

I’m doing an AMA over at r/fantasy today. Stop by and fire away! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/...