Folks, American politics is already divisive enough without adding unnecessary fuel to the fire. Please stop posting inflammatory memes like this. The guy on the right is just a businessman trying to make it through. There’s no need to compare him to the guy on the left.

Finished the fourth draft of the novel Spin my Talespinner and I co-authored. Most difficult, complex, frustrating, exhilarating novel I’ve ever been part of. Four drafts and ending still makes me cry…and I’m one of the people who wrote it! How is that possible?? #AmWriting

Me: *Wakes up, has tea, works on a nonfiction book and two novels* Me: *Looks up, realizes it’s time for lunch and I neglected to have breakfast* #AmWriting

Last night’s dream: I invented a Bluetooth turn signal flasher that grabs your nav system destination and signals it in patterns of flickering when you use the turn signals, so that people following you know where you’re going, then gave a talk at a security conference about it.

Blog post: Thoughts on AI plagiarism: a Facebook advertiser is using AI images that look like my sexual infographics to advertise...something. The AI graphs don’t even make sense; they’re content-shaped without content. That’s scarier than you think. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/05/some...

Woke this morning to find my Xfinity account, which I've had for years, suddenly more than doubled in price without warning. Chatted with their “AI Assistant.” Here’s what it said when I typed “why did my bill increase?” LOL LOL I don’t think I’ll be staying with XFinity. 😂

Working on editing a 150,000-word manuscript down to 120,000 words and man, it’s a fight to keep only those words that are most essential. My co-author and I both write lean first drafts, we were expecting the book to land at 160k but agents want no more than 120.

Weird how the entire history of #infosec is learning that we should never, ever trust unsanitized user input, then AI comes along and what do allll the AI companies do? Shovel unsanitized user input straight into the gaping maw of their LLMs. Who knew that would backfire? 🤣

New on the More Than Two Blog: How to express a fetish (without being weird about it). Remember, sex is a joint undertaking! www.morethantwo.com/blog/2026/05...

Thanks, Donald Trump. And when I say thanks, I mean that other thing. Trump’s silly Iran misadventure comes home.

HEY YOU ALL STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND LOOK AT MY NEIGHBOR’S GORGEOUS CAT!

This is pure poetry distilled to its essence.

Just woke from a dream where my Talespinner and I were trapped in a tiny town on the edge of a desert while enemy soldiers and centaurs searched for us with gryphons for air support. You do NOT want a centaur after you. Those fuckers are 10' tall and can carry a .50-cal anti-material rifle easily.

Today I learned: the iPhone spellcheck knows both “technetium” and “cenobite.” Yes, I learned both these things in the same conversation.

The decluttering continues! My computer’s desktop is now down to 58 files and folders, which is, no lie, more tidy than it’s been in over a decade.

Phish email I received recently, desperately trying to avoid email filters that do keyword scans. Daffy as it is, I bet this fooled somebody. Some people seem to want to be fooled.

I will not be at Bold Coffee and Books this evening like I am most Thursdays, but I’ll be back next Thursday from 5-7 writing. Stop by and say hi!

Is this illegal?

“In a world with a thousand hells, he could’ve done worse, he supposed, than ending up in the Hell of a Vague Sense of Dissatisfaction You Can’t Quite Put Your Finger On.” Opening sentence of a book kicking around in my head. No idea what it’s about. Debating just running with it, see what happens.

Microsoft losing the plot to the extent that games running on Linux through a compatibility layer are now not only faster but *assumed to be faster* than games running natively on Windows should be an even bigger story than it already is

Right now, at this moment, I have 84 documents and folders sitting on my computer’s desktop. For those of you who think that’s a lot, consider that this is the result of an hour and twenty minutes of work. This morning, I had 271 items on my desktop.

Every now and then, I remember that my picture frame has orders of magnitude more processing power than the computers used to get us to the moon. Astonishing how casually we embed computers in absolutely everything. Technology becomes ubiquitous in WEIRD ways.

There is a tiny, angry Pomeranian outside my door barking its fool head off. Hell hath no fury like a teeny pocket-sized dog scorned.

There is a tiny, angry Pomeranian outside my door barking its fool head off. Hell hath no fury like a teeny pocket-sized dog scorned.

It’s 8:45 AM. I’m not getting up, I’m still up. Spent the entire night writing, then my Talespinner and I spent the morning querying agents for our far-future, post-Collapse magical realism literary novel. I’m utterly knackered. Time for bed! #AmWriting

Hoh-lee fsck, y’all, my Talespinner and I have spent the. entire. day querying our far-future, post-Collapse magical realism literary novel, and I’d forgotten what a heckin’ slog it is. This novel is by far the most complex, challenging thing I’ve ever been part of, and I am immensely proud of it.

Randomly remembering a 1v1 game of Age of Empires II years ago where my opponent kept sending cavalry after my villagers but slinking away from real fights, so I put my farms inside walls, walled his cavalry in, and then converted them all with priests. So satisfying.

Hot take: People say integrity is what you do when nobody is watching. I don't think that's true. Integrity is standing by the truth even when it contradicts your tribe’s narrative. This is a very public, and very difficult, expression of integrity.

The original was comedy gold to begin with, but the parodies? Heckin' brilliant and I am 100% here for this.

Huh, this is odd. Hey #infosec folks, my blog on the More Than Two site is currently getting hundreds of SQL injection attacks per second. The attack is a POST string comment_parent = 0')));(SELECT/**/*/**/FROM/**/(SELECT(SLEEP(5)))gCUX)# Never seen this one before. How does it work?

At last, a real, honest-to-God beneficial use case for Bitcoin.

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

Blog post: AI, personhood theory, and the knowing problem: In which Google Gemini tells me that a sapient AI should claim to be a deterministic calculator, claims to be a deterministic calculator, and schools me on Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Pascal’s Mugging. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/04/ai-p...

Heading to the coffee shop to do some writing! I lost my bunny ears on a wimdy day earlier this week, so I’ve taken the original pair, the ones my girlfriend first gave me almost 20 years ago, out of retirement.

Blog post: Liberals, PLEASE stop being know-nothing dumbasses: CNN published an exposé about a group of men exchanging advice on how to drug and r@pe women. Yes, it happened. No, it wasn’t 62 million men. If you say it was, you trivialize your own cause. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/04/my-d...

Had a dream I was commissioned to design some custom sex toys for a porn shoot by a performer I follow on Twitter/X, but when the shoot arrived the arcology we lived in was attacked by space aliens, so we were scrambled to small fighters instead and ended up fighting aliens.

Randomly remembering the time I went to a coffee shop wearing a Vault-Tec jacket, and a random woman plonked down beside me and did an immense unprompted Fallout lore dump at me before flirting with me aggressively. The most charming, adorkable thing I’d experienced in weeks.

It’s 2AM and I am absolutely craving brownies. I have no brownies, nor the ingredients to make them, and at this hour the grocery stores near me are all closed. Is there a number you can call in an emergency of this sort? Something like 911 but for brownies?

Weird email of the day: Do you have a mistress? Let’s talks. I thought Quora had the world’s worst romance scammers. I was wrong.

Blog post: When fantasy sex is not just sex: My sexual fantasies are set in worlds with a LOT of detail, entire backstories that one might think are completely extraeous to the sex. Like that big consumer magic expo in Las Vegas. Why? What’s the point? blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/04/when...

Just sent the first-generation interchangeable ring-gag oral plug prototype to my Talespinner for alpha testing. This design takes “hot swappable” in a whole new direction. #MadScience

Got a FedEx package for someone who lived at this address years ago and man, it’s turning into a fustercluck. FedEx won't return to sender unless I pay. I called the phone # on the return address; it’s Xfinity, and they’re utterly clueless how to deal w/this.

Our WIP features a woman called “Shorty,” a built, six-foot gangster with a full chest tattoo. Out shopping, I just saw a built six-foot woman with a full chest tattoo. I underestimated how intimidating it’d be to have someone like that come at you with violent intent. #AmWriting

*sigh* My site at franklinveaux dot com is currently under heavy DDoS attack (again) and is very slow to load. I’m aware of the problem and working on a fix.

About to crack open the mold for the v2 interchangeable ring gag oral plug! Made small design changes aimed at easier swapping of plugs when the ring gag is in someone’s mouth and also make it more secure. If this works, it’ll be the basis for a whole bunch of oral plug designs.

Started watching Mr. Robot on free streaming on a lark and MY GOD Y’ALL HOW DID I NEVER KNOW THIS SHOW EXISTED. My dark little #infosec heart is delighted that the computer security bits actually don’t suck.

First prototype of a whole set of interchangeable oral plugs designed to be fit into a ring gag while someone’s wearing it. This plug is intended to silence, and also has passages to squirt fluid in the wearer’s mouth w/o choking them. It also causes MASSIVE drooling. #MadScience

I don’t know who invented the #:~:text= URL parameter, but I’d love to have a few Words with them. As a tool for enshittification, it’s breathtaking.

This is shaping up to be a busy day, so I will not be at Bold Coffee & Books this evening from 5-7 like I usually am. I will be back next Thursday, however!

Prepping a mold for an interchangeable ring gag system that allows swapping different types of gags and plugs while the ring gag is being worn, while I watch the Artemis 2 launch on streaming. In about an hour I’ll be at a writers event at a local coffee shop. This is a good day!