Sometimes my own book reviews amuse me, like this one: “if you’re looking for a M-F sports romance but you hate sports, and women, and men, this is the book for you!”

Listening to today’s Behind the Bastards episode about AI psychosis and when as @iwriteok.bsky.social started talking about how we want to be special I expected/hoped his script to turn into the lyrics to Creep by Radiohead. Missed opportunity.

Slightly diminish a book Trying to think of one for Project Hail Mary … Project Decent Play?

CW antisemitism Weird that comments are disabled on this post. Almost like maybe he knows this quote is from a neo-Nazi but he doesn’t have the intellectual honesty to just take the damn thing down.

Oh hey, this site seems to be working again.

#WritingTip: when your fantasy novel set in a pre-industrial fictional kingdom suddenly drops the term “Stockholm Syndrome,” suddenly your worldbuilding needs a LOT more explanation.

Alright, I wrote about this in greater length: margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/forget-the...

Spread calm. The most useful and experienced demonstrators yell "walk!" to stop crowds from running in fear. The most useful and experienced people try to spread calm. It doesn't get the clicks, but it doesn't immobilize people's thinking either.

So it goes with conspiracy thinking. When every action is immediately discredited as a conspiracy, we inflate our belief in the state to act and discredit the ability of individuals to act. People like to spread fear on social media because it performs well because fear spreads easily.

In the 70s, COINTELPRO used infiltrators to disrupt social movements. One of their explicit strategies was to get activists paranoid and suspicious. Fear of infiltrators was often more disruptive than the actual infiltration. Paranoia sometimes short circuited groups before they even began.

It really is substantially more likely that some guy wanted to shoot some people (or one man in particular) than that the government staged a false flag attack. Running towards conspiracy thinking is naive and you should be embarrassed. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No.

I have a theory that every time someone tries to kill Trump it supernaturally extends his life by another 10 years. The man is being held together by nothing but hair gel, yet he’s probably going to end up passing peacefully in his bed at age 150.

I just saw an ad for a yacht on a Professor Dave Explains YouTube video. What is the algorithm doing???

Unless this movie has - singing Tim Curry - mullets - animals discovering a Walkman - and Robin Williams, I’m not interested.

As a Christian, I think Pete Hegseth quoting Pulp Fiction in a prayer is hilarious, but only if he didn’t know that’s what he was quoting. It’s also funnier if whatever speechwriter put that in did so because they hate Pete rather than because they thought it was genuinely good prayer material.

Idk how old this headline is but I just learned about it today, and I shrieked.

I wish makeup influencers would stop coming up with new looks and techniques because it’s too much work and I can’t keep up.

O hate it when I accidentally post something before I’ve proofread.

the point of the whole venture, where religion goes, anyway, is finding the sublime as something separable from high production values. that kid with scabies two pews over is the most sacred thing you'll see today; that widow is the face of god. what you do with that knowledge? that's your creed.

#WritingTip: make sure your similes are suited to the action you’re describing. Real line from a book I’m reading: “We descend on the downtown hotel […] like feral beasts, guns blazing.”

Mine are probably these plus the one where Jordan Peterson thought a photo of milking fetish porn was evidence of a de-masculinizing factory in China.

Hello bluesky! I need to crowdsource some help with something video related. A racist political candidate in the UK called Matt Goodwin recently wrote a book with the, er, ‘help’ of chatgpt. As a result there’s a bunch of nonsense and fake quotes in there

I won’t watch this movie because I have zero tolerance for blood and scariness in film, but you should watch it because it’s about ballerinas becoming badass killers (in self defense).

“I don’t have to separate the art from the artist because Harry Potter is bad” is a shitty take because it implies that you’d be okay with supporting someone who delights in being responsible for stripping away people’s healthcare if only their writing was good.

This is the only Harry Potter argument worth making It wouldn't matter if Harry Potter was a singular, unmatched work of genius. Giving Rowling money is actively making the world a worse place and killing trans folks. There's no book good enough or nostalgic enough for that to be worth it.

Caelan’s latest video is yet another brilliant takedown of TERF/GC rhetoric, this time focusing on a conspiracy theory that apparently exists in pro-LGBTQ circles about JKR being a closeted trans man? I agree with Caelan that this belief is BS, disrespectful and even harmful to the trans community +

Reading an ebook and actually flipped my phone over to get a look at the book cover. 🤦‍♀️

I think I’ll miss Chuck Norris memes more than anyone on earth will miss Chuck Norris.

#WritingTip that’s more of a personal tip: if you’re writing about a particularly well-endowed woman, don’t say she’s a DD. That’s actually not that large of a cup size and if you’re a woman, it just makes me think though probably aren’t wearing the right bra size yourself.

Sometimes I think about how much fun it was before Caleb Maupin was outed as an alleged cult leader and sex pest and @theserfstv.bsky.social could just do streams making fun of him. Then I remember that I’m like 95% sure Caleb’s dad was a missionary and that’s why he took Caleb with him on his

How’s everyone holding up? I just found the jug of milk I apparently left in the cupboard yesterday, so that’s how my week is going.

If Stephen Miller switches parties to become a Democrat, wins the dem primary, and is the candidate vs. Trump in the next election, I will not vote for Stephen Miller. He is awful, his policies are awful, and it doesn't matter if he'd be "better" than Trump. This is a post about Gavin Newsom.

Post a banger, not in English I don’t listen to new music so Estuans interius (Burning inside) from Carl Off’s Carmina Burana it is.

Someone with more reach than me tell the @somemorenews.bsky.social team that the Pendragon Cycle isn’t just an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of GOT; it’s actually an adaptation of a series by Stephen Lawhead that merges the myths of Arthur and Atlantis, but makes them Christian. +

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

Age verification? We used to have to whack the side of the TV to make the picture come through.

I could tell the game ended became one of my neighbors us setting off fireworks. Congrats Seahawks💙💚

This is the most I’ve ever paid attention to a football game before. And by that I mean I’ve checked the score four times and read @miawong.bsky.social’s posts about the game. I may not be a sportsbsll fan but #GoHawks

Actual line from an actual book I’m reading: “He’s obviously knocked down all the walls to make the space wide and spacious.” #WritingTip: are you kidding me with this?

My skirt is more or less Seahawks colors and that’s about as good as it gets with me #GoHawks

#WritingTip: one of my pet peeves is when a first-person narrator describes how their own face looks during an interaction. “My eyes lit up,” “my face turned red,” that kind of thing. They can’t see themselves so why are the describing how they look? It makes more sense for them to describe their +

For no apparent reason, other than to do so, I've been trying to figure out the name of a video game I played as a child. Didn't play it much, think it was Sega, could've been NES, had vaguely Persian theme, I remember the ground blocks were green, blue sky character might've been red. Mario-esque

Keep it simple and abolish DHS

Tim Miller from @thebulwark.com: hey Sarah that do you think about this new any-gay marriage ad? Sarah Longwell: “OUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING RUN BY PEDOPHILES.” I feel like more interview questions should be answered this way. Like all of them maybe.

just monumentally angry that these files were like. SEEN by people in the government who DIDNT ACT ON THEM FOR YEARS!!!! Man scrap the whole damn nation the rot goes deeper than Hill House

@marawilson.bsky.social maiasaurs are also my favorite dinosaurs but mainly because that’s what Ducky in Land Before Time is.

Rest in peace 😥

I’m sorry, was she under the impression she hasn’t been canceled yet? And that of all the things she’s said and done over the last decade, this will somehow be the final straw? Girl.

I shared #AmandaMaryanna’s video on “Republicans makeup” months ago because her analysis of this weird phenomenon is well researched and argued without descending into misogyny like a lot of other critiques. She recently released another one on how this aesthetic ties into fascism. Watch it.

I'm fucking HEATED. If we're going to survive and get out of this disaster, we white people need to uplift AND protect Black and brown leaders, with our bodies and lives. I don't want to mourn another Black leader. I want them to lead. We need them here, not as martyrs in a goddamn history book.