It’s not too late to board the train. The days are getting longer. The leaves return. Let your heart be broken. Read The Winnowing Draw.

Dinkwad here. Treating dogs like children perfectly aligns with my feeling it would be ok if the species walked hand in hand into oblivion

There’s a conversation to be had about how women of color are disproportionately dogpiled for missteps but also the reality that a whole publishing apparatus and literary hype machine was all in on a book that was so badly written as to be id’d as AI by loads of reviewers shouldn’t be overlooked

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Just a reminder that $5 for 3-6 thousand original words is insulting and means either a press has no intent of promoting and no hope of selling your work or they hope to exploit you mercilessly to make as much money as possible with almost none of it going to the people doing the work.

Be there or stay square

I’ve been reading a lot of Steinbeck. Working my way through all the novels I hadn’t already read and finished To a God Unknown today. I think it has a lot to say about American mythology that is extremely relevant today. THREAD

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The latest Hedone bullshit is exactly the reason orgs like the HWA *should* exist - to let people know about toxic, fraudulent practices in the publishing industry Writers shouldn't be expected to assume every publisher is a potential embezzler. The onus to investigate should not be on them 🧵

Working my way through all of Steinbeck and finished Pastures of Heaven this morning. The whole book is basically a collection of anecdotes about living in a beautiful place and finding a surplus of misery but it’s the last chapter that in 4 pages turns into an eviscerating mirror. Ouch.

I missed Millenium when it first aired and decided to track down the dvds and I was in no way prepared for how strange this show is on a fundamental structural level. I’m on episode 9 and there is literally no overarching storyline yet. Frank Black is fighting evil but like physically totally inept

Photo of me deleting all my Clair Obscur files immediately after completing the game

I wonder if the magas boycotting the Super Bowl will measurably mitigate the spike in domestic violence that predictably occurs the weekend of the event every year.

That stoker preliminary ballot reminds me of the scene in the Shawshank Redemption when they randomly choose people to do the roof tarring job.

I finished the first draft of my new novel today. Definitely the most personal thing I’ve ever written. Maybe the most topical too. Takes place in an RFK “wellness” camp.

The retail model common in my youth was to work low level management to death with the promise of promotion and then burn out 95% of them and then replace them with whoever was next level down on the ponzi. It seems the tech bro culture is a table full of marks thinking they’re playing poker.

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Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponents for having defeated him in an election. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

Listen, sneering anti-Americanism from online rubes from the husks of empires who think they deserve personal cultural credit for Mozart or w/e while drinking Coke and eating their national equivalent of dinosaur chicken nuggets IS annoying. But we're absolutely, 100% asking for it, so just cope

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Finally a worthwhile answer

Black Phone 2 is free on peacock and it’s still not worth the cost of admission. Tedious, terrible dialogue, bunch of nightmare on elm street ripoff done with less skill and it’s weirdly Christian. If you liked this movie your judgement is suspect

this type obscuring of colossal harm bc it 'looked nicer' bc someone they find more appealing was its face bc everyone floating above it due to a lucky station in life could tell themselves it was necessary, promise themselves *they and theirs* were safe from harm =why we're here headed for worse

youtu.be/hFmCyZ6epB8?... This is basically the end of act one of expedition 33. IYKYK

This is correct. ICE is there in the first place because of an evidence-free racist conspiracy theory promoted by a 23 Year old YouTube propagandist. They manufacture pretext.

Your body doesn’t have special distinct stress hormones for hiding in a tree and hoping the bear doesn’t look up, or huddling in a trench under artillery fire, or scrolling through bad news on the internet. All your brain knows is that it’s being dunked in cortisol for hours on end.

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

I know a popular response to all this is to blame the hiring of all the j6 refuse. But I would argue what we’ve seen so far is actually normal for experienced cbp officers maybe with slightly less accountability. When the numbers really swell with the influx it’s going to be much much worse.

the only difference between a millennial New York Times journalist and an irony poisoned anime avatar twitter bluecheck who denies that he’s racist while he posts memes about Somali daycares is that the NYT journo is better at convincing you that he deserves to be part of polite society.

Trumpists will be giving the ICE murderer awards and recognitions and honors. That’s because (1) killing someone who thinks differently than they do is their fantasy (2) most of them are too spineless to do it but (3) by praising the murderer they can murder in a fantasy-league way

Everyone needs to watch this.

Obligatory gym selfie. Fuck ice

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

As a psychiatric professional I’m looking for some tools to manage the dysregulation associated with being at the mercy of a rogue state. Also, would like some tips for gratitude journaling or self care to help my patients navigate being priced out of health insurance.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

I don’t have a clever take today I just feel physically ill. I guess I thought i knew this was coming but my body is saying no you really didn’t.

Just learned from my publisher that whole heck of a lot of you bought a copy of The Wingspan of Severed Hands in December! Thank you for (presumably) spreading the yellow sign to your friends and loved ones for the holidays. This is how we conquer reality. weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/the-...

The runes say I will finally get a contract for my novel this year. Thank you, runes. 🦄

Together has just enough gross effects and funny body horror that it almost distracts you from how shallow the whole thing is. If we can get past the instagram level subtext as text in film writing sometime very soon that would be great

My dog is super cute and snuggly

The cruelest thing about expedition 33 is definitely the mimes.

In 2026 I will try to hold my words more gently… and maybe show more skin.

So I started expedition 33. I can already tell it’s going to make me crazy. But for being like a souls like-lite, the difficulty level is satisfying instead of hate inducing so far so 🤞

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

The holiday season this year is like a rare astronomical event where my usual seasonal depression, my acute awareness of how many of my relationships rely entirely on my efforts to sustain them, and the absolute vacuum of any meaningful feedback of my creative work have all aligned perfectly.

Bugonia was a blast. Exactly the light hearted entertainment i needed during this stressful holiday season

Onto the Endless. Norwegian brewmaster is my favorite character. From the jump you know he is silently judging everyone, watching their desperate flights from existential dread while he just sits with it.

I’m watching all the benson/Moorehead movies in order of release on this fine holiday. Spring is the only one I’ve only seen once before. It’s a pretty wild ride

I blocked my mother on my phone for nearly six months before she even noticed.