Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

She had dumps like a truck truck truck

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

Feels like I need opera glasses to read the text on some of these newer video games.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

I FINALLY have Frostpunk 2 in my hands. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Memory is highly malleable. By interacting with a chatbot imitating your grandmother, you would begin to alter your memories of the real woman to more closely align with the chatbot. What would feel uncanny and unnatural at first would eventually fully supplant your grandmother if used long enough.

Every creative activity involves you having to solve problems, learn from solving those problems, and use this experience to solve new problems they encounter. "This reminds me of something I have done before" is how you get better at literally everything.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

I accidentally said "Jesus Christ, superstar" earlier, and now that song will be stuck in my head for literally the rest of time.

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Shocking perhaps nobody, Marianas Trench is my 2025 number one in almost every metric. Not my fault HAVEN is so goddamned good.

It's now or never.

Just infiltrated your man’s fortress with only a small mob of local peasants wielding crudely adapted agricultural tools

Productivity hack: do not fill your day with boredom busters. Ditch the mobile games, the doomscrolling, the TV binge, and whatever else you noodle on when you're bored. Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.

How do you medicate an enormous, skittish cat who only eats crunchy food/treats? Without having to shove it down his throat, because he's just a baby?

Do I have a joke about Thomas? Doubt it.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel

The old catchphrase "run the government like a business" has never made sense, definitionally. Most government services are things no business would ever do, because not all human needs can be contorted into a profit-generating activity.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Lately, something at/related to my job triggers headaches/migraines. Working theories: 8 hours straight at computer screen; ergonomically disastrous desks exacerbating posture issues; general "old building" allergens; constant crackle of walkie-talkies; ghosts giving me shit.

Really glad that only the kittens saw me just whack my hand on the ceiling fan while pretending to be making Spot Conlon's big entrance. It would be super embarrassing if other people knew.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.

bro do you even exhibit awe and wonder at the world? do you have whimsy bro?

Speaking of horror that has hoodoo...my debut novel is out now! While researching local lore about a beast in the woods, HBCU grad student Zora is haunted by visions of the past as the lines between fiction and reality start to blur. Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/i-ll...

Reminder that I am also an essayist! "Horror Needs Hoodoo" is both my love letter and call to action for Black creatives ✨ Read/buy my Nightmare Magazine essay: www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...

Doing my part for the class war by cropdusting first class.

this probably should’ve been a Halloween comic but eh

A fact about me is that every time I'm in New York City, I am thinking about NEWSIES the whole entire time. And sometimes I do a little tap dance. On a related note, I'm in NYC and thinking about NEWSIES.

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

I try to ensure that ads don't impact my purchasing decisions very much. But the shitting bears go TOO FAR, Charmin. TOO. FAR.

Aries: The talking doll has some career advice.

What it feels like to love a show that r/fantasy lives to hate on. (This is about The Witcher)

I think about these images so often. The perfect marriage of marketing and art, made by people who understand both.

A HYDRATED WARRIOR IS A LETHAL WARRIOR.

"algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks, and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation"

Why is every rideshare in Atlanta as hot as hell?

People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!” Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.

Recently? DRACULA. All of a sudden, every adaptation felt shallow in comparison, because they all miss the point: a group of friends who fight a monster because they love each other.

To the patrons complaining about the "werewolf" roaming our golf course: it is far more likely that you were simply attacked by a wild dog.

Do you bite your thumb at us, Charlie Brown?

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

John Connor is younger than me and already leading the human resistance against the machines?? Literally what an I doing with my life???? (I am back on my Terminator bullshit)

Today’s the day! My very first Reddit AMA has begun on r/fantasy! I’m very excited to talk to discuss horror, Hoodoo, and my debut horror novel, I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU! Come ask questions and check my Instagram stories throughout the day for updates. AMA: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...