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RIP Amos Poe youtu.be/U2o_FetGGgo?...

Seems there is yet another app using the ICEBlock logo and charging people for access. It’s called ICEBlocker and it is not us. DO NOT DOWNLOAD or pay. Best we can tell is it’s Russian. We would never ask for money.

“Your honour, I move for a directed verdict. How can my client Cain have known that smashing his brother over the head with a rock would kill him if nobody had ever died before?”

Are there no copy editors?

Some ~personal news~

We weren't even letting YOU in, Jessup!

Yeah, I have ADHD: Ass Dumptruck Hot Disorder

It would just be an undecorated vending machine in an excellent location, honestly.

As per usual this brazen BS has been detached from name of the grifter who wrote it: Annie Holmquist "Research Associate at Intellectual Takeout... B.A. in Biblical Studies" who writes for outlets like the Epoch Times and The Imaginative Conservative & whose oeuvre is predictable.

The system works!

I know I'm skeeting about this a lot (to be fair I am procrasting on some laundry) but come on. When was the last time you met someone for the first time, in a public setting, and asked, "Are you Black?"

The "Uh, no." in a newspaper commentary is the most revolting piece of writing I've seen all month, and that was after reading a lot of Christmas emails from various companies I bought something from nine years ago.

I had a LitReactor column about "102" (not 101) questions but gave up as people would ONLY ask 101 q's, and often the most common 101 q of them all: "Should I go to conventions to make connections as a writer?" The answer is "No." Asking it is a sign of introversion and you won't do well at cons.

I ATE FRIES WITH TOBY IN 2008!

The Duckburg Horror when?

This is prooooooobably the best comics-creator profile I ever wrote? archive.is/0J97j

There's a bizarre sleight of hand here where professors resisting implementing AI into the classroom via ed-tech (a very winnable battle) is being equated with making all Gen AI "go away" (a much bigger fight).

*guy who's never heard of genres voice* wow, another kissslop story. oh sure yet another laughslop show. don't tell me this is just another challengingtheparametersofartslop painting. I'm so sick of these fictionallivesofactualpeopleslop films

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

I think a lot about that Brandon Taylor essay about how nobody knows how to write an evil protagonist anymore bc in our endlessly self conscious society the question of the evil motive is endlessly interrogated and yet avoided at the same time bc it’s easier to fold it into some imperfect absolution

Edge of Tomorrow fucking owns folks. We did not deserve a movie where Tom Cruise dies horribly like 150 times and Emily Blunt does that stretchy thing with her back.

Kind of a slow A Christmas Story-style "fuuuuuuuu" right here and then we almost hear the k when he vanishes.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I fucked less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

Kind of a slow A Christmas Story-style "fuuuuuuuu" right here and then we almost hear the k when he vanishes.

Very pleased to have paid out over $1600 in royalties to the contributors of 120 Murders after only eight months despite (and partially thanks to*) utterly ignoring Amazon as a sales venue. *Direct sales from the Ruadan website doubled royalties.

PERRY ARCHANGELO BAMONTE 1960-2025

My freshman year roommate in college was from Lowell and all her professors, classmates and advisors were they. It was almost like "pronouns?! I don't know you like that bro, who are you to me" Massholes were ahead of their time honestly

Was chatting w/ a friend from Western Mass today and got thrown when she kept referring to her doctor as "they." I assumed nonbinary doctor until I realized this was a Boston They. I forgot that ppl from western mass do not specify the gender of anyone who is not immediate family, spouse, or BFF

From 2018 (not AI)

My New Year's Resolution is to stop you from starting a podcast or serializing a novel via email newsletter.

I got the TCM Pre-Code book for Christmas and my niece asked me what Pre-Code was. I explained, and then she looked at the front and back covers and was like, "Ok, I understand." #FilmSky #TCMParty

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A warning from the lawyer representing the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA! Beware of GFM scams: her client is NOT crowdfunding at this time.

It's on YouTube! youtu.be/70s1OPboJJ8?...

Trump, scum, bombs Nigeria www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/p...

I like my rotisserie chicken how I like my holy infant: tender and mild.

I’ve never seen a local news headline that so personified the entire country.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I took this as meaning Trump is their savior, not Jesus and I think it's more what they mean.

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (Richard Quine, 1958) My second Christmas movie of the night is this gorgeous Technicolor romance, full of Manhattan post-war ambiance and quaint, oblique sexual politics.

There’s always January 7th

YES!!!

before woke you could have a few brewskis with the pilot before your flight

Backwardness by Garielle Lutz which yes would be 300 hours of her eating at various Woolworths, and later, after that store discontinued their lunch counter service, Burger King.

Gene Wolfe’s Latro series, you would need the budget because to reflect Latro’s perception of the world every actor apart from him would be recast every episode