Absolutely the ENTIRE fuck not.

The more shootings (staged or not) that are stopped by the Secret Service or other security before getting anywhere near anyone important, the more it proves that the Gropenführer *doesn't* need his ballroom. Because the safeguards we already have just proved that they're far more than sufficient.

I would rather use 36-grit toilet paper than this.

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THEY WILL KILL YOU is a *weird* fucking movie. 😳 Note that "weird" isn't a pejorative. I had fun with it. But it is absolutely weird.

There should be no need for this to be happening again. We cannot allow this nation to remain a place where this needs to be happening again.

Hey, you know yet another plot point I could happily never, ever see again? The one where a character the audience thinks they've been watching turns out to have died half an hour ago, but the other character has been hallucinating them still being there because it was just too traumatic to accept.

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

Virtue is a lie and all our gods are dead.

Turns out Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't actually bitten by that spider. He just freaked out and fainted because it was a *brown* recluse that got close to him, not a white one.

I have used--some would say overused--em-dashes in my writing for decades. I will eat glass before I stop using them now. AI can go fuck itself, and people who would accuse me of using AI just because I use actual English punctuation marks can also go fuck themselves.

Does the first season of the Man On Fire streaming series come to a full and satisfying conclusion? I'm vaguely considering watching it, but only if it's a complete story.

I feel like the literary/book community scammers are, perhaps, not making their best effort. 😂 The following is a quote, *verbatim and completely unchanged*, from the e-mail I got this morning:

One can never tell much from a trailer, but Evil Dead Burn feels like it's a closer relative to the Evil Dead (2013) semi-reboot than it is to the more recent Evil Dead Rise. Certainly the book contents shown looked more like those of ED's volume of the Naturom Demonto than EDR's Book of the Dead.

Does it count as a franchise if it was just one movie that I want to *make* into a franchise? Krull. I want to spearhead a full reboot of Krull. Not as a movie, but as an HBO-level prestige series. Three to five seasons (of which the new version of the events from the movie are the second).

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

Getting ahead of the curve: Giuliani wasn’t just an ugly joke & a buffoon. There will be jokes, but let’s remember the depth of his desecration of life: He played a key role, from his mayoralty on, in accelerating fascism. He hurt so many. He betrayed all.

Let's be clear. The gerrymandering situation is bad. Really, really bad. But it is *not* endgame. Leaving aside the fact that many Blue states are moving to counter the effects of at least some of the Red ones, the fact is that turnout can overcome even extreme gerrymandering.

Apparently there's a Musk v. Altman trial of some sort happening, and I desperately need us to find some weird combination of legal factors that allows them both to not only lose, but be sentenced to death row despite this being a civil case.

I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm just saying that we are not getting the quality of deeply intricate, multilayered schemes that Hollywood led me to expect of our would-be assassins. 😛

Here's the upshot, regarding whether the incident was genuine or staged. Ready? "Who cares?" It's a horrible place for us to be as a nation, but it's true. It *doesn't matter* if it was staged, or if they were just ready to take advantage of an incident if it occurred.

Amazon really ought to at least be considering Arty Froushan (Buck in DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN) as a possibility for the new Bond.

Seeing reports that the alleged shooter works in indie game development. So my new theory regarding his motives is that he's hoping for the improvements in health care, work hours, and stress management that federal prison offers over his current career situation.

Spotted

Well, I got added to another block list because (I believe) of my recent repost regarding AI and those who use it. If I gave the impression that I think all use of generative AI is harmful, as well as creatively and morally bankrupt, let me clarify: I don't just think so, it's objective fact. 😝

AI sucks and you're being a bad person when you use it, and even the technical advisor of bluesky blocking us (from his new phone after he put his old hot one in a pool to cool it off) for saying so won't make it any less true

Ah, yes. The "snarky hidden pocket square message" stage of resistance. Truly the courageous stand of a man stationed firmly near the tail end of an ethical human centipede. 🙄

I'm going to have to start a spreadsheet to keep track of actors/celebrities whose work I'm boycotting... But if you're encouraging studios/filmmakers to lean into AI, I will never give you another cent. I don't care how big you are or how big your projects are.

For the first time in my life, a novel idea that came to me in a dream actually turned out to be a solid idea even after I woke up (as opposed to being absolute nonsense). And it's for a book for which there is no market, because it's a sequel to a so-so-selling series I wrapped up a decade ago. 😑

Youtuber: *talks about D&D advice* Me (normal): This guy's got some good ideas. Youtuber: When I was little, my parents introduced me to the Lord of the Rings films, specifically the special edition DVDs. Me (suddenly decrepit): Fuck outta here, you fetus. 😝

I know a lot of authors have been posting "taxes were brutal, if you've been thinking of buying some of my stuff, now would be a great time" messages. But, uh... Taxes were brutal, and if you've been thinking of buying some of my stuff, now would be a great time. 😬

Outlook needs a specific "You've received an e-mail, but not one of the ones you're actually waiting for" alert. 😜

If you weren't constantly expressing sympathy for the numerous people he knowingly and deliberately harmed, I don't want to hear word fucking one about your sympathy for the "poor misguided" neo-Nazi. (And if you don't know what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky and go on about your day.)

One thing I'm seeing proposed more and more as a prophylaxis against another Trump is to ban felons from holding public office. And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I *hate* that plan. Here's why.

Hey, if Star Wars could go, oh, at least twenty or thirty years before focusing on yet another "Will this young Jedi be tempted to the Dark Side of the Force?" plot, that'd be just swell.

Having just completed a short story draft, this is on my mind, so...

it's fine

While one could certainly wish his successor wasn't himself Right-leaning, I will still happily take the vicarious victory. Thank you, Hungary.

Changing this setting in Signal sounds like a good idea ☝️ Mine had defaulted to ‘Name, Content, and Actions’ 👎

Happy 10th Gotcha Day to these two little shits.

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

IDONWANNASPHERE (n): The portion of the story that exists above and beyond the contracted maximum length of the manuscript. Example: "Well, that was 10K words. I've passed into the Idonwannasphere, and I'm still going."

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

In light of the (thankfully) successful Artemis launch, the Challenger has once again been a topic of discussion online. So let me take this opportunity to inform/remind you that it was entirely possible an entire generation of American children could have watched Big Bird die on live TV.

I use em-dashes, and semi-colons, and colons, and ellipses... I KNOW HOW TO PUNCTUATE. Eat it, ai.

Reminder that if a fiction market is asking the writer to pay for publication, pay for submission, or pay for reviews, that market is a scam. Money never, ever flows from writer to publisher. Ever.

Terrible sound Like boning a clown I'm on the hunt, I'm after you These lyrics seem wrong I don't know this song And I'm hungry like the wolf...

I assume everyone already knows my stance on this, but as today is what today is... Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary folks are as valid as anyone else.

The dearly departed and still greatly missed Eugie Foster once told me that I "write short stories like a novelist." As I stare at the 3,500-word outline I wrote for what is contractually only a 10,000-word story, I can only remark that Eugie was a smart woman who knew what she was talking about. 😵‍💫

Welp, someone stole a newly delivered box of Fred's prescription cat food off our welcome mat yesterday. So that's fun.