If ICE shot a member of your family to death, the first thing they would say was that your family member was a domestic terrorist, and weirdos would be agreeing with them as their first reaction.

Just gonna scream into this Ziploc. Save it for later.

Sometimes when I pray it's just silently thinking "Dear God" followed by screams.

It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.

A gun emerges from corner darkness in quivering hand. "Put it back," it growled, startling the video game director in their bedroom, who, jolted, puts up their hands and shrieks. "What.!.. What do you want!?" "The boob-size slider. Put it back in." A wall calendar says 2013. "Prevent the cascade."

I wrote this game! It's called MILLION DOLLAR SOULMATE! gregstolze.itch.io/million-doll...

(seeing Stephen Miller on TV) Of all the SIMPSONS characters to bring to life, who wishes for Monty Burns?

A friend just had her checking account wiped out by her family's new health insurance premium (which went from $890 a month to $2800). The thing is, she'd cancelled the policy in early December, assuming it would also cancel the autopay. Nope.

Weren’t there some files we all wanted to see last week?

I wish we didn’t always have to heal from something that we didn’t ask for.

In the staff room at lunch, we all commented on how the children were happy with the hard frosts and walking to school in the cold. This seemed to be largely down to a belief it was keeping the Wood Sprite known as Gore Knuckles in hibernation. – Joanna Vickers, diary entry January 6th, 1982

My HOPE is that the bullshitters of the world realize that it’s time to pivot, and to realize it takes one to know one. If you are a bullshitter and have read any amount of LLM generated content, you know what I mean. It reads like bullshit.

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

OK, here's a vijja game pitch, it's HITMAN except you're a fat gay slob murdering the men who make life hell for your mom, sisters, and assorted friends. Also, you fall in love with the Javert-like detective who's going all hellhound on your trail.

I’m late to the UNDER THE SLIVER LAKE discussion, and I’m only 2/3s through but I’m going to guess it was all a psychotic hallucination? Nothing else, to me, explains why a cashless guy with intense perv vibes and LITERAL SKUNK STINK is so attractive to women.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

skill issue

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

Just discovered the subreddit r/accidentalrockwell and it is delightful

How dare this cartoonist steal my life in 120 seconds

This music will cause violence so must be banned! (Never does) These movies are too gory and will cause violence so must be banned! (Never does) These games are too violent and will cause violence so must be banned! (Never does) "AI" chat bots talking people into murder and/or suicide: *crickets*

Photos of bound and blind prisoners are not the flex you think they are. They’re a sign of immense deep weakness on the part of the people taking and sharing those photos, and the society that celebrates it. We are what we do, not what we proclaim.

One of my favorite books, written by one of the most decorated Marines in history. It has one of my favorite quotes: “I spent 33 years & four months in active military service… I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business… I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. “

the main thing to know about the maduro arrest is there are hundreds of thousands of epstein files we still haven’t seen

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

CRITICAL UPDATE: The part where you can get previous stuff for a buck now actually works. Sorry.

I’m looking for horror / dystopian / sci-fi book cover artists! I’m particularly interested in queer, BIPOC, or disabled artists. Feel free to drop recommendations, links, examples and so on. I’m not actively commissioning right now, just researching for the (hopefully near) future! #writing #art

I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Just reminding y'all of my position...

Time to dust this one off again

If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off

Hey Stolze, what'cha doing in that cold cold basement?

I keep seeing content labelled as "for the fifth edition of the world's greatest roleplaying game" and then it's clearly written by somebody with a *very* poor grasp of the Ars Magica rules.

Do you enjoy what someone is creating? SUPPORT THEM!! Join their mailing list. Tell all of your friends. Repost their stuff. Engage with it. Join their patreon. Join their substack. Tip them. Encourage them. Shout your enthusiasm to the heavens. Never shut up about what you love

(this is a less measured thread than I usually try to post, but listen. as I mention CONSTANTLY, I have a temper and zero impulse control, and honest to god I am fucking exhausted of the way folks are acting like these AI companies can't do something evil enough to deserve being shut down)

A Very Reasonable Proposal

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

Hey y’all. Did you resolve to support more human writers this year, untainted by AI madness? ‘Cause I’m making it easy and cheap. gregstolze.com/blog/2026/01...