I absolutely love the fact that both of the UK's duopoly of ruling parties have successively destroyed themselves, making the next election anyone's match. It gives me hope that the era of horse-trading between ghoulish neoliberals and slightly-less-ghoulish neoliberals could possibly end

I probably shouldn't have to say this, and I probably shouldn't say it because people are likely to deliberately misinterpret me, but here goes: conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism is one of the most effective ways to stoke *actual* antisemitism that anyone has ever come up with

I keep seeing ads on facebook for "erotic D&D roleplay" supplements and I just want to beg the people who make and support these to find a romance game. There are so many romance games out there. You don't have to try and bend D&D into a sex game, you could just play a game specifically designed […]

Maybe I'm no good at marketing because anytime I read marketing advice I just think "that sounds incredibly fucking annoying, I wouldn't want to be treated like that as a consumer, there's no way that could be effective" and maybe I just have a much lower tolerance to being advertised to than […]

Future history teachers will end their lecture on the 2020s by saying "and that's the proof that Marx was right"

I'm posting this from Vivaldi, which I am in the process of switching to from Chrome. De-Googling is in process... very slowly, but still...............

I've got a guy in my facebook replies who has somehow convinced himself that cycling is more expensive than driving because the calories you burn cost more than gas. Cyclists of masto, please tell me you're not spending so much more on food that it washes out the saving from not having to pay […]

The puritanical ideology that using drugs is somehow inherently bad has twisted our society into a fucking pretzel. Forget the negative social effects of legal prohibition. There are now people pushing the bizarre fucking moon logic that, because drugs (bad) mimic the neurotransmitters naturally […]

I love the fact that every new disease outbreak has now become an occasion for lunatics who have gone beyond the tame descriptor of "conspiracy theorist" to publicly perform their delulu by loudly denying that diseases exist

Neither is having a fetish an inherently negative quality or one that leads a person to dehumanize their partners and treat them as disposable pleasures.

I've got a new patron-only post up on Patreon! Did you know you can follow me on Patreon for free? Who knows, it might be worth signing up, wink wink nudge nudge! www.patreon.com/posts/may-20... #ScienceFiction #TransWriters

The key flaw in “let people enjoy things” is its acceptance of the idea that enjoyment is spoiled by criticism. If your enjoyment of something is ruined by someone else disliking it, that’s a character defect. You’re being a narcissistic child. Grow the fuck up.

Cis men are so pathetically insecure about not being good at sports that they fantasized about dressing in drag so they would only have to compete with women (who they see as inherently inferior) and then decided they need to make laws to stop imaginary people from enacting their fantasies

It is super fucking funny that a country whose geopolitical dominance is built on their superiority in technical research and innovation is now destroying government funding for science. Like you're just handing the 21st century to China on a silver platter while you fuck around with useless AI

The video game industry demonstrates more starkly than any other medium the way that the incentives of capital twist commercial art into a vicious perversion. Game mechanics have been used to construct factories of addiction and impoverishment, an aesthetic crime so monstrous it will serve as a […]

Democracy is old hat. Pornocracy is where it's at

I keep getting ads on facebook for services promising to use AI to optimize my resume and apply to 500 jobs a day for me. The Arms Race Is On

I'm getting a bit tired of the cottage industry of author service and indie publishing platforms that have sprung up to gull money out of hopefuls like me. Having to do reams of research trying to figure out how to get maximum value for minimum outlay is fucking exhausting, fam. Just got hit […]

I mean I guess the silver lining of a fascist starting an unnecessary and unwinnable war and bombing schoolchildren is that the world is now getting off oil that much faster

"The entire information ecosystem is now based on an effectively infinite number of voices competing for your attention. Also, we removed any limitation or restriction on publishing falsehoods." *twelve seconds pass* "Why is the public in the grip of so many lurid-but-false beliefs???"

my favorite radio station has a radio show where two indigenous djs dig up indigenous music acts from all over to showcase, especially if they are using their traditional languages, and it rules actually.

pundits: these are disaffected people who are protesting at being ignored and could be swayed by focus on the issues that matter to ordinary people every reform voter ever: I love racism

There are only two options for conservatives in government: incompetent buffoons, or competent evil dickheads. The mythical "principled conservative" I keep hearing about doesn't seem to exist

So! Had my first AI interview today, for a remote creative writing tutor position. I cut off halfway through; the thing was creeping me out, basically asking the same question over and over again in different language with obviously no understanding of what I was saying. If this is the future of […]

The Original Sin was not Adam's defiance of God. The Original Sin was God's creation of evil

Writers create fucked-up stuff, because we are deeply fucked-up people. Some readers seem to think this fuck-upedness is communicable, and if they only read un-fucked-up authors, then they, who are also not fucked up, will be able to preserve their pristine psyche. I am here to tell you that the […]

It seems like "Europe and Canada, etc. becoming dependent on American tech companies which do not necessarily have their national interests at heart" is something that could have been predicted. And in fact, China *did* predict it, which is a big part of why they worked so hard to keep the tech […]

So apparently Patreon is becoming a social network. And I'm not 100% sure what I feel about this. On the one hand, it would be nice to get that discoverability working for me, but on the other hand, I feel like we're starting to lose the core mission a bit, no?

New kind of organization just dropped: the kind where trans and nonbinary people get pushed out but all of the cis people have pronouns beside their names

My full catalogue of ebooks is now available as a Patreon collection! Want a taster menu for a Superhuman pledge? $5 gets you all standalone short stories and novelettes, in perpetuity. And while you're there, check out the flash audio collection as well! www.patreon.com/collection/7... #SciFi

me applying for jobs: I don't have this specific experience but trust me bro. I am so teachable. I EAT knowledge. I can learn anything you have no IDEA how competent I would be at this job if you were willing to train me. trust

All y'all who keep complaining that there's no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats so you won't support either should all be voting Vermin Supreme for President. Protest and joke parties exist for a political reason, and a significant enough protest vote has real consequences

Banning minors from using social media is a brilliant idea for increasing computer literacy among the youth

So I today applied for an Assistant Manager position at Hot Topic (literal dream job, lol) and: not only had to upload a resume; not only had to fill out a super-long form with all the same information that was already in my resume; but had to start by talking to a "virtual job assistant" […]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good lemmy instance to join? Bonus points: Canadian and/or Aotearoa NZ, queer, leftist, humanities-focused. Nothing too tech-centric, I just write stories about technology; I don't actually understand it, lol

My hot take of the day is that, while it is true that playing Monopoly without the Free Parking lottery makes it a better game, it does so primarily by making the game shorter, and therefore reducing the amount of time you are required to spend playing Monopoly

"You don't have a mental illness, you're just trying to exist under capitalism" is ableist and neurotypicalist. Stress from capitalism may aggravate my depression, but I really do have depression and medication for it literally saved my life. Please FFS stop trying to erase diversity in the name […]

Subatomic particles have free will. That's why they display indeterminate behaviour: because they are consciously choosing what to do. This is not a joke

AI is the apotheosis of capitalist techno-feudalism: our entire society is being contorted around building the very expensive and destructive infrastructure for a technology that does nothing useful and that nobody wants, and every dark pattern the marketing geniuses can dream up is being used […]

Just realized D2D cut my SmashWords royalties to 40% because my books are too cheap for their liking. Well that's annoying. And I guess I understand the business case, but as a loyal SmashWords author for over a decade it really stings. Well, I was considering looking into books.by anyways […]

Tech Companies in 2000: Hey, check out this neat thing called "the internet"! You can access any information you want in seconds from your home, kind of like a digital Library of Alexandria! Tech Companies in 2010: We've invented a portable computer that fits in your pocket! You can keep it […]

I must admit, when looking up time zone conversions, to a bit of Saskatchewan pride that our province has its very own personal time zone due to our consistent refusal to participate in the ridiculous social-engineering boondoggle known as Daylight Savings Time.

Carney: We're starting a sovereign wealth fund! Us: Awesome! So you're finally going to start putting windfall revenue from high fossil fuel prices into building a sustainable economy that will continue generating returns long after we've got ourselves off oil for good? Carney: No, we're just […]

If I were to write in a satirical political sci-fi novel that in the midst of an unpopular military quagmire, a monumental economic crisis, and a catastrophic collapse of geopolitical soft power, the #1 priority of the authoritarian dictator responsible for all this was building a massive and […]

And "Virtual Realty" is fully drafted, clocking in at just over 2600 words. #amWriting

I'm super bummed. I had to delist all of my ebooks from D2D because the retailers won't carry Creative Commons-licensed material. Which I probably should have predicted. I guess the nuance that I'm selling material I own the copyright to isn't important in the world of big impersonal businesses […]

Very proud to announce the upcoming publication of my flash sci-fi-ish story "Eye of the Beholder" in the special all-Saskatchewan issue of Grain! I'll be reading it for the virtual launch event on June 3rd; register now so you don't miss it! grainmagazine.ca/news/spring-... #SciFi #TransWriters

It is super funny to see all the people who for decades have denigrated the arts and humanities, acted like supreme world-changing geniuses, and told us if we want our children amount to anything they have to learn to code get eaten alive by their own creation

I can't prove it since the post was on an xbird feed which I have since deleted, but I was saying during Orange Mussolini's *first* term that they were going to round up homeless people and put them in concentration camps because nobody cares about homeless people so they could do it with impunity

Hot take into the void: "ultra-processed food" is basically the antivaxx conspiracy theory for people who think they're far too well informed to get hooked into anything like antivaxx.