Working my way through the backlog of @iwriteok.bsky.social's Behind the Bastards, and finally got to the episode on the autism cure grifters. My ears pricked up when Ariane Zurcher's name came up as a non-bastard. Not surprised, since not a lot of people know the story behind THAT bastard.

My friend works from home for the Singapore branch of a large American company, and they told me they have to go to the Singapore office once a year for *check notes* active shooter drills. Singapore's last active shooting was *check notes* WWII. Because we have *check notes* no guns.

Night theatres are the best.

I don't know why, but today I suddenly remembered my first proofreader as a writer. She spoke in first person, but wrote messages in third person. She was real cool and interesting, and I kinda wished I kept in touch. I might be getting old, reminiscing. Now I need a rocking chair and a porch.

One of the reason Hitler shot himself in that bunker, was because he knew he would be made to pay for his actions. If he was alive today, he'd confidently walk out of that bunker.

I'm constantly thinking of this. You can't have a revolution without flames.

My heart is broken. We can bomb nations but we can’t provide affordable healthcare.

W.T.F.

You now hear from me. It's 2026. Is it gonna be a better year? It's gonna be our responsibility to make that happen.

Okay, I'm done doom scrolling/posting for the year. The next time you hear from me, it'll be 2026! Ciao, 2025!

Whenever I see posts like these, or hear the children play in my neighborhood, I'm always reminded of Palestinian poet Khaled Juma's poem, Oh Rascal Children of Gaza. I we as people can keep that peace for them, for we should all be children once.

If I see more AltNPS defenders saying "out of stock" being a sign of a bad grift, I'm going to lose my shit. Out of stock = SOLD OUT It's the nat 20 of grifts!

Final video of the year. A shallow dive on the morality of gen AI usage. I'm kind of tired of talking about it being good or bad to use gen AI. I've kind of admitted defeat as well, that the tech is mainstream now, whether I like it or not. Which begs the questions, is it morally right to use it?

And many of those plagiarized photos were already plagiarized *by AltNPS.* The one with the Ukraine flags is from Marc Lester at the Anchorage Daily News. AltNPS is officially big enough to have its own sub-grifters, feeding off of their scraps. What an honor.

I can't believe it's only been a month since I finished my AltNPS videos. I don't know why, but time seemed to have stretched out for me these past few weeks. I'll have a new shallow dive video tomorrow. It's not a big story like AltNPS, but I do have some interesting deep dives planned next year.

I have so many writing projects planned next year, there is a 100% chance I will fail to deliver.

That's why I can never get angry at the whole 67 thing.

I love Harley Quinn. She's my absolute favourite DC character. But do you know how rare it is to read a perfect HQ story? Most of them aren't even in main continuity DC. So I am crying (not just because of the ending) thanks to @iamhandaxe.bsky.social. Thanks for giving us a perfected Harley Quinn.

What does it say about me and my fascination (read: obsession) with AltNPS that I jumped when I saw this in my feed? @altwatcher.bsky.social, again, with a very poignant article on the AltNPS grift. We don't live in a vacuum, and our actions can hurt. The larger our platform, the wider our swing.

Thought I should share my thoughts on gen AI "artists" from a little screen I churned out off the top of my head.

I CALLED IT! Live on stream, even! WOO! That feels good. You know, when you've been working in a field of art for as long as I have, you start wondering if your skills are fraud. But then you do a perfect literary analysis and it's like solving a puzzle. Psyched for the new season of #LimbusCompany

I wish to have the strength to be that violent if I ever end up in a similar position.

Happily uninstalled Firefox. Anthony Enzor-DeMeo and all his AI finance bro buddies can eat me. I'm a water bender now. #WaterFox www.waterfox.com

I always complain about media illiteracy in art spaces. Turns out it's soooooo much worse in non-art spaces.

I desperately need my country to stop being human rights garbage.

For anyone who knows the hell that is the job prospects of people who wrestles for a living, as well as the hell of monopoly control WWE has over the entire industry, this is beyond a brave move. Mick Foley might never be hired in that industry again for this, and he did it anyway.

I want everyone, especially @rockstargames.com to know, I *will* be playing GTA 6. I *will not* be buying it.

Indie games, indie games, I freaking love indie games.

Looking for Wikipedia editors to interview about their experience and the process of curating Wikipedia articles. If anyone of my followers (or anyone generally), are one, do feel free to reach out before I start cold DMing randos.

Oh god, I was kidding about vibe reading, but it's real, and it's a nightmare. ocpathink.org/post/analysi...

Here I am, continuing to be baffled by the death of literacy. Do people read via vibes or something?

Seriously, are they really going to go full QAnon and prep for fights? Because this seems like what it's for.

You either live together, or die together. Anything in-between is just called murder.

There's a joke I desperately want to make about Knives Out: Wake Up Deadman, but I can't cause it's too spoilery. I need more people to watch it so I can feel safe posting it.

The shirt in question.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is good. Really ridiculously good! I'm actually pissed off at how badly Netflix fumbled the marketing on this. Because it's a smart movie. It's beautifully shot. Perfect symbolism all around. It's just good. Watch it, if you can.

A reminder, there are no good billionaires.

I try not to think about it too much, but every now and then, my brain reminds me that the price of my country's public housing is scaled to the private market, and then sold to the private market as public housing. Don't think too much about it. You will get a stroke.

I try not to engage in socio-economic politics with most Reddit Singaporeans. Spend 5 minutes talking with them about it and I'm losing so much braincells.

Prepping for next year's first deep dive video. Am torn between weird orca sound healing man, the nightmare of the indie publishing industry, or revisiting the existential horror of Singapore's death penalty.

I keep getting spam from people being like "I CAN HELPS YOU MAKE SEO #1 ON GOOOGLE!" Me: *Googles my name*

There's a subReddit that got recommended to me about OLED gaming, and let me tell you, I lost a few braincells reading that.

Sometimes I need to remind people that my country is really fucked up too.

My loot from Comic Con SG. A potion bottle dice by @witherandbloom_my, green yuri stickers by @yolk_yart3, and a bunch of enamel pins by @d.atlastudio. Support indie artists, ya'll! All @ are Instagram handles.

I found only one #LimbusCompany cosplayer at SG Comic Con. I'm so disappointed in the Limbus fandom. If the whole bus is not there next year, I will come as a distortion.

There are no visible cosplayers on the train to SG Comic Con. A bad omen.

Going to SG Comic Con. With *shudders* other people. Send help.

Getting back into the writing groove after a break is always difficult, but at least I'm making progress on my script.

Okay, this AltNPS post is legitimately mindbogglingly stupid. First, "has since climbed"... since when? Since WHEN? There's no date?!?! And over seven times a day? That's not how averages works! The orange idiot will have to say Biden's name 300 times in a single day for the average to go up!

I think my next video will be about generative AI again. There's an idea that's been cooking in my head about how to tackle that subject that I haven't seen yet, and I want to give it a wack.