We have the greatest friends and family. Thanks to a family member putting themselves out there (more than I'm comfortable with, but grateful for), we have the light bill cutoff covered until my check. Money will still be incredibly tight, still looking for additional work. But I can sleep today.

This one seems to have caused panic, and it’s pretty bleak that a picture of a guy smashing a statue of a dude who died two thousand years ago is more internationally disastrous than hundreds of hours of video of civilians being bombed, burned, machine gunned, sniped, evicted and starved.

Gamers! My friend Jodi Black of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and Legacy Game Tables is in a hospital ICU, on the list for a lung transplant, and she could use your help. gofund.me/85df234bb

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Hell just got a facelift. Rebrand of A CUP OF TEA AT THE MOUTH OF HELL and LIMINAL MONSTER.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I open a document specifically to write terrible in. Make the font something you never use with your real writing. Or even write by hand.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

Manga idea I won't get the chance to do anything with: Backrooms meets Hilbert's infinite hotel. Main character is part of a team that tackles the supernatural problems that are discovered in outer reaches. How and why certain people find their way here is central mystery.

Some of my doctor bills are out of network and don't count against our deductible. Which is just insane. I was unconscious and could not consent to care 'out of network'. Upshot, it would be nice if I could get some book sales. Anything would help. And it would make me feel better. 😁 Link below 👇

Somewhere in his writings Samuel R. Delany talks about living in London in the early 1970s and going upstairs to see who was playing amazing piano and getting to know that person and becoming friends with them and of course it was Tim Curry

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

Hannan's tweet where he links to his creditable Washington Examiner article (about Trump going insane) has received *no* favourable engagement from *any* recognisable name on the British Right. No retweets, no favourable quote tweets. The only recognisable retweets are Bill Kristol and Navratilova.

Yes. Please.

Yup. If you watch the video it's very clear this thing was purpose built to run in a straight line. If they had cracked the human analog robot design, they'd be demonstrating it every day and shouting from the rooftops.

Gonna be riding the high off this compliment from my editor for some time.

Hey all! Looking to come up with $150 in the next day. Anybody need editing done? If you pay ahead, you get a huge discount.

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

Nintendo's red & black nightmare was (and still is) virtually unplayable! WATCH - youtu.be/fG_AeFGc1As

For this #SundayShoutout, I'm shouting out @danifinnwrites.bsky.social! Dani's work is absolutely fantastic and they are always so supportive in the community! My favorite reads from them are Disposable Magic and Woman and Other Creatures (which has the story Sister Thrush - I loved that story!)

If PayPal works better for anyone, my sister can send me money by other methods so we can use her PayPal. 5% discount per $50 upfront, up to 20% off editing services!

If you're looking for names specifically from medieval Europe, this is a good resource tho. Better for western Europe from the high thru late middle ages tho.

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

If you're able to pitch in to help a heavily abused transgender kid out of a literal living nightmare, please consider doing so.

I'm craving another playthrough of Dark Souls 1. Maybe I'll do another No Death run, see how many tries it takes me when I'm rusty? If I have to restart 10+ times, I'll set Altar to free for a week on all platforms.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Note to Democrats: Stop punching left. The left is fighting mad and the words we use are "Fuck ICE" and "IMPEACH" and "SHUT IT ALL DOWN." Maybe you'd get somewhere if you used those words, too.

In other news, I have 5 decks left to gold stake in Balatro. And I've already gotten the crappy ones out of the way.

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Thank you to the person who put $20 in. We are down to $150 thanks to you! We have almost exactly 48 hours to make it up. I know I've asked for help a lot over the last year. I am so grateful to all of you who have given me work or donated or even shared my posts around.

I'm really mad because now I want this. We deserve this. For morale.

A cryptid-hunting YouTube darling follows a video of his presumed-dead mom to an isolated island that was once a gay conversion camp & may house the monsters he swears aren't real AVAILABLE NOW!: books2read.com/u/boB9YL steve-westenra.itch.io Queer TWIN PEAKS x Grady Hendrix #PosterPit #A #H

We're about down to $150 on the cutoff amount for the light bill. Anyone who can help us cover it will get outstanding deals on editing, proofreading, or critique.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

The Department of Energy canceled 321 grants worth $7.5 billion last October. Every single one was in a state that voted against the President. Not a single project in a red state was touched. This week, I asked Energy Secretary Wright a simple question: why?

Here's the link to help pay directly. Ignore the total amount. We are down to 171 for the cutoff. sna.pn/0bFpaL

If you have anything to spare, we need help covering the light bill. Only a couple days left. Cashapp and apple pay work best, but we also have Zelle. I'll post them all below.

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

This!

I want to thank MIT for inviting me to be a guest speaker at Beyond the Cradle: Envisioning a New Space Age 2026. It was lovely sharing the stage with Ken Liu, and there were so. many. astronauts.

This is truly what it comes down to. Corporations know they can do whatever they want and there is no simple, easy solution for everyone bc the economy is fucked and we have to go where increasingly broke readers are. The best thing for the publishing ecosystem is options; sadly, the options suck.

Because I may as well piss someone off today, I've come up with an infallible and derogatory analogy for GenAI. If you use AI to 'create' any form of art, you are essentially cuckolding yourself out of the process of creating art. You are an artcuck. Congratulations. You artcuck. (I'm doomed)

About $300 short with only a couple days left to go. Anyone who helps out will receive a fantastic deal on editing services! Up to 20% off!

A.I. art will never happen

Just holing up here with my shelves full of real books written over the past century muttering something resentfully about pre-war scotch

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.