Exodus 8:2 "If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

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My wife will be so excited about what I'm replacing my snoring with

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

If you're in Northwest Philadelphia you may know the Das Good Cafe. The owner's family is raising money for a hard immigration fight to keep him in the country. gofund.me/c7209c02

Vince McMahon: who’s there? show yourself! Hulk Hogan’s ghost: *carrying many chains* IN LIFE I WAS YOUR PARTNER DUDE, THESE ARE THE 24 INCH PYTHONS I FORGED IN LIFE BROTHER

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

After a week away with family, I'm back home in Philly. Glad to see the city has been having a normal one in my absence

we could go further

What I mean when I say I want masculinity without toxicity

Luke: Master Yoda, is the dark side more powerful? Yoda: No, not more powerful. Faster, yes. Stronger, yes. Resurrect the dead and time travel, it can. All jedis defeated it has. Kicked my ass it did. Live alone in hiding on swamp planet, I do. [Yoda stares in distance, lost in thought]

woke up with this in my head and now it's your problem

A jawn for the Johns.

I cut this down from a 15 minute encounter with Elsie, but I think you should see the whole thing. Especially if you are a skeptic about Augmentive Interspecies Communication, aka pets talking with buttons. youtu.be/40pumrBqY1c

when an art director gives me a job they are a corey booker

art is so hard but im too stupid to stop

YES. Writing is thinking. Drawing is seeing. If let a machine write or draw for you, you think and see less.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Have there been academics anywhere wishcasting improved versions of the US Constitution? You'd think there would be hypothetical constitutions floating around whose merits we could debate, but I've never heard of any.

please enjoy this photo i took of an Unsettling Lamp. why does it perch so

I'll play. Favorite boss fights.

I want one of these now.

When I hear people describe themselves as content creators.

I would subscribe to a @petridishes.bsky.social Patreon or whatever, but I don't think I can click a Washington Post link again in good conscience.

If you want to write heroes in the year 2025, you have to decide what they stand for, and then stand for it. The mealy-mouthed, offend-no-one approach no longer works. People respond to the Walter Whites bc you can put truth in their mouths. So put truth in the mouths of the good guys.

I rewatched the 2013 Great Gatsby movie last night, and I think Baz Luhrmann should keep adapting classic literature until people learn to respect the enterprise.

Do we do introductions here? I'm Cory, a Philadelphia-based freelance writer and editor. Into fantasy and science fiction. Some of my favorite work has been for video games and tabletop RPGs.