Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

Someone said the closest show The Pitt resembles is older Star Trek and as someone who was not interested in another Doctor Show, but ended up getting into it because my husband had it on all the time. Yes. A diverse group of people from all walks of life working together despite those differences?🔥

At that weird intersection of diet culture and recession where my algorithm is like “The best breakfast? A bowl of clear broth.”

Made it to Friday but at what cost

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

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the reporter laughing is the icing on top

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. kristi noem is doing a live speech right now and doesn't know she was fired. 🚨

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

I saw a Tumblr post that was like “Instead of declaring my day will be bad because I slept like shit, I now say that I am open to it improving as it goes on” and it has changed my general daily outlook

online MAGA men are falling for the AI creation "Jessica Foster," who is a combination US Army adviser to Trump and foot fetish model. The character already has nearly a million Instagram followers.

It's so nice to read a book written 25 years ago featuring a truly flawed and reprehensible protagonist knowing the author never had to come online and spoon feed the story to readers incapable of not treating fiction like a book of manners

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

i keep seeing writers who want both: * to be bold iconoclasts going against the pretenses and trends of the day and * to have a perfect 5.0 review score on goodreads and like, I'm sorry. those things don't go together.

🎵 All the things I hate, all the things I hate, clearing off my plate, clearing off my plate, all the things I hate 🎵

I didn’t sleep enough, so today I’m doing all of the admin tasks I hate

"I'll definitely remember that book's title," I said in January, closing the tab. "I don't need to write it down anywhere."

Apparently, Silent Book Club is a real thing, and they have been the victim of so many scammers they have a dedicated page for it: silentbook.club/pages/cautio...

oh! oh! *i* can think of a type of effeminate gay boy who is regularly and vociferously told he's actually a girl and may even be forced to live as one & go through a female puberty by his parents, teachers, doctors, etc

I may crash and burn at any time. This could be the best thing that's ever happened to me and then I disappear but the lesson here is to keep working. It doesn't matter what people say, or how they try to drag you. Keep working at your art. They can laugh as much as they want. I'm doing the work.

Still looking for my next role - if you know anyone who needs an award winning game designer, narrative designer, or content designer with technical skills and people managing experience who has been at it for 15 years and has made stuff that is taught in schools, hit me up at [email protected]

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides. NOT A JOKE

Everyone in publishing is getting inundated with AI spam every day, it’s like getting sand thrown in your eyes before you even have breakfast

Ooooh shit? My amazing story, LATEST WORK? What an honor!!!

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

It is women in horror month. I am one of those and here is my gothic/horror lit collection that people said was pretty good. www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/skin-...

buying stock in MiraLAX

Remember when that group chat of tech guys panicked themselves into a bank run? Feels like that's happening all the time across everything now.

Like I need people to let go of the idea that limits exist for these people. They're already claiming Walz is too German to be a real American. White men from Minnesota are in danger so why would you think that any group is safe?

How about this one

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

This is where I YET AGAIN encourage people, especially creators, to have, develop and actively maintain their own websites where people can find you, away from the social media sites you don't own and/or can't control and/or whose discoverability algorithms are at the whim of billionaire weirdos.

Today I bit into what I thought was a chunk of potato in curry, but what was actually a chunk of pineapple, and for a moment, I thought my tongue had died from the hottest potato ever made

FIRE WALK WITH ME remains one of the saddest movies I've ever seen

Today at church I sat behind a middle schooler I’ve never talked to, who spent the whole service drawing on a notepad. At the end of the hour she stood up, turned around, and showed me the drawing. “This is you as a dog,” she said

Started watching RE9 and: - Leon looks like shit (complimentary) - Villain has Denethor vibes - Amnesia: The Bunker has entered the chat

Boomers lived the best version of the American dream and never let anyone have it again

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

Sitting in the dark reading a novel about war atrocities, there is no downside to this plan, everyone is saying what a good idea this is

chemistry bsky, i need to consult on a very specific, slightly disgusting question about a lithium reaction. who has open dms & a strong stomach for exothermic reactions in extremely biological circumstances?

We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

One of the repercussions of ppl not viewing artists as ‘workers’ + viewing art solely as frivolity is when fascists come for artists (via gen ai and other exploitation), so few people seem to care, including many people who’d otherwise declare themselves progressive and critically engaged on labor.

guy at the grocery store tried to tell me I should get trout instead of salmon because there’s less mercury. Buddy I would love to die

Hilarious how sunshine in February absolutely bodies my existential dread

you wanna use it, go for it dude. not with my tax dollars, not on my computer, not in my conversations

ME: why am I so tired…must be a moral failing… POLLEN: *snickering*

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Just another reason why I don’t charge for my newsletter and I put out maybe four a year