let he who has not thrown a stone from a glass house cast the first stone

i can imagine a yoounger version of myself walking out on the first act of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die when its satire feels extremely shallow so i'm glad i stuck around for it to turn out to be much more interesting than that

if you work for a well-regarded university or other big cultural institution do you have a moral obligation to search for your colleagues in the epstein files

reading all the replies about people who were motivated to succeed to spite professors who failed them &, i'll admit, i just teach writing, but i'd love it if a student who failed my class went on & became an accomplished writer to prove me wrong

the thing is i get why people thought radium was cool. it could make your teeth glow, before it filled your bones with holes. people en masse hated AI immediately & spoke abt its harms right away & none of that stops it from getting shoved into everything

...like i know we can laugh at how whiny and stupid this is but for most of my life i feel like it would've been a career-ending embarrassment to get caught saying shit like "This isn't White enough for me" now it's the expected normal attitude of conservatives

I thought you were gonna say everybody gets a groundhog, but that's cool too.

hey pedophiles: knock it off!

i think this is good & the right way, not least bc of how aware this administration is that "illegal" is just some shit they make up. they're constantly calling refugee communities, people with TPS, etc "illegal" bc they're trying to take away those people's legal right to be here, which they have

we’re right about ai too

you need to get milk before a snowstorm so you can use it to wash out your eyes

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Just making up random fake facts doesn't help the people of Minnesota.

What a story, what a life.

it's weird that it's profitable for media to make people feel like shit. like, i can understand the psychological reasons & all, but it is weird that making people feel horrible all the time is a profitable & successful media strategy. we can acknowledge how that's weird

folks, i did the thing. in 2025 i have written just over 700,000 words. i am sick and i am going to go back to sleep thank you for your time

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

i also hate that this broad pivot to video coincides with AI deepfakes becoming easier & more pervasive there are more reasons than there have ever been to want to limit how many images of your face are publicly available

A warning from the lawyer representing the unjustly fired Oklahoma TA! Beware of GFM scams: her client is NOT crowdfunding at this time.

pretty wild that watsky wrote the lyric "my imagination is crazy as glenn beck" into a song that came out 2 whole years after jon lajoie gave the world, "i don't give a fuck, i'm crazy, like mel gibson/no wait that just makes me sound like a racist"

wikipedia has a whole list of actors who have "voiced" the Kool Aid Man, but the Kool Aid Man hasn't always been animated. he has often been a guy in a costume. who was the guy in the costume

got served a youtube short called "top 3 celebrities who become homeless" & why is that a list. why is that a top __ list. why is it in the present tense, like they become homeless repeatedly. i could perhaps find these answers if i watched the short but that seems gross

“Quentin Tarantino says..” Quentin Tarantino says a lot of things

it's like trying to get birds from a stone

why doesn't my generation get more shit for inventing the word "unironic," the worst-sounding synonym for "genuine"

thinking about what "viewpoint diversity"/"viewpoint discrimination" in the classroom means in relation to this OU story; i mean yeah it's p obviously a targeted attack on a trans TA & we shouldn't lose sight of that, but also, more broadly, CAN you accommodate any 1A-protected viewpoint in a class?

whenever i think something seems like it should be a band name i go on bandcamp & search it to see if someone else has had the same idea. acts i have found this way include: -Gentleman Caller -The Cactuses -Vernacular Manslaughter

gotta love the classic conservative line "bullying people to enforce gender norms is fine & also isn't actually happening." like that's the arc here. it's okay that it happens & also it doesn't happen. does not scan on the most surface level

shoutout to this type of guy for being the reason i've never done any drugs, writing like this is all me: www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=8900

you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking

mfw i just love monogamy so much

have passed 600,000 words for the year 2025 so far. good year, in this one very specific respect. goal is still 700,000 by the end of the year

okay so like this is what i mean when i say you could make a really good case for expropriating the wealth of billionaires just for the sake of the billionaires. like imagine having infinity dollars & doing this. this is obviously bad for him, we can all see it (it's worse for everyone else though)

The way Catholic conservatives are responding to the Pope is actually a great illustration of how religion is far more the excuse of bigotry than its source.

watched Task & thought it was good but the ending wadn't as good as Mare of Easttown. after seeing some praise for the ending of Task i have been negatively polarized to the position that the ending of Task is pretty bad

I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.

just watched Task, the new miniseries Ingelsby made instead of a 2nd season of Mare (sidenote: making a 2nd miniseries w/ similar vibes was a way better call than a direct follow up) & it explicitly references the pandemic, which is interesting

If it came out that a political candidate I had supported was very obviously and credibly a pedophile, I would simply stop supporting them

most fiction since 2020 either ignores covid or just isn't about it, which is fine, but Mare of Easttown is a weird case for explicitly taking place in an alternate universe where covid didn't happen

they told me the lyric was "wrecked up like a douche" i just believed them

notably i've seen people use the words "false accusations" in reference to CK or Ansari, guys who didn't dispute the allegations against them people will pretend an accusation is false when really they don't object to the behavior & don't want to defend that position

“Me Too went too far because [shit that absolutely fucking did not happen]” is a recurring goddamned theme in our culture.

look it's nice that the new vince gilligan show has a protag who you immediately learn is gay, after he made The Least Gay Prestige TV Show

TWO SOCIALIST MAYORS, TWO SOCIALIST MAYORS

KING SORROW is a huge book that features a lot of joe hill cribbing his own notes. i'm okay with that, because they're good notes & i think he's expanding on ideas he's explored before more often than just repeating them, but there are a lot of existing joe hill motifs

Do I understand why Democrats held on for forty days and then caved? I do not. My sense of purpose, my focus on doing things I can do in lanes where I can do them, does not drift. My sense of purpose does not depend on elected Democrats leading; they will follow, erratically and begrudgingly.

"what if everyone on Earth is now happy except for this one lesbian" - Vince Gilligan

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss