How am I supposed to accomplish my ambitious goals for the day when it's raining and I have this perfectly good porch from which to watch said rain?

can't help but think how even a scrap of a fragment of a fraction of the money being shovelled into genai deceit engines would be enough to keep FIYAH running for several thousand years at least

In case you need someone to give you either permission or a sign: Go write the weird thing.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live: The Meat Puppets Parliament-Funkadelic Lords of Acid That 1 Guy Flogging Molly Willie Nelson Jimmy Buffett Todd Snider Peter Frampton CAKE

Today is a great day to check out a scifi book that has: ⭐queer characters over 40 ⭐enemies to lovers ⭐a disabled MC ⭐a mystery on a stranded spaceship ⭐grief, loss, love, and second chances ⭐people telling me they stayed up all night reading it books2read.com/u/mdBDo5

The actual linked article is quite worth a read.

I feel this. I decided a few years ago that if anyone had the audacity to look sneeringly in my direction at a hotel breakfast bar, I would respond with "what are you doing in my house?" Like an escaped dementia patient thinking I'm somewhere else.

Some recent #astrophotography

Other contacts in my phone: La Chupacabra Dirty Earl Fat Kitty Savannah Frandemonium 🐻 🫎 Pretzel Pal Tequila Bestie Wu Wes

writing characters be like: [writer]: you're my baby [writer]: i love you [writer]: i will spend hours writing you [writer]: *adds a torture scene* [writer]: *adds break up scene* [writer]: *adds background angst* [writer]: *adds family drama* [writer]: i love you [writer]: *adds more pain*

Princess Bride, Office Space, Dr Strangelove

You asked, and I answered, because I am, if nothing else, a woman of the people. Warren Zevon prints are now available for pre-order in the shop, in an itty bitty run of 15! www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products...

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Let’s all go to the library this weekend

Last reskeet: complete fucking tangent and irrelevant in this rising tide of doom, but the snippet of text in that screenshot is a fundamental detail that Brian Herbert and KJA either missed or ignored and their prequels are terrible not solely because of it but it is a big factor.

JFC.

AI will never be able to roll its eyes like I just did.

I stayed up all damn night and *did* get to see it, but clouds made this video pretty crap.

Not remotely any kind of expert, but all I can think is GIGO. Your AI is insufficiently reluctant to unleash nuclear armageddon? Only one way that happens.

"The notion of making a living with A.I.-generated books appears to be based on the belief algorithms will be serving up book slop the same way we are force-fed other kinds of slop" I'm still not over losing my job as a book reviewer. Here's why we need book critics: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Ongoing sale through Saturday. 4 books for $14 (or individually as low as 99 cents)

The sale started today. Just saying

My birthday is Tuesday, so I'm having a Birthday E-Book Sale: modayode.com/2026/02/06/b...

Ugh.

Spending the rest of my life chasing this high.

Annoyed but also somewhat amused to find my novel Serotonin Overload, in which a corporate trained AI can only imagine success in capitalist terms and thinks of humans as "inventory," and in which GIGO is a *major* theme, has apparently been stolen for the training of AI. Hilarious.

This absolutely fascinates my language nerd. When we say "isn't he," i.e. "is he not?" to answer in the affirmative is an agreement that he is ... so yes, this headline breaks Betteridges. BUT the literal meaning of the construction "is he not?"

Today's office.

Possibly the best text I've ever gotten

Big fan of this

Marvelous. www.livescience.com/technology/a...

Just what we need. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is delightful. 3 posts to get the whole tale.

I drive an electric, so I don't really go in gas stations. But today I discovered the corner gas station sells 99 cent beer and that's all right.

Colonel Greenbeans is a work colleague, not like some random bar rat I met drunk. We have fucking meetings.

You think you're a responsible adult and all and then you realize your phone has contacts named "Colonel Greenbeans"

I don't even know where to start trying to explain what's been happening in my life since I last posted regularly. And I'm likely not coming back yet. IRL be fucked up right now.

I may give up on everything, drink a shit ton of white russians, and just write Big Lebowski fan fiction.

Radio silence to continue. I am alive.

I should return soon. Might just lurk for a bit.

I know I've gone quiet, dealing with some things. Stay well, friends and neighbors.

This is still going over on #Booksprout by the way. I could use the reviews and eyeballs. Standalone #cyberpunk #thriller, free review copies available. Plenty of slots still open!

Meanwhile, clouds rolled in last night and squelched my plan to image the Horsehead nebula, so here's an image from a few nights ago with which I am dissatisfied. #astrophotography

About to start this project for the third time. Maybe I've finally figured out the correct opening structure. #amWriting #spaceopera

You can say "Have a nice day" no problem, but saying "enjoy the next 24 hours" sounds vaguely threatening.

If you enjoyed my "very weird", "on the verge of going out of control" novel about the not-good things that happen when conglomerates run space cities--and murder--I hope you'll consider it for Nebula nominations, closing Friday 🙏✨🌠

Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.

I hope they vet armed guards doing gig work better than they do Uber drivers.