The surplus value of my labour? In THIS economy??

It's all fun AND games!? Oh, no. No, that sounds like to much excitement for me.

"I just invented a guy and now I am fucking him UP!" - All writers

Why do we only meringue lemon pies? You can meringue anything you want to. I believe in you.

Well. At least all our water and energy are going to good use.

When people say nice things about something I've written I'm always baffled. Not because I don't think it's good, but because like... that was just in my brain. Now it's in your brain?? And you have opinions about it? Seems wrong somehow.

The obsession with realism in our culture is so boring. Give me language I can sink my teeth into.

Roommate used ChatGPT to make up a bread machine recipe. She successfully baked a brick.

I'm looking cute today. I don't wanna take a selfie so I thought I would convey that to you via the medium of text.

I'm not as shocked as everybody else that Trump loved Mamdani. Trump's brain is soup and Mamdani was a nice boy who smiled at him. I don't think there's much else to it.

For never was a story of more glee, Than that of Juliet, and her PhD.

Am I being overconfident for thinking Mamdani has this in the bag? Everyone seems so nervous about it. Are you and I looking at the same polls?

Time to start blasting myself in the face with bright lights and taking vitamin D and going to the gym and stuff, lest I get hit with a case of the Winter Sadness.

Hey Canada you okay? Canada:

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I'm reading All's Well by Mona Awad and I have not been this riveted by a book in a long time.

Never forget how much right-wing psychology revolves around being part of the crowd. Normal. Acceptable. Conformist. They need us to be a weirdo minority, and huge protests like this demonstrate that it's the other way around.

I like how auto-cannibalistic our whole culture has become. Even in our dreams we can't conceive of anything new. Exhuming the dead and making them dance on puppet strings. Very cool, very healthy, definitely a good sign of how things are going.

All cats are French. If they seem to be ignoring you, it's probably because you're not speaking to them in the right language. Try addressing them in French, so they can ignore you in the right language.

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

Is even his cult falling for the Tylenol shit?

Why can't I keep a pair of earrings together? What is my deal, why do I have this slowly growing collection of lonely single earrings pining for their mates? I can't keep putting them all on chains and pretending they're necklaces.

Did we run out of people-actors? We did not!

There a big audience for English language comedy from an American cultural perspective over in Riyadh? Lots of fans there absolutely stoked to see Louis CK?

I'm reading Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber and it's given me the most deranged idea for a short story.

So Mr Beast is like... that guy's a demon. He's a demon, right?

They don't believe in anything. They don't have any consistent values or moral framework, and when we debate them as if they did we only give them cover to keep pretending. It's just racism all the way down.

You see me talkin’ to a crow on the street you just keep on walkin’ buddy this doesn’t fucking concern you

Something I like to do as a writing warm up is I write little chunks of surrealist microfiction. They're like two paragraphs long and I have no idea what to do with them when I'm done so I just text them to my best friend, who dutifully texts back, "haha". She's so patient with me.

It's getting to the point where MAGA women are genuinely unsettling and uncanny to look at. Why are you all identical. Why do you do that to your face. That blonde does not occur in nature.

The fascists crave the endtimes for the same reason they want an all-powerful authoritarian leader: because they're frightened and not very bright, and autonomous adulthood is scary and confusing.

Help there's a monster under my bed.

A cool thing that the AI era has demonstrated is that some people want to be artists and other people want to make art and those two desires are not necessarily the same thing at all.

ventriloquist act

Anybody else just wanna vomit with pure rage, like, all the time? Just me?

I don't prune my tomatoes, which has never caused me problems except that I worry that the other gardeners in my community garden will think that I'm a permissive parent.

This is maybe half my harvest this year. Not bad for a little plot!

The celebration of fall baffles me every year. Do none of you people have seasonal depression?

i would simply not let people who want me dead dictate how i feel and react

The thing about displays of empathy is you are not just having some feelings in the privacy of your own heart. You are performing them in a very particular media environment. You are playing into a specific message about whose lives are worth grieving and what we should do about it.

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

I'd like a lathe. I bet I could lathe all kinds of shit.

What is it with this liberal fantasy that is you're nice enough and fair enough the right will turn around and match your energy. You know they're not gonna do that. C'mon. You have to know that.

I'm not going to pretend to be sad and you can't make me.

He was totally fine with the idea of this happening to you or your family. Just. You know. For context.

You really have to wonder about these people. When they were starry-eyed children, did they dream of filling the world with ugly meaningless slop to game the algorithm into (maybe) making them a buck? There are better ways to make money if that's all you want. Why go into media?

What if I wrote an entire AD episode entirely in verse?

You'd think working as a projectionist would be a cool job full of fun and movies, but actually it is a descent into madness and perpetual darkness where you gradually transform into Gollum.

I know I'm a little late for a labour day post but just for the record, being in a union is incredible. My coworkers and I unionized 10 years ago and it changed my life. If you are thinking about unionizing and you want to know more about the process from someone who has done it, DM me!