living in a time of mad kings and literal demonic elites got me like

imploding "rationalist" minds by tossing basic theology textbooks at them

guy who will only read Selected Poems

time to water my wife's hundred plants

keeping all the boys gruntled

"download the Substack App" lol

I bought The Marigold by @afsulli.bsky.social a few years ago and finally read it last week (isn't that how things go?) and it was fantastic. Sentient fungus is scary, sure, but far more frightening is the thought of living in a cheap new build condo.

the weepy beard guy is always there in the shadows, longing to post what he believes is the Perfect Reply, drafts of emails professing the depth of his feelings waiting in the wings for an untrimmed fingernail to hit Send when the spirit takes him.

ever since man first started living indoors, he dreamed of going up onto the roof, to just kind of check out what's going on up there. aviation, the moon landing, ladders––it all stems from that primordial desire

we're calling it Real Estate Horror, folks

time to go home to the list of tasks

we're calling it Real Estate Horror, folks

wrote a little essay last summer about how chatbots ate our books & are writing ppl fanfiction abt themselves reactormag.com/creativity-v...

Instagram ads now at the "Did you piss yourself? These underwear are double layered" era

a writer saying "this is a deeply personal story" very much like a chef telling you "food is so important to my family"

Ivanhoe of the Seven Kingdoms

"The real unlock comes from autonomous agents doing stuff I won't tell you about but it's really important and going to change everything and by everything I mean I'm going to lose my retirement and my parents' retirement."

Laura Palmer facing down the evil leaching through the soil under every suburban home.

in the distance a neighbour blasts Jodeci's "Freek'n You"

LLM zealots post about "producing" the way crypto kids used to post about "building"

Go eat a tub of popcorn and take a huge shit and congratulate yourself on the volume of your product

The Girl with the Full Unabridged Text of Robert Munsch's "Love You Forever" Tattooed on Her Back A novel

getting together with the lads on a Sunday to explore and stack as many troglodytes as possible.

giger snow

The Girl with the Full Unabridged Text of Robert Munsch's "Love You Forever" Tattooed on Her Back A novel

give yourself a quest. I am going to find pimento cheese.

the right way to think about long lists, short lists, awards, grants, residencies, acclaim, etc.

A really important cultural turn is going to be people realizing that “the fan” and “the fandom” of anything is the lowest life form and must not be catered to in any way. Artists or critics or anyone should never once consider what “the fans” think

somehow got worse as the day went on I guess some of them were just waiting for the check to clear.

somehow got worse as the day went on I guess some of them were just waiting for the check to clear.

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"Gigantic asshole tells obvious lie" thank you legacy media outlet for this.

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps. now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

what group chat sent out the directive for all the centrists to start claiming AI is inevitable all over again? you can smell it bubbling.

inventing new guys like "The Shedding Skull" or "The Hurst" or "Morton Unalloyed"

the best guy I know was me yesterday buying two Syrian shawarma wraps so I could have one today (currently toasting wrapped in foil in the oven)

the base of my skull thrums when I see a drone - my hands already crafting the spear, my arms now preparing the throw, my eyes clearly aligned with my objective, all at once. an ancient pulse of annihilation aimed at a real estate agent just trying to get some "fun" photos of a property.

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps. now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

going to start referring to all this no-caffeine, omni-spectrum sobriety, celibacy, 996, workout and diet focus stuff as "mormonism with silicon valley characteristics" because it's more polite than calling it "homeschool mindset"

Bluesky Disease shows up to share a fun fact like it's a bowel movement, correct a non-mistake with the pedant's hammer, and drown your lungs with "fair enough!"

"Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?"

Sauron and Shelob are in love by the way. That’s his wife

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distinctly modern horror of watching the mold / water stains slowly spreading in the back of someone's selfies over a period of months.

explaining the unrest of the Noldor to my nephew over fried chicken

when you die they read your entire search history back to you

THE SHIELD is a documentary series.

guy who tells me he is being gatekept from benching 225

waking up tomorrow and the day after and the day after that

All my boys diminishing and going into the west