Miss Elizabeth App killed my beautiful wife OverDrive and keeps coming around my house claiming to be a perfect replacement and she will not stop reading The Count of Monte Cristo to me in the car

“we have stabilized and optimized every aspect of audio playback” Elizabeth I can’t even pause my audiobook with Apple Carplay now

One more thing about JQ Editions while I’m thinking about it: While I would have gone with different endpapers had I been in charge, I am not finding myself outraged about the art on the least-viewed part of the book. Maybe I’m a bad contemporary trends hater, but whatever

I am seeing some very nice covers on that JQ Editions kickstarter…

On the bright side I’m having a new fun fresh American problem and it’s just scheduling. Sign up for this and tell me about it

I love stories. I had to stop listening to my audiobook to go do my job and I spent hours eagerly awaiting my next chance to find out what a French man with locked-in syndrome was going to put in his will

hmm. i’m too tired for cognitive tests today

It’s so fun how a few years ago I was all “I’ll start with a modest graphics card when I build my PC and upgrade later. I have a ton of old games to play :)” and ever since then the tech companies have not wanted to sell me a new GPU. On the bright side, I know the games I have aren’t slop!

Every day I get closer and closer to making a Threads account

The trade paperback I checked out from the library earlier this week is still in my car because it’s too big for my little bag. AND it’s a new book so I HAVE to read it soon because it has a shorter loan period.

I saw an ad earlier in which someone asked an AI chatbot what to say to a nosy relative’s inevitable questions, and I thought, that’s the sort of thing you brainstorm with your friends about. And they commiserate with you. Talk to them! The world of these AI ads always seems just profoundly lonely.

I think sometimes about AI usage in the workplace and the way some people describe it it sounds like you’re either a) making yourself an underpaid manager of an employee who sucks or b) making yourself your own assistant. Or worse, making someone else do those jobs because you don’t check the output

I have to be honest, trying to write a book using generative AI sounds boring as hell because you have to do all the parts that suck (like editing and managing) but you don’t even get to do the fun part (writing). Why would you offload the fun parts and keep the editing? I don’t WANT to edit.

This isn’t even a hot take because I know people agree with me: trade paperbacks are too big and we NEED mass market paperbacks so we can throw them in a small bag for on-the-go reading

fetch my SMELLING SALTS goodness me what IF we lived in a world where you needed a REFERRAL to see a specialist

Still think it would be really funny if people started calling Phil Berger a yankee carpetbagger since he’s a Republican from New York

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Important update: New plan is to give this up. Doing this during November has always been ridiculous, and for me especially this year. But I did try out Reedsy, so that’s fun! Might continue with it

I will say this: “Library” is not always the answer to book piracy. Sometimes a library will never get a book, whether that’s because of Amazon restrictions on availability or library pickiness or you’re the only patron who wants it. Sometimes the answer is: You don’t get to read this book right now

@thestorygraph.com I still think this is a good idea that cannot POSSIBLY go wrong

Frankenstein (2025)

great news: this hasn’t happened so far. terrible news: i’m behind on my word count

this is still happening

Sometimes I wonder how you people see all these stuff you’re mad about and then I realize you’re not exclusively on the Following page

okay bluesky has got to be one of the dumbest social media platforms. everyone go back to tumblr where borzois get inexplicably flagged as potentially mature. it’s also stupid there but we know they aren’t doing it on purpose.

Hurts to see others living your dream (writing a bad book but other people think it’s good for some reason)

I'm going to get into trouble and do the Reedsy novel sprint this year. I'm extra excited because you can't copy and paste anything so that means if I do get the urge to write in a notebook or whatever I guess I have to just type it all in the middle of the night or something

You might think that you eventually grow up and put away childish things but I tell you I spotted the Backstreet Boy IMMEDIATELY. Twelve-year-old girls are eternal. Anyway now to finish reading the thread

Connections has the stupidest categories ever. Leopold Bloom isn't even a real person

Instead of giving Stranger Things finale a theatrical release, how about just expanding the release of Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN? 🥺

I love going on Tumblr because I can go there and see the most amazing takes. Today they told me that jewelry isn’t art

I wonder if my library knows I’m using Transparent Language…like do they get stats…does line go up…

Donating blood is so cool. Here is some of my juice for you. I can make more for free

Thinking of starting a new free online literary zine (hosted on Tumblr, naturally) called The Epistle to Enoby, where the one strict requirement is that all submissions must be epistolary genre fiction. Horror encouraged, others welcomed. Everything subject to my whimsy and caprice (undescribed)

I just found out that the Apple computer mouse emoji is their hateful bad magic mouse and I believe it is time for us to destroy Apple now

The other problem with Libby, of course, is that it sucks and is bad and they should never have spent months replacing my beautiful wife OverDrive with it for no reason

People were mad about the Libby hold change but no one is mad about the real problem with Libby: hold slots and loan slots should be the same. What’s the point of having all my hold slots taken up and all my loans free if I only want to read the books I have on hold

Everything reminds me of her (CaitVi Kinktober)

sorry bram bluesky said those vampire women didn’t get clear consent from jonathan before trying erotically to eat him :( so it’s illegal :( i wanted to post my dracula fanart here but :( mister bluesky said no :( he probably won’t be happy about what you wrote either tbh

- @wordlandlord.bsky.social: Perhaps a vitamin D deficiency will be their undoing. - Me: Scurvy all the way. - Me: wait, that’s vitamin C. - Me: I’m so dumb. - Maureen: They can get that too.

It used to be you got sent beautiful engraved invitations for protests in the mail. Nowadays you’re expected to RSVP online and half the protesters just show up without even doing that much. Kids these days. SMH.

One of my first reactions to the "RSVP to the protest" thing was: "Lol I would not do that how about if you RSVP to my BUTT." But then I thought..."RSVP to My Butt" sounds like a @chucktingle.bsky.social title about people who are very excited to make intimate plans. And I think that's beautiful.

damn that’s crazy

I’m having some fun responding to the Bluesky community guidelines survey

I don't know that I've ever seen a service I pay for discontinue its free tier, so I view Dashlane's move with suspicion even though I'm not really sure why. Anyway...I'm keeping an eye on all password managers with family plans (I love my family so I paid for the family plan just for them)

what the hell are some of you people even talking about

I dunno, feels relevant to the way some of you people are acting about Roy Cooper on here

Me running for office: I’m not going to drain the swamp because swamps are good. I will however present to you my detailed forest management plan for the swamp. Get your waders on

I need all of you to stop giving in to the swamp metaphors in politics. Stop slandering swamps. Wetlands are important ecosystems. Do not drain them! Swamps are good! Corruption is bad! If you drain a swamp you’re part of the problem! Have some respect for the world around you!

Gorilla Twins is currently 99 pennies