RMJ
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rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER out now. prev: THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN contact: rmccarthyjames at gmail
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RMJ
@rmccarthyjames.bsky.social
· Mar 22
My second book about axe murder will be unleashed upon the world on May 13, 2025! WHACK JOB: A History of Axe Murder chronicles the humble tool in its capacity as a weapon in 13 stories, ranging from prehistory to Vikings to George Washington to now. Preorder here read.macmillan.com/lp/whack-job...
Maybe it will happen this year
January 1, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Maybe it will happen this year
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Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son
Phish's Sloth with Ice Cream Cone
Phish's Sloth with Ice Cream Cone
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son
Phish's Sloth with Ice Cream Cone
Phish's Sloth with Ice Cream Cone
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andy cohen's "am i excited about 2026? [pregnant pause] yeah. i... yeah. i mean, what's the alternative?" is the realest thing i've seen all night
January 1, 2026 at 4:49 AM
andy cohen's "am i excited about 2026? [pregnant pause] yeah. i... yeah. i mean, what's the alternative?" is the realest thing i've seen all night
NYE is one of like three things for which CNN is still relevant
January 1, 2026 at 4:59 AM
NYE is one of like three things for which CNN is still relevant
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🥉 Top 10 of 2025 – No.3
🪓🩸 @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social hacks away at the Lizzie Borden legend — the rhyme, the certainty, and the smug conclusions.
🔥 If you think this case is solved, you’re exactly who needs to listen.
🎧 pod.fo/e/353f3e
#HistoryRage #LizzieBorden
🪓🩸 @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social hacks away at the Lizzie Borden legend — the rhyme, the certainty, and the smug conclusions.
🔥 If you think this case is solved, you’re exactly who needs to listen.
🎧 pod.fo/e/353f3e
#HistoryRage #LizzieBorden
December 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🥉 Top 10 of 2025 – No.3
🪓🩸 @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social hacks away at the Lizzie Borden legend — the rhyme, the certainty, and the smug conclusions.
🔥 If you think this case is solved, you’re exactly who needs to listen.
🎧 pod.fo/e/353f3e
#HistoryRage #LizzieBorden
🪓🩸 @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social hacks away at the Lizzie Borden legend — the rhyme, the certainty, and the smug conclusions.
🔥 If you think this case is solved, you’re exactly who needs to listen.
🎧 pod.fo/e/353f3e
#HistoryRage #LizzieBorden
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Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
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sam altman is just a sales guy with one goal: getting obscenely rich in silicon valley. his big thing previously was an app where you can find your friends on a map and after he sold it it turned out to have 500 users. he's not a stemlord he's just a run of the mill song and dance flim flam man
December 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
sam altman is just a sales guy with one goal: getting obscenely rich in silicon valley. his big thing previously was an app where you can find your friends on a map and after he sold it it turned out to have 500 users. he's not a stemlord he's just a run of the mill song and dance flim flam man
No predictions for 2026. My whole thing is I have no clue what’s about to happen, and I don’t believe anyone who says they do. We’ll see! Some of us will, at least.
December 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
No predictions for 2026. My whole thing is I have no clue what’s about to happen, and I don’t believe anyone who says they do. We’ll see! Some of us will, at least.
Everybody boo this dead guy
December 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Everybody boo this dead guy
I love the categories on Tubi. “Movie Night” “Classic Movies” “Yup, That’s Right…. it’s Movies”
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I love the categories on Tubi. “Movie Night” “Classic Movies” “Yup, That’s Right…. it’s Movies”
it's kind of funny that back in the 90s, a joke about meryl streep was usually about her accent work. that never gets brought up with her anymore
December 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
it's kind of funny that back in the 90s, a joke about meryl streep was usually about her accent work. that never gets brought up with her anymore
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They just want you to be miserable with them.
December 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
They just want you to be miserable with them.
I remember when "girl on girl" fetishism was a big thing in straight culture, and there was a joke i'd hear a lot from men that went something like "hahaha imagine if women lusted after gay men"
December 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I remember when "girl on girl" fetishism was a big thing in straight culture, and there was a joke i'd hear a lot from men that went something like "hahaha imagine if women lusted after gay men"
One thing I really like about Heated Rivalry is that the leads have faces and teeth that look like they belong to them
December 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
One thing I really like about Heated Rivalry is that the leads have faces and teeth that look like they belong to them
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CHATGPT: wow George you’re absolutely right. $8,000 is a lot of money. Mary would be better off without you.
December 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
CHATGPT: wow George you’re absolutely right. $8,000 is a lot of money. Mary would be better off without you.
Jason got me A NEW TYPEWRITER, which sounds like a joke but it’s NOT. Some may call Ms. Royal here obsolete or an oxymoron, but I don’t care! I love her!!! She’s real and she’s all mine. Please enjoy three of the sixty portrait mode photos I took of my new favorite inanimate object.
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Jason got me A NEW TYPEWRITER, which sounds like a joke but it’s NOT. Some may call Ms. Royal here obsolete or an oxymoron, but I don’t care! I love her!!! She’s real and she’s all mine. Please enjoy three of the sixty portrait mode photos I took of my new favorite inanimate object.
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AI: I am world-shaking, paradigm-shifting FUTURE SHIT that’s being shoved into everything because FUCK YEAH THE FUTURE
Also AI: Oopsie doodle don’t listen to me I’m just a smol bean who can’t be trusted to have the right words, sorry you almost drowned
Also AI: Oopsie doodle don’t listen to me I’m just a smol bean who can’t be trusted to have the right words, sorry you almost drowned
December 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
AI: I am world-shaking, paradigm-shifting FUTURE SHIT that’s being shoved into everything because FUCK YEAH THE FUTURE
Also AI: Oopsie doodle don’t listen to me I’m just a smol bean who can’t be trusted to have the right words, sorry you almost drowned
Also AI: Oopsie doodle don’t listen to me I’m just a smol bean who can’t be trusted to have the right words, sorry you almost drowned
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
My husband casually quoted Cheech and Chong at Christmas dinner tonight. It was not controversial because it’s not like they don’t know how often he sees Phish
December 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
My husband casually quoted Cheech and Chong at Christmas dinner tonight. It was not controversial because it’s not like they don’t know how often he sees Phish
this really frustrates me because i don't think people accepted this at all. very few people IRL actually use AI to help with simple fun tasks like touring a museum. those commercials just want you to think that a lot of people are using it to replace basic cognition. resist!
December 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
this really frustrates me because i don't think people accepted this at all. very few people IRL actually use AI to help with simple fun tasks like touring a museum. those commercials just want you to think that a lot of people are using it to replace basic cognition. resist!
I sat next to her at the Edgars in 2018 and this was exactly her 90yo vibe
December 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I sat next to her at the Edgars in 2018 and this was exactly her 90yo vibe
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She worked as a secretary as did Betty Smith. Harper Lee worked as an airline reservations clerk.Tom Pynchon was a technical writer for Boeing. Don DeLillo was a copywriter for Olgivy and Mather. William Gaddis wrote annual reports for huge corporations. Joseph Heller was a Western Union messenger.
December 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
She worked as a secretary as did Betty Smith. Harper Lee worked as an airline reservations clerk.Tom Pynchon was a technical writer for Boeing. Don DeLillo was a copywriter for Olgivy and Mather. William Gaddis wrote annual reports for huge corporations. Joseph Heller was a Western Union messenger.