Will Kaufman
@specwill.bsky.social
He/him. Author of one story that did okay, and some other stories.
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Will Kaufman
@specwill.bsky.social
· Feb 21
I really miss Adobe Photoshop Mix because it let me realize my genius from my phone
Note to self for future hard bodies... Don't grab the primer instead of the clear gloss, especially if you've already put on the decals. Gonna be a...learning-experience paint job. #tamiya
December 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Note to self for future hard bodies... Don't grab the primer instead of the clear gloss, especially if you've already put on the decals. Gonna be a...learning-experience paint job. #tamiya
Look, I'm sorry, but I will never forgive him for Star Wars. If he wants out of director jail he needs to do at least three movies with a budget of $12 million or less and they all have to be absolute bangers. One more bad "puzzle box" and he goes to the director phantom zone.
Rewatched STAR TREK ‘09. We gotta get JJ out of director jail, man.
December 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Look, I'm sorry, but I will never forgive him for Star Wars. If he wants out of director jail he needs to do at least three movies with a budget of $12 million or less and they all have to be absolute bangers. One more bad "puzzle box" and he goes to the director phantom zone.
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New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: NGC-4388-IMAGER.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Take a look at news_by_date.html
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Take a look at news_by_date.html
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: NGC-4388-IMAGER.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Take a look at news_by_date.html
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Take a look at news_by_date.html
Picked up a book that is a good version of what it's doing, but that's a thing I had a real phase with like a decade ago and I read ten or fifteen excellent books in the same vein. So I just put this one down. Didn't expect this particular way getting older would make reading for pleasure harder.
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Picked up a book that is a good version of what it's doing, but that's a thing I had a real phase with like a decade ago and I read ten or fifteen excellent books in the same vein. So I just put this one down. Didn't expect this particular way getting older would make reading for pleasure harder.
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The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930
#Christmasghoststories
#Christmasghoststories
December 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930
#Christmasghoststories
#Christmasghoststories
I just read that rich people are getting fat injections from human corpses to fill out the bits that Ozempic flattened out too much. I know that's absurd, but hear me out...
December 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I just read that rich people are getting fat injections from human corpses to fill out the bits that Ozempic flattened out too much. I know that's absurd, but hear me out...
One of the joys of RC cars is fixing shit. It must be, because I haven't put a full pack through one in the last year before something breaks. Also, I should paint all my dog bones neon orange so I can find them when they're ejected.
December 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
One of the joys of RC cars is fixing shit. It must be, because I haven't put a full pack through one in the last year before something breaks. Also, I should paint all my dog bones neon orange so I can find them when they're ejected.
If you thought TikTok wasn't already a cesspool of misinformation and targeted influence campaigns, I don't know what to tell you.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If you thought TikTok wasn't already a cesspool of misinformation and targeted influence campaigns, I don't know what to tell you.
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TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
I'm a simple man, I hate AI and I love trans people.
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'm a simple man, I hate AI and I love trans people.
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As the year wraps up and we all prepare for the winter holiday break, please remember the reason for the season, and that there’s still time to send out an offer on a book, perhaps for six figures, in a multiple book deal, with no joint accounting. Bless.
December 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As the year wraps up and we all prepare for the winter holiday break, please remember the reason for the season, and that there’s still time to send out an offer on a book, perhaps for six figures, in a multiple book deal, with no joint accounting. Bless.
Ask me about the time I spent three years at see throwing harpoons at cetaceans after reading Moby-Dick
“Writing (kink) script is disgusting and makes people indulge in (immoral act)” is the same as “video games cause violence” btw
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ask me about the time I spent three years at see throwing harpoons at cetaceans after reading Moby-Dick
My 5-yr-old is getting into music and I wanted him to have his own, so I picked up this sick Sony portable boombox and bought him a box set of his current favorite band, Dio.
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My 5-yr-old is getting into music and I wanted him to have his own, so I picked up this sick Sony portable boombox and bought him a box set of his current favorite band, Dio.
Basically every modern individual complaint can be reframed as, "rent-seeking middlemen are a cancerous byproduct of unregulated capitalism that we need to excise."
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Basically every modern individual complaint can be reframed as, "rent-seeking middlemen are a cancerous byproduct of unregulated capitalism that we need to excise."
Kinda feels like Tarantino just wants headlines for something other than all the shady shit he and Weinstein pulled on Thurman and the stink of collusion with a predator that brings. Y'know, if we're talking about Tarantino.
December 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Kinda feels like Tarantino just wants headlines for something other than all the shady shit he and Weinstein pulled on Thurman and the stink of collusion with a predator that brings. Y'know, if we're talking about Tarantino.
I think a lot about how most of us wanted to work together and do right when COVID happened and instead we were force fed disinformation and hate to turn us against each other because the wealthy couldn't risk our solidarity and their victory in that most vulnerable moment finally broke us
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I think a lot about how most of us wanted to work together and do right when COVID happened and instead we were force fed disinformation and hate to turn us against each other because the wealthy couldn't risk our solidarity and their victory in that most vulnerable moment finally broke us
I think a lot about how most of us wanted to work together and do right when COVID happened and instead we were force fed disinformation and hate to turn us against each other because the wealthy couldn't risk our solidarity and their victory in that most vulnerable moment finally broke us
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I think a lot about how most of us wanted to work together and do right when COVID happened and instead we were force fed disinformation and hate to turn us against each other because the wealthy couldn't risk our solidarity and their victory in that most vulnerable moment finally broke us
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
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I have said a million times that the rebranding of the luddites as "afraid of technology" has been one of capitalism's greatest PR victories.
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I have said a million times that the rebranding of the luddites as "afraid of technology" has been one of capitalism's greatest PR victories.
ADHD is all fun and games until it's time to switch phones and you realize you have 1,586 open tabs.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
ADHD is all fun and games until it's time to switch phones and you realize you have 1,586 open tabs.
The only thing that's newsworthy about lottery winner taxes is the fact that billionaires' wealth is also subsidized by taxpayers so why the fuck aren't they paying their fair share. Otherwise, this is some weird neoliberal distraction bullshit.
Winners can choose between $740 million over 30 years, or a lump sum of $346.1 million before taxes.
Powerball Jackpot Grows To $740 Million—Here’s How Much A Winner Could Owe In Taxes
Winners can choose between $740 million over 30 years, or a lump sum of $346.1 million before taxes.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The only thing that's newsworthy about lottery winner taxes is the fact that billionaires' wealth is also subsidized by taxpayers so why the fuck aren't they paying their fair share. Otherwise, this is some weird neoliberal distraction bullshit.
So...GM makes really shit huge, expensive EVs, and compromises their cheap EVs with decisions like no phone mirroring, then kills their EV program and says they expect EV sales to slow. Full Eric Andre meme shit. finance.yahoo.com/news/general...
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So...GM makes really shit huge, expensive EVs, and compromises their cheap EVs with decisions like no phone mirroring, then kills their EV program and says they expect EV sales to slow. Full Eric Andre meme shit. finance.yahoo.com/news/general...
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The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
The thing I do miss is finding absolutely game-breaking synergies. I know they're still out there, but I swear every action RPG I played in the early 2000s had at least one upgrade interaction that just cracked the game wide open without being glitches or exploits.
No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The thing I do miss is finding absolutely game-breaking synergies. I know they're still out there, but I swear every action RPG I played in the early 2000s had at least one upgrade interaction that just cracked the game wide open without being glitches or exploits.