Alexander The SoSo
@theleakingpen.bsky.social
He/Him. Author, editor, lover of puns.
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well, something else I can do with the old gumball machine Im refurbishing
OK so this was amazing. I saw this at a library I visited today.
I love this. A gumball machine ... but it is filled with writing prompts. @library.loudoun.gov
Great idea!
#writing #writingcommunity
I love this. A gumball machine ... but it is filled with writing prompts. @library.loudoun.gov
Great idea!
#writing #writingcommunity
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
well, something else I can do with the old gumball machine Im refurbishing
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OK so this was amazing. I saw this at a library I visited today.
I love this. A gumball machine ... but it is filled with writing prompts. @library.loudoun.gov
Great idea!
#writing #writingcommunity
I love this. A gumball machine ... but it is filled with writing prompts. @library.loudoun.gov
Great idea!
#writing #writingcommunity
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
OK so this was amazing. I saw this at a library I visited today.
I love this. A gumball machine ... but it is filled with writing prompts. @library.loudoun.gov
Great idea!
#writing #writingcommunity
I love this. A gumball machine ... but it is filled with writing prompts. @library.loudoun.gov
Great idea!
#writing #writingcommunity
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I'm going to start putting together some free info and resources for indie game devs looking to self-publish. I see a lot of people making simple mistakes, and hear a lot about being overwhelmed by what they need to do.
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm going to start putting together some free info and resources for indie game devs looking to self-publish. I see a lot of people making simple mistakes, and hear a lot about being overwhelmed by what they need to do.
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
wait, when did Bellino get tattoos?
keep seeing pieces about Frankenstein - the new GDT joint, other adaptations, and/or the novel itself - not written by me
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
wait, when did Bellino get tattoos?
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"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
not going to lie, they had me in the first half.
Every single time the "AI has feelings/Treat AI like a person" discussion comes up I turn into the old man yelling about a lamp.
Ikea "Lamp" Commercial - Hi Res
YouTube video by cheedogg
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
not going to lie, they had me in the first half.
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I feel many of you are going to have interesting responses to this picture of Zohran Mamdani and his wife from Election Night.
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I feel many of you are going to have interesting responses to this picture of Zohran Mamdani and his wife from Election Night.
looks like there's also four different settings around potential imposter/pretending to be another person account, and I'm pretty sure that they're going to include the ones that are obviously satire and or joke accounts.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
looks like there's also four different settings around potential imposter/pretending to be another person account, and I'm pretty sure that they're going to include the ones that are obviously satire and or joke accounts.
Every once in a while, someone says something that just rips words out of me. You probably understand
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When the clouds gather in their covens,
when the rain drums its feral rhythm,
when lightning scrawls its sigils on the dark—
the storm calls.
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When the clouds gather in their covens,
when the rain drums its feral rhythm,
when lightning scrawls its sigils on the dark—
the storm calls.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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People who can't handle a protagonist majorly fucking up are weak and will not last the winter
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
People who can't handle a protagonist majorly fucking up are weak and will not last the winter
Better brainwormed than Worm brained web serial? (I joke.)
Also, Bajongulers
Also, Bajongulers
(apologies for quoting a brainwormed web serial)
i mean your tits are downright bangin'
i mean your tits are downright bangin'
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Better brainwormed than Worm brained web serial? (I joke.)
Also, Bajongulers
Also, Bajongulers
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
fuck
what if the S thing we've been drawing for years is just the logo of the company running this simulation
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
fuck
In other words, Mat doesn't know what the legal definition of a monopoly is.
In other words, 72% don't know what a monopoly is.
More than half of developers feel they rely too heavily on Steam to distribute their games, with 72% believing the platform has a monopoly on the PC games market
www.gamesindustry.biz/72-of-devs-b...
www.gamesindustry.biz/72-of-devs-b...
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In other words, Mat doesn't know what the legal definition of a monopoly is.
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If you're interested in reading some of my earlier work, the Selene series, a four-part web serial and the first piece of writing I ever exposed to the world, is now officially complete! Read the entire thing here:
beccawritesbooks.wordpress.com/the-selene-s...
www.scribblehub.com/series/24934...
beccawritesbooks.wordpress.com/the-selene-s...
www.scribblehub.com/series/24934...
beccawritesbooks.wordpress.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you're interested in reading some of my earlier work, the Selene series, a four-part web serial and the first piece of writing I ever exposed to the world, is now officially complete! Read the entire thing here:
beccawritesbooks.wordpress.com/the-selene-s...
www.scribblehub.com/series/24934...
beccawritesbooks.wordpress.com/the-selene-s...
www.scribblehub.com/series/24934...
Need Josh and Coyote action figures to join my pantheon
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Need Josh and Coyote action figures to join my pantheon
in order to be in opposition against the big fascism, apparently you have to allow the little fascism? and who gets to determine what's big versus little fascism?
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
in order to be in opposition against the big fascism, apparently you have to allow the little fascism? and who gets to determine what's big versus little fascism?
as somebody who has had two different jobs in which I go through mail that got Miss delivered to the business I was working for, and some of the things that I have seen and then securely shredded... not surprised in the slightest. already knew that.
Former Navy officer here. You'd be surprised at the amount of highly classified material that regularly moves through the US Postal Service.
October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
as somebody who has had two different jobs in which I go through mail that got Miss delivered to the business I was working for, and some of the things that I have seen and then securely shredded... not surprised in the slightest. already knew that.
head canon, this is what Josh was wearing that last day. @alepresser.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
head canon, this is what Josh was wearing that last day. @alepresser.com
Look, the artist did quite a lot of excellent writing alongside me on our projects, but yeah, wheels, houses, throwing a bearing
Sometimes you wonder why comic book writers get so much credit when they seemingly do so little of the actual work. Then you read a series that's being promoted on the basis that its big-name artist is doing their own writing this time around, and you Understand.
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Look, the artist did quite a lot of excellent writing alongside me on our projects, but yeah, wheels, houses, throwing a bearing
"Badges of honor"
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"Badges of honor"
'Dawn greets me in bed today, its golden blade rising through the curtains to hold me at swordpoint. It’s not the usual way we meet, and I don’t intend to make a habit of it.'
what a line! opening of the newsest chapter of www.royalroad.com/fiction/1087...
awesome fantasy serial
what a line! opening of the newsest chapter of www.royalroad.com/fiction/1087...
awesome fantasy serial
The Drake of Craumont
Ivy Crawford has done her best to put Craumont, and her past, behind her. She’d much rather live life as a Delver, exploring rifts in the world itself, battling monsters with her claws and magic in eq...
www.royalroad.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
'Dawn greets me in bed today, its golden blade rising through the curtains to hold me at swordpoint. It’s not the usual way we meet, and I don’t intend to make a habit of it.'
what a line! opening of the newsest chapter of www.royalroad.com/fiction/1087...
awesome fantasy serial
what a line! opening of the newsest chapter of www.royalroad.com/fiction/1087...
awesome fantasy serial
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Do you feel that, the change in the air?
GUESS WHAT ITS WIDE WITCH WEDNESDAY
GUESS WHAT ITS WIDE WITCH WEDNESDAY
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Do you feel that, the change in the air?
GUESS WHAT ITS WIDE WITCH WEDNESDAY
GUESS WHAT ITS WIDE WITCH WEDNESDAY