Darantei
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I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
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Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.
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Hey sorry, I can't come in for my shift today, there were some omens. Yeah, like signs and portents. What? Of course they were fell, I wouldn't be calling out otherwise.
December 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hey sorry, I can't come in for my shift today, there were some omens. Yeah, like signs and portents. What? Of course they were fell, I wouldn't be calling out otherwise.
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'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The Christian persecution bullshit is so irritating because no one gives a shit who you worship until you start telling other people who they have to worship, too.
Gee, I resent you telling me what I can or cannot do based upon shit I don't believe in. Who'd have seen that coming.
Gee, I resent you telling me what I can or cannot do based upon shit I don't believe in. Who'd have seen that coming.
September 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The Christian persecution bullshit is so irritating because no one gives a shit who you worship until you start telling other people who they have to worship, too.
Gee, I resent you telling me what I can or cannot do based upon shit I don't believe in. Who'd have seen that coming.
Gee, I resent you telling me what I can or cannot do based upon shit I don't believe in. Who'd have seen that coming.
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Authors, one more time:
📣 ANY use of genai will get you onto my "do not read" list.
Cover art, interior art, character pages, extras, bookmarks, ads, marketing material, website, all of it.
Using it AT ALL means you do not respect or understand the damage that genai has done and actively does.
📣 ANY use of genai will get you onto my "do not read" list.
Cover art, interior art, character pages, extras, bookmarks, ads, marketing material, website, all of it.
Using it AT ALL means you do not respect or understand the damage that genai has done and actively does.
September 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Authors, one more time:
📣 ANY use of genai will get you onto my "do not read" list.
Cover art, interior art, character pages, extras, bookmarks, ads, marketing material, website, all of it.
Using it AT ALL means you do not respect or understand the damage that genai has done and actively does.
📣 ANY use of genai will get you onto my "do not read" list.
Cover art, interior art, character pages, extras, bookmarks, ads, marketing material, website, all of it.
Using it AT ALL means you do not respect or understand the damage that genai has done and actively does.
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Magic: The Gathering revives its prose novel line after 5 years, beginning with the wizard university Strixhaven in Omens of Chaos.
@seananmcguire.bsky.social @magic.wizards.com
Read on: www.thepopverse.com/literary-str...
@seananmcguire.bsky.social @magic.wizards.com
Read on: www.thepopverse.com/literary-str...
Magic: The Gathering revives its prose novel line after 5 years, beginning with the wizard university Strixhaven in Omens of Chaos
Wizards of the Coast is expanding the Magic: The Gathering official story into prose fiction.
www.thepopverse.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Magic: The Gathering revives its prose novel line after 5 years, beginning with the wizard university Strixhaven in Omens of Chaos.
@seananmcguire.bsky.social @magic.wizards.com
Read on: www.thepopverse.com/literary-str...
@seananmcguire.bsky.social @magic.wizards.com
Read on: www.thepopverse.com/literary-str...
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The advice on protests isn’t because we expect the protests to do anything illegal.
It is because we expect the cops (writ broadly) to do so.
It is because we expect the cops (writ broadly) to do so.
September 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The advice on protests isn’t because we expect the protests to do anything illegal.
It is because we expect the cops (writ broadly) to do so.
It is because we expect the cops (writ broadly) to do so.
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Oh this explains why people are all up in my rabies thread again.
This is a PSA:
DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT BREASTFEED INJURED BATS. JUST STOP. YOU DON'T WANT RABIES. RABIES IS BAD. WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES BUT NOT THAT ONE SO LEAVE THE BATS ALONE.
This is a PSA:
DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT BREASTFEED INJURED BATS. JUST STOP. YOU DON'T WANT RABIES. RABIES IS BAD. WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES BUT NOT THAT ONE SO LEAVE THE BATS ALONE.
I feel it says something about us here as a group that the thread with the single greatest longevity I’ve ever been involved with was “for the love of god, stop breastfeeding rabies vectors.”
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Oh this explains why people are all up in my rabies thread again.
This is a PSA:
DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT BREASTFEED INJURED BATS. JUST STOP. YOU DON'T WANT RABIES. RABIES IS BAD. WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES BUT NOT THAT ONE SO LEAVE THE BATS ALONE.
This is a PSA:
DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT BREASTFEED INJURED BATS. JUST STOP. YOU DON'T WANT RABIES. RABIES IS BAD. WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES BUT NOT THAT ONE SO LEAVE THE BATS ALONE.
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You know, paper journals are a great place to put all of your thoughts on current events.
September 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
You know, paper journals are a great place to put all of your thoughts on current events.
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Auntie has Necromancy!
September 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Auntie has Necromancy!
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Gearing up for #MCAtlanta. Got my shots at Kroger. No prescription required. No eligibility questions asked. (You still have to fill out the health questionnaire to get vaccinated, but that’s standard procedure.)
September 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Gearing up for #MCAtlanta. Got my shots at Kroger. No prescription required. No eligibility questions asked. (You still have to fill out the health questionnaire to get vaccinated, but that’s standard procedure.)
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!
May 22, 2024 at 4:18 AM
TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!
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I can’t find the lie in this.
August 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I can’t find the lie in this.
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Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.
August 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.
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there are definitely artists who use AI as a tool in their art (it 99% sucks though), but nothing made exclusively from prompting AI is art, hope that helps
August 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
there are definitely artists who use AI as a tool in their art (it 99% sucks though), but nothing made exclusively from prompting AI is art, hope that helps
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I just moderated a panel with Arkady and let me add that you should totally read these, they are very smart and fun.
Was recommended this on a Discord server as possibly being tangent to something I did on #VMC9. Even if not, it’s a fun read so far. Always love a good space opera. @byzantienne.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I just moderated a panel with Arkady and let me add that you should totally read these, they are very smart and fun.
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Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.
August 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.