A wild idea came to me in a dream last night: It's called a 'Shirk' and it's a combination skirt and pair of shorts.

Very excited for about 10-20 years from now when all of our politicians are former tiktokers and instagram influencers.

"China's military is so much better at marching than the US because they haven't had to fight in any wars in 80 years" is not the flex you think it is. 🙄

Eight months post-invasion, Canada:

“You know, this might look bad now but it’ll all be worth it in the end.”

I look around at the vast destruction of the city, courtesy of American bombs. “How so?”

“They’re gonna put a resort right here. So many jobs will open up!”

“So many,” I repeat.

In the future what corpo-run mini-state do you want to live in?

- Apple’s Federated Cities (authoritarian-democratic)
- Google’s Googleplex (AI controlled)
- Palantir’s Pain Nexus (feudalist)
- The Berk-Hath Freestate (oligopoly)
- Raytheon’s Freedom Caucus

#news #us #world #apple

When things happen they happen all at once.

The year is 2028. My squad has just finished a firefight in the Royal Ontario Museum. I lean against what was once a blue whale skeleton, torn Canadian flag draped over it.

“Oh shit,” Sarge says.

“What?” I ask, scanning the room for danger.

“My stocks are doing kinda good.”

#canada #tariffs

The year is 2027. I’m in the trenches outside of Ottawa happily munching on the ice cream our sergeant brought by. It is a crisp, clear night. I stargaze as we prepare to defend our position from the yanks.

“You know,” my trench-mate says. “This is actually good for Canada.”

#canada #tariffs

If you’re an indie writer and have to make your own ads, Canva has a pretty easy-to-use video editor you can use. #fantasy #authors #books #indieauthors #booksky

Awesome advanced praise for my book, 'Hull and Fire'!

#books #fantasy #authors

It has become genuinely difficult to do research for obscure topics (like flintlock pistols and how they work) because all the top search results are now AI-generated texts and images.

Back to Wikipedia I go, I guess.

#writing #fictionwriting #AI

True or false: There is nothing writers enjoy writing about more than writing and writers.

#writing #writers #authors #fictionwriting

Thinking about the time in fifth grade when we went to a healthy eating presentation and the lady there told us the previous class had taken all the vegetables and fruits. So she mixed milk and orange juice and served it to us as “smoothies”.

Reading an online article and wondering if it’s repetitive and obtuse because of AI generation or because the author really wanted to make sure they hit all those important SEO keywords.

welcome new Bluesky users. a couple notes:

• tweets are called skeets
• retweets are called floobles
• four floobles can be redeemed for one bluesky token (blukens)
• collect the most blukens to win

good luck!

Hey #authors what’s that one sentence, scene, or dialogue you wrote that you just can’t believe came out of your head?

Week…8? 9…?
However long it takes, @sagaftra stands (and walks!) in solidarity with the writers!
#1U #unionstrong #wgastrong ✊🏼