- indeterminate reasons and never thought about it again. and now you're there, trying to be a person against this hostile space, and the Entity couldn't give two shits about that fact.

definitely Stepford-ian. and definitely resonates with hollow LLM extrusions.

- than, say, a franchise McDonald's.

the fact that such a space exists at all is interesting, because that implies SOME form of deliberation - an acknowledgement that there's a void in which Something must go. and then it starts to feel faintly cosmic horror. an Entity created this space for -

There's a word in the whitespace of this article - at least to my reading? - & that's 'soulless.' But also something of the complex system's emergent behavior. (...forgive disconnect, thought interrupted by baby. where was I.)

but yes. Extruded Culture Product, with a more aggressive un-caring -

gotta say this makes me feel pretty good about getting mine & @devzmiller.bsky.social's ballots in despite a) them being in labor & then baby in NICU for nearly all the voting period b) massive storm c) having to run ballots to the box on day 2? 3? of having baby home

should be totally fine for that long if closed

the sequel, I feel, would smell of grave dirt.

😂

😂 yeah, but I know the temptation 😅

this is how you get kidney stones

ask me how I know >.>

I just feel like an enterprising Tamale Lady could clean up at a State Fair parking lot traffic jam 🤔 or a corn dog runner...

but were there corn dogs

I am looking forward to getting to explain why Blood of Queens' working name was 'squid necromancy' tbh

but like. brains. they do stuff! snick-snick-snick go the connections and PING goes the story engine, however many degrees of separation later.

the thing this brings to mind is how sharp and intelligent Suzanne Collins' actual books are, versus the tidal wave of Generic YA Dystopias which followed...

y'all I'm not @marissalingen.bsky.social I can't fit two 😅

okay but bugge that is exceptionally false

given like
all the bleeding 'n shit

wasn't there corpses

i feel corpses go 'squish' in a not un-noise-y way