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· Jan 20
📚 2025 Book Thread 📚
I usually forget to write true reviews on Storygraph these days but I'll update with blurb thoughts here!
I usually forget to write true reviews on Storygraph these days but I'll update with blurb thoughts here!
With my outline done, I'm at about 20 scenes and 15 weeks, if I want to try and write the whole thing (and not post a single/multiple chapters at the drop date rather than the whole fic) - which sounds like a lot, and it is, but it feels really great to have the outline done?!
May 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
With my outline done, I'm at about 20 scenes and 15 weeks, if I want to try and write the whole thing (and not post a single/multiple chapters at the drop date rather than the whole fic) - which sounds like a lot, and it is, but it feels really great to have the outline done?!
our new ikea bookcase came with some excellent crinkly tissue paper packing instead of those slim plastic foam sheets (a great sustainable upgrade tbh) that ALSO doubles as amazing free cat entertainment
May 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
our new ikea bookcase came with some excellent crinkly tissue paper packing instead of those slim plastic foam sheets (a great sustainable upgrade tbh) that ALSO doubles as amazing free cat entertainment
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all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
January 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
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Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this
May 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this
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What a time to have been alive
May 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
What a time to have been alive
🌱 today
- laundry
- water plants
- pick up a little
- Japanese study
- make art
- watch Mamma Mia?
- REST
- laundry
- water plants
- pick up a little
- Japanese study
- make art
- watch Mamma Mia?
- REST
April 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🌱 today
- laundry
- water plants
- pick up a little
- Japanese study
- make art
- watch Mamma Mia?
- REST
- laundry
- water plants
- pick up a little
- Japanese study
- make art
- watch Mamma Mia?
- REST
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Your "dumb little projects" are so important during this harrowing time. Don't forget that. Your creativity has value, for yourself and for the world.
April 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Your "dumb little projects" are so important during this harrowing time. Don't forget that. Your creativity has value, for yourself and for the world.
when you can't tell your spouse or friends a cool fact you learned because it would make a cool DnD premise
a cartoon of spongebob squarepants sitting at a table in a diner .
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob squarepants sitting at a table in a diner .
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
when you can't tell your spouse or friends a cool fact you learned because it would make a cool DnD premise
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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You could blame things like CinemaSins and TVTropes that define film in a plot-centric list-of-components way, but they're the symptom, not the disease: we devalued the humanities and embraced a culture that doesn't value subjective experience, only commodified replicable content.
This probably explains all of the “film buffs“ I’ve encountered who have seen very few actual movies, they just watch clips on YouTube and read the Wikipedia summary
There’s a real link between AI writing and Silicon Valley meal replacement drinks and the entire fuckin swath of maximizing the human experience and it’s that they view pleasure as being unhelpful to life. I don’t want a drink that replaces a meal, I don’t want a book summary, I want to savor things
April 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You could blame things like CinemaSins and TVTropes that define film in a plot-centric list-of-components way, but they're the symptom, not the disease: we devalued the humanities and embraced a culture that doesn't value subjective experience, only commodified replicable content.
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all of the talk of “reshoring (low end) manufacturing” and “bringing back the american worker” is a smokescreen for a plan to impoverish as many americans by forcing as many of them as possible into backbreaking, low wage labor. it’s discipline for an unruly populace.
April 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
all of the talk of “reshoring (low end) manufacturing” and “bringing back the american worker” is a smokescreen for a plan to impoverish as many americans by forcing as many of them as possible into backbreaking, low wage labor. it’s discipline for an unruly populace.
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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thinking about princess mononoke a lot, these days
March 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
thinking about princess mononoke a lot, these days
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i need to get Weirder with my art
March 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
i need to get Weirder with my art
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
well that's all of today's hard work down the drain, I'm gonna go have a cry
March 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
well that's all of today's hard work down the drain, I'm gonna go have a cry
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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
March 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
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There's still time left today to add a comment!
The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours.
OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow.
Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art
OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow.
Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art
Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...
www.federalregister.gov
March 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
There's still time left today to add a comment!
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“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” - FDR, 1938
March 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” - FDR, 1938
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Good trouble. Ask for that from your Member of Congress.
The idea that a political party must do more dramatic things in response to defeat is not new to the social media age. New bio of John Lewis describes his approach to Newt Gingrich et al taking the House in 1994.
Lewis applied Civil Rights era lessons and a willingness to burst norms to hurt Newt.
Lewis applied Civil Rights era lessons and a willingness to burst norms to hurt Newt.
March 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Good trouble. Ask for that from your Member of Congress.