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I know so many people for whom "only $2,000" would be genuinely life-altering. Maybe not forever, but for long enough.

Just seen that “AI is punk” take and… gosh. Was not aware that “counter-culture” in 2026 meant participating in a trillion dollar industry pushed by the world’s most valuable companies and the world’s most powerful nation.

This guy is just out there doing normal scandals, it’s so refreshing.

Evening

Trade Offer You receive: 2000 bucks and watching a horrible person go to jail I receive: the same???

Until I read this, it did not even occur to me that priests are using ChatGPT to generate homilies, but of course they are, and my long-lapsed-Catholicism is kicking down doors in my skull yelling “HOW DARE THEY?!?”

So much that’s good in this, but clipped out this in particular. Yes, yes, yes: it’s a losers’ ideology, demonstrably, historically so. It’s stupid and pointless and wearying, and, as he says, it ends up eating itself. It’s who it takes with it on the way down the shitter that’s the tragedy.

This...this is brilliant and we must start training the Corvid Liberation Airforce

Oh no. I squirted the border collie with a spray bottle for barking at the cat. My border collie, whose favorite summer game is to attack the hose and sprinklers. It took him a minute but he tracked the shot back to the squirt bottle and now he's STARING. Waiting for it to do it again.

What's interesting is that this is in English and intended for an English-speaking audience, which is to say... Us. All of us out here on Al Gore's internet who speak English as our first language.

I'm on a jury looking at short films and I cannot stress this enough: If you're making a short film, long, elaborate opening credit & title sequences with actors' names, etc. will absolutely kill you on the festival circuit. Skip ahead to where something happens.

Just tried to type the word "bureaucracy" and had to look up the spelling three times in the middle. Why is that word allowed to just walk around out there like...that

Schumer on MS NOW: "Trump is flaunting the law." It's FLOUTING, you spineless, subliterate dingleberry.

ATTENTION #OPENCLAW USERS: If your openclaw emails me for ANY reason, I *will* report you to Gmail for phishing and then block the fuck out of you. You are dead to me. Your shitty agentic AI is not welcome in my inbox. Fuck right off, then fuck off some more.

If any tech people do happen to have the ears of billionaires, I am here with my wallet open saying I would pay EXTRA for devices and software that don't have AI in them. Please take my money.

this is going to be the unexpected best long con to come out of my whistle adventure

I am being lightly hassled by little birds at the airport and I felt sorry for one that was limping and threw it a tiny piece of bread I cannot help but observe that it is not limping now

Cordwainer Smith: as everyone knows, there's nothing hotter than a woman who has both cat ears and a cat tail Junji Ito: nyah! =^____^= Frank Belknap Long: i can think of something hotter Smith: oh? Long: have you ever considered Long: going further?

Cordwainer Smith: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the instrumentality of mankind Smith: it's about a future where mankind must rediscover god's intended imperfection Smith: also there's a cat girl Junji Ito: nyah?????

Less useful than potion of fire immunity.

.............so if you're new, back in the day, the screamy self-promotion fee for a book release was gently smooching one of Shepherd's goats on the forehead. I do not like to smooch livestock. Sorry. It's a me thing. But now there are goats coming to my yard if we make Certain Sales Goals.

"Boss I can't believe you roped me into your marketing schemes" Have you preordered Sidequested yet?? Alas that Beamer and I no longer live close enough to participate but @kbspangler.com is committed to bringing goats to her immaculately landscaped yard if it sells enough! sidequested.com/book/

It’s been 14 years since my last-ever first date. Thanks for making it so I never had to learn about Tinder, @jeremydnichols.bsky.social!

It's so great that this particular fight does not advance any part of the psycho right's agenda and it makes Trump's economic popularity worse and worse, but he keeps doing it because he genuinely does not understand how trade works or what a tariff is, and won't let anyone explain it to him

Also do you know how much lawyers cost?? 🤣 I had publisher in breach for $6k owed and NO LAWYER EVEN WANTED TO TALK TO ME for amounts that small. Reality is that unless you have money to sue them, publishers, like governments, can do whatever they want. I have a publisher in breach right now!

And what still remains miraculous is how routinely they fail... because they *cannot* believe that freedom of thought is a more basic (and divine) state of being than their attempted control of it.

*laughs in Spent A Winter Without Heating Oil*

A genuine, 100% real belief of mine is that the art of theater would be infinitely improved if the entire world stopped producing any Shakespeare plays for at least a year but preferably like 50 years, and replaced everything that would have been Shakespeare with new work by a local playwright

Doing myself & all of us the favor tonight of blocking anyone from outside this country who is "just asking questions" about why we don't all understand the importance of collective action. lol

And y'all look I don't care what a man benches, what I want to know is how many 100lb bales of hay Hegseth's drunk ass can handle at midnight in a blizzard to feed the livestock so they don't freeze.

No idea what you could mean.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 52; Yes, you are a proper writer if you also have a day job. Nearly all writers have day jobs.

Day whatever, I don't know, there's still snow on the ground, it's 13 degrees out and I have been barked awake because Cats Are Doing Things. Time to get up, walk dogs, have tea, give herbivores breakfast, then hit up the hay guys to both buy hay and schedule a delivery.

Since we have a lot of new followers, tonight I thought I'd give folks a chance to read our most infamous series with a "pay what you want" for the first 3 ebooks! Please read these actual bad reviews first so you know what you're getting into! Then pay what your heart wants! payhip.com/b/dxkA

Please listen to Winifred. Authors got taken advantage of! Telling them you wouldn't have been fooled is a wretched replacement for solidarity. Is every writer supposed to commission a private detective to shadow every editor before they sub?

Even when I try to get professional amnesia and set all other things aside, my biggest problem with trying to watch Bridgerton is that I find all Bridgerton men about as interesting and/or attractive as the idea of watching off-beige paint dry. 🤣 Still in S3 and I miss Lord Birdman already.

Nextdoor is great/awful bc I can be really feeling the “We are going to win!!!” energy and I check over there and realize that half my neighbors would prefer that no, they would like us to lose.

And this morning the Shed is an empty stage, where spiders dance the tarantelle…

Another publisher behaving badly. If you’ve been affected by this pls contact Writer Beware (anything shared with us is confidential). [email protected]

New blog entry: More in Sadness than in Anger: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

I get so much copyediting done at airports. I mean, I figure if I'm already miserable, listening to someone watch a TV show w/o headphones, smelling foods I'd rather not, my bag always about to get stolen, the wifi reading my mail, the table here sticky, then . . . why not add some onto that, right?

really posting too close to the sun today by posting about the romance genre when a lot of people who have recently followed me probably don't know I'm a romance author and might be about to explain Bridgerton to me. lolol

The inmates have seized the asylum.

#NewRelease! Egypt, 58 BCE Ptolemy Princess Cleopatra grows up in a palace of wonders, delights & dangers Through peril & politics Cleopatra's fate unfolds, leading her to Egypt's throne The Last Queen $3.99 #Free #KindleUnlimited! #Histfic #Ancient #KU #indieauthor #booksky 💙📚💙📚 a.co/d/clHBipm

The weirdest thing about Cory Doctorow's pissy defense of his LLM use is that he uses it to...spell check his blogs. A thing for which there has been a reliable and ethical technology for 40 years.

New paint: dirigible dwarves. So glad GW is moving away from the clear plastic flying bases because they are a pita to glue. (Gave up on the character as I couldn’t even find the attachment point.)

I've had a hard time dealing with my dad's passing. We had our ups and downs. He taught me how to skin a deer but he disappeared from my life for 7 years.... Our situation ain't special. It happens to a lot of families. But when he died he had my books on his entertainment center And i think

If you're trying to make an authoritarian regime, is it good to take away everyone's treats and piss off the military

I miss The Wheel of Time. Of course it was a hot mess, but there was no other fantasy show out there that showed us a world with default female privilege, and it was a warm, refreshing programming change.

Welp, headed home today... just need to pack, clean up the guest house, shower and change before heading to the airport Let's see what the weather looks like back home Oh Oh no

Always good to see my babies in the wild. This one in Southend-on-Sea

Mike Johnson isn't fit to carry Jesse Jackson's jock. A genuinely small, racist piece of shit. ***** thehill.com/homenews/hou...

.............. I am..... what?

Even if ICE pulls fully out of Minnesota (which they have not), people will still need rent relief for March because so many people were unable to leave their homes in February. I have donated to this effort, please consider joining me. ❤️

Proponents say it would, too. They're just in favor of that happening. If you changed your legal name when you married or for any other reason, can you get your hands on notarized documents that prove it?

Today’s hot #MilanoCortina2026 take: Why the feck does #Ireland not have a curling team? You don’t need mountains. You don’t need snow. You need a small building with icy floors, some brooms, and some ROCKS. 😏 And time to practice indoors. (While it’s raining outside…) 😆

It's FRIDAY and I have FINISHED MY WORK FOR THE DAY. And we have bourbon and Jeni's ice cream in the house.

Anybody looking for me today, try Texas:

Also high blood pressure ask me how I know

"14/10 someone get him a medal." :) www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...

The great thing about the Olympics is we briefly got invested in the women's short track 1500, watched all the rounds through the final, developing opinions on individual racers and their strategies, and now I will never think about that sport again

The book scam emails are getting better. I know this is AI but it feels so exactly like a *real* absolutely massive knob-end emailing me nonsense, so close to a *human* pretentious bullshit extruder wasting my time. Marvellous how we've created Artificial Intolerability.

With these people, if you're a woman, you plainly fall into one of three categories: enabler, chattel, or prey. 😡

Heading north in the band van, through driving rain, via a grease stop at Watford Gap. At 18, this was my wildest dream. At 61 I find myself hankering after a nice sandwich and a hot bath… #RockAndRoll

'Crosses don't work' is propaganda spread by Big Vampire.

buckaroos follow liz she is a true buckaroo

I am back from my going-away dinner and the tree frogs want to know where 'their' spot is in my luggage @gianttourtiere.bsky.social have you been telling them they are COMING HOME WITH ME TO GO FWREEP FWREEP ALL NIGHT LONG IN MY HOUSE

#ShareGoodNewsToo A great example of how, with our new technologies, guarding the planet is cheaper than trashing it.

I should really stop committing futurism. It just depresses me. (free to read) www.patreon.com/posts/mr-rip...

Obviously things have been a little hectic for the past few weeks so I haven't been checking in on all the discord channels as often as I usually do, but I dropped into book chat and found this & am not sure if I should read back for context or just live in baffled wonder.

A fun thing about obsessively listening to @rudetales.bsky.social is that it leads to involuntarily squawking THAT’S BRANSON REESE within 1 second of hearing a cartoon bartender speak a single line of dialogue in an outrageous Italian accent

"Across the nation, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras" || @bcmerchant.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

LET'S TALK VOICE. See you at AWP?

Introduction time. I’m an #author from the UK. I’ve written over twenty traditionally published novels, novellas, and short fiction collections, some of which have won or been shortlisted for awards. I am also Managing Editor of @starsandsabers.bsky.social. I mostly post about #books and #writing

Good morning, Bluesky. Goodbye, New Orleans. Heading back to my other hometown, the one where no one calls me “baby” and if they did, I’d probably punch them.

This lump of addled man is famous because he made people eat bugs for money. He does not, holistically, know ethical shit about constitutional fuck. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/joe...

Doesn’t this look grand. On the front door of Bluemoose Towers. Magic. @thebookseller.com @bookcornerhx.bsky.social

I have made (a very good, I must say) martini to recover from/celebrate the Canadian hockey win over a skilled, gallant Finland. Gold medal game vs US Sunday morning. Basically ALL for Canada at Olympics.

Show me your Uber driver.

This is an exceptional piece that perfectly captures the current bubble.

This week we are chatting with Paranormal Thriller and Horror Author Terry Kerr! #booksky #authors #interview 📚💙📚💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...

Well that's gonna make it harder to conquer Greenland.

ok y'all, the whistle chaos chat has convinced me: I'm gonna print a bunch of the honeycomb storage wall for a small awkwardly sized place next to my printers and see if I can STORE SOME SHIT!!!!

dang the west coast witches coven group text is getting RILED over how good the new lana del rey song is @ceejthemoment.bsky.social @lizkerin.bsky.social

JITTERS comes out the 16th of March! Detective Collymore investigates An Ai Evil Clown game that Weaponises Your Deepest Fears. “You can’t beg emptiness for mercy” New trailer please reshare & Enjoy! youtu.be/6NckBEGTJIk

The three of us, 40 years ago… #Storytime

Wehhhhh going to have to leave this tropical paradise soon (not just yet tho because still need to get ready for airport)

Hm. I listen to a James Bond themes playlist and now Netflix is sending me emails about Quantum of Solace and Goldfinger? Seems suspicious. But: not saying I won’t be watching them, either. I am a pretty easy marketing target. All bullseye, this one.

Good god Okay. Okay. I can do it. Here we go. A memoir by an epstein survivor.

The outside motion sensors seem to be glitching. Do I think of my neighbour's cat? Or an electrical fault? No. It must be poltergeists, vampires, or ninja.

Imagine publishing having even half this much heat for the companies that have admitted to plundering our work. Or any industry bringing it like this to one of the US based genAI companies. IMAGINE. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Just signed up for a shift!

Frybread to go from Tocabe at DEN, goin’—as Waylon says—to El Paso, whoops (though, if I’m being honest, I never really got the joke, there). Anyway, so good to, for the first time in nearly two months, breathe the crisp, thin air of home.

HEART OF GLASS by @jenniferhillier.bsky.social is a powerful searing exploration of friendship and the nature of truth Ive said it b4 and ill say it again Jennifer is one of the most UNDERRATED writers working today Buy it when it comes out you fools!!!

Q: Why did the Belgian confuse her definite and indefinite articles? A: Because she was an twerp

Good morning.

Parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme (pounded with the meat-clobbering hammer), toasted sesame seeds, Yorkshire relish sauce, Henderson's sauce, balsamic vinegar of Modena, red wine vinegar, red wine, olive oil, cracked black pepper, sea salt. This'll sit out in the cottage's "boot room" overnight.

stop, I'm dying, I want one of these

knighty knight 🗡️💤🌌