Neurodivergent author/editor of dreampunk: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS (DM me). Software developer, linguist, visual/martial artist, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. ๐
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What exactly is the point of continuing to pretend you are a journalist if you literally just print what this known and obvious liar says? They just murdered 11 people. They've claimed similar threats but never proven them. We're murdering Venezuelan citizens. Write that down.
Would he blow up a boat carrying 11 Russians? Why not? Because he's a cowardly bully or because he's a Russian asset?
Breaking: Trump just murdered 11 people from a country we're not even at war with.
And we're not even at war with Venezuela. So I guess it's just a regular old crime? Trump just murdered 11 people.
A fellow man of culture, I see. ๐ฅ
Kids love a good hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold story.
Thanks! I love to see it someplace besides my own bookshelf.
It arrived! Excited to get to it. (Itโs #3 in the TBR stack).
Trump will do ANYTHING to divert attention away from the 9/3 Press Conference by the victims of Epstein. Like oh having the US military blow up a Venezuelan ship in the Southern Caribbean because Trump claimed there were 11 drug cartel members onboard. TICK TOCK 9/3 is still coming
Ugh, what a boring Epstein distraction. ๐๐๐
The problem is that legal or not, the administration is moving with absolute disregard for the law so most people who appeal will be doing so from the grave.
Haha, cute. Imagine trying to pose cats like this on purpose! I know with mine, at least, that would be hilariously impossible.
Looks like I inadvertently chose the same shade of green for both the walls of my office and this shirt I made for a friend. By the way, I'm really jealous of my friend for getting this shirt. It's definitely one of my favorites I've made so far. He'd better pick it up soon. #tiedyesky #tiedye
Looks fascinating, except ew, Amazon. Wouldn't it be amazing if it were possible to just live a normal life without giving money to evil techbro billionaires who use that money to install fascists like Trump/Vance to terrorize and kill us while stealing even more money? A guy can dream. ๐ฅฒ
Looks fascinating, except ew, Amazon. Wouldn't it be amazing if it were possible to just live a normal life without giving money to evil techbro billionaires who use that money to install fascists like Trump/Vance to terrorize and kill us while stealing even more money? A guy can dream. ๐ฅฒ
What the hell is this? A People magazine article that's just summarizing a Reddit thread that reads like an Onion article? I wouldn't have seen this at all if Google hadn't distracted me with clickbait as I tried to search. Are we completely cooked? people.com/woman-livid-...
JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
New album just dropped. #cats #catsky #catsOfBluesky
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Never forget the peak hypocrisy of "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk flagging "cisgender" as a slur on Xitter. The reasoning is that cisgender people are just "normal" and shouldn't have a label. I'm sure he'd also like to do away with terms like "heterosexual," "white," and "male." ๐๐ฆซ and ๐๐.
He's confusing mitochondria with midichlorians. And reality with fantasy. His brain was literally eaten by a worm. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
True, but this isn't X. We can say "cisgender" here.
How I feel taking about obscure dreampunk/vaporwave artists and being surprised nobody has heard of them:
That's how I feel about dreampunk authors like Kristin "Boop Squig" Jacques and Jeff "the Worm" Noon. They're both in Somniscope: www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Yet another example of how generative AI sucks. I look up "conroe trash pickup labor day" on Google to get some simple information, and the first thing I see is a lot of really confident gobbledygook. AI says to put the trash out on Tuesday, but the city says Thursday. Who should I trust?
Jeff Jackson: #FEMA #NC
This just captured my attention and kept me in a trance for a few minutes. Thanks. ๐
Reading this relaxed me, so thanks for that.
I should have said that my dad passed over a year ago. Thanks for your sympathy, but looking at this now, I'm seeing that it reads like this just happened. I'm fine! Thank you. ๐
Right?! If they tried this with anyone else, I'd be like yeesh, but Carol Kane? I want to see this relationship play out! And if they break up in the very next episode, I want her to stick around and cause trouble for the gang. Anything at all, just keep her in the show!
The Golden Bachelor episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was hilarious and surprisingly touching. I always love Carol Kane, so I'm excited to see her in the show! Then that in memoriam hit for Lynne Marie Stewart, and it had me bawling! What a tribute. Just memories. โค๏ธ #iasip #AlwaysSunny
Idk, exfiltrating cancer research outside the reach of the U.S. while the U.S. is actively defunding and destroying cancer research seems like an ethical obligation.
But if medical research isn't driven by profit motive, then how are we going to develop our expensive proprietary therapies available only to the rich? ๐ฏ I'm kidding, of course. If a medical development is only for the rich, then we don't deserve it.
Nice quote, but Newsom's always been like this. He's not a good guy, just infinitely better than Trump.
Goodbye, Joni Ernst! This little Simpsons meme is the last bit of attention I'll give you.
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For any literary agents or publishers out there who may be reading... I had a small press lined up for my latest upmarket fantasy novel THE LASTING LANDS, but they wanted to use AI for the cover art, so I bailed. I'm actively querying right now. #booksky #amQuerying #books #sf #sff #sffh #speclit
The views I'm expressing here sound like socialism or even communism, right? Could be, but these are such quintessentially ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ideas that they're in the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence! Love it or leave it, bud. ๐บ๐ธ www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
"But public education is terrible! And if we get public healthcare, that'll be terrible too!" The important point to make here is that rich people should have the ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ access to education and healthcare as poor people. If that happens, it'll be good because the rich will make sure of it.
That's nice of you to say, and I agree with you in that all human beings deserve decent healthcare, but my dad was a right-winger, so this whole mess is partly on him. I don't see how somebody could be in debt their whole life with a disabled kid and still be conservative, but you know, it's a cult.
I'm not even getting into what the "pursuit of happiness" means here, but our Founding Fathers thought it was an absolutely foundational human right. I'm pretty sure education is important in the pursuit of happiness. In any case, if you want your society to function well, education is essential.
"Free healthcare isn't a human right! Nothing is free! Who's going to pay the doctors?" Every human being has an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Self-evident right? Freedom isn't free, sure, but the military is ๐ค๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ข๐น๐ฆ๐ด!!! Healthcare should be the same.
Just a side note: This ER visit left my dad with massive medical debt that he was never going to pay off in his lifetime. Our whole economic system gets obfuscated by technical terms, but it's simple: If you think free healthcare is not a human right, then you think poor people deserve to die. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I just realized I hadn't shared this publicly, so here goes... My dad (66) had a heart attack, got a couple of stents put in, and was sent home within a day. He died a few days later. The for-profit US healthcare system kills people regularly, predictably, and by design. #FreeLuigi ๐
I don't truck with fiction that sees technology as inherently good, like all we have to do is develop it and it'll somehow save us from ourselves. Not that technology can't be ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ for good. But as long as we incentivize greed and competition over cooperation, our tech will keep working against us.
I feel like Asimov saw tech as basically good and well-designed but with the potential for cracks to form. Philip K. Dick saw tech as a scummy means of extracting value from unwitting consumers helpless to resist its charms. The stupid reality is much closer to PKD's vision, I'd say. ๐๐ค
I feel like Asimov saw tech as basically good and well-designed but with the potential for cracks to form. Philip K. Dick saw tech as a scummy means of extracting value from unwitting consumers helpless to resist its charms. The stupid reality is much closer to PKD's vision, I'd say. ๐๐ค
I do wonder about this. You might argue that you know your waking life is real because you ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต change things in your environment through sheer will, but remember that in a dream, you're fractured into every character. So maybe if enough people go lucid? This is what #dreampunk fiction is about. ๐
If you're a Trump fan, you'll love this because you're a petty, hateful little shit. His base that's still with him after ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ are just irredeemable, the lowest of the low.
Mind-bending reality games were PKD's whole thing, but for the feeling of being on drugs, a few come to mind: Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Eye in the Sky, Flow My Tears, Three Stigmata... Here's a list I put together of his best SF novels in chronological order: cliffjones.substack.com/p/pkd-mega-n...
๐ช = hard-cake. I'm rather proud of this coinage. I was imitating Moe Szyslak calling a garage a "car-hole." #TheSimpsons
Such an enlightening video! A quick rundown of the US economic system over the past 200 years. It hasn't actually been capitalist the whole time, and each time it faceplants, it has to get propped back up through socialist and communist practices. These are the facts! youtu.be/gqtrNXdlraM?...
I got married at the age of 21, and I'm 42 now. In a lot of ways, dating seems easier now than was back at the turn of the century, but here's the thing: I've been trying to find a ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ I can hang out with and get along with reasonably well for ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด. That's hard enough! My sympathies, daters.
Obviously, there's L. Ron Hubbard. That's the big one that other SF writers have been looking at either with horror/disgust or admiration/envy ever since. Philip K. Dick's story "The Turning Wheel" features a character named "Elron Hu" in clear parody of Hubbard.
I mean, who doesn't love Satoshi Kon's work? Mining it without giving credit is pretty cringe though.
I hear that. Thanks again!
Oof, this looks really bad for Roblox. ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ง. youtu.be/UWyH1tbtL30?...
And yeah, thatโs one hell of a blurb. Has me intrigued.
Yeah, I get a decent little royalty. Thanks for checking it out! The money I make off my books (so far) is pretty negligible because there aren't many people actually reading them. So my first priority is to change that part, even if I have to give them away.
I grew up going to various small-town protestant churches only, many of them "non-denominational," so there was never much in the way of organizational rules or structure. Fertile ground for cults to develop! I married into a Mexican family. I've been to Catholic church for funerals, but that's it.
What amazing synchronicity! I have to check out Curve now. Which album should I start with? And about Vurt, you should check out Jeff Noon's story in Somniscope (2024): www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... I also interviewed him about #dreampunk, and he gave me an awesome blurb for my book Dreck.
You'd only be competing with other writers who paid that much to enter, so... other losers.
Remember Columbo? He's back! In satire form. youtu.be/jVBkfSFh1kY?... #EpsteinFiles #TrumpsteinFiles #EpsteinTrumpFiles #TrumpIsAPedo #TrumpIsARapist #TrumpIsGuilty #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #comedy #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Very interesting, I hadn't thought of that. That goes for protestants too, doesn't it? I was baptized myself.
Diana Wynne Jones was the reason I had to look up "palimpsest" many years ago.
Yeah, waking life is much harder to control, but rest assured, it will end.
It doesn't make it more real just because you know you're dreaming. All it does is maybe give you more control over the dream. Or if you still can't control it, at least you know it's not real and will end at some point. Good lesson for life, I'd say. Keep calm and remember you'll die eventually.
It doesn't make it more real just because you know you're dreaming. All it does is maybe give you more control over the dream. Or if you still can't control it, at least you know it's not real and will end at some point. Good lesson for life, I'd say. Keep calm and remember you'll die eventually.
I'm curious, who among my followers has witnessed an exorcism firsthand? I think there's a lot more ceremony with Catholics, but I grew up in rural Texas, and we went to several churches where random members of the congregation "laid hands" on my autistic brother trying to cast out his demons. ๐ฅฒ
Yes! I love short stories and novellas. Both writing and reading them. And if you think about it, adapting a shorter work into a movie has got to be a much easier task. There's a reason movie scripts aren't novel-length.
I stayed up way too late last night making this #folkpunk Simpsons meme for some reason.
Shorter Pritzker: "I hate Illinois Nazis"
This is a pretty strong "gotcha" to out any Trump supporter as a racist (yes, even the non-white ones). But they're not intellectually honest, even with themselves, so they probably wouldn't admit you're right. If they still won't admit Trump's a bigoted fascist pedophile, they won't admit much.
Wokester: Why does Trump keep firing BIPOCs? MAGAt: They're all DEI hires who got the job because of their race. Wokester: Going by the population numbers, white men are vastly overrepresented. Why do you think they're so much more qualified? MAGAt: Oh, you know... [SOMETHING INCREDIBLY RACIST]
Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984. The question isnโt will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.
Yep! This.
Awesome, so by September 5th, Putin will have ended his invasion or else Trump is going to blast him back to the Soviet era. Mark your calendars!
What a petty, spiteful dictator we have right now. "ICE" abducted him again since Trump wants to send him to Uganda. It's painfully obvious that Trump just doesn't want this guy doing interviews talking about CECOT and his unconscionable mistreatment. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Their gatekeeping is weird though. I first read about dreampunk as a literary genre there a decade ago, before I started identifying my own writing that way. There was a modest little section on this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpu... Since then, it's been removed and added back many times. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Say what you will about weird gatekeeping on Wikipedia and those annoying funding messages, but honestly, thank God for their disambiguation pages. As an example of what I mean, I just looked up "veil of Maya," and it was all some metal band except for Wikipedia. ๐ชท en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of...
She's been making too many speeches for free in random mall stores and such, trying to "trigger the libs."
She's been making too many speeches for free in random mall stores and such, trying to "trigger the libs."
So inner fears break into the outside world? Sounds like my kind of story, approaching #dreampunk territory. ๐
Okay, I'm sure that's what it is, but kind of surprising behavior for the app. I guess it makes sense? I tried to view the post while logged out and still couldn't see it, so it's definitely not me getting blocked specifically like I was thinking. That would be insanely petty. ๐
I saw the original post a few minutes ago, but now it shows only "Blocked," so it would seem that this person is actively blocking anyone who leave a like on your quote post. They know what they're doing is wrong and don't want any pushback.
So... this video is AI-generated, right?
Remember when Pam Bondi awkwardly called him "that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein" at the presser? She's not much of an actress. www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less? I've said "Jiminy jillikers!" so many times the words have lost all meaning.
It's pretty lonely here so far, but I set up a sub for #dreampunk fiction: www.reddit.com/r/drmpnk
I'm pretty sure Father Time will take care of that.
At least we saved this one guy by causing a ruckus. Thousands more to go. And millions of immigrants still in danger. And a couple million Palestinians. And nearly 40 million Ukrainians...
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverUp
I'm pretty sure those same J6 folks make up a good chunk of "ICE" now, either officially or unofficially.
Damn! I hadn't relaized their numbers were anything like that. If our military, police, and elected officials would just uphold their oaths instead of following orders, we'd be all right. Something's got to give soon, I'm thinking/hoping.
Because these thugs are going around masked and badgeless, we're not being permitted to see who they actually are. We're told they're ICE officers (often, not always), but they could just as easily be outside forces like the Proud Boys and other paramilitary groups. Which could present a problem.
I think about it when I see Trumpers of color getting harrassed and deported. They seriously didn't see this coming?
Members of ICE would do well to research the Brownshirts and the Night of the Long Knives. You are not safe. You will not be spared. Turn back now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
Governors and AGs! Forget about 2028. Arrest ICE Brownshirts who break your laws! You have the power to protect your citizens now! bsky.app/profile/caju...