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DEI is a moral imperative. US, IT/Eng, Science, Atheist, Grandpa, Married, LGBTQ+ and Neuro advocate. All posts are my personal opinions. Starting some writing projects! If you don't like what I post, tell me, I'm here to share and to learn.
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In the UK 75% of the *entire population* have had at least 2 Covid shots, with older people prioritised for earlier doses and boosters. Older people are, unfortunately, more likely to be diagnosed with cancer. So yes, people who’ve received Covid vaccines will develop cancer, but it’s coincidence.
People are going to die because everybody is too busy kissing Trump's ass to notice trouble before it's too fucking late. Lots of people, prolly.
Worth a try. As we all know, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Let’s get this done. We all agree!
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Oh! I get it!
This is your infrequent reminder that the helicopter emoji is a fascist dogwhistle that alludes to Pinochet's favorite method of execution.
Plot twist: the "sex maze" consists of a single female duck.
Renaming the DoD the Department of War is the administrative version of putting angry headlights and a Punisher spare tire cover on your Wrangler.
IDK, I feel like if you have a "turn off basic necessary function for using the device" button you should label it with something other than a washing machine level hieroglyph. And also make it harder to hit by accident. And maybe just not have it as a basic button.
Infuriating few hours on the train last week as my laptop touch pad stopped working. I use an external mouse and keyboard in my office but working indoors today, same problem. Reinstalled mouse drivers three times. So anyway, who knew Acer laptops have a "turn off trackpad" button.
“Farage added: “You know what? It’s a really funny thing in life. But sometimes we all say things that we perhaps shouldn’t quite have said.” You’re coughing, Nigel, are you choking on that hypocrisy?
Hear me out: If you made a pen big enough, it would break a sword. Therefore…
If you live in a blue state, you're neighbors with some of the most vitriolic conservatives. I'm in New York, home of Elise Freaking Stefanik. So it shouldn't be so hard to understand there are many good people in red states. Nor should it be hard to sympathize with what they go through.
Useful information.
Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, is coming out on October 7 in ebook, hardcover, and audiobook narrated by Eric Mok. Here's a great review from Library Journal: www.libraryjournal.com/review/queen...
A real FBI agent reacting to Mike Johnson's claim that Trump was an informant.
Never try to hold a sneeze!
Well, my God, man! We could have had a BLACK WOMAN in the White House! Yeah. We could have.
Why, yes!
Well, we did demonstrate how to blow up a speed boat of civilians. Let's hope they don't repeat that lesson.
Trump and Tulsi are on the job.
Your appointees beat them to it, Donald.
Gorn Girl
The Titanic WILL sail into New York City!
#RFKJr
They don't have to "invite" anyone from the Trump administration. Just air people criticizing Trump and don't edit their interviews - promise kept.
CBS News has once again caved to President Trump—this time by offering up the journalistic integrity of Face the Nation. Last month, it cancelled the Late Show With Stephen Colbert, whose host called out CBS for paying a “big fat bribe” of $16M to the administration. trib.al/4h6FpR7
NARRATOR: He did not sidestep the question. He literally said "I'm not sure they have to."
DHS has already started bragging about it's biggest single-site enforcement operation at a Hyundai plant in Georgia—but one close U.S. ally isn’t happy at all. Most of the nearly 500 people arrested were South Korean citizens. trib.al/dsnuKPZ
Checkmate.
And I think about all of you, too.
From the guy begging for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Makes perfect sense. Stealth B2s for a dinghy. What a bunch of assholes the current regime is.
Epstein cover-up 4.0
Trump wants war. He thinks it will make his raping children go away. He's already said it's irrelevant.
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Emperor Nero rolls out the entertainment.
Welcome to team sanity, Hawaii!
As @johnrogers.bsky.social wisely reminds us: “A fine is a price.”
I mean bsky.app/profile/vict...
My early thoughts on the Anthropic settlement: a) good, fucking pay us b) no, that’s not enough c) shouldn’t have stolen our shit to train your stupid mediocre plagiarism artbarf robot in the first place, you fuckers d) this isn’t something to celebrate; it is a Pyrrhic victory at best
Had this occurred under Biden, every Fox pundit would be shitting themselves raw and screaming for resignations. But it was Trump? Way to kill innocent civilians and not tell Congress! Tra-la-la!
Arlo Guthrie knew all about Pete Hegseth. I was lucky enough to see him do "Alice's Restaurant" live in 1970.
Remember when record labels bankrupted teenagers for downloading Metallica?
A ton of MAGAs are downplaying the disaster jobs report. There were almost no new net jobs in August. What happened to the miraculous job growth Trump promised?
Also: Flintstones Chewables cause leprosy.
Note to self: inject at least one typo per page, not in the dialog.
On the one hand, good, and I sure hope that I get my money owed, and that we all do. On the other hand, if anyone had actually, you know, ASKED ME whether they could use any of my books in this way, I would not have said "yes you can do it for $3,000." You know, for the record.
Insanity is doing the same thing over again but expecting a different result this time.
I'm announcing a new short story in an upcoming anthology that also features stories by @olivieblake.bsky.social, @pengshepherd.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, Kaliane Bradley and R.F. Kuang. You can find out more about the story and anthology at the link! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/05/a...
Also, here's a link to the whole anthology, called "The Time Traveler's Passport," which will be out in November: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQ...
Full book outline finally fell into place yesterday. Finished it up today. About 15 pages, with all the major beats. Hoping all this thinking time will pay off with a much faster actual writing time.
I also found it HILARIOUSLY UNCOMFORTABLE to try and pull an actual HEA out of this one, but it's a fantasy war romance novel. What a concept, two protags who aren't DESTROYING each other in the end? Is this even a HURLEY novel??? Listen, I want to mix it up here in my old age
Shakespeare in love?
Leibstandarte Donald Trump
And, as long as we're talking about trails of slime, Imma just leave this here.
“They come out tomorrow, but the real numbers that I’m talking about are going to be whatever it is, but will be in a year from now on" - Trump, from yesterday, in anticipation of today's shitty numbers, because of course
Honestly this (the Meta additions below the image) exemplifies the utter idiocy of FB’s obligatory AI additions. Questions nobody would ask, posed by an app that understands nothing. Like a restaurant where one in three meals comes randomly garnished with a used sock.
Egad! Claire!
I feel this is what my Slay The Spire posts look like to people who don’t play the game.
Good morning, Bluesky. My sinus headache this morning is improving. The US will not recover from the MAGA headache so quickly. In the pursuit of greatness, we're forgetting that it was goodness that made the world trust us. youtu.be/6Y0PKACqpdA?...
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Here is the aforesaid entire blog post so we can never do this again.
I figured the people in charge at Delta would be more concerned with their planes not crashing and flipping over, but what do I know?
Took a sick day due to stress or lack of sleep causing my heart defect to kick into tachycardia for the day. Nothing like waking up with a resting 130 bpm to start the day a spikes up into the 150s when i stood up or walked around. Exhausting. Doing better now.
I think a lot of the mourning the passing in popularity of Golden Age SF is about mourning the future we didn't get.
My plane, delayed a half hour out of Washington and not quite yet having taken off.
It was a very long day at the day job of CONTENT. What the AI overlords fail to note out loud in their PR to the plebs is that none of us will be working LESS because of this auto-complete tool. We will simply be expected to do MORE (and MORE).
I like the spiny "sea urchin".
Ok, we're all thinking it - My Little Pony Bright
Girl, hurry the fuck up
On the other hand, did you know that Rand al'Thor had fair skin and red hair, and he's a very untrusting person with a temper that prevents him from taking advice from people with experience? I want to scream at Robert Jordan, but he's gone. Frustration level is at 3 to 5 novel series response.
One of the most underrated forces in literature: valuing and desiring different meaning than another creator, and with the other creator's work clarifying your vision for you, thus creating your own thing that pursues your passion. It comes in many flavors. Spite (pictured below) works.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
POV: me, realizing I could put more books on the steps
(horse racing announcer V.O.) And Florida is in front outlawing vaccines...but wait, it's Texas coming through on the inside with abortion pill bounty hunters...they're neck and neck, ladies and gentlemen--who will be the worst state ever?
So, not a Star Trek: Discovery fan huh? 😁
The implications of this are huge: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Not you, of course, Arturo! 😁
WTF! Stay in your lane you freaking idiot!
Wow. Thanks.
If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.
This is exactly how I feel about astrology and divination practices in general. I don’t know if Adams’ and my thoughts simply converged on this, or whether, having read this book as a teenager, and despite forgetting this passage entirely, I somehow internalised his thoughts.
“In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge.” —Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords."
We went out to dinner tonight and it was a mere $56 and I said, "Wow, that's like HALF the cost of dinner in Seattle!!" That was an exorbitantly expensive trip.
SPOILER: There is no ancient Celtic tree of life.
Mother monster has blessed the timeline youtu.be/xGaZBfJOyAc?...
Dude, you knew he was a vaccine-denying piece of shit whose plan was to dismantle the public health apparatus in the US when you confirmed him, don't try the "shocked, shocked" act now
Eh, fuck this dude (not literally, he's terrible)
Job openings drop below unemployed workers for the first time in years. Immigration crackdown, tariffs, uncertainty, all options things Trump chose to do.
Call me princess again...
