If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

The pussy chose to walk into the sea

coffee and words this a.m. Coffee is going down quick, the words not so much. Trying to focus on plotting, which is not my strong suit as a writer.

we are also enjoying the bounty of eggs you and Jo gave me!

we are cranking serious 70's am gold at this writing retreat.

From AP: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation

abject horror, clown-level, seeped into my bones upon learning there is a) a hair museum, b) the hair is now everywhere. HAIR.

I feel like we got Dr. Oz anyway.

I'm so sorry. I don't get why we call grief a journey, when it's such a circle back/come up short/wrong turn rife way of traveling. Many hugs and much love.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

sorry to read this.

while the gatekeepers who won't pay for the occasional mental health day or accessible office space will shell out millions after wasted millions on a subpar computer program.

fuck ai. fuck the dupes who uses it. fuck every scumbag who wants my $ and thinks I won't notice how half-assed it all is

the weirdest, saddest, most unforgivable thing is there are hundreds of thousands of people denied entrance to professions because the fight for reasonable accommodations for diabilities/funding for education is too big a hill to surmount....5/?

Weirdest thing is how gleeful they are schilling AI. Like oh, you're here to learn how to do marketing? How about I tell you instead how a crappy comp program can do it 1/10th as well.

No, wait. Scratch that, that's only the 2nd weirdest thing. 4/?

Time to get relevant! But, hahahaha no. Now It's all about how to use AI to do all that work for you.

Absolutely fucking not, thanks.3/?

Found out a few weeks ago that I'm still eligible to audit classes for free. And I was like, Hot Dog! About half I what I learned in the SM marketing classes was evergreen, useful knowledge, and half is sadly, laughably out of date, mainly due to the rise and fall of various platforms 2/?

Ongoing enshittification.

back details: During the pandemic the state of MN offered free online learning through Coursera. I leapt on, got my IT certificate, a social media marketing cert. I took rando college courses& made it partway through a traditional marketing cert b4 the prog was dropped 1/?

Congratulations on your 9th book!

Downbound Train's plain, raw lyrics wreck me on every listen.

and then Baron Zemo made it look like Bucky was guilty.

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

the best thing about Bluesky is as I log in, from the back of my brain, Willie Nelson croons, "Blueskies, smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies, do I see."

I have a new single out (as w.esp). It’s lurching, strange, melancholy but resolute dirge pop: wesp.bandcamp.com/track/its-a-...

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