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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 1d

okay rough night for productivity as some of them are but as of tonight i have written >1,000 words every day for 26 consecutive weeks. total count for that time: 396,736 words

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3d

I'm recalling how often during MeToo we'd hear that some asshole was "getting therapy" to process how they'd abused others and like

If you broke your fingers punching somebody you'd need a splint; no one would need to hear about your splint in your apology note

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 4d

i've had this book on my shelf for years & still haven't gotten around to reading it. now might be the time

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

imagine the infrastructure of social media put toward the project of encouraging people to seek out cool shit they will like instead of getting them riled up about things that were never going to impact them otherwise

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

(also gave StP as an example bc they do kinda seem like the opposite of the above to me in terms of ethos, & bc i like them. i don't mean anything else by that choice)

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

idk imagine the better world where you get 700 quotes by saying the opposite, like "@seizethepress.bsky.social publishes great short stories which are dark & political & you should check them out" (for the record: Seize the Press is great, & you should)

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

this is a 16yo magazine w/ a wikipedia page that i, a person who actively seeks out spec & horror mags, had not heard of until today. how many more people are just learning about the thing you're mad about bc you gave it oxygen

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 7d

it is frustrating to me to see some of the dynamics that made twitter so toxic are still just as viable here. like you know a person shouting out a magazine they DO like would never get 700 quotes. but dunking on some cringe sub guidelines? that'll get them eyeballs. i'm part of the problem

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 9d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 7d

all the news stories you see for "AI" products that seem more like advertisements are exactly that, they're hoping that if they keep astroturfing the idea that "AI" is real and everywhere and unavoidable it will eventually become true

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 13d

don't need anyone to get angry on my behalf, every second off of the internet is doing me a favor, wish they'd banned me longer

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 16d

as far as autism is concerned, well, the people who want to eradicate it are a bunch of raw milk chugging dipshits who want to bring back polio. why would you listen to them about how it's worth reviving measles just to get rid of people like me? why would you listen to them about anything?

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 16d

being trans is a natural outcome of giving people autonomy. you have the power to be whatever gender is yours, and you have the right to change your body to suit that if you want. because that is what it means to care about freedom.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 16d

if you are subject to american news you are constantly being told that people like me are a problem to be solved. they will say that we would rather have been cis and/or neurotypical. i do not want to be cis. i do not want to be neurotypical.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 16d

hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 16d

new tell-all memoir from the yes-man Mark Zuckerberg fired for saying "i think this metaverse idea has legs"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19d

(banging my fingers with a hammer) nobody who makes shit up about strangers is going to talk to you in good faith. nobody who makes shit up about strangers is going to talk to you in good faith.

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 18d

i am actually asking, idk the answer or have a hot take. i'm just wondering what all that AI investment is doing to economic activity in like a material sense, if all that money is going to the same handful of companies

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 18d

wait can someone explain this to me: if AI capex is artificially preserving gdp growth by balancing out losses in consumer spending, is that preventing a recession or covering up on paper that there is already a recession in reality?

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 18d

feel this all the time & i tell myself tension is a driver of creative expression & that ambivalence itself can be all the justification art needs. you cannot truly evaluate its worth until it exists so you must create it

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 19d

new statement on the epstein situation is weird

obviously fake trump post based on the shane dawson cat tweet: "i didnt fuck those kids. i didnt cum on those kids. i didnt put my dick anywhere near those kids. Ive never done anything weird with kids. I promised myself i wasnt going to make apology videos after last years thing so im just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible. (1/?)"

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 19d

the fun thing abt being a Saga fan is people are always asking "how do i make sure i remember what's happened when a new issue comes out" & people are always answering "literally just reread the whole thing every time dude"

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 20d

also the post has been removed & it doesn't look like anyone's archived it

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 20d

have to believe this is a fake story, not bc i would put it past anti-vax people to do this, but bc it's exactly the kind of story one might make up to illustrate the consequences of anti-vax beliefs in a worst-case scenario

bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 20d

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 20d

they're calling me "a guy who just wrapped on a ~33k word novella draft"

Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 22d

the cool thing about having tracked my writing for more than a year since i started hitting 1k/day regularly is i have now unlocked the ultimate form of motivation: beating my past self at a thing