Travis Smith McKee
@mckeetr.bsky.social
Living in ICT, serving in KS. Working on systems.
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every real writer who thinks hard about what they want to say and then sits down and writes it feels like a fraud, and the people who have the computer write the book for them feel like accomplished authors
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
every real writer who thinks hard about what they want to say and then sits down and writes it feels like a fraud, and the people who have the computer write the book for them feel like accomplished authors
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![Comic. “Measure [Twice], cut [Once]” -Carpenty Proverb. [Scatter plot with number of measurements on y axis and number of cuts on x axis. Points in a descending line on graph: surveyor, surgeon, good carpenter, careless carpenter, really bad carpenter, serial killer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiays4e3ux4dpkjxctmx73fzfwspzw3cjdckve3dwj5hzt4y75itxa@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Counterpoint: naw.
my most unpopular opinion is that it's a sign of defective moral character if you point blank refuse to answer phone calls from unknown numbers. it's not that hard to hang up on spam/scammers, and you are probably missing important calls!
September 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Counterpoint: naw.
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Never feel sorry for being vulnerable enough with someone to show emotion. If they teased or took advantage of that and pretended to be a safe space, that says a HELL of a lot about THEM. NOT YOU.
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Never feel sorry for being vulnerable enough with someone to show emotion. If they teased or took advantage of that and pretended to be a safe space, that says a HELL of a lot about THEM. NOT YOU.
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A word to my progressive Christian friends (especially pastors):
This hasn't happened yet but it's 100% where they want to go. So I am begging you to decide now what you will do if supporting trans people becomes legally grey.
Think through these questions...
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open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
This hasn't happened yet but it's 100% where they want to go. So I am begging you to decide now what you will do if supporting trans people becomes legally grey.
Think through these questions...
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open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A word to my progressive Christian friends (especially pastors):
This hasn't happened yet but it's 100% where they want to go. So I am begging you to decide now what you will do if supporting trans people becomes legally grey.
Think through these questions...
1/
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
This hasn't happened yet but it's 100% where they want to go. So I am begging you to decide now what you will do if supporting trans people becomes legally grey.
Think through these questions...
1/
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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This is a weird way to end cancel culture!
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is a weird way to end cancel culture!
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Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Good thread here
yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman
"Notices bulges, OWO whats this?"
- Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political
"hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3"
- From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb
"Notices bulges, OWO whats this?"
- Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political
"hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3"
- From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb
September 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Good thread here
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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
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Alexander Campbell was born in Northern Ireland 237 years ago today. He & his father had a passion for Christian simplicity they called “Restorationism,” but was meant to be a form of “mere Christianity” which they borrowed from Richard Baxter, who called for it long before C.S. Lewis…
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September 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Alexander Campbell was born in Northern Ireland 237 years ago today. He & his father had a passion for Christian simplicity they called “Restorationism,” but was meant to be a form of “mere Christianity” which they borrowed from Richard Baxter, who called for it long before C.S. Lewis…
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There’s a million things happening RIGHT NOW… and I’ve been digging deep into this video and new album. I think it’s a good morning to pop in the headphones and go play disc golf.
youtu.be/5Ozjel72yjQ?...
youtu.be/5Ozjel72yjQ?...
Twenty One Pilots - City Walls (Official Video)
YouTube video by twenty one pilots
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
There’s a million things happening RIGHT NOW… and I’ve been digging deep into this video and new album. I think it’s a good morning to pop in the headphones and go play disc golf.
youtu.be/5Ozjel72yjQ?...
youtu.be/5Ozjel72yjQ?...
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An impulsive liar very obviously lied again and we’re going full CSI on his signature like he hasn’t been impulsively lying for literally decades.
September 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
An impulsive liar very obviously lied again and we’re going full CSI on his signature like he hasn’t been impulsively lying for literally decades.
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The Eagle's Travis Heying captured this image near 45th Street North and 135th Street West as a thunderstorm moved into the Wichita area Wednesday night. #KSwx
September 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The Eagle's Travis Heying captured this image near 45th Street North and 135th Street West as a thunderstorm moved into the Wichita area Wednesday night. #KSwx
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Framing of this Q notwithstanding, note that Trump focuses on "Democrats" here.
But among Abrego's supporters in Baltimore today were a slate of ordained clergy, who spoke at length in his defense (it was most of the rally program).
Genuinely curious how Trump would respond if asked about them.
But among Abrego's supporters in Baltimore today were a slate of ordained clergy, who spoke at length in his defense (it was most of the rally program).
Genuinely curious how Trump would respond if asked about them.
Trump on Kilmar Ábrego García, who he calls an "animal": "He's not good for votes"
August 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Framing of this Q notwithstanding, note that Trump focuses on "Democrats" here.
But among Abrego's supporters in Baltimore today were a slate of ordained clergy, who spoke at length in his defense (it was most of the rally program).
Genuinely curious how Trump would respond if asked about them.
But among Abrego's supporters in Baltimore today were a slate of ordained clergy, who spoke at length in his defense (it was most of the rally program).
Genuinely curious how Trump would respond if asked about them.
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KMUW announces retirement of long-time Wichita journalist
www.kmuw.org/2025-08-21/k...
www.kmuw.org/2025-08-21/k...
KMUW announces retirement of long-time Wichita journalist
KMUW News Director Tom Shine will retire in December.
www.kmuw.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
KMUW announces retirement of long-time Wichita journalist
www.kmuw.org/2025-08-21/k...
www.kmuw.org/2025-08-21/k...
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This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)
August 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)
Today’s sermon was like a musician’s setlist.
I’ve played this set 12 times now… very strange and I’ll never get used to it. I played a new song before the closer. It was a familiar action, but something about it felt off to me, to my sensibilities…
I’ve played this set 12 times now… very strange and I’ll never get used to it. I played a new song before the closer. It was a familiar action, but something about it felt off to me, to my sensibilities…
August 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today’s sermon was like a musician’s setlist.
I’ve played this set 12 times now… very strange and I’ll never get used to it. I played a new song before the closer. It was a familiar action, but something about it felt off to me, to my sensibilities…
I’ve played this set 12 times now… very strange and I’ll never get used to it. I played a new song before the closer. It was a familiar action, but something about it felt off to me, to my sensibilities…
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A deranged convicted felon who wants to distract from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is lying about Washington, DC, which tallied a 30-year low in violent crime last year. It’s important to keep speaking the truth and not permit this pathological liar to control the narrative.
August 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A deranged convicted felon who wants to distract from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is lying about Washington, DC, which tallied a 30-year low in violent crime last year. It’s important to keep speaking the truth and not permit this pathological liar to control the narrative.
Praying with and for these kids at camp tonight. Our night of silence is quite rainy, but there’s something humbling and beyond peaceful to a rain storm. Prayers for these youth who are leaning into another way, a way of grace, peace, inclusion, and hope.
July 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Praying with and for these kids at camp tonight. Our night of silence is quite rainy, but there’s something humbling and beyond peaceful to a rain storm. Prayers for these youth who are leaning into another way, a way of grace, peace, inclusion, and hope.
Yes please
Hershey and Mondelez are combining two of their top-selling products—the Reese’s peanut butter cup and the Oreo cookie—in a sugary marriage they say consumers have been begging for https://on.wsj.com/4l1sZ37
July 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Yes please