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Ramsey Hootman
@ramseyhootman.bsky.social
Author of COURTING GRETA, SURVIVING CYRIL, and CYRIL IN THE FLESH. Viable Paradise class of 2024 (!!!) "Well-developed and nontoxic" according to my doctor's notes. www.ramseyhootman.com
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Hello new followers! I mostly post about writing, doing scout stuff with my kids, home remodel, and substitute teaching. I am currently working on a far-future sci fi series set on the moons of a gas giant. My currently available novels are:
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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tired of fresh hell and would settle for some stale heaven at this point
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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that's because it has more people with security clearances in charge
the fucking furry con I’m spending the weekend volunteering at has better operational security than trump’s DoD and its not even close
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Not that I was gonna sub during the teacher strike, but the subbing app is now completely down so uhhh NOBODY is subbing. That should be fun.
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A kid just knocked on our door to see if he could wash the car parked out on the street because it "looked a little dirty." Not my car, alas - but I appreciate the hustle, kid.
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
At some point (now) there are going to be so many corporations who are complicit in this corruption that it will be possible for individuals of good conscience to simply take their business elsewhere. Fighting back requires collective action - which is what government is SUPPOSED TO BE FOR.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
HE DID IT
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Years ago I joked that when my grandmother finally died, her descendants would descend into chaos and bloodshed over my beloved grandfather's crystal knife rest.

Well--I got to it first. MUAHAHAHAHA
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Sympathetic to the teachers striking while at the same time AUGH COME ONNNNN KEEP MY KID IN SCHOOL
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Well, according to my chocolate advent calendar, it's just two days until Christmas.
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.

Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It's Pluribus niiiight! (I watch it on Tuesdays because it's too scary for everyone else and this is the night I get the TV to myself.)
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
A question I've been thinking about: how do we raise kids that speak up? I mean this not just for my own kids, but all of the kids in our circles. Some are naturally comfortable with speaking their minds, but others really feel that social pressure and anxiety about saying the right thing.
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
When we went to the movie theater to see Wake Up Dead Man, they started the show with a land acknowledgment - and followed it with an advertisement for vacationing in Dubai. Me, too loudly: HEY THAT'S THAT PLACE WHERE THEY HAVE SLAVES
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Once again I have too much responsibility for too many things and I can't juggle it all and now I'm dropping balls.

How do I end up in this same hole over and over again?
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Arcane

The making-of Arcane, courtesy of @fortiche_prod.

Thank you for four magical years. Always with you 💙
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The current discourse on students' declining reading/writing ability in the age of AI is reminding me of the year I taught English in China. These were adult students enrolled purely for their own career advancement. Some of them sent there by the CCP, basically as a holiday.
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
omg
GUYS

GUYS

MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Me: Tonight the scouts will be voting on whether they want to become a "family troop" and admit girls.
Son: So basically vote on whether to be sexist or not?

(He is my child, lol.)
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
omg my silly cowardly little dog ACTUALLY got a gopher waaaaaah! I scared her away from it and it ran off but now I'm super freaked out lol
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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does the grinch have to be nude. is that like an important part of it.
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Can confirm reports that Wake Up Dead Man is, in fact, superb.
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Humanities majors jailbreak the STEM machine with world ending verse
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Close up! One more session to go on this Viktor tattoo 💙and just in time for the anniversary!
#viktor #arcane #viktorarcane
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM