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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit

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Cosmic horror enthusiast. FCQ editor. Words in Gamut, Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Twin Pies Literary, & more. https://linktr.ee/roberthelfst

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 2d

King

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 2d

Love to everyone at Voidcon this weekend! Sorry that I can’t attend for myself or @fraidycatpress.bsky.social - I believe a lot of our published authors will be there

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Chairman of the Underwater Fathers Association @dadloop.bsky.social · 4d

I know it's Tuesday but I might need a little drinky poo

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 5d

Very stoked for this one!

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 5d

if you think the Basic Income for Artists in Ireland being made permanent is a good thing, wait until you learn about the income tax breaks for artists earning up to €50k p/a 💃💫

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 5d

And I just… we could do this. We could afford to do this, as a country. There is no good fucking reason why we cannot do this. We simply choose not to because we believe that Jesus loves billionaires more than loser slothful creative people

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 5d

Jason Mendoza would LOVE Trevor Lawrence.

Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 6d

If you go through Lafayette, IN Second Flight and Main Street Books are both great!

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plæst[이]k @plaest2k.bsky.social · 7d

taylor swift is the mr beast of music

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 7d

“I’m not doing spooky season this year life is spooky enough” SHUT UP

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 8d

Crying while my kids watch HOMEWARD BOUND, if you want to know how my mental state is these days.

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 8d

I’m a huge cereal fan and the costs of EVERYTHING are out of control.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 8d

This is the first time in my life I looked at a box of cereal and concluded “You know what, no.”

Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 8d

Pet Semetary all the way!

Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 8d

If It Makes You Happy

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 9d

question for the timeline

Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 8d

The curse/blessing Venn diagram is a circle.

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 9d

Overcome with a terrible melancholy that will just not let go.

Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 11d

….the eating clean starts tomorrow.

Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 11d

Eating clean and taking care of myself because I REALLY don’t want to get space dementia.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open"

That's it. That's the whole story.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12d

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.)

Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact:
- White House
- Senate
- House
- Scotus
- OMB (to the hilt)
- Every regulatory agency

They're in command. It's on them.

OBrienSci @obriensci.bsky.social · 12d

I do not understand why they cannot get the headlines right.

Just follow the gop playbook!

“Repubs control it all! The shutdown is on them!”

As nauseum.

Don’t lead with the nuance.

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 12d

Waiting for a submission response when I see bold popping up all over the Submission-Grinder from @diabolicalplots.com has me like:

a green toy dinosaur is standing on a wooden floor next to a potato head .

ALT: a green toy dinosaur is standing on a wooden floor next to a potato head .

media.tenor.com

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 12d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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Robert Helfst is too tired for this shit @roberthelfst.bsky.social · 12d

Watching/listening to One Punch Man on a loop so I never have to feel anything other than awesome.