Geoph Essex 🤨💭 11742d/4h/3m; 16940d/18h/34m 🕟
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Son of Dangerous Cliff; Hal's little brother; Bazooka Girl's guy; Potato Pup's human; Monkey's dad. (In chronological order.)
Esoteric outsider touring reality. All pronouns welcome (including yours!).
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Esoteric outsider touring reality. All pronouns welcome (including yours!).
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Look, when you come down to it, my skill set is "Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction"—like, basically, "what thing do you need solved/reorganized/fixed/built, I can absolutely do that."
I have literally no idea how to market that in any useful way. Because marketing is not part of that skill set.*
I have literally no idea how to market that in any useful way. Because marketing is not part of that skill set.*
I tend not to post pix/video of my son (personal choice), but I got an awesome video tonight of him singing "Yellow"—unprompted—while plucking strings on my wife's guitar, because he came to see us play Sunday (she's lead guitar, I'm vocals) and the kid memorizes EVERYTHING, especially music.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I tend not to post pix/video of my son (personal choice), but I got an awesome video tonight of him singing "Yellow"—unprompted—while plucking strings on my wife's guitar, because he came to see us play Sunday (she's lead guitar, I'm vocals) and the kid memorizes EVERYTHING, especially music.
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Y'know, it's truly not that I've "reached an age where none of the new shows give a shit about my demographic."
It's that by the age of goddamn FIVE (maximum!) I had zero interest in shows "youthenizing" their cast to "appeal" to a young me.
It's that by the age of goddamn FIVE (maximum!) I had zero interest in shows "youthenizing" their cast to "appeal" to a young me.
I'm just going to assume this series takes place in the year 90210
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Y'know, it's truly not that I've "reached an age where none of the new shows give a shit about my demographic."
It's that by the age of goddamn FIVE (maximum!) I had zero interest in shows "youthenizing" their cast to "appeal" to a young me.
It's that by the age of goddamn FIVE (maximum!) I had zero interest in shows "youthenizing" their cast to "appeal" to a young me.
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I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Look, there are WAY too many people who claim to be professional writers, then get book deals, and then I see the actual prose they put down on paper and…for fuck's sake.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Look, there are WAY too many people who claim to be professional writers, then get book deals, and then I see the actual prose they put down on paper and…for fuck's sake.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
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The very end of Chapter 1 in "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime" really, uh, gets the ball rolling on the crime in question…and the plot of the story itself.
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The very end of Chapter 1 in "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime" really, uh, gets the ball rolling on the crime in question…and the plot of the story itself.
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![[Excerpt from Chapter 1 of "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime" (by me):]
The little old man turned slowly, one hand out defensively, the other tapping his cane on the walk as if he was warning off prospective muggers in Morse code. Then he whirled again, yanking off his dark glasses.
His eyes were not blue; they were not green or brown, gold or gray. There was, in fact, no field of white around an iris of any color. His eyes were pure and gleaming mirrors, like two small globs of liquid mercury packed tightly into transparent balloons, quivering slightly as they swiveled in their sockets. Whether these strange orbs were capable of sight or not, the old man continued to pivot slowly in place, still tapping his cane.
“I should warn you,” he proclaimed to the empty air, “I am not defenseless.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreiap7c5fbmyxliyj2swngxcbnd27zcwbrcaop2o7gsggr2ggj274q4@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 1 of "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime" (by me):]
There was a strange, sharp sound, like the inhalation of breath just before a tennis player serves the ball, a sound that signaled anticipation and the delayed promise of action. The round little man cocked his head again, picking up on a gradually building whistle of wind and air. He looked—or at least faced—straight up.
With a terrible thud, an awful crunch, and no wind resistance, a gleaming, lacquered bowling ball dropped from above and smashed the old man’s head like a meteorite finding an ideal parking spot. He collapsed on the sidewalk, his face an unrecognizable mess of bone, flesh and gore that would have once again stumped Humpty Dumpty’s undeservedly optimistic paramedics. Rivulets of shining silver ran like tears from what used to be the corners of his eyes. The white cane and dark glasses fell from nerveless fingers which ceased twitching after only a second or two.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreiearta7y2lv3vv622fe4xck5iz63ly4psgnoexl7pxzc2jffqar5u@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 1 of "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime" (by me):]
There was a moment of silence, as if the city itself respectfully withheld comment on the old man’s passing.
Then the bowling ball, streetlights playing off the swirling brown and black opalescence beneath its surface, swiveled in the shallow, cracked dent it had made in the sidewalk beside the old man’s crooked arm. It made a grinding sound as its lower curve scraped the sidewalk, the sound of an ancient sepulchre being dragged painfully shut on dusty old secrets. Slowly at first, but building momentum as it went, the bowling ball rolled away from the dead little man.
The ball headed west. It didn’t even have the decency to roll downhill.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreieyfrdprqbsvszxyk2447bqhqu5tcfas5bcpi6zb4e2xlpfgmvrvq@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#WIPsnips "city"
The very end of Chapter 1 in "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime" really, uh, gets the ball rolling on the crime in question…and the plot of the story itself.
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The very end of Chapter 1 in "Confessions from the Scene of the Crime" really, uh, gets the ball rolling on the crime in question…and the plot of the story itself.
#ConfessionsFromTheSceneOfTheCrime🎳💀
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#WIPsnips "city"
In Chapter 4 of "My Electromagnetic Romance," a video freeze-frame gives Lu Volasko a new lead *and* a chance to witness the ludicrous processing power of physics wunderkind Judah Berenbaum's brain.
#MyElectromagneticRomance🧲💕
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In Chapter 4 of "My Electromagnetic Romance," a video freeze-frame gives Lu Volasko a new lead *and* a chance to witness the ludicrous processing power of physics wunderkind Judah Berenbaum's brain.
#MyElectromagneticRomance🧲💕
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![[Excerpt from Chapter 4 of "My Electromagnetic Romance" (by me):]
Berenbaum stared, nearly as still as the face on pause. “I *know* her.”
“What?” Lu asked, incredulously.
“What?” Doctor Bean asked, in a decidedly sharper tone.
“Well, I don’t *know* her,” Berenbaum amended. “But I *met* her. I *talked* to her!”
Lu stared at him, then at the face on the display, then back at Berenbaum again. “When?”
“It was...uh...yeah, a few months ago.” He rubbed his forehead slowly but vigorously, as if squeezing the memories out of a ripe pimple. “Just before Thanksgiving. I gave a lecture to a crowd of double *E*s at Empire Tech, in the city. She asked a couple questions during the lecture.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreidcqfs7dolmvunpt3qfo7lb7qf6bhfwrztfammbsed4iokizv26wa@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 4 of "My Electromagnetic Romance" (by me):]
“Double *E*s?” Lu questioned.
Bean elaborated: “Electrical engineers. Well—at Empire Tech, *student* electrical engineers.”
“I did some courses there when I was a teenager,” said Berenbaum.
Lu raised an eyebrow. “*You* took community college courses,” she said flatly.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreiffqoglmivjjxoyognqrwbunfwdmtv3mk3yk2b4fpzovoyf7dgcuy@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 4 of "My Electromagnetic Romance" (by me):]
“No,” he replied. “I *taught* them. Particle physics is my field—electronics is my hobby. I was doing a favor for a friend.” He waved it off, getting them back on point. “And he asked me there last Thanksgiving, just before break, to give a little talk on alternative power, the future of electronic design...all that stuff. Watered down, really. I didn’t want to go, but I owed Frank.”
“You remember *one* student, out of the *whole* lecture hall, at a talk you didn’t even want to give...*five months ago*?”
“I remember all of them,” Berenbaum replied blankly, as if she’d asked him how he managed the task of getting his shoes on the correct feet every morning.
“He does,” Doctor Bean told Lu. She smiled lightly and shrugged. “It’s just one of his *things*.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreid2gtokfcpwqwirl4l35coqev7rbjzvma3od2tzul6c7ghadfwebm@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#WIPsnips "city"
In Chapter 4 of "My Electromagnetic Romance," a video freeze-frame gives Lu Volasko a new lead *and* a chance to witness the ludicrous processing power of physics wunderkind Judah Berenbaum's brain.
#MyElectromagneticRomance🧲💕
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP
In Chapter 4 of "My Electromagnetic Romance," a video freeze-frame gives Lu Volasko a new lead *and* a chance to witness the ludicrous processing power of physics wunderkind Judah Berenbaum's brain.
#MyElectromagneticRomance🧲💕
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#WIPsnips "city"
In a raging storm in Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week," Sharon Seger gets pulled over by Officer Loomis—because when it rains, it pours—and the thunder's not the only thing grumbling.
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In a raging storm in Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week," Sharon Seger gets pulled over by Officer Loomis—because when it rains, it pours—and the thunder's not the only thing grumbling.
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![[Excerpt from Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week" (by me):]
“Sorry, Missuz—uh, Seger,” Loomis said, scribbling away. “It’s policy now, just part of the new quality of life stuff.”
“*Whose* quality of life?” Sharon asked pointedly. “*My* quality of life isn’t helped by getting a fu—a ticket,” she amended hastily.
Loomis shrugged. “It’s about public safety.”
“There was nobody else on the road.”
“It’s a big storm. Gotta drive safe.”
“Nothing happened.”
“It’s a precautionary measure, ma’am.”
“Precautionary?” Sharon could hear him regurgitating the word from a training session back at the station. “What the—what’s ‘precautionary’ about giving me a ticket?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreid6j7f2qe3s6mmfqhgmj3ktz6rmnnlrhbwpxd7ntj3qwshcppdm6i@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week" (by me):]
“It’s, uh,” the officer paused. Mike Loomis wasn’t dull, he was just a thoughtful and deliberate guy. He took his time. The wait was as maddening to Sharon as the prospect of paying the ticket. Lightning flashed ahead of them, a jagged fork slashing down from clouds to open fields, and thunder crackled, pushing Loomis through his thought process. “It’s preventative.”
“What does it prevent?”
“Reckless driving.” Scribble, scribble.
“Did it?” Sharon was getting testy, now.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreih3m6fdxqkd52skie4fdlgg3j3hivrttxmv4hqulixxyyjtx7aebu@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week" (by me):]
Loomis’s pen stopped in the middle of crossing a *T*. “Did it what?” His big, dark eyes looked at her curiously.
“Did it prevent reckless driving?” Sharon asked. “I mean, you’ve been handing out these tickets for a year or two, and nobody’s driving any differently.”
Loomis shrugged again. “Well, it’s more of a general thing,” he said. “The statistics....”
“*I* wasn’t driving any differently!”
Loomis grinned weakly. “Yeah, you were driving a little recklessly,” he said with a meaningful look.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreifqrms3bbqbpapxju4wakd2z2hbfs4mlowtxdw5mqh5y55wzo4bwi@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week" (by me):]
Sharon caught an uprush of anger in her throat and squelched it back down into her chest. “I’ve never—” she stopped and corrected herself, cursing Don Mastronelli’s prevaricating influence “—I’ve been in three or four accidents in my entire *life*, and most of them weren’t mostly my fault, even!”
“Listen, Missuz Mastronelli—sorry,” he said quickly, watching her eyes flash in synch with another burst of lightning overhead. “Missuz Seger, you know the drill, it’s just my job. I can argue policy with you all day, but all we’ll get is really wet.” He paused for a second to let some thunder play out, not bothering to compete with nature when it came to volume. “You want change, you know what to do—talk to the city council.”
“Right,” Sharon said, sarcasm flowing freely. “That’ll get things done. Soon as Elaine gets back from a manicure.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreiealzusb7elnygtocyj6rxghejgmfljfdyobcockcm7n6o4gdq56i@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#WIPsnips "city"
In a raging storm in Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week," Sharon Seger gets pulled over by Officer Loomis—because when it rains, it pours—and the thunder's not the only thing grumbling.
#StormOfTheCenturyOfTheWeek⛈️
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP
In a raging storm in Chapter 1 of "Storm of the Century of the Week," Sharon Seger gets pulled over by Officer Loomis—because when it rains, it pours—and the thunder's not the only thing grumbling.
#StormOfTheCenturyOfTheWeek⛈️
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#WIPsnips "city"
Chapter 1 of "The Demon's Pawn" opens with high-functioning sociopath Andy Trout walking his, ah, *less* high-functioning older brother Billy home from the Day Center.
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Chapter 1 of "The Demon's Pawn" opens with high-functioning sociopath Andy Trout walking his, ah, *less* high-functioning older brother Billy home from the Day Center.
#TheDemonsPawn🔪🩸
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![[Excerpt from Chapter 1 of "The Demon's Pawn" (by me):]
Andy walked slowly alongside his big brother, who jiggled and scuttled forward in fits and starts. Almost nobody called Andy Trout anything other than “Andy,” except for Gramps, Gramma Astrid, and his younger brother Kerwin, who would all sometimes call him by his full name, Androcles. (The boys’ mom used to call him Androcles, too, since she came up with it.) Where Billy was open wide, disjointed, and clumsy, Andy was tightly folded into himself, carefully controlled, gliding over the world like he glided along the surface of the sidewalk, which is to say, like one of those bugs that never slips through the surface of a pond into the world happening beneath it. Hands jammed into the pockets of his beat-up old bomber jacket, gray cargoes barely whispering as his legs shifted in his panthery Don’t Notice Me walk. The only things that might give away Andy’s relation to Billy were their identically messy shocks of dirty hair, their very dark eyes, and their uncharmingly long and crooked Sean Penn noses.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreie6ew4yhwduw3gdnkmbabl3cqm5yi4jyq3mrsov5lo6dkblxt4mxi@jpeg)
![[Continued excerpt from Chapter 1 of "The Demon's Pawn" (by me):]
“Hot dog, Billy,” Andy said, to emphasize the point.
Billy’s head jerked around, and he managed to look Andy in the eye for more than a couple of seconds. Billy’s froggy voice, hindered by an uncooperative tongue that looked like it had had far more than enough of living inside Billy’s mouth and was trying hard to escape, just reinforced the idea that he should be living under a bridge somewhere, demanding payment from talking goats. “Dog is hot!” he said. Years of Billy’s neverending war on the conversational segue had trained Andy to be aware of his surroundings, and he knew his brother was talking about the little Wire-Haired Yap across the street.
“Yeah,” said Andy, “it’s hot out, man.” It was, too—hotter than usual for early March in the city.
“I know!” said Billy, but not in response to Andy. “That’s the way.” Any two sequential sentences (or words) of Billese rarely sounded like they were in any way connected, like he’d taken oratory classes from Christopher Walken.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreicfu3acbgd4n7wlb43vpa2uczylyw7gr5fojumxopx4nzk3fajqse@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#WIPsnips "city"
Chapter 1 of "The Demon's Pawn" opens with high-functioning sociopath Andy Trout walking his, ah, *less* high-functioning older brother Billy home from the Day Center.
#TheDemonsPawn🔪🩸
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP
Chapter 1 of "The Demon's Pawn" opens with high-functioning sociopath Andy Trout walking his, ah, *less* high-functioning older brother Billy home from the Day Center.
#TheDemonsPawn🔪🩸
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #WIP
Reposted by Geoph Essex 🤨💭 11742d/4h/3m; 16940d/18h/34m 🕟
Did I just affirmatively compare myself to Galileo?
Yeah, I guess so. Maybe I'm that good a writer. Maybe I'm a goddamn astronomical genius with prose. You didn't read my stuff. You don't know.
Buy a book or two that I wrote and have an informed opinion.
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Yeah, I guess so. Maybe I'm that good a writer. Maybe I'm a goddamn astronomical genius with prose. You didn't read my stuff. You don't know.
Buy a book or two that I wrote and have an informed opinion.
🤪
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December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Did I just affirmatively compare myself to Galileo?
Yeah, I guess so. Maybe I'm that good a writer. Maybe I'm a goddamn astronomical genius with prose. You didn't read my stuff. You don't know.
Buy a book or two that I wrote and have an informed opinion.
🤪
Yeah, I guess so. Maybe I'm that good a writer. Maybe I'm a goddamn astronomical genius with prose. You didn't read my stuff. You don't know.
Buy a book or two that I wrote and have an informed opinion.
🤪
…cf. certain extremely successful and famous filmmakers who haven't made as many movies that are quite so "universally adored" since they became extremely successful and famous.
Once the restraints are off and it's just 24/7 Yes Men, their weak spots, quirks, tics, and fetishes are all onscreen.
Once the restraints are off and it's just 24/7 Yes Men, their weak spots, quirks, tics, and fetishes are all onscreen.
I think about this a lot, I feel like it’s deeply related to generative AI
Some things in life are supposed to be a little bit hard! Some things should require effort! Human beings should routinely hear “no” and “not yet” and “you can’t do that” and “that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard”
Some things in life are supposed to be a little bit hard! Some things should require effort! Human beings should routinely hear “no” and “not yet” and “you can’t do that” and “that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard”
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
…cf. certain extremely successful and famous filmmakers who haven't made as many movies that are quite so "universally adored" since they became extremely successful and famous.
Once the restraints are off and it's just 24/7 Yes Men, their weak spots, quirks, tics, and fetishes are all onscreen.
Once the restraints are off and it's just 24/7 Yes Men, their weak spots, quirks, tics, and fetishes are all onscreen.
On one hand it's absolutely awesome when the latest version of an app I use the hell out of has all these kickass new features and improvements.
On the other hand that means another batch of clever workarounds and custom gizmos I worked up in previous versions are now rendered completely pointless.
On the other hand that means another batch of clever workarounds and custom gizmos I worked up in previous versions are now rendered completely pointless.
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
On one hand it's absolutely awesome when the latest version of an app I use the hell out of has all these kickass new features and improvements.
On the other hand that means another batch of clever workarounds and custom gizmos I worked up in previous versions are now rendered completely pointless.
On the other hand that means another batch of clever workarounds and custom gizmos I worked up in previous versions are now rendered completely pointless.
Momentarily mistook the initialism for a Canadian federal agency as the initialism for an American rock band and now I'm pretty convinced that there should be an action comedy called "Red Hot Mounted Police."
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Momentarily mistook the initialism for a Canadian federal agency as the initialism for an American rock band and now I'm pretty convinced that there should be an action comedy called "Red Hot Mounted Police."
Reposted by Geoph Essex 🤨💭 11742d/4h/3m; 16940d/18h/34m 🕟
It is so easy to spread misinformation when you don’t understand that correlation ≠ causation. A very good explanation!
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December 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It is so easy to spread misinformation when you don’t understand that correlation ≠ causation. A very good explanation!
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Look, there are WAY too many people who claim to be professional writers, then get book deals, and then I see the actual prose they put down on paper and…for fuck's sake.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Look, there are WAY too many people who claim to be professional writers, then get book deals, and then I see the actual prose they put down on paper and…for fuck's sake.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
No, this isn't "envy." This is Galileo under house arrest while the fucking Roman Inquisition decides what "proper" science is.
This seems entirely plausible.
If you haven't walked back your raving right-wing bullshit at THIS point, there's probably no way you're going to be able to successfully do it later (e.g., in court!), so they're just gonna run full speed ahead into the wall they should be lined up against.
If you haven't walked back your raving right-wing bullshit at THIS point, there's probably no way you're going to be able to successfully do it later (e.g., in court!), so they're just gonna run full speed ahead into the wall they should be lined up against.
i think the honest answer to this is that they don’t care. not in a doomer “we’re never having elections again” way, but they know they’re not getting reputable employment again after this, right wing griftosphere is the best they can expect, they need to keep up their giant piece of shit cred.
Does the White House think this is going to win them support with Gen Z?
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This seems entirely plausible.
If you haven't walked back your raving right-wing bullshit at THIS point, there's probably no way you're going to be able to successfully do it later (e.g., in court!), so they're just gonna run full speed ahead into the wall they should be lined up against.
If you haven't walked back your raving right-wing bullshit at THIS point, there's probably no way you're going to be able to successfully do it later (e.g., in court!), so they're just gonna run full speed ahead into the wall they should be lined up against.
Congratulations to the whole progressive slate that BLEW OUT the opposition here in Jersey City, including our new mayor and our new city council member (hell yeah Jake!).
And also congratulations to the lady who told off McGreevey's sleazy guy outside the polling center (our son's school) today. 🤘
And also congratulations to the lady who told off McGreevey's sleazy guy outside the polling center (our son's school) today. 🤘
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Congratulations to the whole progressive slate that BLEW OUT the opposition here in Jersey City, including our new mayor and our new city council member (hell yeah Jake!).
And also congratulations to the lady who told off McGreevey's sleazy guy outside the polling center (our son's school) today. 🤘
And also congratulations to the lady who told off McGreevey's sleazy guy outside the polling center (our son's school) today. 🤘
Saw "Arcadia" in London, 1994, and really dug it (it hit a lot of my niches, aside from my being in London in the first place to study acting).
Nice to know it had even greater impact.
Nice to know it had even greater impact.
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Saw "Arcadia" in London, 1994, and really dug it (it hit a lot of my niches, aside from my being in London in the first place to study acting).
Nice to know it had even greater impact.
Nice to know it had even greater impact.
Movie's opening credits: [innocently list a couple of executive producers]
My brain, immediately: "Hey, that guy's last name is an anagram of SHOVEL!"
Me: "…thanks? Can I watch the movie now?"
My brain, immediately: "Hey, that guy's last name is an anagram of SHOVEL!"
Me: "…thanks? Can I watch the movie now?"
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Movie's opening credits: [innocently list a couple of executive producers]
My brain, immediately: "Hey, that guy's last name is an anagram of SHOVEL!"
Me: "…thanks? Can I watch the movie now?"
My brain, immediately: "Hey, that guy's last name is an anagram of SHOVEL!"
Me: "…thanks? Can I watch the movie now?"
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A short(-ish) story: I briefly taught at this bizarre school built on the premise that any kids with social, emotional, or learning disabilities will learn better one-on-one. (I can't speak to how solid that theory is.)
There was this one kid who I was assigned to teach coding/development.
There was this one kid who I was assigned to teach coding/development.
August 5, 2024 at 5:43 PM
A short(-ish) story: I briefly taught at this bizarre school built on the premise that any kids with social, emotional, or learning disabilities will learn better one-on-one. (I can't speak to how solid that theory is.)
There was this one kid who I was assigned to teach coding/development.
There was this one kid who I was assigned to teach coding/development.
Motherfucker says he "aced" his cognitive tests when he couldn't fucking pass a *Rorschach* test.
December 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Motherfucker says he "aced" his cognitive tests when he couldn't fucking pass a *Rorschach* test.
Look, I was just shy of 8 years old when "Return of the Jedi" came out, so maybe I'm just projecting my own experience, but sometimes it feels like George Lucas didn't even know the English word "rancor" before the monster "rancor" (just like me), and it just turned out to be a useful coincidence.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Look, I was just shy of 8 years old when "Return of the Jedi" came out, so maybe I'm just projecting my own experience, but sometimes it feels like George Lucas didn't even know the English word "rancor" before the monster "rancor" (just like me), and it just turned out to be a useful coincidence.
"Oh, what have I seen you in?"
If I could answer that question, then you'd have seen me in your goddamn living room, looking over your shoulder while you're streaming whatever the hell it is you watch.
If I could answer that question, then you'd have seen me in your goddamn living room, looking over your shoulder while you're streaming whatever the hell it is you watch.
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Oh, what have I seen you in?"
If I could answer that question, then you'd have seen me in your goddamn living room, looking over your shoulder while you're streaming whatever the hell it is you watch.
If I could answer that question, then you'd have seen me in your goddamn living room, looking over your shoulder while you're streaming whatever the hell it is you watch.
Yeah, current tech still hasn't figured out how to reliably recommend a movie or song I'll like "based on" what else I've watched/listened to.
I'm not expecting it to figure out [checks notes] the incredibly complex and almost whimsically fickle tendencies of human opinions.
I'm not expecting it to figure out [checks notes] the incredibly complex and almost whimsically fickle tendencies of human opinions.
The supposed use of AI (a proprietary tool) is for public opinion measurement, and as someone who follows that side of the AI industry closely, I simply do not believe that it can do what it purports to do at least based on the claims here
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Yeah, current tech still hasn't figured out how to reliably recommend a movie or song I'll like "based on" what else I've watched/listened to.
I'm not expecting it to figure out [checks notes] the incredibly complex and almost whimsically fickle tendencies of human opinions.
I'm not expecting it to figure out [checks notes] the incredibly complex and almost whimsically fickle tendencies of human opinions.