Sean Connell
@slcpgh.bsky.social
Wordsmith, educator, parent (not in order of importance). Now quasi-librarian. Opinions are frequent and vociferous and very much not representative of my employer who shall not be named. He/Him.
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Sean Connell
@slcpgh.bsky.social
· Apr 23
Speaking of such things…
New followers (that are actual people and/or sentient bots): Hi, welcome!
Are you sure about this?
No, really, are you sure this is wise?
I swear a lot, am frequently angry lately, but there are occasional cat and food posts.
Gallows humor is all I’ve got.
New followers (that are actual people and/or sentient bots): Hi, welcome!
Are you sure about this?
No, really, are you sure this is wise?
I swear a lot, am frequently angry lately, but there are occasional cat and food posts.
Gallows humor is all I’ve got.
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The rest of the damn Easy Rawlins books
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The rest of the damn Easy Rawlins books
I know, as in personally know, good writers, talented and hard working writers, who, for whatever reason, did not get visited by the writing luck fairy and had their “careers” stall out after a handful of books. Sometimes it just doesn’t happen.
Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
Would-be/struggling writers can feel like losers or wannabes when they read about other writers writing "full time" or promo'ing their book in various exotic cities. And it's good to recognize that, yeah, sometimes there's another income (or a spouse is helping to pay the bills).
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I know, as in personally know, good writers, talented and hard working writers, who, for whatever reason, did not get visited by the writing luck fairy and had their “careers” stall out after a handful of books. Sometimes it just doesn’t happen.
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I posted this fundraiser for our local shelter less than 24 hours ago and we're already 1/3 of the way to the goal! This has certainly given me a much-needed infusion of holiday cheer you guys, thank you! givebutter.com/n5l31M
Molly's Holiday Fundraiser 2025
Make Winter Merry and Bright in Honor of Fergus
givebutter.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I posted this fundraiser for our local shelter less than 24 hours ago and we're already 1/3 of the way to the goal! This has certainly given me a much-needed infusion of holiday cheer you guys, thank you! givebutter.com/n5l31M
We should be fucking ashamed of ourselves, and that we are not is inexcusable.
From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We should be fucking ashamed of ourselves, and that we are not is inexcusable.
Sun? In November?
We report: around noon, the air is dry and the sky is blue like it has never rained before. It feels this way, despite the full gutters, the puddles, the mud we track wherever we go. The sun is as bright as it gets in late November, and the wind is a whistle instead of a howl.
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Sun? In November?
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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this fucking humans Shirt. Call me a species traitor if you want, but I'm with the cat on this one.
collabs.shop/lmfasw
collabs.shop/lmfasw
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this fucking humans Shirt. Call me a species traitor if you want, but I'm with the cat on this one.
collabs.shop/lmfasw
collabs.shop/lmfasw
Didn’t we just debunk that whole “blue zone” bullshit? Pretty sure we did.
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to mean delicious but unhealthy dishes. You can have flavor plus boost longevity with these five tips from blue zone researcher Dan Buettner. https://cnn.it/4rAnU6m
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Didn’t we just debunk that whole “blue zone” bullshit? Pretty sure we did.
They wouldn’t know who mourns for Morn.
It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
They wouldn’t know who mourns for Morn.
Also the best pecan pies are the miniature ones. I don’t know why. This is absolutely not true for any other pie. But nonetheless.
throwing in my one pie 🔥 take:
pecan pie is mostly a round version of a candy bar* you’d find in the southern states at a tourist trap gas station on I-95 that also has bins of dried alligator claws for sale, but not really pie
*this is not to say that said candy bars are not also delicious
pecan pie is mostly a round version of a candy bar* you’d find in the southern states at a tourist trap gas station on I-95 that also has bins of dried alligator claws for sale, but not really pie
*this is not to say that said candy bars are not also delicious
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Also the best pecan pies are the miniature ones. I don’t know why. This is absolutely not true for any other pie. But nonetheless.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Can you be charged with animal cruelty for neglecting your Tamagotchi back in 1996? Some private pilots are saying yes
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Can you be charged with animal cruelty for neglecting your Tamagotchi back in 1996? Some private pilots are saying yes
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My friend Nancy recused an awesome stray cat, but it needed some significant vet care and the bills are piling up. If you could throw even a little cash Nancy's way, you'd be helping both her and the kitty a lot. Please repost this. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
Donate to Help OB the Stray Cat Heal and Find a Home, organized by Nancy Collins
Hi, my name is Nancy A. Collins. Some of you might know me as a novelist and … Nancy Collins needs your support for Help OB the Stray Cat Heal and Find a Home
www.gofundme.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My friend Nancy recused an awesome stray cat, but it needed some significant vet care and the bills are piling up. If you could throw even a little cash Nancy's way, you'd be helping both her and the kitty a lot. Please repost this. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ob-th...
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“Every Thanksgiving, Uncle Charlie would get blitzed on Blue Ribbon and we’d have to wrestle the turkey away from him before he’d pass out, face first in the stuffing, mumbling about how we didn’t appreciate everything his generation did for us.
He’s dead now.”
He’s dead now.”
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
“Every Thanksgiving, Uncle Charlie would get blitzed on Blue Ribbon and we’d have to wrestle the turkey away from him before he’d pass out, face first in the stuffing, mumbling about how we didn’t appreciate everything his generation did for us.
He’s dead now.”
He’s dead now.”
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Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
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Pretty sure Marx did not say "steal from artists so that you're directly exploiting labor for your own selfish gain" because that would not in fact be anti-capitalist.
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
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every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Pretty sure Marx did not say "steal from artists so that you're directly exploiting labor for your own selfish gain" because that would not in fact be anti-capitalist.
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MPA Rates ‘Zootopia 2’ PG-13 For Sexually Awakening Content https://theonion.com/mpa-rates-zootopia-2-pg-13-for-sexually-awakening-content/
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
MPA Rates ‘Zootopia 2’ PG-13 For Sexually Awakening Content https://theonion.com/mpa-rates-zootopia-2-pg-13-for-sexually-awakening-content/
Because it deserves alt text
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Because it deserves alt text
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Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
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It is Egyptologists’ favourite time of the year again.
December 1, 2024 at 6:00 PM
It is Egyptologists’ favourite time of the year again.
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
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If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
This is the only thing I would accept her in.
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is the only thing I would accept her in.
A movie I have seen at least half a dozen times, have owned in multiple formats, and was fortunate enough to see on a bug screen last year (the director’s cut, no less).
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
A movie I have seen at least half a dozen times, have owned in multiple formats, and was fortunate enough to see on a bug screen last year (the director’s cut, no less).
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.