Will Kaufman
@specwill.bsky.social
He/him. Author of one story that did okay, and some other stories.
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Will Kaufman
@specwill.bsky.social
· Feb 21
I really miss Adobe Photoshop Mix because it let me realize my genius from my phone
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Tomorrow I will defeat my family.
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Tomorrow I will defeat my family.
The biggest pie fight ever filmed, from the Great Race starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk. One of my favorite movies as a kid, and the only necessary pie discourse.
youtube.com/watch?v=RCne...
youtube.com/watch?v=RCne...
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The biggest pie fight ever filmed, from the Great Race starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk. One of my favorite movies as a kid, and the only necessary pie discourse.
youtube.com/watch?v=RCne...
youtube.com/watch?v=RCne...
I don't need the world to admit mince pie is good, I know that's a lost cause, but I DO need more people to welcome rhubarb into their lives. And not strawberry rhubarb--rhubarb is only diminished by the pairing.
The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I don't need the world to admit mince pie is good, I know that's a lost cause, but I DO need more people to welcome rhubarb into their lives. And not strawberry rhubarb--rhubarb is only diminished by the pairing.
It's always really helpful to get a reminder your writing doesn't suck.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's always really helpful to get a reminder your writing doesn't suck.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
The ghouls usually surrounding Trump are all deeply uncharismatic people. Being around someone actually charismatic would be a real shock to the system.
But also...where were all the ghouls? Miller and Vance and the rest really left him alone with a charismatic leader?
But also...where were all the ghouls? Miller and Vance and the rest really left him alone with a charismatic leader?
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The ghouls usually surrounding Trump are all deeply uncharismatic people. Being around someone actually charismatic would be a real shock to the system.
But also...where were all the ghouls? Miller and Vance and the rest really left him alone with a charismatic leader?
But also...where were all the ghouls? Miller and Vance and the rest really left him alone with a charismatic leader?
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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In the last twenty years technology made a lot of tasks related to our consumptive lives a lot easier, and now no one working in tech can conceive of a human as having anything other than a consumptive life.
I do want Google computers to read my email and skim out the obvious spam; I didn't need Google computers reading my email to spam me with Google's own redundant and/or out-of-date alerts about package deliveries on top of the emails that already told me that information
Seems like that Gmail thing isn't true but maybe there's a lesson here about what happens when you keep turning new features on by default and you make it difficult or impossible to turn them off, and also what happens when you lump useful machine learning in with forced slop under the "AI" label
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In the last twenty years technology made a lot of tasks related to our consumptive lives a lot easier, and now no one working in tech can conceive of a human as having anything other than a consumptive life.
Capital wants to replace human workers without investing in changing the accomodations already in place for the shape of those workers. Literally every insanely overvalued company these days is built on the promise of replacing human workers.
one of the things I really do not understand is why so much of the development of robots seems to be focused on making them bipedal like humans. Why? It's an insane allocation of resources when it would be much easier to give them three or four "legs" or come up with some new system
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Capital wants to replace human workers without investing in changing the accomodations already in place for the shape of those workers. Literally every insanely overvalued company these days is built on the promise of replacing human workers.
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Because you don't know who these people are. You don't know what these organizations are. These are just names. You don't care because no one's giving you a reason to.
You're being TOLD this is weighty and important stuff, not being SHOWN that it is.
You gotta be *Character First, Concept Second.*
You're being TOLD this is weighty and important stuff, not being SHOWN that it is.
You gotta be *Character First, Concept Second.*
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Because you don't know who these people are. You don't know what these organizations are. These are just names. You don't care because no one's giving you a reason to.
You're being TOLD this is weighty and important stuff, not being SHOWN that it is.
You gotta be *Character First, Concept Second.*
You're being TOLD this is weighty and important stuff, not being SHOWN that it is.
You gotta be *Character First, Concept Second.*
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Shining a bat signal, but it's in the shape of a pizza slice:
Looking for good guests for Library Pizza, my very casual, frequently silly podcast about reading. You can listen at librarypizza.com.
Looking for good guests for Library Pizza, my very casual, frequently silly podcast about reading. You can listen at librarypizza.com.
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Shining a bat signal, but it's in the shape of a pizza slice:
Looking for good guests for Library Pizza, my very casual, frequently silly podcast about reading. You can listen at librarypizza.com.
Looking for good guests for Library Pizza, my very casual, frequently silly podcast about reading. You can listen at librarypizza.com.
Too much, but very smooth, foreskin that doesn't retract. Pomaded pubes.
Late night thought: we know that Odo struggles with the details of humans in Deep Space Nine, it’s why his hair and face are like that, but he also canonically fucks. This raises a question, when he fucked did his boner look like an uncooked hot dog?
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Too much, but very smooth, foreskin that doesn't retract. Pomaded pubes.
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It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
One thing I don't remember ever seeing on all the "bookshelf red flag" posts (yes I'm years late to the party) was "all best sellers." Like, if you haven't picked up weird random shit in a used bookstore, or at least dug deeper at B&N than the tables up front, we're not compatible.
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
One thing I don't remember ever seeing on all the "bookshelf red flag" posts (yes I'm years late to the party) was "all best sellers." Like, if you haven't picked up weird random shit in a used bookstore, or at least dug deeper at B&N than the tables up front, we're not compatible.
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wait, why did Brainworm and Dr. Snakeoil get obsessed with Canadian ostriches with bird flu? How does this further their part in the dismantling of the American state?
November 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Wait, why did Brainworm and Dr. Snakeoil get obsessed with Canadian ostriches with bird flu? How does this further their part in the dismantling of the American state?
Imported prosciutto and provolone with the works add hot mix from Bay Cities in Santa Monica. I'll throw my shoe and hop home instead.
what is your favorite sandwich that you would never throw at anyone?
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Imported prosciutto and provolone with the works add hot mix from Bay Cities in Santa Monica. I'll throw my shoe and hop home instead.
Yeah, we should all be pretty clear about the fact that slashing US AID was done specifically to kill brown people because Musk is obsessed with white replacement. The killing wasn't a side effect of "saving money," it was the point.
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Yeah, we should all be pretty clear about the fact that slashing US AID was done specifically to kill brown people because Musk is obsessed with white replacement. The killing wasn't a side effect of "saving money," it was the point.
The framing for all these conservatives suddenly sharing voting maps shouldn't be, "lol, these morons think land votes," because the ones in charge definitely don't think that. The correct framing is, "this is dangerous people trying to establish a narrative to further disenfranchise voters."
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The framing for all these conservatives suddenly sharing voting maps shouldn't be, "lol, these morons think land votes," because the ones in charge definitely don't think that. The correct framing is, "this is dangerous people trying to establish a narrative to further disenfranchise voters."
Holy shit. A babysitter rented this movie one night when I was like 11 and I never remembered it's name. I spent years trying to figure out wtf it was as an adult but never could. Then this comes across my feed. Man, I have such vivid memories from this movie. youtu.be/yJk7m-kjVmc
FREAKED (1993) | Official Trailer [4K]
YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment
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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Holy shit. A babysitter rented this movie one night when I was like 11 and I never remembered it's name. I spent years trying to figure out wtf it was as an adult but never could. Then this comes across my feed. Man, I have such vivid memories from this movie. youtu.be/yJk7m-kjVmc
Just realized "The Day Dick Cheney Died" maps to American Pie.
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Just realized "The Day Dick Cheney Died" maps to American Pie.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Current political divides mean there are people in our streets who don't think other humans deserve human rights, including the right to exist. It strongly disincentivizes interacting w/ strangers. A space where you can feel pretty sure about a baseline for the people around you is a big deal.
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Current political divides mean there are people in our streets who don't think other humans deserve human rights, including the right to exist. It strongly disincentivizes interacting w/ strangers. A space where you can feel pretty sure about a baseline for the people around you is a big deal.
Just catching up on @clppng.bsky.social and saw the Mirrorshades video. Had to go get my copy off the shelf...
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Just catching up on @clppng.bsky.social and saw the Mirrorshades video. Had to go get my copy off the shelf...
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.