i love you sandwich lad

The idea machine stopped working because you stopped paying it. Going all in on the 'steal other people's ideas' machine makes the problem worse. You don't care anyway, so why am I even writing this?

Every team needs a pervert and a racist. If either of them pauses or laughs at it then you scrap it

completely unrelated question: would you say the general grumpiness level of replies to bad news announcements like this is different here compared to twitter?

oooh yeah, i could zazz it up a bit
there's already perfectly good (and boring looking) signs up, i mainly just want something to be very, very grabby with eyes

If you hear them disengage after you bring up the morality of it, then attack from a profit point of view. Claim to be a shareholder (they can't check), and tell them that if they continue to deny a legal stream of income, you'll be forced to sell while your shares still have value.

Grats, doc! In my experience, when the chunkiest diaper stripes on god's marble are that pissed off at your existence, that's generally a very good sign you're doing something right.

This made me so joyous I had to do a little dance

Will, this isn't a death threat. It is how bluesky users communicate. If you don't like that, you are more than welcome to go somewhere else.

in short: Be yourself, and if you don't know who that is yet, keep at it. Find your tribe, and if you can't, forge your own and you'll have friends sooner than you think. And if someone doesn't like your tribe?

Well, fuck 'em. They can get their own. Love y'all.

providing me with a foil to grind off the casting-marks, flash, and scale. I would like to thank my current antagonists for reminding me that Mean Girls was just a movie, and Regina George doesn't exist.

I would like to also thank you, constant reader, for loving each other, and for loving pupkin.

And I am useful because I am proof to myself and the world that just because something really, REALLY should have killed you, doesn't mean that it will. I hit harder with a black eye.

I would like to thank my friends and loved ones for helping me realize who I have always been, and my fiends for