my gift guide is you should buy cool stuff created by cool people on bluesky.

buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc.

(and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)

LOL, there's a dickhead out there who thinks Booktok invented the romance genre.

How does he even tie his SHOES?

In other words: crap is more expensive than it was last year, so folks spent more

And they're desperate enough to hop on any perceived sale AI drives them to

And because of dynamic pricing algorithms tailored to each shopper's data, folks may perceive a sale even when it isn't

But sure woohoo $$$

Y'all remember that part in Battlestar Galactica when Gen. Adama explains to Pres. Roslin that the military is to protect the people from outside threats (e.g. cylons), and he cannot and will not allow them to be pointed at their own civilian population in the name of policing the unruly?

I do.

Here. Have a cat photo.

Not-so-scary Haunted House construction nears the end. These things made with cardboard, glue, paint, castoffs, and creativity are the antithesis of generative AI; experience it.

I will never use spicy auto-correct in my writing, because if I can't be arsed to write it myself, how can I ask you to read it? All the fuck-ups and typos are my own, and always will be.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Thinking about where all the money went that was "saved" by cutting "wasteful spending" and firing all those gov employees.

Their idea of “can’t afford it.”

I may have left this on my desk a week ago, then went on vacation.

Wondering if my supervisors will comment on Monday.

Not a single law exists to legislate a man’s body. Not one. At the same time, over 1,000 laws across the US include restrictions for women and gender-expansive people.

🎞️ by Meghan Smith Campbell

It's been my experience that many of the people who denigrate any sort of genre writing don't read much or any of it, or if they ever did, it was decades ago. It's easy to minimize what you don't read, in a market segment you don't know how to address, with an audience you won't deign to approach.

Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact.
Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative AI models comes with environmental consequences, including increased electricity demand and water consumption.
news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS VIDEO OF CHAOTIC MOO DENG!

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