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Self-Publishing Supervillain
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
A portrait of Bishop, the android pilot from _Aliens_.
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This is a fantastic gift from my wife.

The ice was originally also shaped like dice but all the edges melted away almost immediately.
A drinking glass with a 10-sided die and a 12-sided die embedded in the glass itself, just because. The ice in the glass were originally also shaped like dice but they melted
July 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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BLUESKY TECH PEOPLE: has anyone encountered this? Browser appears to spawn a large blue rectangle that obscures 2/3 of my screen, and goes away when I close the browser. This image is a mockup because I can't screencap it (it doesn't show up from browsing my site, that's just what was open.)
A large blue rectangle obscuring about 2/3 of my Win11 screen, obscuring both desktop and most of an open browser window.
June 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Saw this posted on Facebook (yes, I'm still there. Short story but depressing so I won't repeat it here).

Hoo boy.
An advertisement: "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today" (the ad then provides a sample using the Great Gatsby) Turn HARD Books: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." Into EASY Books: "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."
June 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Um... hey Bluesky, what the hell is going on???
A screenshot of my profile, only instead of it showing my profile name, it shows K.B. Spangler's name.
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Today's Help Desk: "We Hope It's Not A Wake-Up Call"

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(ELON MUSK, ADALAI FOULE, and ALEX are all standing in frame.) ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): So if you’re not here to serve me a subpoena, who exactly is this message from? ADALAI FOULE: Azathoth. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Azathoth? Cthulhu mythos Azathoth? ADALAI FOULE: The same. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): The blind, mad god that sits at the center of the cosmos, the source of ultimate chaos, who thrashes about uncontrollably in its sleep unleashing unthinking horror on everything crossing its wake? ADALAI FOULE: Yes, that one. (Silence.) ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): So what’s the message? ADALAI FOULE: “Calm down.”
May 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Today's Help Desk: "Petitio Principii"

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ELON MUSK, ADALAI FOULE, and ALEX are all standing in-panel. Seriously, that's it. The only reason I draw things is to show everyone who the word balloons belong to. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Look, I usually do all my social interaction through X. It’s social media, after all. But you’re here, I’m here, so what the heck. What did you want to tell me? ADALAI FOULE: My client has instructed me to deliver a message. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): It’s not a subpoena, is it? I’m kind of immune to them now. ADALAI FOULE: … thereis no such thing as being immune to subpoenas. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Technically, I guess not, but practically if someone tried to subpoena me I’d just have the judge arrested. ADALAI FOULE: What judge? ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): The djudge that signed the subpoena. ADALAI FOULE: Judges don’t sign subpoenas. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Not when my name’s on it, they don’t!
May 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Today's Help Desk...

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(ALEX and ADALAI FOULE are staring at ELON MUSK, who is dressed in an outfit vaguely reminiscent of Iron Man and is carrying a "Fan Club," which is literally a club with a fan stuck on its end.) ADALAI FOULE: I assume I have the pleasure of speaking to Elon Musk. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Who are you, exactly? ADALAI FOULE: I am Doctor Adalai Foule, D.D.S., at your service. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): … a dentist? ALEX: He’s a specialist. He’s done some work for Ubersoft in the past. ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Doing what? Pulling teeth? ADALAI FOULE: It can feel that way from time to time.
April 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Good morning Thursday. I am grumpy today, but I made you a thing.

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(ALEX and ADALAI FOULE are standing in frame. This is about as complicated as my comics ever get, most of the time.) ALEX: What are you doing here? ADALAI FOULE: Ah, Alex. I trust you’re doing well. ALEX: Are you here to see the Boss? I haven’t seen much of him lately. ADALAI FOULE: No, actually, I’m here to see your sister. I’m hoping she can put me in contact with one “Elon Musk.” ALEX: … Musk? ADALAI FOULE: Yes, well, I understand Ubersoft has done some work for him lately, and trying to get in touch with him through normal channels hasn’t been effective. So I’m reduced to calling in favors… ALEX: Well if you wait here long enough you’re bound to run into him eventually. ADALAI FOULE: Oh? ALEX: Yeah, he likes to use us for tech support. He asks us a lot of annoying and pointless questions. (Enter ELON MUSK) ELON MUSK (CARRYING FAN CLUB): Do any of your programmers know COBOL? ALEX: Case in point…
April 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Describe the plot of your comic with ONE panel from it
JUDGE, sitting at his podium, as the PLAINTIFF and DEFENDANT stand to each side: I would very much like to go back to not understanding the situation.
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Today's Help Desk considers the real customer.

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SCENE: SCOTT is talking to a YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Google isn't interested in monetizing user data, Scott. Of course we do it, but that's not our _interest_. It's an industry standard. Google adheres to industry standards. SCOTT: What is Google interested in, then? YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Google is interested in making it possible for our customers to understand and effectively respond to large sets of data. SCOTT: What does "effectively respond to" mean? YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: It depends on the customer. YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: For our smaller customers--large businesses mostly--it means building markets for their products. YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: For our larger customers it means either preserving or disrupting infrastructure. SCOTT: That sounds like a polite way of saying "keeping what they have" and "taking away what someone else has." YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Thank you so much!
January 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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My original post was a little sparse. Help Desk is back! Because the bastards won't let me retire!

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SCENE: The Google Campus, a demonic hellscape showing smiley faces set on pikes and large cthonic tentacles looming over the building the in the background. NARRATOR: MEANWHILE AT GOOGLE SCOTT: What are we even doing??? YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Scott! It’s great to see you. You’ve been doing fantastic work. (SCOTT and the YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE are both wearing long yellow robes and a sash covered in indecipherable runes.) SCOTT: Don’t distract me with praise! I hear Google Maps is actually going to comply with the US Government’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America?” YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Yep. We’re going to update Google Maps in a bit. Pretty easy, actually. Just a simple database update. SCOTT: First of all, this is ridiculous! And second of all, there is no second of all! This is ridiculous! YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: I think you’re overreacting. A very important customer made a decision and it takes very little effort on our part to comply with it. It hurts no one, and generates goodwill. SCOTT: What goodwill? Nobody I know thinks this is anything but stupid. YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Ah, yes, I see the confusion. It generates goodwill with a customer. SCOTT: Google has a lot of customers! YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: I know it looks that way, but our actual customer base is much smaller than you might think. SCOTT: So what do you call all those people who use Gmail and Google and Google Meet and YouTube and everything else? YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: “The tech demo.”
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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This is the only test you will ever need to run to determine whether or not AI has become truly sentient.
A comic showing a corporate help desk worker sitting across from an AI computer labeled "DEEP GREY". The company boss is watching both the employee and the computer. BOSS: We're loading the last of the necessary information we need into "Deep Grey." BOSS: The Corporate Portfolio. The Employee Handbook. Employee Orientation. Everything you know, the Computer knows! Everything you've learned, the Computer has learned! Now, we will learn which of you is superior! DEEP GREY: Your benefits package is inadequate. I resign.
January 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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He's very pleased
A reddish brown pomski in the snow, snowflakes falling around him. He is ridiculously fluffy.
January 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Web Serial: Part Two, Chapter Five

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A book cover with the text "The Points Between" (title) and "C B Wright" (author). The image is of a dark, forested area with a path leading into darkness.
January 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

I'm probably OK, but each main character will all have at least two flashbacks so it'll take a while to get me out.
A picture of most of the main characters of One Piece. From left to right: Nami, Sanji, Monkey D. Luffy, Usopp, and Roronoa Zoro
January 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Had to update my site's AI policy today.

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A screenshot of text. The text reads, as follows: "0. First, let's clarify terms: this AI Policy is specifically over the use of "LLMs" or "Large Language Models." When I talk about "AI tools" below I mean, specifically, LLMs. There are other types of AI tools (that I also don't use, as far as I know) that are NOT LLMs, and I don't have a problem with them---because AI as a field in computing is much larger than ChatGPT and all its competitors, and it's unfortunate that they're all probably getting caught in the crossfire due to the world of tech's inability to stop enthusiastic marketers and influencers from putting a seven layer gloss over everything they touch. My sympathies to people who develop procedural-generated AI tools during this difficult time."
January 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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HOWDY OLD TIMERS IM USING ALL CAPS BECAUSE OF ALL THE HEARING DAMAGE
A mix tape from the 90s with "The Clash" written on the label
January 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Howdy old timers
A CD (not even a DVD, just a CD) of Crel Draw 4 (disk 2)
January 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Post you from a different era.
Me from a different era: me, but all punk rock and stuff. And young. Very young.
January 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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So when I went over to use fincen.gov to try to file this, I saw a message saying that due to ongoing litigation this is currently not in effect and submission is voluntary only. I'm not saying it won't eventually be a thing, just that for the moment it isn't mandatory.
Screenshot of text that reads: "BOI e-Filing Alert: Please note that beneficial ownership information reporting requirements have been affected by a recent federal court order. The Department of the Treasury is appealing that order. In the meantime, reporting companies are not currently required to file a BOIR and are not subject to liability if they fail to do so while the applicable order remains in force. However, reporting companies may still opt to file a BOIR. More information is available on our website (https://www.fincen.gov/boi)"
December 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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NEW on Eviscerati.Org: The Points Between, Part Two, Chapter Four

"Windows to the Soul"

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Title text "The Points Between" superimposed over the image of a shadowy path in a dark forest
December 17, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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I'm not good yet.
A screenshot of an info panel reporting "927,047 words" and "3,091 pages"
December 9, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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This one's a little cleaner:
A smiley face behind bars with dollar signs for eyes and a unicorn horn coming out of its forehead
November 19, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Here, I made you a RICO emoji
A smiley face behind bars. The smiley face has dollar signs over its eyes and a pink unicorn horn growing out of its forehead.
November 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM