J. Marshall Freeman
@jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, musician, queer aesthete, Toronto biker, older and only marginally wiser.
jmarshallfreeman.com My new short story collection, "To Wrap Yourself in Light," is now available on Amazon.
jmarshallfreeman.com My new short story collection, "To Wrap Yourself in Light," is now available on Amazon.
ChatGPT can't create beauty. At best, it can get lucky as it imitates the beauty of actual human creators.
Get back to work, humans. We need to this ourselves.
Get back to work, humans. We need to this ourselves.
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
ChatGPT can't create beauty. At best, it can get lucky as it imitates the beauty of actual human creators.
Get back to work, humans. We need to this ourselves.
Get back to work, humans. We need to this ourselves.
Stephen Harper, Conservative PM of Canada 2006–2015, friend of oil companies, muzzled ministers and government scientists from talking to the press about climate change. He closed climate labs and threw taxpayer-funded research into the dumpsters. Scientists were dumpster diving to save their work.
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Stephen Harper, Conservative PM of Canada 2006–2015, friend of oil companies, muzzled ministers and government scientists from talking to the press about climate change. He closed climate labs and threw taxpayer-funded research into the dumpsters. Scientists were dumpster diving to save their work.
Where are you doing Yiddish translation exercises? I have so much passive Yiddish knowledge; it would be a great thing to formalize it.
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Where are you doing Yiddish translation exercises? I have so much passive Yiddish knowledge; it would be a great thing to formalize it.
In fact, one of the biggest problems in the world is we’re chock full of amazing and innovative and fact-checked ideas about improving climate, economy, work-life balance… and we have a corporate-powered political machine doing everything to stop their implementation.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In fact, one of the biggest problems in the world is we’re chock full of amazing and innovative and fact-checked ideas about improving climate, economy, work-life balance… and we have a corporate-powered political machine doing everything to stop their implementation.
Look, Radiohead is… just on the brink of becoming cringe parent music for some people. I know it; I can feel the wind starting to shift. And I will keep listening obsessively for the rest of my life. Never let someone else’s cringe-metre determine your taste.
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Look, Radiohead is… just on the brink of becoming cringe parent music for some people. I know it; I can feel the wind starting to shift. And I will keep listening obsessively for the rest of my life. Never let someone else’s cringe-metre determine your taste.
Amazing and tender and sexy.
December 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Amazing and tender and sexy.
Hobbits are looking good these days
December 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hobbits are looking good these days
WTF! After the Bondi attack—and whether this is reasonable or not—It’s very hard for my brain not to go to anti-semitic murder.
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
WTF! After the Bondi attack—and whether this is reasonable or not—It’s very hard for my brain not to go to anti-semitic murder.
Super sweet.
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Super sweet.
Farmers feed cities Christmas trees
December 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Farmers feed cities Christmas trees
Or as i like to say, “Penis potato.”
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Or as i like to say, “Penis potato.”
And Trump promised to get you dick on DAY ONE of his administration!
December 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And Trump promised to get you dick on DAY ONE of his administration!
The great dick shortage of 2025.
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The great dick shortage of 2025.
Pure homophobia from online retailers. Makes me furious. Great image.
December 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Pure homophobia from online retailers. Makes me furious. Great image.
Taste your ecstatics
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Taste your ecstatics
Wow, Reagan had to climb all the way up from Hell. That's dedication.
December 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Wow, Reagan had to climb all the way up from Hell. That's dedication.
Who is the artist?
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Who is the artist?
Oh, sorry, that was one of the scenes you already referenced. Ignore "Also."
December 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Oh, sorry, that was one of the scenes you already referenced. Ignore "Also."
I agree. As soon as I posted, I thought, "Americans wouldn't put down their guns; they'd try to buy bigger ones than the Predator has."
December 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I agree. As soon as I posted, I thought, "Americans wouldn't put down their guns; they'd try to buy bigger ones than the Predator has."