On A Midnight Run
@midnight-runner.bsky.social
Real live adult. Crime Writer. Editing my ms before querying. You might know me from Tumblr under a different name.
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Important PSA: I hope you never see other artists as competition. Please take their success as proof that you can also succeed here.
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Important PSA: I hope you never see other artists as competition. Please take their success as proof that you can also succeed here.
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This poll dropping 24 hours after so many people freaked out at Jamelle for saying that front-facing social media was the best way to reach persuadable citizens is pretty funny
Also, lol Twitter
Also, lol Twitter
Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This poll dropping 24 hours after so many people freaked out at Jamelle for saying that front-facing social media was the best way to reach persuadable citizens is pretty funny
Also, lol Twitter
Also, lol Twitter
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Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd:
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
December 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd:
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.
So many people say "but I prefer text-based formats" when stuff like this comes up, hoping to be the exception to the rule, but their browsing habits don't reflect that. Blah blah bots, but all the metrics suggest that you spend far more time and energy interacting with these visual platforms.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So many people say "but I prefer text-based formats" when stuff like this comes up, hoping to be the exception to the rule, but their browsing habits don't reflect that. Blah blah bots, but all the metrics suggest that you spend far more time and energy interacting with these visual platforms.
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What a friendly thing to say. Very generous to of you to think of us during our most recent mass shooting and share news of your better one. Thanks for this friendly message, friend. I don’t think any of us were aware there could be such laws or indeed a better way of living. Good lookin’ out
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What a friendly thing to say. Very generous to of you to think of us during our most recent mass shooting and share news of your better one. Thanks for this friendly message, friend. I don’t think any of us were aware there could be such laws or indeed a better way of living. Good lookin’ out
"Boomer here. I need to make everything about me; I'm reactive and weirdly aggressive, while still maintaining that I'm somehow different from every other frothing, high strung moron."
Boomer here. We literally invented the internet.
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"Boomer here. I need to make everything about me; I'm reactive and weirdly aggressive, while still maintaining that I'm somehow different from every other frothing, high strung moron."
I feel like there's a big difference b/w "politically engaged" and "watching the government like I'm an undersupported teacher for a classroom of 30 first graders who are geese or maybe in the raptor family," and--like--we've been in the latter category for like an untenable amount of time.
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I feel like there's a big difference b/w "politically engaged" and "watching the government like I'm an undersupported teacher for a classroom of 30 first graders who are geese or maybe in the raptor family," and--like--we've been in the latter category for like an untenable amount of time.
Instead of giving them the traffic, go help a struggling author or artist by doing literally anything: like a post, share it, comment. Anything.
You don't need to read it to dunk on them, but that artist lives and dies on a couple clicks.
You don't need to read it to dunk on them, but that artist lives and dies on a couple clicks.
I’ll save you a click:
The Atlantic is trending because they put out an article saying that it’s “anti-worker” to fire the white woman at Cinnabon who screamed slurs at Somali customers and yelled at them to “suck it”.
The Atlantic is trending because they put out an article saying that it’s “anti-worker” to fire the white woman at Cinnabon who screamed slurs at Somali customers and yelled at them to “suck it”.
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Instead of giving them the traffic, go help a struggling author or artist by doing literally anything: like a post, share it, comment. Anything.
You don't need to read it to dunk on them, but that artist lives and dies on a couple clicks.
You don't need to read it to dunk on them, but that artist lives and dies on a couple clicks.
Isolating us is purposeful and very, very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Isolating us is purposeful and very, very bad.
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That's it. That's the show.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
That's it. That's the show.
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sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world
I might regret crossing streams (and I might end up deleting this), but if you're curious about how the professional writing stuff is going, I have separate accounts.
I know it's asking a lot, but a positive action readers can take is to interact with our stuff. Any of it. Right now (at this point in my career), it feels like single writers are called to be full media companies, and it's not our natural lane
I'm a one-on-one type. Daily life involves caretaking.
I'm a one-on-one type. Daily life involves caretaking.
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I might regret crossing streams (and I might end up deleting this), but if you're curious about how the professional writing stuff is going, I have separate accounts.
This is how I looked trying to do a pull up in middle school, when I was still growing into my body and my nervous system was working on catching up.
These Trump cabinet secretaries sure do like being filmed unable to do a single pull up
a man is doing pull ups on a bar in a gym while people watch .
Alt: Pete Hegseth trying and failing to do a pull-up
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is how I looked trying to do a pull up in middle school, when I was still growing into my body and my nervous system was working on catching up.
I think a compilation of all these sweaty half pull-ups needs to be used as a campaign ad that never stops playing on local TV stations.
Yes the HHS Secretary just attempted and failed to do one complete pull up while rocking an untucked shirt and pit stains on TV, totally normal behavior for the HHS Secretary
In line for the TSA behind this guy
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I think a compilation of all these sweaty half pull-ups needs to be used as a campaign ad that never stops playing on local TV stations.
When left to their own devices, they build religious practices around it...
Some days, AI feels like a penis.
1) Tech bros are proud of theirs.
2) It's been shoved everywhere.
3) No one demands it.
4) Completely useless for most.
1) Tech bros are proud of theirs.
2) It's been shoved everywhere.
3) No one demands it.
4) Completely useless for most.
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
When left to their own devices, they build religious practices around it...
Back in my day, we'd call this a head canon, and you'd write a fan fiction about it
How about you just watch the tv show like a normal person?
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Back in my day, we'd call this a head canon, and you'd write a fan fiction about it
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No.
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
No.
Yeah, alright I guess LOL
These bots are out of hand. But when I see that kind of follower/following ratio, I generally write them off.
These bots are out of hand. But when I see that kind of follower/following ratio, I generally write them off.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Yeah, alright I guess LOL
These bots are out of hand. But when I see that kind of follower/following ratio, I generally write them off.
These bots are out of hand. But when I see that kind of follower/following ratio, I generally write them off.
100%. As a disabled person (who ironically just spoke on this on Tumblr), I want a world where I have the freedom to determine my own accommodations and take them. If you free up the space, I can get what I need.
Making me petition for sth we can all be doing (or I can min. do myself) is a cruelty
Making me petition for sth we can all be doing (or I can min. do myself) is a cruelty
When someone asks for accommodation it's because they want to do their best, to show up as best they can - for themselves, for you, for others, and for the situation.
This is great. I think the whole idea of accommodation should rightly be an invitation to reject an ableist, eugenicist approach to the world and instead ask "What if we want to give *everyone* the chance to do their best?"
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
100%. As a disabled person (who ironically just spoke on this on Tumblr), I want a world where I have the freedom to determine my own accommodations and take them. If you free up the space, I can get what I need.
Making me petition for sth we can all be doing (or I can min. do myself) is a cruelty
Making me petition for sth we can all be doing (or I can min. do myself) is a cruelty
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I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
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November 13, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Once again, outsourcing critical public infrastructure to Silicon Valley dorks was maybe not the smartest move in hindsight.
Make Uber aware and if they don’t do anything, add them to the boycott list
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Once again, outsourcing critical public infrastructure to Silicon Valley dorks was maybe not the smartest move in hindsight.
Ya gotta watch this one! This riff is the one I come back to over and over when I need a good lift.
Streaming for free on YouTube!
YAY YAY! (<— watch and this will make “sense”)
YAY YAY! (<— watch and this will make “sense”)
Who needs the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade when you have the fever dream of Fun In Balloonland? Please enjoy about ~1 minute of the most insane yet somehow real footage you will ever see.
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Ya gotta watch this one! This riff is the one I come back to over and over when I need a good lift.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM