I swear, Andor has just ruined EVERYTHING for me. I need more capes. More razor-sharp monologues that cut me to the goddamn bone. Every monologue in Andor was a showstopper. "I SHARE MY DREAMS WITH GHOSTS." "WE'RE THE THING THAT EXPLODES WHEN THERE'S TOO MUCH FRICTION IN THE AIR." Gaaaahhhhhh!!!

Having read but a few of the opening lines, I know I'll need to read this when I'm not weening off of medication, and have mentally/emotionally fortified myself accordingly.

But thank you for the share.

I wasn't aware there was another kind beyond the stupid one at this point. Learn something new every day. Onto blocking them! Weeeeee!

So. It can burn down, is what you're saying. And it'd be suuuuuch a tragedy.

As a Montrealer, the hell with this guy. He can go to any number of the many libraries around.

Yup. Loved this article that broke down how these LLM's are pretty much pulling the Medium scam with cold reading, and it was disturbingly accurate.

I understand things are such crap that folks just wanna turn their brains off and automate their lives. But also. No. Hell no. Stop. Just...stop.

It cannot pop soon enough. It is a horrendous, money-laundering circle-jerk of techbros ruining shit for everyone. We could be spending all that money on ACTUAL, beneficial stuff. But no. We feed our taxes to the slop machines.

While AI scrape-bots steal years of my hard work (and that of so many of my contemporaries), watched lawsuits about ChatGPT assisting suicidal folks with how to off themselves, every art space flooded with garbage, and seeing water and electricity soaked up by datacentres to prop this up: STOP. PLS.

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On the plus side, you get one heck of a workout! And once you get down to the bone, that’ll be smooth as heck.

Ooh, nice. Just using a regular ol’ strip, or machine blasting it off? Always love hearing about people’s DIY projects.

Right? Gods forbid that people finally carve out a living with their creative works. Excuse me, I just need to go roll my eyes hard enough to bowl with them.

Oh, I am very well aware. It would just be their way of scooping up indie works, putting in little to no work, paying a crap advance, and hoping the book explodes, and if it doesn’t to just let it rot and never give it back.

All money flows up these days, not back down.

I also wouldn’t put it by industry people to do that with indies so that TradPub is the ”only real way” to make money, too.

It honestly, really wouldn’t surprise me at this point.

Big fan of B. Dylan Hollis’ cookbooks. Great humour, lovely quality, and some delightful gems in there.

Don't worry about me, but maybe share Skyla's direct buy store b/c that's where she makes the absolute most money - and she has vet bills. I cannot imagine seeing an author post "I have two cats nearing the end" and go oh, I should steal from her.

payhip.com/skyladawncam...

Without a doubt.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: American exceptionalism and manifest destiny is one helluva drug to deprogram, even out of the best of folks.