TL;DR:

Fuck Republicans trying to move health insurance back into something only for the healthy.

And fuck America for not treating medical coverage as a basic human right.

Even with ACA, ask any number of writers & designers how messed up it was that they couldn't afford enough insurance to cover their serious issues.

Except often you can't: they're dead.

The ACA is just good enough for my well-paid tech writing. Not for others, so definitely don't make it worse!

Why have I been able to do freelance work the last six years, including producing six books (to date, with three more done soon)? That'd be because of ACA.

Without it, I'd be sitting around praying I didn't get seriously sick, because freelance work can literally kill you in America.

I can similarly generate writing that might take me hours by dropping a few thousand Scrabble tiles on the floor.

"Actually, ..."

Yeah, no.

You're dumping random code from StackOverflow into your codebase, resulting in an undocumented morass of code, some of it totally useless, and leaving it for the next set of programmers to clean up after you.

Seen it. Seen time wasted. Seen contracts lost because of it.

Instead of "I used AI to write my term paper" say "I cheated to write my term paper and learned nothing".

Instead of "I used AI to vibe code" say "I used a random mixture of working and broken code from Stack Overflow to try and avoid actually coding".

(Privacy Badger is *not* an ad blocker, but it does block sites that track you in violation of your requests.)

Reading Kieron Gillen's Doctor Aphra right now and considering starting the most recent season of Strange New Worlds.

It was just a week or two on our last move, and we had a mattress that we'd arranged to be moved before us, and even that was like "yeah, no." Lucky I didn't screw my back or break a leg laying down so low.

Hey, that works better than audience in what I was writing. Thanks!

Such a lovely delve design, and the map is the pièce de résistance.

Hard to argue with the Conservationist President as ranger! But I don't know of any other presidential pugilists.

Garfield ("The Preacher President") if you want to go with the religious side.

Teddy as a boxer if you want to go with the hitting.