Tyler Hayes

Tyler Hayes

@bytylerhayes.bsky.social

1845

Posts

Bisexual Author and Forger of Feels. Award-nominated. THE IMAGINARY CORPSE available from Angry Robot Books. He/him or they/them. Living and working in Narragansett land. Follow for progressivism, pins, pro wrestling, and writing. https://tyler-hayes.com

Posts Replies Media Lists

For a single time in my life I agree with the viewpoint espoused by Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs recently issued a report called "GenAI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?" savaging the industry, with GS' Jim Covello saying that there's limited upside, and that it's incapable of solving the complex problems that would make it worth it. wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Reposted by

Boeing is pleading guilty to a fraud that killed over 300 people. Their punishment is fines. At least one person made a decision to perpetuate this fraud, so why is nobody going to jail? If corporations have the same rights as people, they should face the same criminal liabilities as well.

It’s hard to pick just one Aerosmith song.

you're in hell. the second worst song ever made, on loop forever, is your punishment. what song is it?

[CW: food, exercise] So when I got my book published, I was given the *incredible* advice to find another hobby to use as a gauge of personal progress and self-worth. I'm happy to say I found two and I'm doing pretty well at both.

Unburnination 7/8: I’m good, but good in that slightly fragile way that sometimes happens to folks with anxiety and PTSD and my other mental garnishes, where you feel like something must be wrong because nothing seems to be wrong. These things happen and awareness is the key; onward and upward.

Reposted by

We're halfway through the year!! If you've got a queer adult SFF novel/novella releasing in the second half of 2024, qt or reply and let us all know about it! 🌈📚

Reposted by

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

Reposted by

the GOP wants to illegalize big tiddy goth girls and dragon vore, and I can think of nothing less American than that

Tell every person you know that the GOP wants to ban porn. Let them imagine a hellscape where they both have no human rights and no legal sources of weird smut to drown their sorrows in

Reposted by

This is genuinely what I try to remember. Most people don't want the hellscape being sold from the right!! they don't!!!

News out of France today and England earlier is demonstrating that most people, it turns out, aren't very into fascism. Which is a comforting thought.

Reposted by

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

“Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy... in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies.“ (I love this whole speech but it won’t fit!)

tell me your fav film with a quote.

Reposted by

Seattle residents! Contact your City Council people before Tuesday to express support for this legislation. It waives codes that currently make it impossible to convert office spaces to residential ones. This will help with the housing crisis! www.king5.com/article/news...

Seattle City Council to vote on converting empty office space into housingwww.king5.com The legislation would waive land use code requirements for existing non-residential allowing them to be converted into residential use.

NEW PIN CHALLENGER: Pride Month may be over but the undead bi crow energy remains.

Reposted by

Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

Reposted by

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

Reposted by

Hey readers, do you suddenly find yourself with large, empty spaces on your bookshelf for........reasons? Get yourself some trans books to fix that!

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Local-to-PVD friends: I signed up to send postcards to swing states this year, which come in a minimum batch of 200; if anyone wants to go in on the cost of stamps and have a GOTV party with me I'd totally be down!

Reposted by

Kait, Jessica's Wife 🏳️‍🌈

Also, I don't think it's a coincidence that so many of the hobbies society looks down on are often a.) ones that give you a teensy sliver of independence from society and b.) the ones society relegated to the realm of women once upon a time.

Making Things Log, 7/2: One foot in front of the other. The bad news is we're at another spot where I have nothing exciting to report and it feels like a slog. The good news is we seem to be skipping my usual bouts of impostor syndrome at this stage of revisions, so maybe I'm learning?

Reposted by

If you're going to call a Senator who is not your Senator, call the Senate Majority Leader's office. Schumer's phone number is (202) 224-6542

Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.

Reposted by

I really appreciate this thread. I should do more of these things. Realistically I'm not a doorknocker or phone banker -- I'm too anxious for that shit -- but there are other good options.

I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

Reposted by

I can’t contribute to this because it’s technically foreign interference in an election but i can yell about it I made myself a version of the upper left cowl; you northerners check it out

Get ready for your next polar vortex in hand-knit style with one of our MANY amazing cowls (seriously there are even more on the site!) www.32auctions.com/o...

Reposted by

Very problematic the way some big accounts on here will post pictures of their pets in order to attract followers and get clout, which they then use to advance their personal agenda of having even more people who know what their pets look like

Unburnination 7/1: Kind of a weird'un -- been bleary and grumpy since last night and I'm not 100% why. My suspicion is some mix of known factors (pain, just having come off a stressful week, doomscrolling, summer weather). Keeping to a low-carb media diet today, I think.

Reposted by

Suburban pgh queers, avoid The Crafty Jackalope in Bridgeville. Someone threw a cup of water at me after calling me a man and the bouncer sided with him over me and my friend who stuck up for me, and we had to be the ones to leave

Reposted by

Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

Brain Damage

without saying comfortably numb, fav pink floyd song?

TIL my home sits a block away from a stop on a bus route that runs frequently to downcity and back for $2, and I both want everyone in every city everywhere to have mass transit at least this convenient, and have plans to basically live part time at Little City Coffee and Kitchen.

Reposted by

BREAKING -- New York Public Library for the win! After a massive public backlash, NYC's libraries are getting their funding back -- and will be open on Sundays again. Take a bow, folks -- WE did this.

Reposted by

“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.