It's actually really easy to mess with some idiots and have it get out of hand.
Many years ago at work I messed with a guy saying one of our coworkers had swine flu. Another guy with me jumped in with me.
4 hours later a "possible swine flu outbreak" was reported on the noon news.
If I were a right wing operative this would be the perfect time to float some false photos and reports to the media. They’re in a feeding frenzy, chances are pretty good they won’t fact check shit.
Trust the process. For some reason my spray can primer left a lot of residue making my paint break up. The wings are going to be orangey, so I put the ProAcryl yellow as a base. Temperamental cause of the residue, but direct orange woulda been worse.
Reaper Desert Sand is the best paper color
They thought that George Washington's sore throat would be fixed by bleeding him with bugs so much that he died.
We shouldn't give a shit what any of those old dead fucks thought about anything, and we CERTAINLY shouldn't ever do what they thought about government.
Also... FaceApp can't really tell between masc and femme as it likes to think.
I can take two pics, ten seconds apart. The one with hair down is tagged femme and the one with my hair back is tagged masc. Literally nothing else is different.
I feel like every trans gal who has come out in the last...8-10 years did the Faceapp swap and truly, while it is some good gender brain when you're just poking at the borders of your identity, you'll always end up better looking cause you'll be YOU and not a weird artificial AI homonculus.
The right-wing National Rally comes in third place in French elections (they'd been expected to come in first place)
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The UK just saw Labour get its largest lead ever
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Now we just need the US to deliver a huge defeat to the Republicans in November
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I've gotten a ton of AI ads when watching stuff this past week and the thing that really stands out is how even in their advertising the majority of their selling points is shit you could have just Googled a year ago
"Does this plant need direct sunlight"??? YOU DON'T NEED AI FOR THAT, YOU CLOWNS
Hard agree.
People need to suck it up and deal or we won't be allowed to vote in 2028.
You can fix broken Dems a lot easier than entrenched fascists.
The second one gets real bloody.
Two things can be true.
Joe Biden is unfit for the presidency, but he would be better than Trump.
AND
This is the Democrats' fault and we should be angry at them and call out their bullshit. They sat on their hands and did nothing over the last 4 years to put forth a better candidate.
Now I need to write a story about an trans femme vampire that finds a trans man and they live happily ever after because she sucks the estrogen right out of him.
republicans are being open-throated fascists and dems are so scared of being called communists they run rightward
call a republican politician a fascist theyll say sure
call a dem politician a socialist theyll set the medicaid income maximum to $1k/mo
We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.
Hey, so.
I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but.
It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.
America... suck it up and vote blue. Imperfect Dems can be pushed to better ways.
Look how bad NZ got effed up because they had to teach their imperfect party a "lesson" and voted in conservatives.
I want to start an ad campaign:
"Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos."
TAX BILLIONNAIRES
"Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero."
TAX BILLIONNAIRES
"Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs."
TAX BILLIONNAIRES
And we won't even get into how many of the "fantasy" markets won't touch urban fantasy. Or will respond with snarky ass commentary if you blend genres. Only "pure" fantasy is allowed.
Got talking with @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social about the eternal quest for sustainable pay rates.
Realized I was describing a chart, so I scraped some stuff from @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder and figured I'd share. This represents SEVERAL ecosystems and no value judgments are implied.
Charts like this are why publishing has destroyed my joy of writing.
My one published story took 2 years to find a home because of how few markets there are open. And it paid enough to buy one pin and a sticker off Etsy.
Got talking with @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social about the eternal quest for sustainable pay rates.
Realized I was describing a chart, so I scraped some stuff from @diabolicalplots.com Submission Grinder and figured I'd share. This represents SEVERAL ecosystems and no value judgments are implied.
Related, Johnny Cash was punk before punk existed. If he was 20 years younger, he woulda been at CBGB's with the Ramones and Blondie and such.
ANY Johnny Cash song makes a perfect punk cover. Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, Social Distortion, MXPX, Bouncing Souls, The Flatliners. So many more.
One. Way. Out.
No matter how many times I watch this, I hold my breath on edge. It is one of the most masterful pieces of storytelling in any medium I've ever seen or read. If I can create something half as good as this, I can be content.
What’s the best episode of television you’ve ever watched.
First thing that came to mind.
"I'm a spirit! Crazy, isn't it? I just came to thank you. That's all. You did good today."
