I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.
Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate.
Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.
It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.
I hate to go UHHH THIS IS JUST LIKE [FICTIONAL THING I LIKE] with real world horrors--because it is exhausting and often misses the actual problems at hand--but truly one of the absolute best ways I've ever seen anyone explain the truth of this is in Pratchett's Going Postal.
A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes.
It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.
Most good writers don’t have good writing advice. They’re just good writers, so what they say gets wrapped up in something that seems like a good idea. All of this is make-believe
Don't think I've seen anyone mention the incredible work from the breakthrough party this election in managing to not stand a single candidate, can't imagine the level of organisation it must have taken to not even have one independent accidently standing under that banner.
Stuck on Remembrance Of The Daleks part 1. I know I’ve said it before, and will again, but dear god it just struts in like it owns the place and doesn’t let up.
People complained that Chengdu zoo was letting their clouded leopard get fat, their expert explained "This cat is like thirty years old, that's twice as old clouded leopards GET, and he's just had major surgery. Making him lose weight would do WAY more harm, just let him have this."
digital music: yeah. that makes sense. you turned it into zeros and ones. i can Understand that
vinyl records: youre telling me that you have imprisoned the soul of sound in this piece of plastic and can summon it on demand by striking it with a diamond. sure buddy
Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change."
Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."
More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?
We saw this reflected on Shockat Adam's Wikipedia entry, hijacked by some racist troll. I corrected it but these maggots are persistent and may well not give up so easily.
Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!
Unfortunately FPTP is like The One Ring of UK politics: whoever wins does a Boromir/Isildur and thinks "Maybe we shouldn't destroy it, maybe we should use its terrible power for good?"
