ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

@FtRupertTed Exactly, and how we find some of these KOOL folks. Business like accounts, celeb accounts, fan accounts, one themed accounts, never interested me. I have RSS news readers, I don't need CBC to tweet the news I already know. But if they engage (which some reporters do) I will follow them. Otherwise, I have no interest in accounts that just fill the fediverse up with stuff. I can get that in a Google search. I want real people. Real events. real concerns. No algorithms @SusanHR @rolle

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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm back from genussspect con '23
Stephen King: from what?
Clive Barker: it's her terf convention, steve
Rowling: IT ISS MORE THAN JUSSST A TERF CONVENTION
Rowling: we had nazisss there too

Made a PDF of Practice Guide For Computer: https://codeberg.org/oneirophage/practice-guide-for-computer/raw/branch/main/guide.pdf

LaTeX source (I haven't really used this in years, don't judge too harshly pls): https://codeberg.org/oneirophage/practice-guide-for-computer

Original is Ron Miller's Advanced Improv Practice Guide: https://www.ronjam.net/freeStuff/PracticePrayer.pdf

No idea where the rewritten text came from, I saw it as an image someone shared

@GottaLaff @Brandi_Buchman
I think Trump's Proud Boys statement needs to be read in full. Most people forget the very next sentence, which I think is an explicit call to arms

"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left."

Classic mobspeak. "Somebody" must do something.
#TrumpIsAuthoritarian

I had gotten to the point where I was posting only career news and updates on the former Twitter, but there's a point where not even that is tenable, and that point is today.

In retrospect, maybe when I got that popup box in 2010 saying "The thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created" I shouldn't have just clicked "OK"

ennui levels are holding at 56%

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AI is going just great
https://404media.co/users-cant-speak-to-viral-ai-girlfriend-carynai-because-ceo-is-in-jail/

#AI

Winter not quite here
The remnants of Fall remain:
Sound of rustling leaves.

#haiku #fall #leaves #nature #forest

I doubt there will ever be a political cartoon as accurate or timeless as this

Barbarity, Civilisation
René Georges Hermann-Paul (1899)

Studios: "This is our last best offer! Accept this or you get nothing!"

SAG-AFTRA: "Nah. We'll stay on strike."

Studios: "GEEZ! FINE! WE CAPITULATE!"

Unions work.

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-tentative-deal-historic-strike-1235771894/

Unions work!

I've podcasted and written a lot about the Christian Right, but wait until you hear about TESCREALism, a new post-libertarian parareligion based on the very worst scifi

It's totally insane, but many of the world's richest people have bought into it. It's like Scientology for oligarchs, minus the centralization.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and many others seem to be devotees.

It's so weird that many people find it hard to believe. It is real though, and very wealthy. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-tescreal-the-new-techno-religion-thats/id1486920059?i=1000634602739

#WIPwednesday • I’ve almost finished the trigeminal nerve. Single strand chain stitch is slow. #SciArt #embroidery #VagusNerve

"boomer" vs "millennial" is no replacement for class analysis.

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day

It's NaNoWriMo month!
Despite being one of my favourite things, I guess I totally forgot about it.

NaNoWriMo is an *excellent* exercise for building writing muscles. Even just trying it is a great idea. I've "only" successfully finished it twice, but it's done me a ton of good.

Why not start now? Write 1500 words every day and you've got half a novel by the start of December… but remember: the practice is the reward, not the outcome.

https://nanowrimo.org/

#writing #nanowrimo

"Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window." ―William Faulkner

#NaNoWriMo with #iAWriter