Annika

Nice! Those are impressive numbers by any standard.

Almost 14k cut here. Entering the hardcore Thanksgiving prep, alas, but still chipping away when I can. Getting this ruthless about cutting is helping me see what is and isn't needed to get my point across on a line level.

They aren't. You're entering the insanity phase of a drafting push. You can't let these things distract you. The wolf doesn't obsess over its front-facing camera

What if you just take a little note about what you want to fix? Sometimes that helps my mind stay in the drafting zone, because I can set down my thoughts about the edit.

Yes, this definitely helps, thank you

Having enough money to personally alleviate the suffering of tens of millions of people and spending it instead on an app that drives you insane because everyone there laughs at you... truly a beautiful Shakespearean tale for the modern day

You're better at this than anyone alive 🫡

No kidding. The Big Beautiful Donald Trump Make America Healthy Again Act.

Ghost story lighting is just part of your brand at this point tbh

😭🫡💪*bravely deletes another word*

For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work

Hacking the loon server, password "book"

For Novembo, I want to finish trimming wordcount on the current project by the end of the month. Had 6k down as of the 1st; I want to strip out 18-20k total by the end of Nov.

I envy you brave Novembo writers who are spending the month writing 🫡 For me...there is only unwriting

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

It happened; I'm hyped; I'm ready. Novembo. The month of Book.

$50,000: Sufficient incentive to treat fellow human beings this way

Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers https://theonion.com/chicago-ice-raids-by-the-numbers/

Ok but if YOUR giant, benevolent, all-knowing caretaker were lovingly like, Erik, for today, you have beautiful feathers. This requires no action on your part and all will admire you. Would you not also accept it...

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

I haven't listened to the latest Print Run episode yet because I'm afraid it will get me Too Pumped

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

Super excited to have this weird little story head out into the world. ❤️

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

In one of my social work classes they gave us a list of all the ways a person could be marginalized or privileged and then made us go around the room and list which ones we were

In my therapeutic methods class, over half the class time every week was taken up with going around the room one at a time and saying how we were doing (literally every student: terrible, life actively falling apart, mental health disintegrating) and then sometimes we did yoga in the remainder

After my terrible MSW at one of the theoretical top MSW programs in the US, I was a practicum supervisor for a bunch of MSW students, and like half my job was explaining to them that they weren't crazy, it really was as stupid as they thought it was

The rare pibble/fruit bat cross... You don't see one of those every day

Just to mess with me further she had a major reaction the next day to the medication used to sedate her for the (completely normal, perfect levels) blood draws. Trying to convince me that she should be left alone to eat chocolate in the future.

My former street dog ate a lethal dose of chocolate; we rushed her to the ER but they couldn't get her to vomit much up. She was completely fine. I think they do it just to fuck with us

I am so sorry. That's incredibly hard.

😭😭😭