Chris Weston

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Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

YouTube video by Comedy Central At the Mercy of the Magic 8-Ball - Review - Comedy Central

God I miss this show.

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It can’t beat the original.

one of those classic personalities that felt like would always be around.

one of the greats who actually made movie magic a thing

Last day at Ultracon! Took a minute to get comfortable with crowds again 😮‍💨 but it’s been a ton of fun to meet with people

Feral meme

All we can do is be as feral as possible

Managed to find all my old convention equipment 😮‍💨 it’s been a good long while since doing one of these.

Table at artist alley

It’s been a long time since having a table at a convention 😬 hoping it goes well

The blue jays have finally found it!

Cardinal eating from bird feeder

Very blurry shot of a cardinal eating from the bird feeder. Took about 5 days for the birds to start discovering it. Signs of a mockingbird also using it.
I’ve been checking constantly, so it’s nice to know they’re liking it!

(zoomer who has never heard of newspaper comics, discovering Garfield for the first time) Oh, so it’s like a bunch of shitposts inside of the newspaper? They post a new meme of this cat every day?

More reasons to be anti-AI

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

Busy yesterday so I missed that Anthropic had settled. Figures. LLMs have violated thousands of copyrights; they *knew* it would kill them if it went to trial. Anyway, the Authors Guild has some useful info here: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

“Bring me 18,000 waters, please. Thank you.”

Huge news! Now I’ll 🙏 that exclusivity goes away completely some day

Imagine you die and go to the Egyptian afterlife and Anubis places your heart on this shit

Dropping off a care package to Google so they can solve this issue

Final Fantasy 6 Suplex train reference

Always an important reminder that a story isn’t just the things that happen, but the audience’s relationship to what they’re experiencing and how it makes them feel.

Book giveaway for A Tide of Black Steel (Age of Wrath, #1) by Anthony Ryan Jul 28-Aug 25, 2025 Enter to win one of 1 free copy available. Giveaway dates from Jul 28-Aug 25, 2025. Enter for a chance to win A Tide of Black Steel and Born of an Iron S...

Only one day left to enter the Orbit US Goodreads giveaway for trade paperbacks of both 'A Tide of Black Steel' and 'Born of an Iron Storm'.
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still brings the heat to this day!

It's that time of the month when I remember that if I want people to buy my books, I actually have to tell them they exist. So, if you have a swashbuckling fantasy shaped hole in your TBR for a bit 'The Three Musketeers, if d'Artagnan was actually John McClane', then check this out!

The f*&%ing library.

Smith-Corona electric typewriter (that works!)

Another one of these… just need to figure out where to put it…

My CD player doesn't demand ID; neither does my DVD player or any of my books.

Wow. If there was a ever a house where the outside and inside don't match, it's this one. Not sure I could use the bathroom, though.

Seeing the bathroom led to an ugly laugh for 30 seconds