Jeff Stevens

I invented a new word today. "abspos". ABSolutely POSitively. I don't think anyone will ever use it, and I will probably forget it in a month. But I like it.

Was picture of your husband I assume? :)

Agree that hiding them from people is an affront.

Disagree they're bad for communities.

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@mikeelgan.bsky.social Tried originality.ai on an two reddit post I made using AI (as a test to see if anyone would detect it.). Nobody did. Originality caught it. Good checker! Thanks for the tip!

A Conspiracy of Tall Men The debut literary thriller that launched the career of…

@byjacobward.bsky.social Was this the book you mentioned on TWiT? "A Conspiracy of Tall Men"? Your recommendation made me want to check it out.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

@phokion.bsky.social I assume you knew that you were quoted in Civilization VI? I love this! Two of my favorites together.

I like when you register for a website and then it takes you to a login page instead of just signing you in. That’s right, good point, I might not have wanted to log in right now. Maybe I signed up today so I could log in sometime, some other day.

This is not far from the truth.

Quite frankly the crest vendor should not be a vendor but instead one conjoined "Gear/Crest Upgrade" UI Widget. The way that you're buying crest packs to convert into upgraded crest packs is already clunky as shit and it's another layer of complicated gearing systems that could be simplified

Phrases that remind you of perspective.

"I work in medical devices...There is a tech support department for 'patient on the table emergencies'.

"Have you tried turning it on and off again?" is totally different when "it" is currently 4 inches into the center of someone's brain."

From reddit.

In an encounter with a police officer, the officer has weapons, armor, radios, skills in subduing subjects, and training in deploying all of those things. The fact that such a person can feel unsafe or threatened by civilians is ponderous. Fear is a powerful narcotic.

There is very little connection between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump believes.

He says things for effect. Truth is irrelevant.

Or he know exactly what he is doing and understands he needs widespread violence to maintain his grasp on power.

Hell. Yes.

I have sent a text that says “there’s some chicken in the fridge and I have no idea what it is. Can I eat it??” The “typing” three little dots appear below it.

Marriage

Jeeez enough with the victim-shaming already

Thank you again for some of my favorite stories, Mr Cameron. I literally cannot thank you enough.

Just as you did with the end of Rage of Ares you brought me to tears. This time pure happiness for my friend Arimnestos and so many others. I believe everything you wrote could have happened. And it would be wonderful if that is how it did.

2/3

@phokion.bsky.social I just finished Treason of Sparta. I am so happy. Arimnestos feels like a friend a this point. He feels so very real. I've been reading novels daily for 35 years and it is rare I feel the characters are so very very real. And that I feel this much affection for them. 1/n

It will be hilarious when they rename Max back to HBO Max and then I have the old HBO Max app and the new HBO Max app on my Apple TV because I never removed the old one.

If you stuck this on the front of a movie today I would be eight Reels deep in basketball highlights and fishing fails by the time Crocodile Dundee even started.

We all used to have so much more /time/.

There may be big reasons why it's a terrible idea. And you are owed compensation for your work, of course. But there's just so much wealth of information in there. Just wondering if you've given it any thought about how to make the content more findable? PS - been a patron forever too.

I cannot tell you how many times I have said "I remember someone on YANSS talking about this! But I can't remember who it was!" And the podcasts aren't really searchable easily. Have you considered doing something AI-oriented to allow that kind of lookup? I swear I'm not selling anything, and

@davidmcraney.bsky.social I've been a fan forever. YANSS is my second favorite podcast. Read all your books. You literally changed my life by helping me understand, and setting me on a road to deeper understanding, why people act the way they do. I have a challenge to ask you about your work.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaa pope da pope da pope da pope da pope da pope

I like to remind everyone that the Church elected a pope from a communist state in 1978.

Because, in a sense, only Nixon could go to China.

Ah yes... Pope Felonious, the first of his name.

It is interesting. The connotations that words have. Most of my Catholic life was spent connecting sedevacantism to Lefebvrites and other schismatics. But once in a while it has a much less negative use. But the connection to schism is still in my brain.

What Vox Media just did to the Polygon staff is one of the worst things I can remember in media. Selling to Valnet and laying off almost all of your staff so the site can go to content farming clickbaiters. Fuck all of that so, so hard.