Joe bielecki

Acrisure to cut nearly 400 jobs in move to AI Grand Rapids-based Acrisure has announced it will begin cutting jobs in early 2026. The insurance brokerage is automating hundreds of positions with artificial intelligence

Using AI at work is like training your replacement before they've even been hired.

One is inclined to ask himself if it's "worth it" but always stops short of defining what "worth it" might mean.

all us weirdo indie writers can pool our money together and get a little compound somewhere. I’m sure nothing would go wrong

It’s a tough time to be a decent person anywhere. I’m certainly a few more “and then they came for the…”s down the list from where we are.

Same! I’m too far down on the Irish side and just Barely too far down on the Polish side.

Without Writing the Rapids, my social media would be long deleted

that's all I've been doing

A lot of people have made a lot of noise about how supporting indie artists is important now more than ever. Honestly community theatre is about to be the only performance I trust is real.

Maybe I’m just getting goofy with it, but I honestly feel like only consuming physical media released before 2020 bought second hand.

Ai videos for people who want ai videos. Ai videos about how scary ai videos are for people who don’t like ai videos. Bots talking to bots. Compliment a stranger’s sweater. Take a loved one to the park. Take a deep breath or several. Being a religious mystic seems more quaint than ever

Me

well, I just spent twenty minutes excitedly talking at my wife about found footage movies. Husband of the year is me.

Hey boss I asked chat gpt if I deserve a raise and it said I do, a 250% raise to be exact.

I’d like to take my wife, kid, and friends, and open up a little cafe/bookstore in a little seaside Canadian town.

everyone online who I like should move to my neighborhood and then I'll never use the Internet again

banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books

i gotta start blogging again. we're never returning to a functional social media internet

I knew a guy who did something similar with those magnet stone things

Love being able to identify songs as “sampled in a vaporwave song”

Read my book about a conspiracy theory to control people's minds through pop music!

YouTube video by Paul Cunningham BRILLO (2025) Official Book Trailer - Paul Cunningham

Book trailer for my fourth book of poetry: #Brillo

Available from Lavender Ink Press on 11.15.2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Ob...

I think that’s just how gen z operates

to be a hater is to offer yourself as fuel to a forest fire. whatever you were before, all that'll be left of you is a dead streak of earth and carbon. the fire will not remember you

Happy Bandcamp Friday. Buy some weird music.

I’ve been slowly grabbing a bunch of the classic gothic novels over the past few months and have just now started The Castle of Otranto. I feel like this is a Moment in my life.

more weight

YouTube video by Joe Bielecki Podrocking with Jenkin Benson

New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now!

I talk to Jenkin Benson about his new book, his academic pursuits, neologisms, and more!

Honestly thats the worst part

YouTube video by Joe Bielecki Podrocking with Jenkin Benson

New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now!

I talk to Jenkin Benson about his new book, his academic pursuits, neologisms, and more!

One of my kid’s favorite meals is mayonnaise on toast. Some of you def couldn’t handle parenthood. Not me though. I’m built different.