David Busboom

A pelican? More like peli-can't!

I absolutely love these pictures and had no idea how expressive a pelican could be!

Cover of Stephen Graham Jones' novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

Literature moves the needle. I can see it transforming and mobilizing readers in realtime. The world needs fiction.

A reminder who to boycott:

Amazon
Meta
Tesla
Space X
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Starlink
Home Depot
McDonald’s
Wendy’s
Walmart

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THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy

Yup.

Remember all those pictures of Liam Neeson pissing himself in public?

This year hasn't been my most productive, but I did finish a long-gestating novella and made a couple of clay bowls that I like.

Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda

Co-signed. Labyrinths was a hugely important early book for me; you can probably draw a pretty direct line from that to my current endless fixations

Absolutely. Also thinking of the ex-friend who once approached me with the "opportunity" to "edit" (rewrite) his epic fantasy manuscript. For free. I bet he loves this shit.

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:

All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Millions of Bubonic plague bacteria shoved into a gingerbread man mold: Our agenda is to end human life on this planet

Jimmy Fallon: Ahaha that’s so crazy let’s do voices

Every Crawling, Putrid Thing - JournalStone EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING “It would be accurate to say that Busboom’s fiction is a love letter to schlocky, neon horror, peppered with sticky-sweet nostalgia and loving luridity. It would, however,...

Need a little something for that horror reader in your life? Well, why settle on one when you can get EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING?

If you don't want all that AI garbage at the top of your google search results, you can stick -ai at the end of your search term and you'll get just the list of links to websites like in the good old days. Yesterday I learned. #GoogleAI #Google #AI #Google AI

Finished it day before yesterday and it's one of the best things I've read all year. A masterpiece. I haven't stopped thinking about it for more than an hour. If you haven't yet, go read it. It's waiting for you.

victorian sailing boats in a harbour, leaning to one side. sepia toned photograph from the 1800s

look at this photo of whitby harbour by frank meadow sutcliffe in the 1860s look at it incredible

Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal Streaming service to gain control of studio behind Harry Potter and Batman, as well as HBO, home to The White Lotus and Game of Thrones

There is no universe where it should be okay or allowed for Netflix to buy Warner Bros Discovery.

This plus "AI" will destroy what we consider entertainment

(Also, the nesting doll nature of ALL companies is so genuinely demented/ridiculous/absurd, just admit 5 corps own EVERYTHING now)

Gott sei Dank ist Fritztag!

It’s hard to not see the Netflix/WB news as a sort of doomsday scenario. The constant mergers and large scale absorptions of brands might be good for business, in theory, but they are bad for art; they are bad for creators; they are bad for preservation. Which makes it bad for us.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Do you own physical media of WB films?

Hang on to it.

Big day to amplify @sbworkersunited.org and not buy Starbucks

Surreal that we could go through covid, still be going through covid, and yet it's not outlandish to think in a couple of years we might have to get our measles or small pox or flu shot from a guy in a back alley.

Amen.

These people want legal clearance for murder at scale, and they can just say it out loud, in public. Meanwhile, in here, if we get a little colorful expressing our derision for these monsters, the ban-hammer finds us with a pointed quickness.

Relatable Corvid

A moch up of Spotify wrapped “my top songs” where the album covers are blacked out and read “NONE :)” with one letter per album slot. The text meant to be the artists and song names read: The boycott (it’s not that hard) Fellas,, please (he gives the artists bread crumbs) Daniel Ek donated €600m (^ spotifys CEO) To military AI defense (PLEASE UNDERSTAND HOW BAD THIS IS) Stop using Spotify (they ran ice recruitment ads) A fake link at the bottom reads: Spotify. Com/ boycott

Oh hey, would you look at that? I love #spotifywrapped! This is the perfect time for us to all be posting ours. :)

#boycottspottify

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