Josh Sutphin

"Give me ribberty or give me death" is such a banger of a sign 😂

This is *terrific* photography

Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years Among the worst offenders was meal-replacement company Huel, a long-time favorite among Bay Area builders.

This is a far cry from "sound science" but it sure is interesting how lead poisoning keeps showing up in the worst parts of our culture, from brain-wormed boomer politicians all the way to modern tech bros

futurism.com/future-socie...

Lately I've been writing about fascists losing.

CAN'T IMAGINE WHY

IT'S SO GOOD

I'm a basic bitch for Barbie Girl 😂

But I spent this period of my life listening almost exclusively to punk and emo, which are uhhhh not well represented here.

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One of our responsibilities as a publisher is to register copyrights. Turns out that's rather difficult to do when the U.S. Copyright Office is *closed due to government shutdown*.

America: so functional, much supreme. 😒

www.copyright.gov

#copyright #publishing #GovernmentShutdown

my therapist: sometimes you simply have to experience an emotion instead of thinking about it
me, nodding sagely: and then it goes away
therapist: well not necessarily
me, shaking my head furiously: no, I don't like that

a man is carrying a suitcase in front of a no parking fire lane sign ALT: a man is carrying a suitcase in front of a no parking fire lane sign

If I worked in tech support:

ME: Okay, turn off the computer.

THEM: And then turn it back on again?

ME: No.

My two-year-old somehow figured out how to change both my Microsoft password *and* my keyboard layout (from the lock screen, no less!) so when I went to reset my password, I unknowingly made an even worse hash of things. Cue an hour of troubleshooting to untangle it all, interrupting my writing. 😭

Just going to repost one of my favorite threads of all time.

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Self-care is taking yourself out to go see a horror movie.

I had really promising interviews with two different game studios earlier this year, for very exciting projects.

Both of those studios announced layoffs, financial difficulties, and general future uncertainty today.

#gamedev is in so much trouble. 😭

Hahaha not my 20 year game dev career floundering in the chaos of the entire tech industry crawling up its own asshole 🥲

Ridicule is a powerful weapon against oppressors who are obsessed with their own moral superiority!

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

A good editor helps you make the most out of your piece. A great editor makes you more of yourself than you were.

Sure, bad feedback stinks. Sometimes it's something you don't want to hear. And sometimes the editor is wrong!

But I treasure a good editor.

I'm pretty late to the #HorrorWritersChat party, but I just barely started Horror × Hope, where you’ll find my original fiction—horror, hopepunk, and everything in between—as well as non-fiction pieces pairing horror and hope in current events.

open.substack.com/pub/horrorxh...

From beyond the mausoleum door echoed a mournful song, and its notes stirred a memory within you, buried generations deep: traditions long since colonized by modernity, your heritage denied. Tonight, with the veil at its thinnest, your ancestors usher you into your truth.

#HorrorWritersChat

I'm deeply partial to folklore, because those ancient stories and beliefs bring us to face forces so much bigger than ourselves that they drag us from our egos into a world we’re just part of, rather than one we expect dominion over.

#HorrorWritersChat

Ghosts in any kind of liminal space are absolutely my jam. Bonus points if time itself is also fucked up there.

#HorrorWritersChat

I'm a PNW-based writer of occult horror—supernatural, folk, cosmic—which is often (though not always) politically-charged.

I arrive today in the visage of a Biblically-accurate angel who is *super mad* at the way religious belief has been twisted to serve evil ends.

#HorrorWritersChat

It's so perfect 🥲

As tax dollars are reallocated from public school districts and families abandon those schools to learn at home or in private settings, the new department officials see little need for oversight. Instead, they would let the marketplace determine what’s working using tools such as Yelp-like reviews from parents. Burke has said she is against “any sort of regulation.” President Donald Trump himself said in July that the federal government needs only to provide “a little tiny bit of supervision but very little, almost nothing,” over the nation’s education system except to make sure students speak English.

This is so wildly irresponsible. Privatizing schools and getting rid of all regulation and oversight over them would lead to *so much* child abuse.

The foxes are governing the henhouse.

www.propublica.org/article/educ...

#uspolitics #education #publicschools

I think the thing I miss most from childhood is that I didn't have eight million things competing for my time

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

"Let our stories be Pandora’s box, unleashing all the things fascists fear the most."

This is a great piece ❤️

Impatient to see the much vaunted "checks & balances" that I've heard all my life are built into the United States political system to prevent exactly what's happening now. Appears tho, that a bunch of fast-moving fascist wannabees figured out the checks & balances only work s-l-o-w-l-y, if at all.