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Topher South

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Dad, teacher, writer, and whatever this week's hyperfixation is. Obsessed with genre fiction, particularly horror. He/Him Published in Thrive Global, The Junction, Red Planet, and an upcoming collection from Storytelling Collective. #amquerying a novel

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It'll be so confusing to future generations that as our environment toxified, our infrastructure crumbled, our kids were gunned down at schools, our healthcare worsened, and we couldn't afford our groceries, the # 1 priority for seemingly millions of people was that like 5 trans kids played a sport

22.09.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

22.09.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1930    πŸ” 312    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

Tomorrow should be a general strike against the administration so that when the Trumpers get to work they think all the progressives got raptured and have to reevaluate their lives

22.09.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw this looks so sweet. I should get this in my classroom library

20.09.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Department of War is the name of a Bob Dylan Vietnam protest song that would be tossed for being too on the nose

06.09.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have a poem in this collection I'm super excited to share!

Available now @DriveThruFic: COLLECTIVE VERSES VOL V, a collection of poetry by our global author community. Support emerging voices by picking up a print or digital copy. Published by @storytellingco.bsky.com

04.09.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This 20 seconds is pure art. It’s like the essence of Trump - the fraud, the lies, the simplistic idiocy - is reduced to its singularity.

Nothing in high office, anywhere, will ever be this stupid again.

07.08.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1977    πŸ” 541    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 27

Why put Spider-Man there? What's he gonna swing from?

15.08.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn't be me. That's wild

13.08.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I went from listening to my audiobooks on my walk to and from work - then while I get ready for work - then while I do chores over the weekend - and now I listen WHILE I'M IN THE SHOWER so yeah if the number of books I read this year gets higher that's the reason why
#booksky

13.08.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god I just realized that when the AI bubble bursts Trump and the GOP will deem Sam Altman, etc too big to fail and we'll end up bailing them out with our tax dollars

12.08.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god I just realized that when the AI bubble bursts Trump and the GOP will deem Sam Altman, etc too big to fail and we'll end up bailing them out with our tax dollars

12.08.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If they're hiring I want in

10.08.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey ChatGPT design a machine to put toothpaste back in the tube

07.08.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ICE is hiring!

US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team.

Open positions include:
Senior Goon
Racism Enforcement Office
Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time)

Experience with children a plus

usajobs.gov

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

07.08.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 27899    πŸ” 6165    πŸ’¬ 682    πŸ“Œ 306

Reno Streets That Are Also Good Names for Cats:
β€’ Arlington
β€’ Virginia
β€’ Moana
β€’ Plumb
β€’ Sierra
β€’ Neil
β€’ Manzanita

07.08.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

07.08.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 11695    πŸ” 2878    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 31

It's truly the main reason some of these organizations were formed

05.08.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vegas is gonna be completely deserted by 2027

05.08.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
05.08.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3574    πŸ” 790    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 7

There's some real art in the image of a beleaguered, failing, deeply hated pedophile political figure shouting from a rooftop about nuclear missiles because he's too afraid to be on the ground with the press

05.08.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Could comet 3I/ATLAS be alien technology? Controversial Harvard astrophysicist says yes Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb co-authored a July research paper speculating about whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact 'hostile' alien technology.

🀞🀞🀞

31.07.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Threw on the new Gumball show with the kids, and that first episode goes unreasonably hard

29.07.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The person writing a prompt isn't creating anything. They're just cutting the artist out of the process by stealing from them and ending up with a garbage product. It's the death of art. It's generation without creation. It's making without soul

28.07.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prompting isn't creating. It just isn't. If you want an analogy, it isn't
AI Prompter : Image :: Photographer : Photograph
It's
AI Prompter : Image :: Customer : Commissioned Piece

28.07.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"actually there are a few use cases for LLMs" fair enough friend! Just know that I lose all respect for you when you use them for anything at all. Utter contempt. I'll never respect you again. Good luck out there

27.07.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 398    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

Do we think maybe we manifested dystopia with all the dystopian fiction?

25.07.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love is a lot of things, but one of those things is sending each other memes and new songs until you die. And I'm kinda spooky, so I think I'll keep sending her songs even after that

25.07.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Nancy the rescue cat sleeping on a backpack next to me and my laptop

Nancy the rescue cat sleeping on a backpack next to me and my laptop

Living an enemies to friends trope with our rescue cat, Nancy. She couldn't stand me for a long time, but for the last two days she hasn't left my side, sleeping on my backpack while I query agents

25.07.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
tiny jeep pickup in the bed of a normally sized jeep pickup

tiny jeep pickup in the bed of a normally sized jeep pickup

JE[jeep]EP

14.06.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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