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Alex Burns

@afburns.bsky.social

Professional editor, sometime writer. he/him

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We don’t go to Target much at all anymore, but their boardgame selection has been pretty good over the past few years and one of the only reasons to go in. I’m guessing that won’t be the case anymore.

06.03.2026 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of my search results for "nog dance" in which google asks if I mean "nrg dance" whatever the hell that is

Screenshot of my search results for "nog dance" in which google asks if I mean "nrg dance" whatever the hell that is

No I did not, fuck you google

06.03.2026 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Young men are constantly bombarded with gambling apps and women with weight loss pills. I’m sure this will all end well.

04.03.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have about 4 months to get in shape for a standing room-only concert.

04.03.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the fuck is a β€œwarfighter”?

04.03.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A rad as heck promenade on a space station with a cool elevated railway and shops

A rad as heck promenade on a space station with a cool elevated railway and shops

The concept art for DS9 had it with more mass transit that nearly every major city in the US.

04.03.2026 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was a City of Heroes player back in the day and it was resurrected by fans a few years back, plays just like it did live. I don’t know if that’s ever happened with any others though.

03.03.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's frustration seeing stories about how the city civilian advisory boards are having trouble filling vacancies and meeting quorum when I have submitted applications to boards and never heard anything back. Someone check the email!

02.03.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Every member of this administration is just a Goldmember variant.

02.03.2026 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chuck Austen, oh god, I'd forgotten about him. I believe he marked the first writer who drove me off both X-Men and Avengers for several years.

01.03.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

IIRC this was the "Ant-Man ascending Wasp's boobs like Everest" era of the Avengers.

01.03.2026 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Chris Fleming special that just went up on HBO is fantastic.

01.03.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why would he change it? Nobody is doing anything to stop them.

01.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell of a morning to finish doing my taxes.

28.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 26295    πŸ” 8895    πŸ’¬ 289    πŸ“Œ 334
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a man standing in front of a fireplace with the words strong men cry too on the bottom ALT: a man standing in front of a fireplace with the words strong men cry too on the bottom

Ah, when Tarima calls her a port in a storm

27.02.2026 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was too late, but I have a good one for you next time.

27.02.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll

25.02.2026 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5673    πŸ” 595    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 55
Picture of a smiling hockey player with the headline β€œJake Oettinger misses Team USA White House Visit”

Picture of a smiling hockey player with the headline β€œJake Oettinger misses Team USA White House Visit”

Extremely Peter from Office Space voice: I wouldn’t say he β€œmissed” it, Bob

25.02.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why are you laughing, this is the biggest gay car I could afford!

23.02.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Treat it like jury duty. "Goddammit, I need to take off work a week to decide how to define porn."

20.02.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm being optimistic here

20.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Xindi mercy-killing

20.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Waiting for Starfleet Academy to acknowledge that Florida no longer exists.

20.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Slight correction, the last item is not random so much as determined by which state will let Sheridan get away with a bunch of labor violations.

20.02.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Had the pleasure of doing this for my daughter at 13 a couple years ago, who normally cannot make it through most movies.

20.02.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. I've been compelled at work to try using chatbots to assist with editing and they've been strictly worse in almost every regard to tools like PerfectIt or basic spellchecks.

20.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, there's no reason for him to do anything he doesn't want to. Nobody is stopping him and nobody ever has. Democrat failures for literal decades have led to this.

20.02.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every single day he (or his goons) does something illegal and. Nothing.

20.02.2026 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I spotted the Sword of Kahless on a screen in this week's Starfleet Academy and my head canon is that Dax "found" it to swindle her way into a job as the unsolved mysteries professor.

20.02.2026 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0