AU Mick, Writer

It is wild that politicians can just "slip" in laws that will impact entire areas of the economy.

Developers are able to see how many people un-wishlist? How granular is the information steam gives you?

Hell yeah get those gains

That last line comes off a tad threatening

Lord I hope this works

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I'd like to point out that many of us are just trying to hang on to our sanity in these insane times.

Often, for example, I won't talk about [current thing] because I simply do not have the reserves. It doesn't mean I don't care.

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597 #wordcount been a long week. I know I should post on here more and participate in #WIPSnips and stuff, but my country is currently collapsing and bluesky is pretty much a firehose of nothing but news about that #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚

I am begging everyone to just take the foot off the gas pedal, step back, and think things through for like 3 seconds

Well, this will live rent free in my head. Some of these comments don't disappoint, either.

741 #wordcount a small cheat I've found for helping my characters feel dynamic (at least to me) is imagining certain actors playing them. Having Ted Danson play my protagonist would be pretty cool, though. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚

Sometimes when I'm bored I wash my hands. Not particularly germaphobic or anything. Just feel like it's a small, quick ritual to jog my mind towards actually doing something.

"So give me that Christian side-hug" I think the lyrics go

Didn't a teen _just_ come dangerously close to experiencing police brutality because an AI camera mislabeled his doritos bag as a firearm and his school principal asked no further questions before calling it in? Yeah, this'll go well.

"Wheee!"

532 #wordcount been playing around with the idea of generation ships and how society would be structured in one. Not writing a utopia or dystopia, but like a middle ground. An imperfect-topia. Maybe there's a word for that. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚

We get closer to Keith Laumer's Bolo every day, but just in really lame ways

"Control is all you need" is dark as hell. Whoever thought that was a selling point...

I mean, just for promo and so I can personally learn from it. But critics shouldn't have to ask permission from creators. I feel that sets a bad precedent. Once I put something out there, it's really no longer 'mine'.

I've pretty much just been looking abroad for grad school. I'll have some of the GI bill left for funding, which I'm told should make me more competitive for US schools but at this point it just seems wiser to go international in the first place.

294 #wordcount for the most part, did technical writing (not in the word count) but tomorrow I present the results of my internship! So evening writing sessions moving forward can focus on fiction after tomorrow evening! #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚

Thanks to PublicSurplus, I have two tubas I've been needing to get rid of for over a year now. Those auction sites are a trap!

British museums sweating rn

Whenever people talk about de-woke-ing, I just imagine it consists of repeatedly hitting the woke person over the head with a lead pipe until they start saying some dumb shit like "AI will solve clean energy" or "we need more virgins on screen in Hollywood"

Grokipedia ended up being a thing? We live in such an unserious dark age.

Honestly, not the worst day for the renewable energy sector

You can't talk people out of purity testing once they get addicted to the sense of power it gives them, no matter the actual consequences of their actions.