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This freak loves fucked up shit 💜

a photo from dashcon with a small ball pit in a large convention ballroom

live view from cuomo hq

My 13-year-old is incredible. When she gets stickers, she actually puts them on stuff instead of hoarding them for twenty years. Water bottle, binder, even notebooks. I’m in awe of her.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Did my fantasy hockey draft and spent half of it trying to remember who these men are and what teams they’re even on now

I grew up in Central Jersey (debatable) and I can tell you that every single person from New Jersey has a very, very strong opinion on this

This was my favorite part 💚💚💚

I’m having more feelings than I can describe about Fluery coming back for one more game in Pittsburgh 🥲

You mean for the third time? Fine I’ll do it

You ever read a book and go “…oh.”
WELL—

(10/10 would unlock again)

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

😭😭😭😭😭😭🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Absolute disaster man 😍

I think my hottest BG3 take is that I like the Emperor

Do you know why AI uses em dashes? BECAUSE WRITERS USE EM DASHES. That’s the entire thing! AI can only mimic what actual people do! So stop calling this a giveaway, you wrung-out tea bags

This has to be the best kind of famous. Known for the thing you care most about, still able to go to the grocery store

My dudes I am not lying THREE MINUTES after I made this post the boy got shipped off

My mind will not absorb the fact that Marner is almost definitely going to Vegas. It just slides right off.

I have absolutely destroyed my family’s music algorithm by streaming Powerwolf for two weeks straight

How come no one told me that power metal is basically musical theater with power chords? I feel cheated and betrayed

I know the fact that my first instinct when anything remotely good happens is to point out what might go wrong is, like, really annoying, but you know who would also like that to stop? Me.

The thing about me is that I will assume the most ungenerous interpretation of any situation. There’s no joke, it’s just a problem

My youngest was born in 2015 and I’m increasingly sick with guilt about the world they have to live in. I wanted kids more than anything and it feels so selfish now

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“It’s been like three days” is killing me

Let him off the leash!

it's a vintage typewriter

"let copilot help you draft"
"can gemini write that for you"

I have now taken the only reasonable course of action in the circumstances

Reminder: I detest and do not support genAI. I have never and will never use it in any aspect of my writing/books/covers/artwork. I have zero interest in seeing it in any form, especially my own characters.

I love supporting real artists. I commission them a lot. Support real creatives ✌️🩷

My favorite thing about KJ Charles books is that when some asshole deserves to die, they die. None of this “you’re better than this” or “let’s make him think about this for the rest of his life” garbage. Motherfucker is dead, he’s God’s problem now