Mike Murphy-Burton

Seldom before has one man handed his hangman so very much rope.

Being ill magically makes you less likely to be...whatever it is he pretends is a fraudulent voter.

This dude would have fit right in with the 3 guys who used to gang up and fuckin terrorize me when I was a kid. Too bad he's actually the Secretary of Being a Violent Sociopath.

The lesson of making burritos myself is that I am not good at making burritos myself.

There'll be plenty to fill that out just in terms of setting up the world itself, definitely not worried about any lack of things happening. And it means I already have a "morgue" for the book, which I can already see might be a good source of adjacent short story material.

Lunch hour MACC #outlining actually ended up with a net negative number of words added, but I think that's a positive in this case; I have a habit of trying to do too much too early. First chapter now has 2 characters in focus and 2 major pieces of important information communicated.

#writing

I really cannot emphasize enough how deeply I hate the word "addictive" being applied as a complimentary term to a game.

I want to strongly encourage every newsroom in the world to add a "pay $1 for this article" link to every article on their site.

While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...

McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Loves a good big robots. Someday I'll get back to Powered A(r)mour.

Man, Hegseth is just a pure psychopath, huh.

Along with Ottawa chipping in $1 billion of in-kind corporate welfare, it gives a pretty clear indication of just how marginal (high cost, high risk) Bay du Nord actually is.

There's a really funny prank to be played by an older writer who believes their drawer will be raided when they're gone here...

Hot take: Photons are wormholes.

A photograph, in burnt-orange colour tones, of a maple leaf with a heart-shaped hole forms the background of a rectangular image. 19 book covers are arranged in two rows across the bottom. White text at the top reads "Hidden Gems! 19 books by Canadian authors you may never have heard of (but will totally wonder how your bookshelves lived without!) It also provides the date of the promo: March 1st to 15th, only on Itchi.io. The books involved are as follows: The Lion The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle The Dragon Next Door River of Crows Hope is the Thing with Feathers The Clockwork Empire Flesh and Bone Goblin Girl Moonshadow's Guardian Your Blood and Bones Winner Takes All The Flaws of Gravity Scrap Metal Angel Destined to be Normal Clipped Bloody Spade Baker Thief Path of the Warrior Prince Ewald the Brave

In Canada, over 200 authors a year are dismembered by yetis. For only $19, you can help a Canadian author afford the yeti nets & front-porch protections that helps guard against this daily threat. In thanks, you will receive these 19 quality books.

itch.io/b/3524/hidde...

#books 💙📚👀 🔥 #amreading

Periodic reminder that though they were among the first hit by monstrous violations, trans folks are still under constant new assaults in the USA. May every lawmaker responsible live to suffer the consequences.

When the representatives of the people plan their economy to serve their actual needs, that's communism, the worst thing in the world. When rich pedophiles plan someone else's economy to line their pockets at the expense of everyone else, that's capitalism, the greatest achievement of mankind.

Ever play Tunic? I wonder if there's mileage in that connection.

Contrary, for sure.

Great thread on lies and news

I mean, the AI oligarchs are absolutely throwing UBI up as chaff to distract people from their recklessness, they're just not actually doing anything constructive towards reaching it.

Added something like 500 words of notes overall #writing #wip

Spent somewhere in the neighbourhood of 2 hours working on the MACC outline, mostly researching school systems. Gonna need to really do some thinking about how a single worldwide school works, so I delved into a variety of Wikipedia articles as a first step.

Every time Western allies justify Donald Trumps breaches of international law, they pave the way for him to do it again, further sending the global system into a downward spiral.

Kidnapping a leader isn't war.
Killing a leader isn't war.
Sending autonomous and guided weapons isn't invasion.

The doublethink is strong.

I started listening to a very popular audiobook, and I did not like it, but I keep going back to it thinking it's not as bad as I think, and every time, it's as bad as I think and I have to stop again or lose my sanity.

Is this also why Trump is still around?

Worked on the Magic Academy Climate Crisis outline for about an hour tonight, which got me a somewhat solid - though maybe too extensive - list of moments for beat 1, along with high level thoughts on beat 2 and a smattering of minor bits and tweaks throughout the rest of the outline. #writing #wip

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

Fucking. This.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Oh look, just under two months later and I can re-use this to express my utter fucking fury at our bombing children.

I have already seen one take saying "who puts a children's school on a military base?"

And the answer is, of course, "Everyone. Most prominently, us."