Shianne

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

deeply ironic that they claim to want to "liberate" Iranian women....and they just bomb women 🙃

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.

For the first time in 25 years of Gallup polling, more Americans say they sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis.

Who knew that firing both your co-leads, director, and then completely re-setting the franchise's direction in the middle of a successful storyline would result in a shitty movie. 😱

Movies like this usually cost $150,000,000.

We made this video for $7 in 2 hours.

Hollywood is dead.

[ATTACHMENT: The worst video you've ever seen in your life.]

A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

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>credit card verification

so you admit that biometric verification is largely superfluous, overly invasive and also completely unnecessary as it yields no immediate benefits over other kinds of identity verification. so... why are you still pushing biometric verification lmao

(i know why)

Two colour illustration of Barad Dûr, with Sauron's eye at the top. surrounded with the ring inscription in elvish. the sky is red with sparks and ash floating in the air, the tower is above a fiery chasm. The front doors are glowing red with silhouettes of chains and armouries. A cloud of ash conceals the horizon. This will be a banner and riso print first. Digital prints coming later this year.

BARAD DÛR

I’m sorry. That’s rough 😭

Just got an email letting me know I’ll be laid off on Friday—my second time in 15 months. So here’s my regular reminder that I’m available for freelance video-game consulting, mock reviews, public relations, comms writing, feature writing, and so on.

The trajectory of the men’s hockey team over a blistering 12 hours

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

Writers Helping Writers I was curious about ChatGPT's manuscript critique. So I sent chapter one and hand a response in about a minute. Raving review, with a few suggestions, but minor. Should I send the entire manuscript? AI is absolutely amazing. How on earth could they do this???

Yeah well Writers Helping Writers is clearly a garbage group. Yeah, let AI flatter you flat. In fact, why even have readers? Edit to generative AI's "standards" and have chatbots read it and give you reach arounds while you let your smart fridge sing you to sleep.

US Rep. Lieu on the Epstein files: "Trump appears thousands of times" "Inside those files are allegations of Donald Trump raping children, threatening to kill children. I encourage the press to go look at these allegations." #OpDeathEaters #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Hey Benjamin, you're getting some suff wrong here, starting with framing me and my colleagues as "AI skeptics". It's true that we call BS on claims of AI, AGI, LLMs understanding etc. But "AI skeptic" is a term that resides within the AI booster's frame of view, not ours.

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Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors

they're very sorry they got caught

"For your consideration" poster featuring 2 pieces of Photoshop composite art. One shows a giant octopus grabbing a man, for the short story Patient was the Doctor. The other is a red mermaid curled up in the sea, for the story titled milt. Both stories are stated to be free to read/listen to.

QR code for milt, reprinted in audio/podcast format on Escape Pod

QR code for Patient was the Doctor, in PDF form, on the Analog Magazine website

I have 2 short stories awards eligible this year!

1. Patient was the Doctor (PDF 📝) analogsf.com/for-your-con... with @analogsf.bsky.social (Locus & SFWA recommended)

2. milt (podcast reprint 🔉) escapepod.org/2026/02/12/e... with @bsfa.bsky.social and @escapepod.org (mild nsfw 🔥)

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

SPREAD THE WORD 📢

If you know a child who is around age 10-12 you should get them The Darkangel Trilogy and ruin their life (affectionate)

said it before and I'll say it again: if you can copy/paste any couple into a sex scene, then it's not a good sex scene

jenna maroney

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

Find it ironic that the same people clamouring for “protect the children” age verification laws are the same ones in the Epstein files, palling around on pedo island. Gotta wonder, why do you want a massive database of biometric info about the underage users in the online spaces you control?

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro