John Snead

Wow, I'd know he was complete trash, but not exactly how bad he was - ugh

Yay, and also thank you for having your ebooks on sites other than Amazon (and especially on awesome sites like Smashwords where you can actually download DRM-free books)

To be fair, the LA cops have been like this since Raymond Chandler wrote about them in his Philip Marlowe novels in the late 1940s - they are utterly horrible and monstrous and seem to always have been.

Here's a post I made about reading Max Gladstone's wonderful latest Craft Wars novel (Dead Hand Rule,which deals with preventing an upcoming supernatural apocalypse), while watching info about our own climate change apocalypse in the form of hurricane Melissa: heron61.dreamwidth.org/1592276.html

That monster clearly A) has dementia and B) is likely dying, and I *really* hope he doesn't have it together enough to attempt to end the world due to A or B

Here's a post about how my mom and my media worlds are swiftly diverging, despite her listening to ABC, NBC, and CNN news, reading the Washington Post, and never touching faux news or anything similar (the reason is evil media owning billionaires): heron61.dreamwidth.org/1591949.html

Same - I tried some AI art when it first came out and have never used any of the AI chat bots/terrible lying search engines, and when I got my new phone I immediately proceeded to turn off every bit of AI I could. I'd be deeply ashamed to admit I couldn't function w/o AI crap.

I watch this several times and finally realized why it struck me as *so* bad - my mom used to do this for my dad all the time (who died of Alzheimer's), when he was still mobile. He's likely no more than a year or to out from losing mobility and being *really* obviously not there

Wow, according to various "centrists" (aka "good Germans"), and also for some reason Bernie Sanders, defending trans rights is too risky for Democratic candidates, but having an actual nazi tattoo isn't - ugh, those people are utterly worthless.

At this point the boat murders a either the prelude to war with Venezuela, or because 47 loves the idea of being able to order people to be killed, and this is a horrifyingly acceptable method of doing so

I saw this and it sounded liked you meant that the dude covered up his nazi tattoo with *another* nazi tattoo, and thought that he couldn't actually be that stupid &/or blatant, but no, he actually is wow. I'm also furious/disgusted with Bernie Sanders defending him.

Agreed, and 47 is clearly that 12 year old that everyone is deeply concerned about, with him wanting to create a moat in front of his border wall and fill it with rattlesnakes and alligators, and also with that insane AI video he posted of him flying a fighter jet that bombs poop onto protesters

It's now all over mainstream media, and lines like "The event could include Navy ships firing live military ordinance over the 5 Freeway and onto Camp Pendleton." are (to me at least) horrifying and it's clearly intimidation, but also no one is attacking CA (sadly I feel compelled to at a "yet")

5 Freeway could be shut down due to concerns for live fire during military event at Camp Pendleton Parts of the 5 Freeway could be shut down between Los Angeles and San Diego due to concerns of live fire during a military event.

I assumed this was a hoax when I first saw it, but no the Marines will shell CA with "live military ordinance" this Friday or Saturday, allegedly as part of the military's 250th, but clearly to intimidate us before Saturday's protests. This is legitimately horrifying: abc7.com/post/5-could...

I have great difficulty believing that this is true, simply because I don't think Biden and Garland were *that* negligent. My guess is that he's protecting someone he owes big (like some Russian oligarch)

Lots of hard truths in that

He's useful at the present time, but damn what a scumbag

No kidding that judge was clearly *really* done with this administration's crap

At least until they catch the guy who shot him, who (both from the obvious odds, and the large US flag on his t-shirt) is almost certainly a right wing psychopath.

Agreed, OTOH, at least it wasn't one of this season's increasingly terrible episodes about Spock's love life - wowo they've overdone that.

YouTube video by FrankTurnerVEVO Frank Turner - Make America Great Again (Official Video)

I mostly listen to folk music, but I'm very broad in what I consider folk. Recently, due to obvious reasons I've been listening to more folk punk, and here's one by Frank Turner that I think people here will like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KuF...

I was just glad it wasn't one of the increasingly terrible episodes focusing on Spock's love life, but yeah other than "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" (which I quite liked), this season has ranged from barely ok to dreadful.

I'm sorry for your loss, I greatly enjoyed several of her novels and had not known she was no longer with us :(

followed by my first time going to a Middle Eastern restaurant that’s literally 2 blocks away, and was utterly delicious – I had never had dolmas that there quite that excellent, and the rest was equally good. Today included a trip to a lovely GF bakery for donuts and cupcakes.

a couple about turning 25, a few about turning 30, and that’s it, until the Beatles “When I’m Sixty Four”.

In any case, it was a nice birthday, a quiet day at home, (continued)

Yesterday I turned 64 (one of my good friends pointed out, it’s the first age celebrated in song for decades – there’s an abundance of songs about turning 16 (including no shortage of deeply creepy songs about girls turning 16), lots about turning 21 (continued in comments)

Our old cat (Button, 17) & my precious middle-aged tuxie Linden (9), cuddling

But also saw how he didn't agree with that faith on their views about homosexuality, which kept me reading his work. Then, I recently read The Lost Metal (2022), and saw that a minor character was a lesbian in a happy relationship, and was very pleased indeed.

I also quite like his work, and am also pleased with some of his writing decisions. I remember when I'd read the first Mistborn series and wondered who this author I'd just discovered was, and saw to my dismay that he was Mormon (continued)