Sean Bugg

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Dumbest political journalism ever actually undersells how truly, deeply dumb it is. I feel dumber having read it.

I mean why is it an ideological conversation. "take a shower and express genuine interest." end of podcast. this also works for conservative men. the thesis that there's some trick to attracting a mate is fundamentally a con, I don't think the left should try to get in on that particular racket

If not building new housing prevented gentrification and kept housing prices down... SF would be least gentrified city with the lowest average rents in the country.

This is the genius-level AI for which we are melting our glaciers. (h/t @tunedintotennis.bsky.social)

Not the main issue here but...what the fuck does "innately designed" mean? The design of the project contains design? God these people are sloppy, sloppy enough I wouldn't enter a structure built and designed by them because I value my life.

Me: “Siri, set timer for 50 minutes.”
Siri: “Setting timer for 15 minutes.”
Repeat x5
I’ve never found a decent use case for Siri that I couldn’t do faster myself.

Sounds like the headline's more appropriate for Garland's "Men." I liked the film version of Annihilation a lot more than I expected to (still like the books better).

Danger Diabolik is pretty amazing

Ah, I see the Problem Solvers are maintaining its streak of never solving any problems.

I started using Authory to pull in my stuff automatically. Had to do some wayback machine and lots of manual searching as well but I think I got everything back to around 2002. My expectation that my work would live forever online was woefully misguided 🤣

Things Are Somehow Getting Worse for the Washington Post A raft of buyouts and multiple ongoing shake-ups have left staff despondent and unsure about the future.

Looks like Bezos plan is to transform the Washington Post into a newspaper with all the prestige, respect, and talent of the Washington Times.

YouTube video by Sean Bugg Ball Game: How a gender-affirming surgery changed my cisgender life in middle school (and beyond)

In 1980, we didn't call it "gender affirming surgery" to overcome my deep shame and fear by giving me a testicular implant but that's sure as hell what it did for me. And affirming medical care shouldn't be limited to cisgender people like me. #gendercare #lgbt #transrights

Ball Game How a gender-affirming surgery changed my cisgender life in middle school (and long after)

In 1980, we didn't call it "gender affirming surgery" to overcome my deep shame and fear by giving me a testicular implant but that's sure as hell what it did for me. And affirming medical care shouldn't be limited to cisgender people like me. #gendercare #lgbt #transrights

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

I have a couple folders of stories (finished and unfinished), plus my very nice and encouraging rejection letters from Asimov's SF Magazine and Amazing Stories. I didn't succeed in getting published at 14 but I'm glad I still have the evidence I tried.

Why the Gen Z stare has every generation talking A deadpan look from Gen Z is drawing comparisons to the Boomer ‘lead paint’ stare and the millennial pause.

Weirdly, I have not experienced this so-called stare and haven't heard about it until I saw this, so I'm doubting the "every generation talking" about it. Mercifully, the writer appears to have skipped over Gen X for this, as all media tends to do. Once again, I'm glad to be forgotten.

Discovering the Unfound Door Books that Changed my Life: Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward, Angel”

Without "Look Homeward, Angel," I wouldn’t have attempted Faulkner’s "The Sound and the Fury" and "Light in August" (that’s a true banger). I wouldn’t have read Toni Morrison’s "Beloved," and I would have been the worse for it. On discovering capital-L Literature after college. #books #booksky

YouTube just recommended Chris Cillizza to me and now I have a new speed record for clicking "Don't Recommend Channel"

Ursula K. Le Guin, the Vietnam War, and Me When the precise stylist put aside subtlety to make a polemic point about war in The Word for World is Forest

On the Vietnam War, marrying into a Vietnamese family, and Ursula K. LeGuin's powerful anti-war polemic, "The Word for World Is Forest." #books #booksky #sciencefiction

Trump looking like an idiot by hanging out onstage with celebrating soccer players who have no use for him.

When you're having a party and that annoying friend of a friend of a friend won't take the hint to leave.

You were on my list (I’ve binged Sandman Slim, as one does)

My experience is they say something about Biden, gripe about their personal grievance, then refuse to engage beyond yelling about that grievance. Fruitless effort for the most part.

Yeah, sure was interesting and fun when my dad didn’t come to my wedding because he didn’t believe in gay marriage.

Oodily oodily oodily… I remember interviewing Mike White for this when it came out. I liked it, except for having that damn ditty stuck in my head.

Post a book you love from the 1970s!

I’m 57, gay, and haven’t spoken to my dad in more seven years, aside from a brief call when my mother-in-law died that sealed my decision to finally stop putting up with the bullshit. Screw parents and family that can’t accept their children.

Review: “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” A novel of Native American suffering and revenge under Manifest Destiny in Montana is Stephen Graham Jones’s best work yet

A novel of Native American suffering and revenge under Manifest Destiny in Montana, “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” is Stephen Graham Jones’s best work yet. Here’s my white-man review (spoiler: Read it, it’s mesmerizing, gripping, and one of the best I’ve read in years). #booksky #horror #books

Or, fuck William F. Buckley Jr., a miserable homophobic bastard who isn’t missed.

On The Back Half podcast, talking quotes from radical libertarian SF writers and how solipsistic fascists don't understand the actual world around them. seanbugg.substack.com or youtube.com/seanbugg