brian w

@bwwhalen.bsky.social

Brooklyn. new music, live music, queer literature, sci-fi, video games, climate, socialism

Cashier at the big clothing retailer pitched me a tight two minutes on how american manufacturers have been poisoning the general populace since WW2. I told him I agree completely and wished him a lovely afternoon.

Gave directions to a sweet old lady, she thanked me, and then instead of “You’re welcome” or “No problem” I awkwardly chirped “Your problem!” and walked off.

I am not interested in paying for a career coach or whatever but on the other hand I am interested in telling a working professional whom I trust “Ok here is my situation, what should I do?” So….

my mother is in Brussels and accidentally overlapped with Brussels Pride today. her text update opened with “No offense to a cause you care about but…” ☠️

apparently my fav SFF authors have all conspired to release new books at the same time. not complaining. just need a couple weeks in the woods to get thru new installments in Children of Time, Captive’s War, Murderbot, Imperial Radch, Dungeon Crawler Carl…

I think my festival days are mostly behind me, but this All Things Go DC lineup is so stacked with artists I love that I will immediately go listen to all the ones I haven’t heard yet

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Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Zara Larsson defends Chappell Roan to The Guardian: “When a woman has boundaries, I think people freak out. Men can do violent criminal things and people applaud them, but when a woman says, ‘Stop following me,’ it’s controversial? It’s like: you guys just hate women, actually.”

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LinkedIn has sent me a push notification letting me know I’m a perfect applicant for the role I left three months ago which my old agency is still trying to fill.