Karl Fischer
@cyclopstoast.bsky.social
Writer/IT guy in PDX. Amateur psychonaut. I'm a good hang these days. I'm becoming very chill. Can you sense the chillness? How chill I am, in general, through these and other words? Ask me how my day job is going.
Nobody warned me that The Boss Baby is an existential nightmare.
My favorite way to use Gen AI is to open Copilot, spend five minutes being disgusted by how unhelpful it is, and then doing the work myself.
Reviews for “Garfield Sits Around the House”, the seventh book in the Garfield series first published in 1983
TODAY: Nathan Schneider on what comes after Luddism. "The struggle against big tech can have two stories in one: the vibrant resistance and refusal, but also the effort to build a better economy under workers’ and users’ control." flaminghydra.com/issue-617/#b...
Bodies upon the gears
Alternative approaches to The Man, considered by Nathan Schneider
flaminghydra.com
there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.
The honest truth is that I'm having a great life so far, and I think quitting alcohol has been instrumental in helping me realize that.
If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5mo agoThey won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
It's happening right in front of us. The old Web is being reborn because they've fucked up the sophisticated indexing service the originally conquered the internet.
I want to spend more time getting high and letting people meet my dogs.
The most important discovery I've made is realizing that nobody knows anything. Some people try a lot harder than others to understand, but we are all clueless, scared, and disintegrating.
I enjoyed the Theroux Manosphere doc. I understand why people think he didn't push back on the guys enough, but I disagree that the final product is ineffective.
I'm prepared to be super wrong about how all this plays out, but I suspect that people are not prepared for a world in which someone like Crystal does the opposite of shooting someone like Noel.
Dreamboat Branny 🦢@bransonreese.bsky.social · 2w agoI have never seen my patreon notifications blow up like they just did for tomorrow's comic
I know it's fashionable to gawk at the AI freaks and be like "we're cooked fam" but the guy who invented breakfast cereal thought he was inventing anti-masturbation aids. Humans are little freaks. We discover new kinds of freakiness every day. There's something beautiful about that.
Do you dream this man?
Years and years ago, someone probably told me that I would need a system if I was going to be a writer, to learn HOW to write and HOW to BE a writer. Probably multiple people told me this, in different ways, and I didn't understand them, or didn't listen, or thought I was doing thus already.
I am also being reimbursed 20% of the cargo value passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
I hope it didn't hurt. Lindsey Graham. You know, when he plummeted into hell.
Holy shit.
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 4w agoOkay. This is a big deal for me Three years ago, writer Henry Bean told me he had a short story he'd finished in 2020, which he felt needed to be published He'd been turned down everywhere I read it I was stunned I took it to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social It's up now, and it will change you:
Reading Ted Chiang makes me feel like I'm just now discovering this thing called words.