Edward Martin III
@edwardmartiniii.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and solver of problems (usually my own, I’ll admit). Always happy to talk story with story-talkers. Always welcoming to under-represented voices, trans voices, etc. If I ran for office, my “party” would be Starfleet.
I may be a horror writer, but that didn’t protect me from waking up today, realizing the solution to the programming issue currently holding me back on writing this web game. Furthermore, it’s a technique I learned programming on an Apple ][e in 1982-3! So, stay in school, y’all! And make games!
Former job bullshit: We kept losing employees because we were paying shit, and the manager tells me that he doesn’t want to pay more because he doesn’t want people “who are just hunting for a paycheck.” Buddy, no one cares about being “on the winning team,” they all got families to feed. Jerk.
It’s so irksome that we allowed screaming babbling idiots to scream and babble and be idiots solely because when we tried to keep it fun, educational, and interesting, they all publicly bawled about “restricting conservative voices” and then they bot-flooded social spaces with their deadly garbage.
I think a mistake has been made. I think licenses to drive an automobile should have remained exactly that. They should never have been elevated to serve as personal identification. Just like SSN should have never been adopted by so many institutions as a user ID. But I’m bad at planning.
Not that I vape, but is it weird that the newer ones moan appreciatively when you suck on ‘em?
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Terror Stories from the Territories
Down these paths lie madness Welcome to Terror Stories from the Territories, from the lost journals of Jack Harlowe, who’s traveled the world to hear stories from the underside of existence, …
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Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit! May your August flood your life with warmth and joy!
Trump passports will be the E.T. video cartridge game of the future, unsellable and ridiculous, gathered together late one night and unceremoniously dumped en masse in an unmarked landfill in hopes of never being found again.
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Invocations
What the heck is Invocations? Invocations is more than a simple mailing list. Invocations brings creative inspiration directly to you, every month. And it’s absolutely free! Please be sure to…
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This song delights me SO MUCH! I am okay getting a canoe, too! Any Canadian buddies open to advocating for a goofy writer? youtu.be/mWQf13B8epw?...
Canadian, Please | gunnarolla & Julia Bentley
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“Pork Chop Tea Bag” would not be the worst band name I came up with this year.
When the bomb says "I must think on this further" and slides back up into the bomb bay, your next step is to pack as fast as you can and get outside the blast radius. Never expect a bomb to come to a conclusion other than "...therefore, I boom."
JS programming question: How might I send game scores from a pure JS client-side game, back to a CGI app to update “top scores,” with “proof” it’s from the game, and not simply a custom JS form specifically designed to send a fake score? #JavaScript
Watching “Lovers of the Arctic Circle” at a theater, thinking it was a quirky romantic comedy, and then having to lock yourself down until you get home before letting that dam burst, is a special kind of torture.
If it weren’t for shitty “AI” image-stealing machines, who would draw fantasy pictures for the white-supremacist/right wingers? … …ah, NOW I understand their enthusiastic embrace of it!
THIS is why there’s an Internet. For some kind of wild adventure! youtu.be/JwZiezIxCVU
#SuperCut of Every Time Someone Says "Some Kind Of..." on STAR TREK: Voyager
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“Unskilled labor” is the code phrase for “slavery.”
I can't be the only person thinking "Sure, sure, you see (checks notes) the 'future', Mr. Atreides. Sure, okay."
"Gee, I wish we didn't NEED rules, but some folks are fuckpoodles, and so not only do we need rules, but we need agreement on the necessary punishment for the breaking of those rules." The reason our laws are so complicated is because people keep trying to be fuckin' lawyers. Including lawyers.
Space is fulla crop-dusting. Scientists TELL us "That's just hydrogen gas," but we know better. Sure, doc.
Dune navigator: "The deflector array CAUSES collateral damage" Starfleet: "It's a cosmic cowcatcher. 'damage' is its middle name."
When someone complains about “cancel culture.” 1. They suck 2. They refuse to acknowledge they suck. 3. They've been TOLD they suck. 4. See #2 5. When faced with someone who does NOT suck, they refuse to believe it, because however obvious it might be to even the most casual passerby, see #2.
More than a few times, conversations with HR have included such phrases as “…there isn’t a rule against this per se, but…” That's what they get for inviting me to a pumpkin carving contest and telling me to "Just cut loose, let's see what you do!"
What's with these cardboard flaps? Why would you want to reseal a box of cereal? 1 box = 1 serving. C'mon.
Slings are badass, but boy howdy do they take a lot of practice. Sorry about your window. And your siding.
There are lots of people who will look you straight in the eye and say “one step at a time, focus on one step at a time, and you got this. You got this nailed.” Those people know what’s what.
Man, I gotta say that I hit my fill of saying-negative-things-about-movies a long time ago. After a while, it all sounds like everybody's trying to one-up each other on how shitty they can be about a movie. On the plus side, the white-supremacists are marginally more visible.
Creating technical and instructional documents that are gender neutral is trivial for a skilled technical writer. The secret is to not be sexist. ;)
So anyway, here I am planning to write something...
