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"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Every "I used AI for this" starts "I'm treating this like an unpaid intern" and goes through "10-50% of the time it makes up bullshit data" and ends with "I'm still going to use it, because I caught it." Motherfucker, if that actually WAS an intern, you'd have fired them for being shit at their job.

This is definitely the most that I have ever talked about my life story — at @cascadepbs.org IDEAS Festival with @radiolab.bsky.social’s amazing!!!! Molly Webster: youtu.be/BdwK3ME1l_Y?...

WNYC presents Radiolab: Science has an Identity Crisis | Cascade PBS Ideas Festival

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As we enter the last week of Hugo voting, a reminder that October Daye is up for Best Series, and winning would be made SO MUCH SWEETER by the fact that I could take my trophy and inform the room "I'm going to Disneyland," then ACTUALLY DO IT, since Disneyland will be less than a mile away. WOW!

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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Ender's Walking Simulator

This one for me too. You can hear this, right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjt...

Akira Tokyo: Cyberpunk Cityscape

Alt: From Akira: Neo-Tokyo with lights at the start of the motorcycle battle between Kaneda's gang and the Clowns. The music playing at this moment is titled "Kaneda".

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Ariock®@ariock.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than 6 times with a GIF. Also, hard mode should add Monty Python. And apart from the original SW films and Disney films, I haven't seen any of the others that much. If you've seen this movie, you can hear this gif.

Film you've watched more than 6 times with a GIF. Also, hard mode should add Monty Python. And apart from the original SW films and Disney films, I haven't seen any of the others that much. If you've seen this movie, you can hear this gif.

King Arthur's Knights Ride

Alt: King Arthur and his knights ride horses past the viewer and the trees are blooming. From the movie Excalibur and at this moment in the film, O Fortuna by Carl Orff is really going hard.

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)@antonpnym.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than 6 times with a GIF.

For a second, I got offended on behalf of Blue Prince, but then I remembered all the broken runs and the fact that I haven't touched it since finishing it.

Mathew Kumar@mathewkumar.com · last wk.

Unlocked! Belatedly, I look at Vampire Survivors, and lament that everything is gambling now, even when the only thing you're wasting is your time:

Great piece of writing on Vampire Survivor and the rise of gambling in games and culture. It depresses me that the 2D action genre has fallen into this pattern where so much of it is about random chance and builds now, rather than moment to moment play, learning and gaining skill.

Mathew Kumar@mathewkumar.com · last wk.

Unlocked! Belatedly, I look at Vampire Survivors, and lament that everything is gambling now, even when the only thing you're wasting is your time:

PDX - the Lloyd Center Mall is closing soon. On Sunday, August 2, come play some fun, silly in-person games with me and @thnewlands.bsky.social to say farewell! 💖🛝🛍️ RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mall-rats-...

Mall Rats Play Day @ Lloyd Center Mall

Come play simple silly group in-person games inside a mall that's about to close.

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also, hello to everyone who found this from a repost, after I quit LJ in 2007 and had my long-overdue year-long mental breakdown, another ex-employee and I cofounded Dreamwidth (www.dreamwidth.org), everything we always wanted to do with LJ with 100% less "being owned by the state bank of Russia"

I regret to inform you that my brain will think it's the year 2000 until the day I die. When is 30 years ago? 1970. How long ago were the '90s? 10 years ago. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

presenting: a thread of GIFs featuring the surprise star of "Noise Some Makes" -- PA Kaylin Mahoney!

Not Emma Mackey though instead of Weaving?

Alex A. Pagliuca@alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 2w ago

I remember seeing someone say we need a movie with Daniel Radcliffe and Margot Robbie playing a couple who get mistaken for assassins who are played by Elijah Wood and Samara Weaving, and I may not ever stop wanting to see that movie.

They love to singa. About the bluea and your crewa and to sinka.

Looney Tunes: I Like To Singa (Singing Owl)

Alt: Looney Tunes: I Love To Singa (Singing Owl) About the moon a and the June a and the spring a.

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Becky Tyler@beckytylerart.bsky.social · 2w ago

What song did the Sirens sing in The Odyssey? Wrong answers only.

My experiment's not getting us anywhere.

Ted Leo 🍉@tedleo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Magnets - how do they work?

Also, it shouldn't be allowed to say a thing will be delivered on one date and then suddenly the delivery is 2+ weeks later.

Haley Moore@toenolla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can we bully corporations on Bluesky like we used to? Hey Amazon not telling me which thing you're delivering in your emails sucks to high heaven.

RIP Jennifer Finch

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I gave a dear friend a gift I'm very proud of tonight even though I just assembled it - she's an old school Sailor Moon fan, and also one of the baddest bitches I know, so I got my paws on a complete set of @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social Sailor Scouts badass "business cards" and framed them for her!

@lauraehall.bsky.social @jeyb.bsky.social Really enjoyed "The Incident at Galley House."

bro what do u bench bro

is this prosocialinfrastructurepunk

Alex@mplsalex.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is so awesome.

I found out about clerihews recently. Senator Lindsey Graham resembled a ham. He defended a rapist, His aorta fancied itself an escapist.

Okay. 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:

The Event

“Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us.”

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I would watch seven 24-episode seasons of John Oliver: Soap Opera G-Man www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpH...

Every John Oliver Scene on General Hospital

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haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it