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

Add to the list of things I will do When I Am King: ban tech bros from naming their shit after stuff out of Tolkien or Iain M. Banks. If they want to do it, they'll have to pass a reading comprehension test.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. (Like this answer will come as a surprise to any of you.)

Master And Commander Peter Weir: 1805 Intro

Alt: Master And Commander Peter Weir: 1805 Intro APRIL 1805 NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

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Ned Raggett@nedraggett.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh this is EASY.

Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust.

Bruce Levenstein@brucelevenstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust.

This is like a smooth-brain Torment Nexus rewrite/remake of NEVER LET ME GO.

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w ago

extremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.

German broadcast. Nailed it

man this show…we clowned it. Don’t get me wrong. We sat there like beavis and butthead riffing on everything. “And now, for the 75th week in a row, it’s Dave Gahan in a crown on a hillside!” We also watched it absolutely every week, and it encapsulated the era

Phil Nobile Jr.@philnobilejr.bsky.social · 3w ago

120 MINUTES was an absolute oasis in pre-internet pop culture. So many bands that you could ONLY find there (TV-wise) became ubiquitous online later (and relatively recently). A pioneer. consequence.net/2026/07/dave...

Bloody hell. When I was in high school, I watched that show every week like it was my job. It's the only reason I had any musical taste at all at that age. Thank you, Dave, for everything.

Phil Nobile Jr.@philnobilejr.bsky.social · 3w ago

120 MINUTES was an absolute oasis in pre-internet pop culture. So many bands that you could ONLY find there (TV-wise) became ubiquitous online later (and relatively recently). A pioneer. consequence.net/2026/07/dave...

American soccer fans disappointed in the men’s World Cup should join the rest of us next year for the regular World Cup.

"better to lose with dignity than win unfairly" sounds like a hollow truism, the type of thing losers say to comfort themselves. maybe glorious failure is just something baked into European/British sports that doesn't translate to America. maybe it's better to try to win at all costs, I don't know.

I'd say "nice try" but it wasn't even that. #worldcup #usmnt

Things haven’t looked this bright for a team based in the southern Low Countries since Charles the Bold was Duke of Burgundy

man, the entire host continent wiped out. ya gotta lol

Belgium moves into the quarterfinals, defeating the USMNT 4-1, thirty-seven years after the release of their country's classic techno anthem, Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam". youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI

Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TechnotronicVEVO

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Thematically appropriate posting, part one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6O...

George Washington- [Brad Neely]

YouTube video by DuckDuckCamel1996

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Happy July 4th, with the only way I want to mark the day. youtu.be/UZf6diVrmSk

1776 - Is Anybody There (enhanced sound)

YouTube video by Golden Key Videos

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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

Usually I reserve my sports feelings for my emotional support millionaire adrenaline junkies, but holy shit that Cabo Verde football team. Instant legends.

Have a Cape Verdean banger from the Pop World Cup 🫡🇨🇻 youtu.be/5p4OWBK4adw?...

Bend'Nobo 83 - Riba Canela

YouTube video by Caldo Verde

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Look, is Messi one of the best of all time? Yes. Would it be absolutely hilarious if Cape Verde knocked out Argentina? Also yes

Wait, did you know the kids I went to high school with?

r o o@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · last mo.

When people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social · last mo.

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

I’ll never forget seeing The VVitch at a film festival and literally chasing Eggers down the hall after the screening to tell him how much we liked it.

Another foundational GenX text arrived today.

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. The photo, that is, not the painting. Go.

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2mo ago

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. The photo, that is, not the painting. Go.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

Liz Shannon Miller@lizshannonmiller.com · 2mo ago

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

Me when people tell me I should stop using em dashes because it "looks like AI" 👇

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

…Removing your own stylistic cues & voice for fear they make you "sound like AI" is a sure-fire way to make your work bland & lifeless, to say nothing of what it's gonna do to you psychologically, emotionally, & hermeneutically. Develop your voice, & write how you fucking well want to goddam write.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

"Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap"

Selena Kane@serendipityjones.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap"