Today a student said I have “girl dad energy” which I am going to take as a huge compliment.

I am teaching Large Lecture classes this semester and have six GTAs. I had not realized how much I was going to be subjecting them to the fucking pedagogical firehose, explaining not only what my class policies are but WHY they are in place from 25 years of experience. Constant walls of text.

"What is needed to challenge and finally break a system based on nothing but decorum, one built on tradition rather than laws, is an absurd little chaos goblin who thinks rules do not apply and who feels no shame. Enter George Santos and Lane Kiffin. In this essay I will..."

Just got a spam text saying "We are offering huge roof repair/replacement discounts in your area" and it is taking all of my energy to not respond, "Sorry, we do not have a huge roof."

Please make Coyote vs Acme so big that "I have a limited number of signs" becomes accepted neurodivergent shorthand for spoons-related issues

If I (somehow) got social media famous, the one person I would absolutely need to have on staff would be someone inside my hubristic bubble willing and able to tell me "maybe that is a bad take and you should remove it."

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marina grlica 🌱@dovesplants.bsky.social · 2w ago

[Exit Queen.]

What if we...

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 2w ago

But maybe in a more condensed form so the button doesn't have to be the size of a CD I just feel like the "NO A.I." buttons attract slopsuckers who immediately want to proselytize about it and that is not a conversation I am going to be able to have without someone getting severely mandibled

I guess we can boycott all Kit Harington movies and projects now like.... um.... well.... give me a minute.

This is killing me. No idea on the source.

I am having to build PowerPoints again as part of teaching a Large Lecture, so I am going back through my Covid era slides. I really love how it is clear that my brain got progressively more cooked over the course of the semester. Still, even from the start I was having fun.

I did not know what caused the Breakfast Burrito discourse today; now that I have seen the picture, I wish I had remained in blissful ignorance.

Got to meet my GTAs for the Large Lecture course this semester. Teaching a Lit LL is unnerving (feels like it will be the unfun parts of teaching without the fun bits), but at least it looks like I am going to be able to do it with a really strong crew.

Got some interstitials to work on and obviously all the bracketed bits (you know [[This river needs a name]] or [[Fix this you dumbass!]]), but the rough draft of Book 2 is DONE. Now time to pivot back to really looking for an agent for the first one! Finding comps is HARD!

This needs to be hammered over and over. Defeated, impotent, and cowardly. Hitler hiding in a bunker. Jefferson Davis fleeing in a dress. It is a language his cult speaks.

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 4w ago

The food cart story's amusing, but there's a lot of text in "the president of the most powerful country in the world had to hide in a food cart to avoid the projected lethal power of a nation with 1/4 your population that you outspend 100 to 1 on the military and keep claiming you've defeated."

As I close in on the end of book two, I am really noticing a pattern (for me). Openings are not too hard as they have been baking for a while. Middles are a miserable, slow, slog. But then the endings are absolute pleasure as past me has spent years just setting up balls on tees for me to launch.

Onto the final chapter right as the dial on book two clicks over to 100k. The finish line of this marathon is in sight.

I am STILL on the next to last chapter of the book. It keeps adding sections, like I propagated mint in the field and it has taken over everything. Two more broke off this morning; fingers crossed that these are the final two.

dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last mo.

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

Tremendous sympathy. He did not understand why his brain did not work right and just assumed he was made wrong. Does not mean I would not enjoy going back in time, explaining a few things, and then rhetorically kicking his ass for failing to stand up for things he knew in his core to be right.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last mo.

As you've gotten older, have you become less or more sympathetic toward your teenage self?

Thor: Dark World is unfairly maligned as a film. It is a solid early Marvel film that could have been brilliant with better editing and a reshoot or two. Cut all Malekith POV scenes; make him an inscrutable cosmic horror. Add more Loki / Frigga to anchor and more Darcy / Selvig to humanize. Done

I don't know how to explain it, but Matcha tastes like hollow umami to me, like something that wants to be savory but just came up empty.

If you’ve never posted anything about the WNBA or women’s sports before last year and are suddenly concerned about Caitlin Clark or trans kids playing sports, you are either a racist, a bigot or a misogynist.

2,300 words for this week. A really solid number. If I had been doing this all summer, book 2 would be long done. Instead, the semester is going to hit before I get there. The summer is so frustrating. It seems like it is going to be so open, but it is always just non-stop chaos.

I just rewatched Project Hail Mary, and while the whole thing is brilliant and wonderful, I absolutely melted down emotionally during the karaoke scene. I cannot hold it together there.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. [[As an autistic dude, this is a super easy question. Probably dozens of films in this category. Let's go with ...]]

Dark City: Free From Grip

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Pops@poppenarts.com · last mo.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

This pass is so absurdly brilliant that, if I saw it in a video game, I would call bullshit. My favorite bit is how she is so supremely confidant in every ounce of her being that there is not going to be a rebound. She just bounces off the defender with a "meh."

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

Olivia Miles goes between the legs on a drop pass to Kayla McBride for 3

If I ever win the lottery, I won't tell anyone. But there will be big, train car sized signs.

Ken Childs@thekenchilds.com · last mo.

Seriously: LeBron has the money to get his own train car hooked to the train, which is literally something you can actually do. When I hit the powerball, it will be something I'm doing.

My ONLY good habit as a writer is I leave myself gifts, characters and threads that do not go anywhere yet. 9 times out of 10, when I get stuck later, one of those threads will bail me out. Thank you past Austin for Edmund Joiner, the pudgy 7 year old, anxious about playing with the other kids.