Lil Mr Big Boy Man

@micktheebs.bsky.social

Writer. Artist. Poet Laureate Emeritus of Milford, CT. Solidarity forever. He/Him

Just watched Smokey and the Bandit for the first time and to heal the world we need more movies about cool guys doing cool shit without learning a single damn thing in the process, ideally while sporting a sweet mustache.

People view language as oxygen: it’s invisible and ever present, so they don’t think much about how it works. When they see a machine emulating language convincingly, they don’t realize that the machine is skipping all of the processes that happen before output and assume it thinks like us.

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

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

This has stopped getting much traction when I share it (understandable, everyone is unemployed and fatigued), but things are really tight for us right now and I would appreciate any extra visibility I can get. Available for all kinds of supplemental freelance and contract work.

Ryan McDiarmid@ryanmcdiarmid.com · 2mo ago

Anyways if you know of anyone looking for in-house or contract game design, narrative design, or writing, full or part time, I'm still looking. Also open to in-person work of nearly any kind in the Vancouver area. ryanmcdiarmid.com