People hardly refer to you when you’re a normal cashier, but at the liquor store suddenly you’re “boss”
TheGrand547
@thegrand547.bsky.social
(he/him) (demi?)/a-ro ace There is no reason to follow me back "Promulgator of Insolence" Ceo of Mel nation Programmer, short story lover, reading obsessed, cinephile, obnoxious sci-fi opinion haver, usually wrong about things
Publishers and Editors! I'm taking subs for Vol. 3 of the award-nominated "Best Weird Fiction of the Year" til end of the year. Writers! You'll get a chance to submit your 2026 stories in January. bestspecfic(at)gmail.com
2016 essay: but things are changing. with bernie sanders in the us and jeremy corbyn in the uk, young people are driving movements that put priority in building actively for the future crises that may come, 2026 essay: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
writing a thing about the extreme evilness of the mainstream UK press and blanking on the usual video essay "here's something to maybe be hopeful about" sign off. what do you do about an industry that is entirely top-to-bottom bastards
Algorithm Distorting How Important Man Thinks ‘Gummo’ Is To Rest Of World https://theonion.com/algorithm-distorting-how-important-man-thinks-gummo-is-to-rest-of-world/
I’m really really really wired today and it’s hardly bearable. I don’t know why
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
did i die, did i have a stroke and i am comatose is this real does discord have a toggle for "show me gambling ads" are you fucking serious
Mr. Moo Sky@bricebowl.bsky.social · 8h agoDisable gambling ads:
“the english are a mongrel people (laudatory)”
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h agoJacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.
Can I receive special dispensation to read a 500+ page book? It's Little, Big
"ChatGPT, make our campus more diverse." - You should change the underlying structure of society. I suggest more robust college funding and lower tuition, and emphasis on full employment, to redress systematic inequality. "Oops, I forgot the word 'feel' in my prompt."
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · yesterdayTough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
This joke would be a lot better received if people read Gabriel Garcia Marquez beyond 100 Years of Solitude
TheGrand547@thegrand547.bsky.social · yesterdayNo one writes to the grand 547
Wouldn’t say I’d like to be normal—I’ve seen what normal is—but I’d certainly not like to be at war with my brain most of the time
The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted so long that later-period Egypt had museums where you could go and see mysterious artefacts from early-period Egypt. Cleopatra was born closer to the iPhone than the building of the great pyramids at Giza.
Misery Highlight@miseryhighlight.bsky.social · 3mo agoListen, man, you didn’t weird me out you weirded me in. Tell me more obscure facts immediately.
goodnight mel nation. tomorrow we reap what we have sown(checking email again)
Paul Verhoeven would be all “no, that’s too unbelievable.”
Brian Kibler@bmkibler.bsky.social · yesterday"Financial services"
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
Customer had a Cryptopsy patch, among other bands I didn’t recognize. I like finding metal heads in the wild
I am 0/2 for Woolf. I thought going for a shorter work, Jacob’s room, would be better but I just couldn’t get engaged. There are so many words and where they’re coming from is ambiguous and also unsatisfying to discover from whence they came
TheGrand547@thegrand547.bsky.social · yesterdayEach clause in Virginia Woolf makes sense but combined they rarely do. I might be defeated by her once again
Each clause in Virginia Woolf makes sense but combined they rarely do. I might be defeated by her once again
So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.