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i know i'm old as fuck by their standards and my opinion is irrelevant but young men's haircuts these days are fucking weird 😄

submitted 25 minutes ago • 3 comments

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

submitted 458 days ago • 43 comments

hi, divorce expert here! this is not funny, JD Vance only does this when he's in extreme distress.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha

submitted 12 hours ago • 640 comments

I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

This is all very simple. Let the world's two biggest babies fight and visibly construct and build a world without them. Anybody who tries to welcome Elon Musk, the world's most preeminent ratfucker, into their political party should be put in a dog crate until 2029.

submitted 10 hours ago • 168 comments

It's not doomscrolling today, it's schadenfeed.

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

IMPORTANT: Please remember to loudly bully and ridicule your local Dem politicians if they decide that El*n might be a good “ally” for the party

submitted 12 hours ago • 93 comments

The Night of the Long Tweets

submitted 10 hours ago • 30 comments

The most moronic leopards chowing on the stupidest faces is just delightful.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 12 hours ago • 606 comments

Holy shit (with alt text)

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

🤣🇺🇸

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

submitted 12 hours ago • 92 comments

But a woman president would be too emotional...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 12 hours ago • 501 comments

Okay, I've just got up and I'm clearly getting NOTHING done today. 🍿

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

I mean... 😄

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The number of times I tell authors this. At the very least a free site with contact details and a bibliography. I know editors who've wanted to buy work but can reach the author. In this, the year of our internet two thousand and twenty-five. Get thee a website, author!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

submitted 5 days ago • 102 comments

I just noticed I'm 3 followers away from hitting 10k. That's bonkers. Who will it be? (This skeet almost certain to cause a number of people to unfollow. 😄)

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Amen🙌

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I'm all caught up on Doctor Who. They made some really bold choices with this season! NO SPOILERS in the replies, please - people haven't seen it yet. A massive thing got spoiled for me because people can't be more considerate. But I enjoyed this season more than others recently.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Some e-scooter riders are an absolute liability these days...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Absolutely this, plus they're lazy as fuck because they want all the praise without any of the work. They want to be seen as a writer rather than be someone who writes.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

you're so proud of your 6yo's reading and confidence until she's shouting the taglines of your romance paperbacks at the library book sale. "NO WOMAN CAN RESIST....THE CAPTAIN OF ALL PLEASURE." like good job but girl be cool

submitted 60 days ago • 34 comments

Gen AI is so patently shit in every way, just producing rubbish results, polluting truth, hallucinating bullshit, destroying the planet and yet so many people keep acting like it's actually a thing, I feel like I've been having a sustained stroke for two years or something.

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This came up in my feed and it's so tight no light escapes.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

His Majesty the King, not white British apparently.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

We all had to pass "the knowledge" before we were allowed to drive. It was a three-hour intensive verbal exam where the examiner would suggest a journey and we had to describe the exact fastest route. If we got a single thing wrong we weren't allowed to sit the knowledge again for three months.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"To say I was impressed was an understatement because Baxter’s writing blew me away. I loved how he mixed the hard boiled crime with slight elements of supernatural horror to full blown cosmic horror." 😮😃

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments