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katsudon.bsky.social
aka Alex Wells, certified gentlethem. Author, geologist, "asshole geographer," cyclist, cat dad. Union strong and queer as hell. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊ All opinions strictly my own. (they/them) https://katsudon.net/
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Happy Reagan death day to all who celebrate

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

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

‘Don’t want any smoke on her’ { #art #sinners }

Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

Lol this is like Caligula getting into a fight with his horse

the friendship that ended like a cybertruck

Please stop calling my life crisis “mid”

happy pride month! transnews.substack.com/p/pride-month

Also holy shit the Mariners Pride Month video is SO good

“This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/s...

May I offer you a loaf in these trying times?

Sinners is set in the city of Clarksdale, MS. Problem: there’s no theatre there. So, the citizens wrote to Warner Bros to bring the film to them. Today they & Ryan Coogler did! What a beautiful day!

Luddites weren't anti-tech. They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker. I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.

Volcanologists' wedding cake! Pictures from my friends: x.com/GeoFuruko/st...

Algae Hello Kitty

#GNUTerryPratchett #Glorious25thOfMay

Let’s go, Millennials, we’ve been training for this our whole lives.

With endorsement from the sun

Holy fucking shit this game is scary as hell stillwakesthedeep.com

#Booksky MURDER ON THE TITANIA by Alex Acks @katsudon.bsky.social is the Deal of the Day at DriveThruFiction today! Kickass ladies, adventure, dirigibles, tea and more! www.drivethrufiction.com/product/2849...

On Monday I had my last session for my full sleeve tattoo. 😃 All done except the touch ups. What a long journey it's been, interrupted by two years on immunosuppressants thanks to my kidneys exploding.

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

None of us need help with ideas, we need our bills paid so we have time to write our ideas. We need security so we can play with ideas instead of spending mental energy on keeping the lights on and rationing groceries. Like did these AI advocates never have an idea pre-2023? FFS

I've always beaten the drum of "if you write, you're an author" since imposter syndrome is rampant in this field. Well, the converse is true. If you can't be bothered to write your own work, then you're not an author.

I *know* this was tongue-in-cheek, but as someone who works in [state] regulatory, comments on regs that are overtly irate/insulting/make only emotional arguments generally get binned. When commenting, please make a concrete argument as to why the proposed reg will directly harm you/your community.

I think the inability to to escape the racist plagiarism machine being forced into every aspect of my life with no way to turn it off may be starting to affect my mental health.

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🏳️‍🌈 Pre-Pride Bookstore Pop-Up 📚 Shout out to @cometkins.bsky.social & @katsudon.bsky.social 🙂 🌈📚 Everything: Queer Colorado ⛰️ Queer stories set in Colorado and Colorado authors writing queer stories on Bookshop.org Affiliate Link bookshop.org/lists/everyt... #booksky #queerbooks

Very thoughtful, thorough, and even-handed.

My new Genre Grapevine column is a deep dive into the use of ChatGPT by Seattle Worldcon. In interviews with Worldcon volunteers, I learned this was likely done by a low-level volunteer trying to save time. This volunteer wasn't original authorized to do this. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/129039...

Here's a kind-of, sort-of SINNERS post. It's not a spoiler, but it's context I've wanted to supply since my first viewing. Repeat: not a spoiler. Right. So, the Yoruba people started in Ife, but our greatest empire was Oyo. In the Oyo empire, you had the king (Alaafin - 'palace owner') 1/

While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

Bear in mind the AI voices will have been ripped off from people like me who, until now, have voiced stories. Our jobs will be diminished or gone, replaced by voices stolen from us without any recompense.