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I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

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I want to start something new. Every Friday, I want to feature HUMAN creatives and what you've made. So if you're an author, artist, musician or any other type of creative, drop your links below so we can buy your human made art. #HumanMadeArt Image source: hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

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This is America. Things need to change with both parties. Greed and power is causing our collapse

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I give you... a puddle of Maine Coon...

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McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

Somebody asked me if the Queen ever did the "kitty loaf" pose. So she obliged. You're welcome. 😀

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My sweet lord. I have never ever used ChatGPT and after reading this piece I kind of want to burn my computer. What are we DOING to our creative souls??

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@guygavrielkay.bsky.social your new one arrived on my doorstep yesterday. I'm currently in the middle of reading something but as soon as I'm done with that the new Kay treasure goes RIGHT to the top of the TBR pile, putting everything else in second place. I'm positively twitching to read it.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Oh FFS.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Part one of a two-fer "Learn Something" post up on my Patreon now - part tw coming soon - and it is really worth it, throwing a buck or two into the kitty to subscribe to my Patreon just for these two posts alone... consider it... :)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I remember seeing photos of a comet hitting Jupiter, not having to wait for newspaper reports. I remember "home pages" being places where people collected cool things. I remember Usenet conversations conducted in essays. I remember the Internet pre-monetization, and it was joy.

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Democrats’ message should surely be: What Sen. Ernst really means here is that the donors, lobbyists, and elites Sen. Ernst now hangs around with don’t much care about some less well-off people dying.

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

This is a relentlessly PINK cat. Lookit the toe beans...

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Trying to figure out whether, when all is said and done, Musk will be responsible for more deaths than COVID.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

In anticipation of Caturday, I give you the resident Maine Coon floof goofy perching her considerable mass on top of a scratching post. Yes, I mean ON TOP OF the scratching post. I... can't even. I don't know where she stashed her royal dignity.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Might be time to repost this oldie of mine from the bad site (originally written in response to arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/17/l... )

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

So, I hear that America is going to be made healthier again by dint of using health and scientific studies... created by ChatGTP. I am ever so reassured.

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You know what's going to happen next, don't you. "If I put a paw Right Here, I can reach the top of the pile. . . ." #CatTimelineCleanse

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If you can't even stand up for your students, what the fuck are you even doing in this field? Children have literally no power. They're reliant on us to open doors for them. We cannot keep calling ourselves defenders of the first amendment if we comply to fascism in advance.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

One planet, two rovers #Mars May 25-26, 2025 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This - this in damned SPADES - write because you love to write or because you have a story you believe is worth telling. Not because you want to "have written", as long as someone else puts in all the hard work that is necessary.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I don't want to streamline creation either. I'd much rather we build a society that pays us enough and frees up more of our time to do the things that bring us joy. But it feels like we're doing the exact opposite.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

move to make “ozowned“ a verb, all in favor

submitted 530 days ago • 145 comments

looking for something to llisten to?... www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3oY...

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Harrumph. I was just a part of a "reading group" at a virtual con panel. Shall we just say I got to read third out of that group of 3, and while my predecessors read excerpts from novel-length works... there just wasn't time for my own short story. It was just a question of "we're out of time."...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

We are Having A Nap. Nothing to see here. Moving right along. Feline film at 11.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Your Caturday post. You're welcome.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Virtual Wiscon on this weekend. I have a reading slot in just a little while (hear a new story!) and a panel tomorrow - so, just a heads-up for those who may be interested...

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I am getting one this summer while I still can...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

It's important for authoritarian regimes to crush both imagination/creativity and workers' rights, if you were wondering why AI exists.

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