the hotel im staying at also has a waterpark. thats not what im there for. but i could do a really powerful move tonight.

immediately helped by a friendly local who looks Curiously Like Them. turns out the car will need a couple of days in the shop. over the next day, it becomes increasingly clear that something is wrong in this town, that everyone in this town is The Wrong Person For Their Role

horror movie about a town where to leave, you have to get someone to replace you and your role. MC is a stranger whose car breaks down, etc.

Episode 1: Futurists, with Reo Eveleth Welcome to our debut show! This week, Adam talks with Reo Eveleth, journalist and podcaster, about who gets to imagine the future, the power that comes with that role, and why certain visions of the f...

The first episode of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com is up! @reveleth.com and I had a lovely conversation about who gets to be a futurist, radical almanacs, and our least favorite manifestos. Give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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not if I lose to you first ;D

congrats :3!!

squid 👏 merch 👏 jokes aside plz do support locus, the value that locus provides to the community is immeasurable (also, squid spaceship merch!!)

ty!!! :3

me!!!!!!!!!! again >:3!!!!!!!! ( also @tiatashiro.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social look at locus !!!)

now if only my revealed preference could also be for "going to the gym"

in my youth i had longed for both a pill that would instantly make me skinny and also a machine that could do all my writing for me and it turned out that i actually didnt want either and my revealed preference? thats right. suffering for my art.

would anyone like to offer me $175k in return for my silence on social media

twitter post by helen dewitt "I am delighted and more honored than I can possibly say - the Emergent Ventures program at the Mercatus Center has offered me a grant of $175,000 with no requirements of any kind in the way of publicity, attendance at meetings, or anything else."

helen dewitt has achieved what no one else has ever achieved: an unironic rendition of "buy my silence permanently. for $8000 a month. i will stop."

like if i post something on insta about me and my mom. well. she would hate that LMAO. and its not like my friends have all affirmatively consented to Yeah Isabels Gonna Post A Photo Of Everyone On Her Public Instagram Which Strangers Also Look At (No Offense Strangers)

been thinking more about the right to privacy recently bc ive been trying to do more video content but im hamstrung by "i dont think people in my life or random strangers actually consented to becoming video content"

U GET IT

finally read Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole and WOW

there’s like two in nyc, next time ur up here :0 I was so shocked and dismayed by how much I liked dirty soda lmao

the reaction to my work that I am constantly striving for (jk) (not actually jk) (ty :> ! )

not NOT what it’s about but also not 100% what it’s about but really not NOT what it’s about

the teeth are a gating mechanism preventing a specific characters powers from being too OP

YOURE not talking to me, IM not talking to you

YOURE not blockading, IM blockading

breakthrough in the book. involves teeth.

tryna put together a March photo dump for insta and being smacked in the face with like oh right we got married on March 1. That was the first thing that happened in March.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

or if there were bears on the moon. or if the moons haunted.

i had assumed zero guys in wetsuits?? like im happy theyre there. i just didnt assume we'd need them. i expected everyone to be dry.

embracing my inner uwu :3 vibes

all out :D !!!!!