I feel like I need to put together a breakdancing show to stop them from shutting down the community center. Either that or we're going to have some kind of skiing competition.

"Rodney Dangerfield 80s movie real estate villain" is the best description of Smiley I've ever heard, and I love it.

My luxury bones repair will cost $1200. We can afford it, but also I am about to have a $2500 vet bill in May, so if you were planning to buy any books from me, now is a fantastic time.

Buy direct! payhip.com/kristadball

Website has all retailers links: kristadball.com

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Please advise her that the Internet is now judging her and she should comport herself accordingly

"I'm accredited in bird law."

Like...there have literally been published studies about this. I have never worked on user interfaces and I'M aware of it.

Promo graphic for Truthfinder's Promise by Michelle Manus. Features the book cover against a teal background. T the left of the book cover is a pinned note that says: Meredith Townsend's personal To Do List: - Be depressed about existence - Dance on abusive mother's grave - Figure out what to do with my life. To the right of the book cover is another pinned note that says: Fate's To Do List for Meredith Townsend: -Discover hot ex-fling is a werewolf - Prevent Aspect/Shifter Society war - Figure out how relationships work. At the bottom, SALE is written in large letters and the book's regular price of 7.99 is marked out, with the sale price of .99 clearly displayed

Yes the world sucks but a girl's gotta get by in a capitalist society so DID YOU KNOW I have a book on sale?

For the PNR crowd that likes the worldbuilding depth of UF.

Direct: payhip.com/b/lSaqU
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Kindle: www.amazon.com/Truthfinders...

Other retailer links in 🧵

From my current editing pile: [make this more exciting!]

I try to be kind, but goddamn, Past Me is a fucking JERK.

Vacation sleep is the best feeling on the PLANET.

Also I've been a cyberpunk fan since @greatdismal.bsky.social blew my mind in 1984. The street finds its own uses for things, but I couldn't tell you what the fuck I'm supposed to do with an LLM except take work I enjoy doing and do it worse. It's literally "generic evil cyberpunk corp" bullshit.

I'm old enough that my gateway to the Internet was a 300 baud modem. (Let me have this, okay? I don't have a lot of flexes and this one is mine.) Never had to be pressured into adopting new tech: if it's good and useful, it has a place.

AI marketing is the biggest red flag I've ever seen.

George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"

We should have never doubted this man

I'm pretty sure I've killed someone in all three alleys.

In fiction, I mean

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Thank you so much!

Tree law? TREE LAW!

*Glances at my last novel.* I might have feelings about this.

Nature is healing

Thank you so much. This is what keeps me going.

I will direct all questions to my attorneys, Jake and Elwood Blues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDvI...

Here at the home of Castaways, we do not erase the Worst Witch. I actually intended to name one of the Saunders Academy professors after Jill Murphy, but she died in 2021 and I wasn't 100% certain she'd be down with it, so I demurred.

Anything can happen on Halloween
Your dog could turn into a cat
Rowling: EXCUSE ME THAT'S STILL A DOG, THAT IS BIOLOGICALLY A DOG

AI detectors are pure bullshit. AI-generated text is based on human writing. Most "detectors" will peg classic novels as AI-written, because that's the source material LLMs stole from.

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

We are ruled by people so rich that they're utterly divorced from any concept of humanity (and their opinions on humanity are weird as fuck.) We need to end that, and make sure it doesn't happen again.

This is the crucial fact so many are overlooking.

It's not to bring about utopia. It's to make sure there is never again another Elon Musk or Zuckerberg, etc.

Exactly one year ago today:

"Everything in our game is artist-made, but we used AI for our logo!" Okay so why do you have so little faith in your human artists that you couldn't believe they'd be capable of making a fucking logo, and if that's the case, why did you hire them for everything else

Daniel: "Okay, so hear me out. Would you be willing to let me punch you in the face...for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?"