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Current short story project is hospital cleaner, ozone, and sweat. It's not a particularly happy story.

Got a spam email to the podcast account letting us know we're the #2 result when you search for "undead authors"

Being independent and not taking sponsorship money has absolutely hurt the reach of our podcast, especially as trends have changed and discoverability is down, but I would rather die than tie its future to anything other than our Patreon and our desire to keep making a podcast.

Look if I'm going to spend an hour of my day waiting in something called a "pre-queue" and then an hour in the actual queue only to not be able to buy the thing I wanted, I'm going to channel my frustration into marketing my podcast.

The one thing most everyone knows about the French is that they absolutely love fucking around with France. There’s a holiday all about fucking up a prison! It’s their favorite thing to do!

I worked at a Panera Bread for three weeks where they gave me the sandwich bible and put me on a lunch rush alone on one of my first days. I asked them to take me off the schedule the day I showed up in a t-shirt and they decided I should work in the freezer all shift.

When you use Google to “translate” text, you aren’t translating it. You’re using a sped up bilingual dictionary. Translation is an act of transformation, which is the underpinning of art. There is no difference in using AI to generate art and using it to “translate” a text. Both are shameful.

When you engage with people who experienced slavery as real, flesh-and-blood individuals, if you have any empathy at all it will churn your stomach and make you question a great many things about the world as it was and is.

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

Feeling very proud because the power flickered over the weekend and I’ve gotten all four of the digital clocks in the kitchen synced up near perfectly.

This was a really great interview and Alison is a wonderful guest to have on. It's always lovely to talk about making stories and writing characters with someone who knows how to do it so well.

Knocked a 65ml bottle of ink off my desk, breaking the cap and spilling dark blue ink all under my desk. My hands will be blue for a week.

Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.

I love thinking of interview questions. I love interviewing people. Genuinely one of my favorite things to do is to ask people I really admire questions about their process or work. It’s so much fun.

Everyone should read Devil House by John Darnielle and then talk to me about it.

Finished Hollywood, Ending, the new John Green. That man can write a fucking novel. He wrote good YA novels that were good when I was a YA and he wrote this incredible novel and I do think everyone should read it.

Lotta stuff happening in the local indie romance bookstore scene in Atlanta.

I don't know what compels me to read replies and quotes when I know it's just going to be the most perplexing and upsetting collection of posts possible.

"I don’t believe in psychics, but I believe in metaphor, which is the essence of understanding." Have you ever read a mirror?

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It’s Pizzamas! That means you can give $10 bucks to charity AND get an all-new, extremely weird one-shot! This one features an extended P.G. Wodehouse parody, a ton of classic Nerdfighter memes, and the best batch of pre-gen characters I’ve ever designed! pizzamas.com/collections/...

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

Scheming vizier who whispers in my ear after every question.

To understand the kind of person I am: There's a spider living in the corner above my shower and has been there through several bathroom cleanings. My only concern is that I simply don't believe there's enough for it to eat. How is it surviving? I hope it's okay.

It’s wonderful having Henn on the podcast and they’ve been such a huge part of keeping episodes coming out every week in ways that most listeners won’t know. Because we keep him in a contraption. And that contraption powers the podcast. Why is he not in the contraption right now? Get back in the co–

It's out!! I had the pleasure of writing a small piece about time and our relationship to it. All through magic and music

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

Some games use infection as an aesthetic. Others use it as a strategy. youtu.be/LWz7u1sf67U

Spoken about this at length with people but it's a derivative of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, an idea posited by... author of Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

Really lovely corner at my favorite indie bookstore. Notes From a Regicide, shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction and one of my favorite reads of last year, is available in paperback btw.

Everyone I’ve recommended Hello Sunshine who has gone on to read it has confirmed that I somehow undersold how good it was, despite telling them it’s incredible.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNING JOURNALIST: is it possible that, with this technology’s rapid advancement, you could someday share a glass of red wine with a human being like me TILLY NORWOOD: [long pause followed by laugh] Anything is possible! JOURNALIST: My. My, my!

Why is it back in Ohio??

Package going to Atlanta started in Kentucky, went to Ohio, and is now in North Carolina. Is there a reason USPS doesn’t want to just drive through Tennessee? Should I be concerned?

It’s my birthday so you should all read “Happy Birthday” (and all the previous stories) from Reality Fracture by @alisontheperson.bsky.social (who needs an agent and a book deal, for me, as a birthday gift) magic.wizards.com/en/news/magi...

@alisontheperson.bsky.social my birthday is this weekend and now I'm going to cry every time someone says "Happy Birthday." I hope you're proud of yourself. (thank you so much)

I think it's sooooo cool that my workplace got a license for Microsoft Copilot that makes it so there's annoying new Copilot things on every single application I use with no way of turning them off or hiding them. Literally no way I can opt out of having annoying summaries on every Word doc I open.

@alisontheperson.bsky.social making me cry in the office today in front of my coworkers.