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My new book, POSSESSED is NOW AVAILABLE in print and eBook formats! $3.99 US for eBook, $12.99 US for print (signed copies also available for a limited time). If you like contemporary comedic fantasy, or if you've liked my other books, you'll love this one! cwbwriting.com/books/posses... #booksky

10yo liara illu that i somehow still like #masseffect #art

Obviously this is racist and gross, but it's also shockingly historically illiterate? No one who has taken a single high school world history course would deny that Arab culture has produced incredible science and literature. This is why we need basic humanities education.

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

Why are AV amps/receivers so huge? They're powering like two bookshelf speakers. Why are they all eight inches tall? I have a little FOSI desktop amp that's like 5" wide and 1.5" tall. I'm looking to upgrade that but everything is so ... huge.

Excellent thread

Huge congrats to Brazil on defeating a blatant coup attempt by the US government and one of our more grotesque tech billionaires, and to Serbia's students for succeeding in removing Vucic from power. People the world over are getting sick of fascist regimes, and I am extremely here for it!

The most likely future by far for Mass Effect is that EA ends up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, the brand is sold off to some random other company, and we get some garbage shovelware game with the Mass Effect name slapped on it like six to eight years from now.

Gen-Xers watching Millennials move from "one generation removed from being cool and relevant, but still getting things" to "two generations removed from being cool and relevant, and having no idea what the fuck anyone is talking about."

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Gen-Xers watching Millennials move from "one generation removed from being cool and relevant, but still getting things" to "two generations removed from being cool and relevant, and having no idea what the fuck anyone is talking about."

The teenager who lives next door is having a Halloween party, which I don't mind. I like that France is slowly embracing Halloween. What I do mildly mind is that teenagers are idiots who don't understand that randomly mashing all the intercom buttons in an apartment at 11:00 PM is not great

For a while I had the words "trump" and "musk" and "elon" muted on here and ... kinda thinking about doing it again tbh.

it's because they literally have no visual education; so they do not know how to convey anything without the help of text tools don't make you an artist

My next newsletter "Possessed, New Book, and My Stance on AI - Christopher Buecheler Writing News" is coming Tuesday. Subscribe to get it and stay in the loop on everything I'm creating. christopher-buecheler.kit.com

I can choose a destination and instantly get tailored directions to it, in the palm of my hand, for any mode of transportation I prefer, at any time of day, accurate to within a minute or two, and also be confident the place will actually be open when I get there.

We have CANCER VACCINES. Fucking CANCER VACCINES. We have AIDS TREATMENTS. AIDS IS NO LONGER A DEATH SENTENCE. IN MY LIIFETIME. FUCK.

My next newsletter "Possessed, New Book, and My Stance on AI - Christopher Buecheler Writing News" is coming Tuesday. Subscribe to get it and stay in the loop on everything I'm creating. christopher-buecheler.kit.com

Just bought Dockish from @appish.bsky.social ... finally I can just have a dock on all my monitors like a normal OS instead of Apple's stubborn insistence on having it move around. Small bonus: it gets rid of liquid glass.

Passed 40,000 words in my new manuscript last night. Averaging a bit over 2,000 a day, which is just fine by me (goal is 1,500). Please enjoy this passage that might not make the final draft, but with which I made myself laugh! #amwriting #darkfantasy #firstdraft

Being a writer means sometimes you change a word six times, not quite happy with any of them, and then realize the correct choice is to delete it entirely. Not so different from being a coder, sometimes, actually.

I have indie published six books and each one cost me dozens if not hundreds of hours of my time and thousands of dollars of my money to get out the door. I'm not talking about the writing. I'm just talking about the other stuff. Not every author has the wherewithal to do that. I'm very lucky.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

I have a carte d'identité! I am a human being in the eyes of the state! For eleven months. 😅

At the prefecture to get my new visa. It's every bit as 60s Brutalism depressing as one might expect from Paris's largest immigration center. Also love that there are a bunch of LED screens, ostensibly to show who's next and what window to go to, but they're all off and it's just being called out.

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

Context for Americans: This is Avi Lewis, the leader of the NDP (basically what if the DSA ran as a separate party), and husband of Naomi Klein. He isn't going to be in power anytime soon, and this is him saying something he knows would be popular to his base without having to actually back it up.

It's aggravating that this thing that will never happen is valued at $1.2bn and has raised tens of millions of dollars, but if I wanted $2m to start a small software company, I'd have to spend four years living on ramen and hunting for traction while I proved it could 10x investor value.

"You've run out of black ink" *insert new cartridge* *print quality eats shit* *clean printer heads* *half of new cartridge is used up instantly* Fuck the printer industry, man. Complete scam.

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

So, Chris, what bizarre way did you hurt yourself today? Well, I lost my balance pulling on a sock and bruised the shit out of my finger by accidentally crushing it against our wicker laundry basket. Thanks for asking!

Replaying SilkSong. I'm at Lost Lace again and I still think her third phase is just terribly designed. I don't mind speed increases or additional mechanics. The first two phases are great. It's all the shit flying around the screen. My brain's not capable of differentiating between dangerous & not

I think they tell everyone not to smile on their passport photos because everyone rolls up to customs looking miserable and exhausted after a multi-hour flight, so it's a more accurate picture.

my patented technique for how to never draw your belts backwards again: ED

Let them have the damn candy

Couldn't stop thinking about pathetic spider donut so I decided to draw him

You've surely seen this going around the timeline already but it is really worth actually watching the video because holy shit ...

This really has very little to do with this post (which is a lovely drawing!) but I was in a shoe store with Charlotte yesterday and holy shit are short, chonky, black boots back in for women. They had like four *aisles* of the things. It's like 1993 all over again.

Imagine having as slam-dunk an IP as "Mass Effect 4" and being like "Nah you know what we're going to cripple this studio repeatedly until we can justify closing it to shareholders."

Most of these game studios are not closing because they're not PROFITABLE. They're closing because they're not showing GROWTH. The system of investor capitalism is ruining literally everything you care about.

Charlotte, my amazing wife and a teacher in France, went and protested with the students of Paris on Saturday. What she saw did not match the media narrative. She wrote up her thoughts on what she experienced on the ground. Please spread far and wide! #france #protests #paris #lesetudiantes

Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying peacefully ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it. Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history. 📷️me

hey I have a poem about this (and American assimilation) in the new Migrant Voices in Horror anthology… perhaps you might like it? bloodlettermag.com/bloodline/mi...

When a restroom has a more fulfilling romantic life than you. Congratulations, restroom! 💒💍