Kari Dru

I just got a text. (Wallet name), if you live at (real address), computer models say the likelihood of you voting is: LIKELY. Vote by 11/3! A: creepy. B: why you bugging me, then?

I have been given a copy of T Kingfisher's Blorbo Backstory but it is taking forever to arrive. I had an audible credit left and got the audio for while I wait, tho I usually read with eyes first, ears second. My contribution to the discourse: this is entertaining as hell.

It's new shenanigans every year and i do not regret the fact that @ritabriar.bsky.social and I periodically do us-no-wri-mo and I continue to type my handwritten drafts into open office.

*Long sigh* Yeah it seems like this is exactly what's up, actually. This new "NaNoWriMo" 2.0 is AI all the way. prowritingaid.com/novel-november Their website tries *real* hard not to mention AI, but then you catch stuff like, "...ran it through Plot Analysis" and yeah that's kind of a giveaway.

Because it was ProWritingAid's "donation" that kicked off the whole NaNo "no, no no, the plagiarism machine is GOOD actually, and if you don't let it steal your work you're ABLEIST" thing, so far as I recall.

I just got an email from lithub trying to talk me into this and i am annoyed.

You know what? I AM a single issue voter. No fascism. There's my single issue.

the thing about this is that the L.A.Times is basically pre-emptively anouncing their intention to publish fallacious and defamatory material

Omg discord I'm trying to go to a meeting. STOP TRYING TO LOAD THAT POPUP

Every few weeks some cynical edgelord who wants to feel More Sophisticated And Leftist than I am will tell me that I've seen the last free & fair election in this country, and my sweet summer child. We have not even seen the first yet.

Also the US has never had free & fair elections for everyone, and if this is your first time worrying about it, welcome to the party! Fortunately lots of people have been here for decades and know what to do, if you are ready to listen!

Me: I don't see any reason to use AI Slop peddlers: You know how you want to sell books but you hate writing? Me: No, I love writing. The only reason I care about selling books is so I can afford to write instead of getting a real job Slop peddlers: Oh. Well... You know how you hate your kids?

A lot of people need to slow down and acknowledge to themselves that they're afraid, and this is affecting how they are interacting with other people. You have to acknowledge the reality of your feelings, or you won't control how they shape your behavior.

Ok, so what’s going to happen today is that white folks are going to weaponize what happened in Brazil to harass, condescend and chastise Black and Brown people about voting as if we are the one that keep voting for bigots. They never look at themselves as the problem. Ever.

The nice thing about local elections is that there's rarely an international disinformation attempt to muddy the record of your county road commissioner.

Why is youtube doing everything short of the Ludovico technique to make me care about someone called Lisa? A website hasn't cared THIS MUCH about what I engage with since the zon tried to make me read American Dirt.

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

Let's. fucking. go.

My kobo fell under the futon and I don't know how i'm supposed to deal with this.

Vernon: so we all know that blorbo is a morally conflicted badass with a checkered past Vernon: but what my adaptation supposes Vernon: is Vernon: what if he was a morally conflicted badass with a checkered past King: oh i don't like that at all Poe: that's not my blorno Koontz: [cries]

Yes. I have been told many times that aspects of my physical appearance (or all of it) disgust people, but that is always a them problem. If you have it in your heart to be disgusted at another person's body, go fix that heart.

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

If Dems want voters hustling to the polls, they need a platform that makes people excited to vote for them. Disincentivizing the left in hopes of making center-right people change party to vote for you is a losing game. The consultant class is, I think, incapable of math.