S. H. Marr

I really don't see why publishers shouldn't be upfront about how they're using GenAI if they feel it will improve the quality of service they provide to authors while making life easier for staff! /checks notes/ oh

I sort of understand why antipsychotics are a "specialty" medicine billing-wise, but I do NOT understand why even an insurance company would want to make something called an "antipsychotic" difficult to access.

Want to help out the economy? Ban online gambling.

Today (Oct 27) is the last "safe" day to return your ballot via USPS! We highly recommend now returning it to a dropbox or voting site (options differ by state) If you *must* return via USPS, take your ballot to a USPS location and ask for a postmark at the counter. Maybe take a photo w/ it too. 🗳️

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

right like nobody is saying Lula is perfect but the world’s most awful billionaire fascists did all they could to prevent this and failed and that fucking rocks

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Maybe we shouldn't be on the Titanic, how about that

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

Extra funny to have done a "if you come at democracy, you best not miss"/"ah fuck, we missed" in a country where there's already AMPLE precedent for failed coups actually coming with consequences Between doubling the victory margin and the out and out fuckery I cannot imagine they'll be lenient now

I am a single issue voter, and my single issue is that I want to live in a democracy.

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Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

USIANS PAY ATTENTION!! WE BEAT META, WE BEAT YOUR BIG TECHS!! IT IS POSSIBLE!!

On a scale from MKUltra to Flat Earth, how conspiracy-brained is being suspicious about why I can buy 12 jumbo eggs for under two dollars in a swing state a week before the election?

If you’re American and don’t care about the Brazilian election, you should learn how much the corrupt powerful people in the US really care about the Brazilian election.

I wish I was exaggerating, 16 games from one dev, all AI slop, all clones of something else, all pumped out in the space of months. That's my experience of what AI tools are enabling, not creativity, not anyone's dream game, but spam. Constant, low effort, neverending, AI generated spam.

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.

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?

When you travel to another country, the phone miraculously allows you to easily find your way around & translate foreign languages, including ones on signs

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Also, again. To those who think a coup attempt is unlikely. You see the pattern of escalation here, yes?

Banning smoking in indoor public places

“You can just start your own studio!” Brother I do not WANT to own a business. I don’t want to be anybody’s boss. I want to write, which is the thing i’m good at!!!

i don't want to spend all my time on the stuff other folks do better and with more pleasure, like wrangling distributors. and even stuff I can do? maybe the group project life keeps me sharp.

There's always something vindicating taking a problem to tech support and them having no idea what the hell is wrong. At least I'm not just incompetent. That said, we also have no idea what's wrong and this is work-related.