@saccaro
Writer of fiction and nonfiction: Salon, The Daily Dot, The Week, BuzzFeed, Bleacher Report, Flash Fiction Magazine, The South Shore Review. Recovering journalism industry professional (NowThis, Salon). Former verified Twitter user.
Hello everyone.
I am retiring my name from public life and switching to a pen name. I’ve written more on this decision.
If you want my pen name, it’s right here on BlueSky. Just ask.
https://mattsaccaro.substack.com/p/its-the-end
How do I try out different feeds? I don’t see the option anywhere.
A man presents a picture to another man and says "I drew a picture." The other man looks at the picture and says "hey, that's great." He then tosses it on to a large pile of junk. We zoom out to see the the pile is absolutely mountainous. Incomprehensibly gigantic. It has a big sign on it labelled "Content."
Goodnight. Please don’t choose the path of the wicked.
I’ve never heard of anyone discussing the Grateful Dead other than in relation to the bear t-shirts.
Yeah very much likely he’s hiring her to be a scapegoat for the stuff that will make the site meet a bare minimum of usability again and then fire her afterwards to retain the love of the right wing nutjobs.
I still look back very fondly on short form blog for what it’s worth.
you used to be able to make a whole movie based around the idea what if there was a guy who was annoying to be around
What do you like about mastodon? I found it to be a nightmare technologically. Also hated the home owners association vibe of the various servers.
A great thread (cherry picked due to length) on the failings of Hopepunk/Squeecore (and the ghouls it attracts)
The algorithm-driven platforms need a feedback option between “populate my entire feed with only this shit” and “never show this kind of content again until the heat death of the universe.”
Goodnight. Please don’t choose the path of the wicked.
I’m sorry but Modest Mouse is just so good.
it looks like a fake website that a tv show would have mocked up in 2011
Remember in the Brady Bunch movie when the guy tells Mike Brady “you’re designs are…from another time” and I have the same reaction looking at that place. Like gazing at a portal into multiple eras of media ago. Wild that people can still get money for something like that.
If this app ever goes to shit, will everyone post Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Bluesky” when they leave? 🤔
Is the opposite of Minnie Driver Maxie Pilot?
https://open.substack.com/pub/mattsaccaro/p/posting-is-dead?r=ba9t&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Yeah I wrote an entire post about this on substack last week heh. Posting is dead.
Congrats!!
Hey, look who got featured on B&N's blog.
Yep, that's me. Turns out having great relationships with vendors who aren't Amazon pays off.
https://press.barnesandnoble.com/bnpress-blog/science-fiction-indie-ebook-favorites/
Goodnight. Please don’t choose the path of the wicked.
The first issue of Tower Mag, which has my glowing review of Marian Engel's BEAR, is available for download. You can name your price (though you should toss 'em a couple bucks for publishing my 1000 word essay about the bear sex book). https://readtower.itch.io/end
This place feels like early dating after a long term relationship. I’m constantly trying to be aware of the things I did wrong the first time and not repeating them.
Scoop: A politics editor has quit The Messenger less than a week into its launch. Here's what he told me about the site:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/business/the-messenger-news-startup.html