Brandon Saunders | horticultural lad

Please help if you can! Frances is lovely and the world truly does suck right now.

idk, I think when something goes viral like this, it’s good to critically examine—esp with AI around and how social media rewards engagement, fake content or not.

I don’t want to immediately disbelieve someone’s experience, but it’s not inherently homophobic to verify.

The cover of Rien Gray's horror novella LESSER HUNGERS against a purple and blue background, accompanied by blurbs.

My horror debut LESSER HUNGERS is out today!

A haunted Chicago janitor discovers sentient mold is spreading cannibalistic urges through the city, one loving relationship at a time.

AMZ & KU: www.amazon.com/Lesser-Hunge...

Non-AMZ: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lesser-hun...

“Parades have the right to defend themselves” had me howling (derogatory)

NOT. SWIM GOGGLES.

Friends.

Do not wear swim goggles at a protest.

If you take a projectile to the face the force can pop your eyeball out of its socket.

If you're going to invest in protest eyewear, use impact resistant safety goggles and tape the vents.

I have a hard time getting into Tactics-style games and never was able to beat the original, but this makes me really want to pick up the remaster. Love this sentiment.

we live in a hellscape 🙃

I’m late to the party, but damn, Madame Web was an absolute masterpiece. Holy cow.

I remember renting one of the Ecco games as a kid and finding it tough as hell, ngl. Seeing the creator go down the blockchain path is a shame regardless :/

you know it’s a Monday when you completely forget the debit PIN you’ve been using for more than a decade 😭

An intimacy coordinator is a workplace safety person. It seems like a mistake to me to put it on the actors to say they want one or they don’t, any more than you’d ask them if they want a stunt coordinator.

if college games of Werewolf/Mafia make us killers, I don’t think we’d have many people left. C’mon, NBC.

a bald man in a red and black uniform is covering his face with his hands ALT: a bald man in a red and black uniform is covering his face with his hands

I really shouldn’t be surprised when the media runs with “video games!! it’s their fault!!”… and somehow this was one I didn’t see coming. 😬

wait, is “the shooter played too much Among Us” a take that’s been going around, or was this just a thought that came to mind?

nothing’s made me feel as old as hearing a zoomer recommend a “really good anime even though it’s old”… and it was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 😭

In the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI, NYT lawyers spent 150 hours combing through OAI's training data. OpenAI engineers *erased it* and admitted to erasing it. Had to be pretty incriminating. The NYT is now unable to get that data back.

This should be a serious scandal.

Literally everything they say about trans women is the same stuff they said about cis lesbians not too long ago. Heck, in some areas they're still saying it.

“Gaetz is gone, but the next nominee will be bad too,” probably, but you still need to build on and rally people around wins, too. Treating every development like a prelude to another loss is how you fall into the pattern of being a loser.

Not Everyone Can Leave: Survival Advice From Trans Teens in Texas Media often focus on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?

I suggest listening to trans youth about what they're experiencing.

You can surround yourself with diverse perspectives without having to listen to someone tell you that your existence should be illegal. It’s okay to expect “give everyone human rights” to be a baseline of agreement.

This is your reminder that one of the fair use factors is whether there is commercial value for that particular use, and very clearly, there is.

Really hard to make the argument that downloading a fuckton of pirated books to feed the machine was “fair use” at this point.