Muscle Monkeh

I absolutely love this.

Wait, what’s up with Vermont? My family hasn’t said anything.

Continuing Prellix’s adventures with the Priory, everts, and dailies! #gw2 streaming live now!
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Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

Someone needs to do a study on his stroke-induced brain damage and associated changes in personality and political affiliation.

It’s my first foray into noir and first-person narrative. The protagonist’s voice reminded me of Harrison Ford’s VO in the original theatrical release of Blade Runner which, in-turn, inspired me to steer into that dimly-lit alley, bathed in the mercury-vapor metaphors of this particular genre

Journalist, Willam C. Vaughn (the barista always spells it wrong) realizes he is being asked to profile a lot of recently deceased people lately—very, very rich dead people. This seems to be more than a mere coincidence…

I just sent a short story, “Fata Macchina”, off to Clarkesworld magazine. Send me all the luck you’ve got.

Ruslan Bogdanovich... a favorite.

Journo... damned effin' autocorrect...

Another short story finished! Some science fiction in a noir style, first person narrative wherein a journey realizes he has been asked a lot to write about dead people—very, very rich dead people.

It’s called “Fata Macchina” (playing off the nautical illusion, fata morgana)

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by a special agent.

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Progressing Prellix’s story and maybe picking up another spear! #gw2 streaming live now!
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This reminds me of the humiliation rituals that particular Roman emperors or other egomaniacal rulers would inflict on their ministers to “put them in their place”.

Dailies! Events! Just mucking about Tyria and beyond! All the toons! Also, I haz golem. #gw2 streaming live now!
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Borrowed and Blue Reviews, old and new. Mostly books. Mostly SFF. Quite likely gay.

After a month of buildup, may I present...

The Queersar not an award 2020!

10 (+1) great queer SFF novels.

V good year for queer SFF; I found it *really* hard to narrow down to 10. But happy with what's on here & more convinced there *is* a gap in the award landscape for books like these.

Matt is one of the best of us. Buy some books from him, friends.

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

“Add 'em up, Bobby, add 'em up”

#randommusicaltheaterquote

Here’s another. Really hamming on the noir.

“My name is Willam C. Vaughn. It is the name I was gifted by my parents, destined never to be spelled correctly on the side of a coffee cup.”

Working on a Sci-Fi noir short story before digging into editing the novel… Here’s a tasty line, leaning into noir style.

“The Oxford Hotel was, to use a classic descriptor, swank in that old-money meets old-west kind of way.”

Unbelievable that we have to watch for things like this now.

I’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend where I’ll be signing at the Dark Horse Comics booth with the amazing @gailsimone.bsky.social FRIDAY March 6th at 4pm! We’ll be signing Minor Threats comics and FREE prints! Booth #27015! Hope to see you there!

Rebooted router! Dungeon Rush and dailies! All the toons! #gw2 streaming live now!
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Why do I feel like Noem was given this new ad hoc position (Envoy to the Shield of the Americas?!?) to ensure that she wouldn’t do an MTG and start airing the administration’s dirty laundry?

Brain damage from the stroke.

Big big hugs. That’s incredibly heavy emotional processing.