Alan Baxter

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

so sick of everything being dictated by the dumbest motherfuckers

Massive respect to these legends. This is what community looks like. This is what ethics looks like. And crucially, this is what contemporary Australian democracy needs to look like.

Three covers of my novel MASSIF. The UK and Australian ones have a photo-realistic approach, the US one is illustrative. All feature a seated figure looking up at a mountain range ascending into space. US cover illustration by Matt Griffon. UK cover by blacksheep.

Cover reveal time!
An adult science fiction novel tinged with horror, about the crew of a small warship in a relatively near future where humans hitch rides to the stars on sentient star-faring mountain ranges called Massifs.
Can be pre-ordered at the usual places, *please* do so. Thank you.

Yep! I wrote a novella years ago and people frequently ask me why I named the protag after the lead singer of a famous band. I'd heard of the band but never knew any members' names.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks. I'll let it go. If that phrase is actually trademarked or whatever (which is wild to me, but there you go) then I'll accept that. I'll find another use for the cute line art dog face I bought.

Absolutely, I'm a writer. IP is valuable to me. But that phrase is pretty ubiquitous, I had no idea it belonged to anyone.

The anti-trans-healthcare parallels to climate denial are basically 1:1.

What about a really interesting new space western from a good writer that doesn't involve Joss Whedon or Adam Baldwin AT ALL?

I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck

Take solace from us as our summer ends and we enter winter.

Well, turns out you were right. Apparently We Rate Dogs filed a DMCA take down and the design got removed. I'm pretty stunned, honestly.

worse

Also, Adam Baldwin is a hateful bigoted fuckstain too.

...until?

Emil dumped her into the room and stepped back, closing the door quickly behind him. Eevie immediately ran for it, grabbed the handle just as something clicked on the other side. She rattled the door, but it was locked. “Let me out of here!” “Please calm yourself.” “Fuck calm! I want out.” “There’s only one way out, Ms Griffin, and that’s through.” “Through what?” “The process. The treatment. Please, sit. We have a lot to discuss.” Eevie turned, stared at the man. “You’re a man of what? Science? Medicine? Can’t you see what’s happening here? You can’t possibly approve of this.” “I’m Doctor Sleeson. I have opinions about some of the Institute’s methods, but I only control what happens in this room. So, shall we?” Eevie swallowed, tried to calm her ragged breathing and hammering heart. “Shall we fucking what?” “You’ve been in therapy before, yes? Let’s just start by having a seat. Calm down. Let’s talk.” “Tell me to calm down once more and I’ll rip your fucking face off.” She jabbed a thumb back over her shoulder. “He’s a big, dumb brute, but what are you? Sixty kilos soaking wet? I’ll tear that stupid fucking ponytail off and make you eat it, cunt.” Sleeson’s hand lifted almost involuntarily towards his hair and he winced slightly. Eevie had a pang of sorrow for the man’s obvious hurt. Was he really so easy to wound?

Random lines from THE RISE.

Meme mashup of The Shining and Talking Heads Wendy looks in horror at a typewritten page that reads Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was While Jack wears David Byrne’s Big Suit

For real - and she's still doing it today. One of the best to ever do it, in fact.

so Noem got fired because she couldn't be trained

ha!

Huh!

Why does my washing machine lie? Been standing here for 5 minutes and the timer has said 0.02 the whole time.

who the fuck names their kid Markwayne?! did the parents argue over Mark or Wayne then decided on both and tossed a coin to decide which came first? fucking bonkers.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!"

but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

plonkers and gobshites, as far as the eye can see

How I feel when someone blocks me.

It was a great chat!

some sort of group action on March 15th would be incredibly satisfying, historically speaking...

Just had to put in our D&D group chat "Am I having a stroke?!" because these fucking people I've been roleplaying with for forty years, I swear to god. I fucking love them too.