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“Just a man” — Billy Shakespeare I write stuff that nobody reads. He/him

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I just got a crumb of Flamin’ Hot Cheeto in my eye. 0/5 stars. Do not recommend.

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“250” must be the number of felonies he’ll eventually be found guilty of.

09.03.2026 05:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was great! Pure, unflitered Star Wars joy!

08.03.2026 16:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Before regular gas hits $4 a gallon”.
<laughs in San Francisco Bay Area>

07.03.2026 15:26 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."

A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.

06.03.2026 15:22 👍 7234 🔁 1889 💬 1 📌 1

It came out when I was an intern at ILM in college. I got to see it at an ILM screening, which was a bunch of fun. Some early experimenting with CGI image compositing happened in that film, as I recall.
I should definitely watch it again soon.

07.03.2026 06:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I haven’t seen that in forever, but I remember really digging it at the time.

07.03.2026 03:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Huh. I was convinced we were going to get Terminators. I never expected we’d get C-3P0s.

06.03.2026 15:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s from the old Disney Zorro show which I’ve been watching lately.

06.03.2026 02:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

You're trapped in the last tv show you watched. Where are you?

(Which is fine for me, as I have no desire to leave California any time in the near future…)

06.03.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

“Two weeks.”

05.03.2026 15:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know man, Joe Landsdale once described a sunset as something like “a Cherry snowcone melting on the side of the road,” and that was pretty great.

05.03.2026 15:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Me in conversation with my brother (a professor of archeology) a moment ago “you should give extra credit for punching Nazis like any respectable archeology professor would.”

05.03.2026 15:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listened to a “friend” of mine when he convinced me to send a letter which kind of ruined a huge career opportunity for me in my 20s.

Actually maybe the entirety of my 20s…

05.03.2026 06:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nic Cage still owes my mom. $5.

05.03.2026 05:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.03.2026 05:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I worked on a Star Wars.

05.03.2026 05:50 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New story release day!
My story “the Clearing” is in the inaugural issue of “Nat20,” a neat new magazine of games and fiction. I had a blast writing this piece, and hope you’ll check it out.

bookshop.org/p/books/nat2...

05.03.2026 01:44 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Over the past few weeks, a number of people (repeat customers, coworkers, etc.) have commented on how I bring such a "calm energy" to the work environment.
And I keep thinking about that line from a Sting song: “I’m not a man of too many faces. The mask I wear is one.”

04.03.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Star Wars: Holiday Special (1978) with Ben Monroe Podcast Episode · Horror Nerds at Church · December 25, 2023 · 1h 22m

I’ve been a SW fan since 1977 (I even worked on the Special Edition when I interned at ILM in college). But I rarely talk about my love of it online. The fan base is too toxic lately.
I did guest on a podcast to talk about it a little, though: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

03.03.2026 15:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How fun! I’ve never heard of this podcast, but it seems like my kind of thing. I’ll listen to this episode ASAP.

03.03.2026 15:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
This is an ad for the upcoming omnibus edition of The End Times by Benjamin Percy and Stephen King.

This is an ad for the upcoming omnibus edition of The End Times by Benjamin Percy and Stephen King.

BIG NEWS: For the first time, THE END TIMES by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social and Stephen King will be collected into a single hardcover volume. Q1 2027.

Plus: $1 of every direct pre-order will be donated to help Minneapolis recover from ICE saturation.

Pre-order: badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...

03.03.2026 14:42 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

Hold American history up to the light; at a certain angle, Trumpism seems utterly absurd, nearly impossible. Adjust your wrist by a millimeter, and it appears the obvious, inescapable culmination of all that America is. It’s hard to live with this.

03.03.2026 15:11 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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03.03.2026 13:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you find yourself wondering how we’re going to get through this, how we can survive another 3 years, another 3 months, another 3 weeks,

Just survive today and worry about the rest after.

02.03.2026 11:38 👍 76 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
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www.draftbarrontrump.com

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If you see this, post a knight 🗡️

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