Oggie

I swear there is a joke/riff here about 'over macho grande ' but it's been too long since I watched Airplane...

This was an airport where I gave away one of your books, amusingly!

I had finished reading it, this other person was miserable and antsy, everything was pretty much closed, so they got to read The Ghost Brigades while I moved to the next book in my pile.

'There's something wrong with what my Malibu Stacy says...'

*my spidersense is tingling...*

'if god wanted you to have money, you'd have money, therefore there's something wrong with you specifically, something bad you've done or are, and why should the government pay for that?'

Prosperity gospel as applied to fiscal conservation.

Don't be silly.

None of them have ex girlfriends.

Some of them have ex wives, but no ex girlfriends.

Yeah it's pretty...questionable.

I mean, I'm okay with them saying 'NObody under x money should have to pay taxes!' and it functionally being close to our current minimum tax bracket right now as a messaging thing, but they're really pegging the number too high, functionally.

Which is like, it's not that hte other stuff he's done is BAD! In fact, I think some of it is fantastic!

But this bit is genuinely capitvating to me!

I actually have a whole series of bits by standup comedians where just like one joke/riff/etc lives forever in my brain, and this is definitely one

I really, really loved this story when I first encountered it, and I keep hoping that his ohter stuff will hit this mark for me. He's pretty good, but for me, so far, this is genuinely his best work.

He is a very, VERY smart guy, and he's really, relaly good at so many facets of messaging.

I like kids!

In ....short bursts.

I like animals in longer ones, but I am allowed to just physically put an animal in another room an close the door if I need mental space.

I am not someone who regrets not spawning.

I genuinely didn't expect the FIFA peace prize to end up relevant for actual soccer. Joke's on me I guess

Did you know that they just made a 4k version of Nowhere?

Just saying!

I wonder if we can get people to use 'demi-monthly' because we've somehow still, completely, failed to settle on a proper usage for biweekly, and fortnight is both archaic and oddly seems like pandering.

So, demimonthly. Unambigious!

Genuinely I was just hoping you were taking some mental health/downtime, you had mentioned being very Awake.

I'm sorry the most recent fork was, uh, 'embodyment is awful'

Yeah Small Gods has...a lot to say. It can be dense for some people, I've discovered, though.

Well it's a shame you'll be going quiet(er), though I can understand why.

Grats on gainful employment at least?

I mean, I personally am kinda excited by the new heroes game that comes out 'soon', because heroes 3 creaks a bit.

But I feel that's not the point you're making, heh

Unless I missed it ( possible!) they literally haven't even done anything, they have claimed capacity and everyone else ran the numbers and said okay yeah

Which certainly seems like a calculation that could have been made like, 3 weeks ago, but ...

Everyone says that! It just completely misses for me, and I have seen it a -lot-. Maybe 12 live performances, at least 20 movies ( did you see the one where Patrick Stewart does Horatio? He had hair!), just...nope.

I love Rozencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, though! And, as noted, Macbeth.

Don't worry, as soon as RFK is asked he'll declare it's evil anyway

This is one of those times where I missed the joke, I guess?

Whoops

Scottish Play, right?

That was the first one of his I ever really 'got', and I have always enjoyed performances of it.

( For the record Hamlet I still have absolutely no affection for despite trying many times, I simply don't get the appeal)

But you have cute fuzzy creatures at least!

That you probably want to just shut up and go to sleep sometimes, but...

It just occurred to me that the usual/traditional trajectory, which is fail in this sort of way, scream why it was/is unfair, etc, can't do the final step ( write a book).

Their target demo has absolutely zero interest in reading, and there's only so much attention for social media.

If you missed it, there's some talk about the class action and data on how to talk to the people behind it here-
bsky.app/profile/juli...

( I don't know if there is any list of all the names they had listed, but they probably have some? Might be worth an email)

Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.

Remember, he moved some press around specifically so he could have a makeup room next to his office.
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

He is very definitely mask off at this point.

Oh god I thought your original post was a joke/faked, this is...uh, a choice

I don't even know if it's my place, or anything, but I see so many authors and people being so damn coy, and I mean, I get it, you don't want to sound like a bot or bore people, but for the love of jebus promote your stuff!

This isn't even something I'm going to buy but I enjoyed reading about it!

I felt compelled by the person pointing a gun at me who is deeply a friend and that is why I'm emailing you please for the love of god help join us in writing together an we can form a partnership I don't know the address help help to get books written together call someone please.

Yours,
oh god no

Soon they'll classify various mental disabilities as impeding your judgement, so obviously you need someone else to make your decisions for you!

Mental disabilities: literally anything they don't like. It probably will start with 'being trans', would be stunned if 'being gay' isn't on there.