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@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") wrote:

DO Reinvent the wheel – But only when available wheels are unsatisfactory for your requirements

This recognition/distinction is critical and often missed

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:

sometimes the cool shit is a single sentence or line of dialogue, and I need to figure out what scenario would cause a character to say it

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:

I make a list of all the cool shit I want to happen in a story, then I figure out the characters and plot that would enable them

it's like graphing a scatterplot

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

You right.

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@cyreejarelle ("cyree jarelle") wrote:

disabled people gave you a play-by-play of how this pandemic was going to unfold, and you left us for dead as though we aren’t experts on how capitalism creates debility and disablement

@BarackObama ("Barack Obama") wrote:

When Harry Reid was nearing the end, his wife Landra asked some of us to share letters that she could read to him. In lieu of a statement, here’s what I wrote to my friend:

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:

I envy people who "meet" their characters first, because my method is "what sort of person would end up experiencing this cool thing I thought up?" and that seems backwards

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@urbanthoughts11 ("21st Century City") wrote:

Stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:

BRAIN: wouldn't it be cool if *this* happened?
ME: hell yeah it would
ME: but why is it happening? who is it happening to? what's the central conflict?
BRAIN: *yawns*

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

More exciting news! The venerable @sogrady -- the ruling monarch of tech predictions (to my court jester) -- will be joining us on Monday to prognosticate. Join us, and bring some of your own!

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@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

First, on January 3rd, we'll be engaged in a time-honored tradition of predictions! @ahl and I have a long history of this; for more context, see http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2015/01/06/predicteria-2015/ -- and bring some 1-, 3- and 6-year tech predictions! 2/

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:

my creative process is my brain plopping down something cool, like a floating orb in a field, and when I ask how it got there my brain says "lol figure it out dipshit"

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") wrote:

planning a story and I have no plot, just vibes

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

HE IS SO CUTE HERE

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@ben_rosen ("Ben Rosen") wrote:

NILES: and he offered me a red pill or a blue pill

FRASIER: which did you take?

NILES: i was having steak for dinner so i went with the red

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

another “encouraging” letter from st paul to cheer the early christians!

Video:

@katya_zamo ("Katya") wrote:

Все пройдёт и печаль , и радость. всё пройдёт, так устроен свет.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@kvlly ("Kelly Vaughn ☀️ kvlly.eth") wrote:

Ohhhhhhh that explains it

@fakedansavage ("Dan Savage") wrote:

Not the obituary I wanted to read today.

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/harry-reid-former-senate-majority-leader-and-democratic-kingmaker-dies-at-82

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@saff_farts ("zenos liker (derogatory)") wrote:

do u think miqote elongate when u pick them up like,

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

There is only one small boundary I bring into these conversations. I understand there is a lot of pain and trauma to work through. But I will not be your dumping ground for that pain and trauma. You don't get to treat me like shit. That's all I ask, and that feels like too much.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

I'm not talking about giving you "advice" that's gonna fix your life. I have no idea what you need. What I am saying is that I'm willing to tell people literally anything and everything that I've learned for free. Just in case any of it might help them.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

When I talk about having discourse with rich people, almost everybody starts talking to me about white men who already had a lot of privileges. I'm not talking about them. I'm taking about me. I'm not white and did not come from money. What do you want to know from me?

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Let me say one more thing, then I'll stop doing too much for today.

When I tell people how I "made it", it doesn't come with a side of "if I can do it, you can do it". I don't believe that bullshit.

A lot of people add that context on my behalf whether I said it or not.

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

obsessed with how many of my followers make pornographies when i am a chaste virgin maid romping with my schoolchums in the fens and spinneys as the twilight bathes the hedgerows like a lambent flame

@SethMacFarlane ("Seth MacFarlane") wrote:

COVID-19 variants will keep coming until everyone can access vaccines:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/covid-19-variants-will-keep-coming-until-everyone-can-access-vaccines

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") wrote:

Extremely soothing polyhedra. Anthony James: https://jwz.org/b/yjua

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@sheabutter33 ("shea") wrote:

ppl are always like damn I wish I could be a lesbian it’d be so much easier. like ok have u ever had a fight with someone who knows what an attachment style is

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

If you've already decided that absolutely nothing will help you accept receiving massive amounts of money with no strings attached and there's no conversation you wanna have except that? Okay cool. I don't know why you even showed up to yell at me. What's the point?

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:

@emtothea ("Emily Andras") wrote:

The CDC said it’s ok to get drunk and text your ex

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

the Michael Xavier era was exquisite

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@majosei1 ("hiiii") replied to a tweet by @meakoopa:

@meakoopa That's literally how he dressed when he was teaching the new mutants oh my god

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Not only that. But it puts people with money in a place where it feels like it's entirely up to us to create a conversation where people wanna show up and feel safe to be vulnerable. While I understand that instinct, I don't know why you would *want* to leave it up to me.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

This is the thing that frustrated me. Because it's not about how the conversation might make you feel. Instead it comes across to me as actively rejecting discourse that might seek solidarity between people with different socio-economic statuses.