#incandescently stupid

[tomorrowusa]

Just prior to the start of Putin's three-day special operation in February of 2022 Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed "stable genius" referred to Vladimir Putin as a "savvy genius". I think this is Day 526 of that three-day special operation.

Vapid bullying authoritarians only hire or appoint groveling sycophants, so there's nobody around to give them a heads-up on their galloping stupidity.

Remarkably, Trump got caught trying to cover up his cover up regarding the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. 😆

Trump's ketchup-stained fingerprints of stupidity are all over his administration. Here's another example...

"Incandescently stupid": Former DHS official says he had to "dumb" down classified memos for Trump

We'll likely be hearing many more examples in the upcoming trials.

[inbabylontheywept]

a silly ode to the first mitochondria, with waaaay too many religious allusions

(the mormons put me in seminary for four years and now it's everyone's problem)

the garden was not made of trees the snake did not exist when Eve was formed inside the seas and then was set adrift

she drifted in the tidal pools prokaryote divine producing simple molecules acids and alkalines

but paradise can never last and every god must fall some swallowed by a cytoplast (entrapped by a cell wall)

what do you call the dead that rise? what name is there for this? an Eve that finds that eden lies inside of the abyss

the wall no longer trapped her in but locked the monsters out the freedom only she could win to swim, and grow, and sprout.

she tinkered with her molecules And in a twist of fate Created one of life's crown jewels Adenosine Triphosphate (1)

what was before a simple wall could bloom with organelles a garden grown from former falls a paradise in hell

a fortress swam inside the brine, a thriving little town where tiny citizens could shine and ride the ups and downs

a golgi apparatus strove to package safe proteins a lysome found a nice alcove and kept the whole cell clean

the centrioles rebuilt the walls whenever they grew weak and eve was known and loved by all as something quite unique:

the powerhouse of the first cell the mitochondria (2) the Jonah that became the whale the jesus of bacteria once eaten by a macrophage then made through death anew the founder of our current age the sprout from which we grew

(yeah, yeah - you try and use this line in a poem)

(gah. this paragraph killed the syllable counts. i was challented to fit the phrase "powerhouse of the cell" into it, and mitochondria had to fit somewhere. both of which were gonna be doozies. decided to put them back to back and break the scheme at the end.

[pocketgalaxies]

C1E70 || C3E102

[ktzart]

sometimes you pull your knife on the thing that you assume is possessing your brother and demand it vacate the premises even though unbeknownst to you there's only one consciousness on the premises because when this entity took your brother's body it kind of immediately extinguished his mind almost without even thinking about it which is probably actually worse but also cmahn this entity is just a little guy

[utilitycaster]

real talk when I was in college and in the Hating Everything stage of coming out of a depressive episode one of my friends was like "hey you wanna throw burnt out lightbulbs and perhaps an empty wine bottle off the roof" and it did in fact help a lot so I trust Chetney implicitly

[arealcrow]

it's one of my firmest held beliefs at this point that internet need to nationalized. i need xfinity to be torn limb from limb by dogs named regulation

[incandescent-creativity]

hey there ! I’m curious, for the fall/October ask game. . .

🍎 apple: let’s talk about friendship in your wip. do you have any favorite friend/platonic dynamics? any friendships gone sour?

It's no longer October but it's still fall so! The ask game still counts in my heart.

By far the best friendship dynamic is Ash and Zach in the LORE Series. I've only got the first draft of the first book, but I have such plans for how they work together. They get to a point where they don't really need to talk that much, they know when to trust the other and let them take over, they know each other's weaknesses and will cover for them.

Zach becomes the only person Ash doesn't mind touching her without warning. Ash becomes the only person Zach listens to when told to be quiet/shut up. They are the only two people in the world who have been altered by an ancient magical ritual, the only two who had to face illusory manifestations of their fears, the only two who understand what that's like and how isolating it is.

But it's not a romance story because the power of platonic friendships are too important!

[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

I hate Gavin Archer with every fiber of my being btw second time through does absolutely not make project overlord less horrifying what the everloving fuck was that.

[nulfaga]

idk why i am so compelled to write about marriages slowly breaking down even tho the couple love each other (nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates love from etc etc). do i call this the john darnielle instinct

[deadmegumi]

Mr darcy smiling truly IS enough to make a grown man cry

[somuchbetterthanthat]

i need someone to tell me that they, too, used to want to bash their heads against their computer and then throw the computer against a wall as soon as they open a new document and try to write, but they actually found a miracle cure and now they can write whatever they wish to whenever they decide to

[w04hxo]

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[raindropsonwhiskers]

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[thebutterleftoutatroboticsstate]

Google won’t let me turn off its planet killing plagiarism machine I just want to do my vocab like a normal, capable person

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Today I learned that wordpress has introduced an AI "assistant" to help people write and I learned this by having the thing king hit me out of nowhere by warning me that "immediately" is a "complex word" and I know it's just a stupid robot with no context but this thing warning me, a writer, that the science fiction story I'm writing has a "complex word" (so watch out!) and that word is the dirt basic word "immediately" filled me with a moment of incandescent rage the likes of which I've never felt before and I'm awake now.

Anyway it's easy to turn the robot off but this reminds me of the time I got grounded for using the word "transportation" as a teenager and this time there's not even a person doing it.

[awritersrejections]

via @discworldtour

just checking in to say Trans Rights

CW: transphobia

First of all obligatory I aten’t dead

Second! Terry Pratchett has been trending the past few days because, apparently, the Gender Critical movement has decided to posthumously “recruit” him by claiming that he would’ve supported their movement. If you’re unfamiliar, that movement is basically to remove social and legal protections for trans people.

This is gross, it’s cowardly, and it’s being thoroughly and viciously debunked by people who knew him personally, including his daughter.

(Rhianna Pratchett has probably been having a rough one the past few days, but her twitter has had a lot of people sharing affirming memories of her dad, which has been lovely to see).

Anyway. I’m not in the UK, and I’m not sure if this just a few people or an earnest effort from GCers to rebrand Sir Terry as Gender Critical and Discworld as some sort of terf zone, but I didn’t want to let this pass without a loud and belligerent TRANS RIGHTS from me. Trans Discworld fans, you are loved. I am but a humble quote poster (and, as the past two years have proved, very bad at it) but I and so, so many others support you, always.

(And if you happen to be here looking for quotes that support gender critical ideology then I wish you a very reading comprehension. scram.)