www.scribbr.com/fallacies/su...
On a breezy day in early spring, the wind tugs at a row of white sheets and bedding on a washing line set in a garden in front of a large white house
Breezy Day (1975)
Artist: Gerald Witcomb
If the Republicans are saying we have been at with Iran for 47 years, when do they put Ollie North on trial for high treason? Do they exhume Reagan and do a cadaver synod?
Painting of crow in flight over snowy field, crows landing and forest in background.
πΌοΈ Laura Makabresku
Why does admitting youβre ambitious feel so wrong for gen Xers like me?
Exactly.
Dear internet,
I have a set of loopable beds for sale. Recorded just after a downpour. Gurgling, babbling, white-noise.
36 24-bit/96Khz mono recordings, spanning over 45 minutes. UCS friendly.
ko-fi.com/s/57fbaeb311
If you canβt afford to pay someone but are creating a commercial product then at the very least if you are going to ask for labour they should get rev share.
Though tbh βif you canβt afford to pay someoneβ, it should stop there really.
One of the greatest scenes ever put to celluloid, RIP Rob Duvall. youtu.be/uchT2LH3eTY?...
It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
A Reliant Robin Adventure.
By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class.
Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing
I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
As any Radio 4 play shows, audio drama wipes the floor with film for the title of best storytelling medium.
Whatβs happened in these cases (Spotify, YouTube etc) is that a corporation has decided to maximise its profits by not paying its suppliers and workers, while selling that idea to its customers as a bargain.
Same as Amazon or any high street fast fashion clothing brand. Itβs a grift.
Fuck off.
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than βcontentβ. Even if youβre using the word βcontentβ ironically, or as a cute little joke, donβt. When someone calls writing βcontentβ theyβre pissing on someoneβs hard work & passion. βContentβ is Technosatanβs henchword.
When an author writes an unfinished story, but there is a promise it will continue, imagination is licensed to the audience. When the story ends, the license of the audience to imagine is revoked. This is the impossible problem of franchise fandom; you cannot reclaim territory ceded to imagination.
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed.
20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour.
Think on, dear hearts, think on.
itβs funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldnβt have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it
Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra Β£200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
Fuck you and pay your taxes
If you want to see the effects of imagining fantastic stories arenβt allegories of the human now, but literal magic windows into alternate future / past realities, look at all the dumb needless shit rich tech bros keep trying to invent cos it was in space fiction once.
- That house. That looks reasonable.
- I'm afraid you'll need to be a millionaire to own that one.
- Okay, that one.
- No. That's only for the rich too.
- That one? Surely that one? There's no roof and the toilet's just a hole.
- No. Only for the rich.
In related news, I'm looking for proofreading and copy editing work. Wouldn't you love to have sentences like the above in your work? Surely a mark of quality.