Mark Sanderlin

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

No, no, you see, the gravity of the office of school president will change the bully into an entirely different person and he will no longer be the bully he once was.

If you're mad and find yourself yelling that you want someone launched into the Sun, take a moment, calm yourself, and remember that it takes a lot less Delta v to launch them out of the Solar System instead.

You can be mad, but that's no excuse to be inefficient with propellant.

Take back your attention.

I think about Proxy frequently, one of my favorites!

Spending a little time with the latest The Paris Review tonight and I realized I can never read any issue without thinking about @tricialockwood.bsky.social's old tweet about it

hi everybody! soo exciting to run from app to app like a plague rat fleeing the whims of the dork ass losers who control our freedom of expression! what a chill and sustainable media landscape!!

my opinion on congestion pricing is that it should cost 10,000 dollars to honk your car horn

Imagine a live action HBO mini-series?? 🤤

Atlantis: The Lost Empire?? 10/10 would see.

And they were free to do so! (this is before the union had language preventing narrators from taking AI deals without their input)

But it doesn’t make anyone exempt from the ire of their colleagues who feel betrayed by the choice.

Saxophone inventor: each button plays a different note

Trombone inventor: trombone goes WOOooooOOmp

Audible currently lists those titles as “narrated by virtual voice”. But you could see a scenario where Celeb A gets paid handsomely to clone their voice in exchange for slapping their name on the product. Some companies already offer dead celebs as a voice option. Ghoulish.

And you won’t find any sources because of ironclad NDAs that prevent them from even admitting they were involved. But if you’re acquainted with some of the top names in the industry and you compare them with Apple’s AI voice offerings, it’s…pretty clear. 🥴

Currently crying laughing at the fact that my gf just called James Gandolfini “Gandalf Mancini” thinking that was his actual name. I’m losing it.

Physical media is so crazy to me because what to you mean every sound imaginable can be converted into really really tiny bumps?

I need to start doing some sit ups

Trust my gut? I don’t think so…I can’t even trust it with cream-based soups

I would irreperably deplete the world’s sunscreen supply

Do not tempt me, Sass.

“Giddy up jingle horse” is actually such an insulting thing to say to a reindeer

Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot

10/10 would watch

Absolutely love this. I've read a lot of very clearly defensive work these past few years - like, "I can pick out exactly what Twitter thread this paragraph is responding to" kind of clear - and it's ruined so many books for me. Begging authors to stop writing to criticism.

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Indeed!

A MAJOR shoutout to the indie authors I’ve worked with who, almost to a person, take my contract seriously when I say “payment due on delivery”. Bless you 🙏🏻

They know the bill is coming so the money is ready to go. Why can’t businesses & non profits do the same?