If you happen to notice that my (tiny) account has unfollowed you recently, there's a pretty good chance you've also been added to a list I made called "previously following"...
And that's because I'm now following you... somewhere else, and I need some way to tame the chaos ;-)
@RealRockatansky You and I went down a The Leftovers geeky rabbit hole a few years ago, and all this evangelical end times fascination that left such a mark on me, growing up in the 70s-80s was a big factor in that.
It's Larry Norman, @RealRockatansky. My wife and I were both raised on this stuff, and this song scared the shit out of both of us as kids.
https://t.co/2UgHjHrtkY
https://t.co/3pRB4zMooX
@RealRockatansky Total sidebar, and a little rude of me to ask here, but did you see the DM and/or email I sent to you guys' qaa gmail account? I have a serious request for you guys from a serious author.
@RealRockatansky I know you're not at bluesky much these days, but trust me on this: click this post, then check out the quote posts.
https://t.co/vWzqbTu83C
@SonnyBunch 2.5 years later, and it just occurred to me: Newman's best retort would have been:
"Marlon, I am an actor. Actors ACT, and good ones do so convincingly. They do not need to--nor indeed should they--actually eat everything put before them as they play the characters they portray."
@QAApod Oh man @RealRockatansky I loved that Fourth Kind reference. Another great (terrible) UFO movie (with a Wes Clark Jr tie-in!) would be The Objective.
@DavidB40485@ditzkoff How are you... no, I'm sorry, nobody is this dumb. I just can't accept that you are as dumb as you're trying to convince us here.
@AricToler and to think this is the first thing I saw upon returning to the bad place to see if anyone else has spotted "Valerie Baisch" copyrighting new, terrible AI music as the Screaming Trees:
https://t.co/P1b3yEKKGX
https://t.co/y8JwutUZJy
@GaryMarcus I'm here to say again: em dashes were used heavily by 20th century writers, which is a) why us older folks don't spot them as remarkable, but more to the point b) they show up in AI outputs to a degree that seems excessive to younger readers now.