Writer, editor, just this guy. Occasional stories: https://www.unreality.net/writings. I also publish the quarterly zine Kaleidotrope. (He/him.) 😷
Fred Coppersmith
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I love how quickly every subsequent series of Taskmaster goes from people I mostly don’t recognize to my new favorite set of contestants ever.
It looks like my internet has been restored. And this is supposed to be the magical for-keeps time, so I'm sure there will be no more outages again tomorrow or the next day or the next or...
I mean, I guess this is better than escalating a costly and illegal war...
turns out every writer who imagined a dystopian future where authoritarians openly lied to you through the television vastly overestimated the intelligence and commitment of their fictional antagonists
We get (rightly) exercised about misspending $13 million on a reflecting pool.
Meanwhile the president is literally vaporizing a quarter of a billion on his illegal war of choice and it's just a Wednesday night
who could have predicted a summertime event in washington dc would be extremely hot and humid. it's almost as hard to imagine as Iran deciding to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to military action
When you accept that Elon Musk turned the once-Twitter into the new 8chan, the enduring presence of democratic (and Democratic) organizations on there becomes gross and delegitimizing. 8chan had normal context mixed in with the owner-approve abuse, just like X. We need to treat it the same way.
Where does “the media doesn’t see me as strong” justification for bombings fit into jus in bello?
WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
