"I do not believe hell exists, but I believe humans have enough hubris to build our own."
*writing 'because a wizard did it' over all my plot holes* Decided I'm going to write fantasy now.
New post from me. Some thoughts about fear, death, and the risks when both meet. buttondown.com/ContextFall/...
extirpation the state or condition of having become locally or regionally extinct One night when I was a kid, I asked some pretty hard questions about what...
2 different Internet Archive events have taken place: 1) "Today, the Internet Archive suffered a DDoS attack,... claimed by the BlackMeta hacktivist group, who says they will be conducting additional attacks." 2) Internet Archive was breached. 31 million unique emails + other info. (confirmed)
"...threat actor shared the Internet Archive's authentication database, it is a 6.4GB SQL file named "ia_users.sql." The database contains email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data." Ouch. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
Most days I think it would be easier to just give up and become the kind of parasitic fungus that takes over control of young arthropods' minds.
Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and itâs not exactly clear why. Usually itâs not even political, itâs not selling anything, itâs just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces
Horrific, extraordinary reporting
NEW: As executions speed up nationwide, Alabama is experimenting with using nitrogen gas. It just did the 2nd such execution, ever. The state insists this is "more humane." But our reporter Lauren Gill witnessed it, & saw that it went catastrophically. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
The state said Alan Millerâs execution by lethal gas would be âmore humane.â He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.
The Library of Congress has literally one gazillion public domain photos and illustrations that are free to use for your projects! www.loc.gov/free-to-use
Thereâs too much horror focused on gleeful taboo and transgression, we need more weird fiction about sad sacks unsettled by a world they canât understand
WIPlash is when you bounce rapidly from one project to the other because your ADHD won't let you work on one damn thing