The personal blog of Jay Garmon: professional geek, Web entrepreneur, and occasional science fiction writer.
“If you build it, they will come” Is probably the worst business advice out there and yet it’s the piece of advice most start ups base their entire business model on
— 🍂🌛Andrea Rae🌜🍂 (@AndreaRaeLAc) Nov 30, 2021
Jobs be asking me for 3 references and I think I might start doing the same. Like lemme talk to three happy employees please
— thee glodan (@hodayum) Nov 11, 2021
on every Facebook post of a woman asking for advice about a traditionally female issue there will be one man to comment “I don’t think I can give you advice here lol” this is the law
— Dawn (@502eire) Nov 23, 2021
One of my favorite kinds of people on here is the random guy with 13 followers who replies to scholars tweeting about their fields with: "Correct."
— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) Nov 15, 2021
“You can kill people if you’re scared” is a very dangerous thing to say to white ppl who have built an entire culture based on being scared of other people
— Vinny Thomas (@vinn_ayy) Nov 19, 2021
There is oof, there is Oof, there is OOOF, and then there is the guy who said "you'd think differently if someone in your family was murdered" to Bernice King. https://t.co/PXpwDOw9S7
— St. Simeon the Thankful Holy Fool (@SimeonTheFool) Nov 18, 2021
This is the rare absolute: Every single person who asks to speak with you without telling you what about is trying to violate your boundaries to their benefit. Every single person, every single time. I will not be entertaining questions.
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) Nov 18, 2021
Me: Don’t ask me to do anything, I’m clearly overloaded Also me: Why didn’t you just ask me
— Liz Palmer (@lizpalmer1) Nov 18, 2021
This month I'm doing a challenge called November, where I try to just make it through every day in November
— Tamsyn Kelly (@TamsynKelly) Nov 14, 2021
I really feel for people who say grammar is the reason they can't support "they" as a singular pronoun, because I too often lie publicly about what is actually bothering me.
— Matt Wallace (@MattFnWallace) Nov 11, 2021
Being called a "content creator" will never stop feeling like an insult.
— Rae Hodge (@RaeHodge) Nov 11, 2021
Westworld is 100% what would happen if you gave hack fiction authors unlimited money and technology. We have all been on a panel at a convention with the poor version of Anthony Hopkins' character.
— Matt Wallace (@MattFnWallace) Nov 10, 2021
hey sorry i was weird last night i don't know what's wrong with me and i never have and i never will
— Sarah Michelson (@sarah_michelson) Nov 10, 2021
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
— Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) Nov 8, 2021
One extra hour of sleep on one Sunday in exchange for seasonal depression for four months: The American Way.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) Nov 7, 2021
It’s actually simple: If you can feel pride in things you didn’t personally take part in, then you can feel shame in things you didn’t personally take part in. Some of you are motivated to make this hard, but it’s only hard bc you want the glory of our history but not the burden.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) Nov 7, 2021
I just watched the pilot of Star Trek: Prodigy, and I'd metatextually describe it as a bunch of kids rescuing themselves from the everyday horror of the Star Wars universe by finding a Federation starship. It's great.
— Alex Knapp (@TheAlexKnapp) Nov 7, 2021
Anyone who uses the term “woke mob” unironically is a fucking dork.
— Christian Rivas (@RadRivas) Nov 5, 2021
@502eire 2/2 Until the Democratic Party accepts the 2021 reality that truly evil people are collecting power through immoral means - and that *getting out the vote*, while important, is in reality simply quaint - we are walking ourselves into a Gulag we helped build.
— Marc Murphy (@MurphyCartoons) Nov 3, 2021
Voting is also like public transit in that one party would like to abolish it and the other party is not terribly interested in maintaining it https://t.co/iCyWVz7WIL
— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) Nov 2, 2021
The War on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November
— Classy Warfare (@classywarfare) Nov 1, 2021