Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Don't sweat it, his liver's gonna explode in a few years 000
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maybe if more writers made do or got creative when they needed images, the visual language of modern books wouldn't be so samey. Lost count of the number of different "anime inspired" main-character-as-cover-art covers I've seen on here 000
Reposted by Fixer Optionaldoctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits 222046721
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't want "infinite personalised music" that sounds wank, I want to hear the noises some mentally ill recluses thought sounded good over a breakbeat. 1272
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My horrible violent novella got accepted to #SFINCS4!!!! Honestly stoked I made it this far, I was pretty late to submit something so I'm just happy to be on the list. I hope I meet some cool writers during judging. 000
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'd absolutely love to see anyone near the levers of power being genuinely clear-eyed about the risks instead of just swallowing and regurgitating hyperbolic press releases from AI corps 051
Reposted by Fixer OptionalHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03654769
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ah yes, my low-tech digital versatile disc that stores the same digital file I'd otherwise stream. Very low-tech. Do you employ anyone who knows about tech? 110
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Telegraph soft launching "child poverty is good actually" right on schedule for a bad winter 060
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thank god for the "sex realist" fash, say the papers. Pure drivel 040
Reposted by Fixer OptionalTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath. 4574697
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To Brit Euphemisms, I'd say there's almost certainly an element of taking delight in how gruesome you can make them, it's a source of humour in addition to the cultural squeamishness. A guy I know calls his dick "the vomiting milkman", you don't get there without enjoying the wordplay of it a bit. 140
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Absolutely agreed. Speaking as a writer too, what can you do about a review like that? You have to be really careful in how you respond without looking like a bully and making an annoying situation into a PR problem 000
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No doubt, I was thinking of Goodreads when I wrote my last reply. 110
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Without knowing where you were reading this review, I'd hazard that it's maybe downstream of the internet giving everyone a voice. With no barriers to entry, there's no need for consensus on how to write a review 110
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maybe not everyone is equipped to write reviews 120
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Interestingly, I've noticed AI fans approach almost every interaction like this. They're hilariously thin-skinned, seething at the indication that you're not going to fawn over them. Makes them easy to spot early, at least. 010
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"it doesn't make sense *to me*" and she never once stopped to think if she just might be stupid. The lack of self awareness from these cretins isn't surprising, but it's still disappointing 0220
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, it was subtextual. The post relies on the assumption that a reader is 1. Going to read the article and 2. Aware of the usual MO of sextortion rings. 060
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I read it more like "men also need to be on their guard, while sextortion rings usually target women that is not the case this time" 1130
Reposted by Fixer OptionalTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that. 101317221
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Have you talked about your book yet today?! Drop and give us Title: Nil's Shroud Genre: cyberpunk/splatterpunk Word count: I can't remember, like 29k-ish Funniest moment: The number three adaptor (you'll get it if ya read it) 🔗: fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud 021
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Keep forgetting this shit cuz we hate marketing, but I (Abi, half of FxOx) wrote some sickass cyberpunk novellas you might like. FFO: Gibson et al, Palahniuk, outlaw comics 000
Reposted by Fixer OptionalGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/09/2026“Story after story has emerged where senior civil servants or politicians, who are meant to hold Palantir to account, have instead held alarmingly cozy relationships with the company.” www.wired.com/story/the-uk-governme… 110545
Reposted by Fixer OptionalCatherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tired: imperial boomerang Wired: imperial predator drone 0299
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Greedy freak wants more. Shortened it for you. 021
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Average twitter user is probably pretty unaware there's a world outside their own head 0100
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Reason 2 why we use a creaky old unmonetised platform instead (reason 1 is "fuck you that's why", reason 3 is we don't think you should pay to hear our shower thoughts) 010
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Why do they always write like people who haven't been outside in 10 years 130
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Imagining a guy asking ChatGPT to roleplay as his publicist now 030
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How does AI solve a (perceived) lack of infrastructure anyway? 150
Reposted by Fixer Optionaljadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026no, see, that's in fact extremely NOT what you are, that's just a cute poetic metaphor. this is an extreme diminishment of what a human is (also dualism again, "you" aren't only inside your skull but also the skull and all the other body parts) 0207
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Skill issue. Right wingers have been attempting to make art, many of their films have been very heavily publicised, as have a few of their books. The only tyranny at play is that of public taste. No one wants shitty art, sorry. 020
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Misread the company name as "Vulture" and didn't register that was wrong until halfway into the next paragraph because it just fit so well. 1250
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Birth control. I take birth control daily as HRT. Should other women cease using the pill? Actually, maybe we shouldn't seek an answer from anti-trans freaks on that—they probably think the pill is satanic too. 0130
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We keep yelling about this. More people are noticing 022
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"angry gender critical members" is surely tautology. The crits are always fuming, it's all they know 090
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Speaks more to his own delusion that humans are the sole organism capable of thought magic — he claims not to believe this, but the rest of his post highlights that 1. He does and 2. He doesn't understand thought well enough to recognise it in something that isn't human. 0140
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Haven't found a surefire way to get through to a mark that I'm trying to unwork, usually a conciliatory tone and gentle prodding to examine their source does the trick but, as today will attest, not always. 000
Fixer Optional @fixeroptional.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm not a doctor so I don't know the words for it but I did spend a lot of my 20s scamming people so I'm aware of the phenomena: people who've been worked usually hate it if someone points out that they've been worked. They're prolly embarrassed, or there's some cognitive shit afoot idk the name of 100
