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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Me: Safety First! Dons safety glasses, ear defenders, gloves. Also me: sitting on my arse, legs splayed so I can whale away at concrete with a five pound hammer and cold chisel, not eight inches from the family jewels Also me: chipping the concrete TOWARDS said jewels

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

My current #wip is about a guy who dies because he stepped on a dog toy

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

This has to be the lamest scam publisher, ever

Hello, how are you doing?

Before I continue, may I confirm that I’m speaking with the author
associated with this email?
I came across something regarding the opportunities currently
surrounding your work that I believe deserves your attention.

BEST.

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@autolycos Could my dude (19) have his first episode of full blown schizophrenia due to high stress, alcohol consumption, weed, and malnutrition? Is it possible in that context to have had any subtle signs of a latent schizophrenia that might have been missed or misinterpreted?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Hey #fiction people, especially #women, I have a character question. My main character in this short story is a trader, a millionaire, and a psychopath. She is going to get the bad news that she has inoperable stage 4b metastatic cancer, and she is going to murder the board members. That's not […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Hey graphic artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers who do book covers, I need covers, and want to barter I really can't pay hundreds of bucks on books that won't earn a hundred over a year, but I can devote half a page and acknowledge the artist, and you can be written into a story […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Hey @autolycos I need a psychiatry consult :) My dude is being poisoned with rye ergot, and has been referred to psych by the ER after a psychotic break in which he was wandering around naked, clutching a dictionary and watering can. He has a nervous disposition and hypochondria, so presents a […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Oh, so that looks maxing twit got pinched for rape and drugging a girl. How am I not surprised that's where his trajectory went?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Hey @alice @koalou @h3mmy May I ask one question - would it work if I make the hyena trickster god in "Mightily Milly", an ENBY? I started with Hyena as female, but does it work better if Hyena is ENBY?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Dear billionaire, oligarch, techbro, undermining democracy and bringing about fascism to protect your hoard, is a stunningly stupid idea. If you shift is to an autocracy, the horde will still come for you, but instead of changing laws and making you pay your fair share of taxes (democracy), we […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@screwturn/11727527… Can someone with a screen reader for the #blind please tell me if you can read the poll results in this post. Thanks

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

#writinggroup pompt was to do an Abecedarian. Here is my take, titled "Golf and recycling"

A thing that
Badly bothered Betty
came to her suddenly, abruptly, annoyingly.
Deciding what to do about it, was
easier than expected, though.
For as long as she could remember,
golf, golfing, and especially golfers
had
irritated her, irked her, inflamed her.
Just imagine her reaction, then, to a
kaleidoscope of colors, painted in slivers of
light across her walls, ceilings, and antique hardwood floor, from broken glass.
Maybe you can picture the golf ball, insouciant among the shards, feigning innocence.
Not the first time, had that
oaf next door made a wayward shot, but never before, through her
plate glass, double-glazed, UV-protected, noble-gas-filled, $300 pane.
Quiet anger gave slow and cautious way to
rage that grew through her body, twisting up her muscles like a honeysuckle, and
she knew
that this, was the
ultimate…
vexation
without doubt. But now, the
xylem of a new tree, sucks nutrients from that recycled golfer, and
yearning shoots emerge in spring, with a
zeal, that gladdens her heart, and blooms that fill her house with joy.

~fin~

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

2nd example of a rage-bait channel posting videos intended to make insecure men angry with women. I'm not expecting YouTube to actually do anything, of course.

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Joshua Barretto @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I'm in a weird position where I entirely believe that the Anthropic AI doom stuff is purely a cynical attempt to save a dying oligopoly, but also I sort of don't want to say it because I do think that actual ASI (LLMs won't get us there, of course) would be a near-immediate extinction event and […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept. 16: Is there a topic you could really use an expert’s help with? What is it? I often need medical advice, but have several physicians and researchers who help me there. Where I often need help is lived experience of women, people of color, and people with disabilities […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

#WordWeavers Sept 16: If your MC was elected mayor of your own town, would you stay or move? Why? Since my current MC becomes a trickster god and is able to control every atom, everywhere, at once, moving wouldn't make a wit of difference. However, I would expect a few unexpected deaths of […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@Lazarou I prefer the self checkout. It's more efficient, and the cashier and I don't have to do bullshit friendliness labor

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

No shade on graphic artists, but I'm thinking of making all my books going forward have plain brown covers, with default font, and no graphics I'm just sick of the cover costing more than the book is ever likely to earn, and turning my writing into months of effort to create a platform for a cover

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

OK, I have a request of everyone. I want you all to report these arsehole channels and influencers who are making rage-bait videos on YouTube that are designed to make men angry with women. They steal and edit clips by women and frame them with narration […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of youtube report of Jedediah Bila, a serial rage-baiter

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

My latest complaint to YouTube about platforming rage-bait channels that make money out of making insecure men angry with women

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The existence of spitoons implies the existence of spitumentaries

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@futurebird I think the initial public fascination and massive use of with the first free iteration of ChatGPT got a ton of investors and pundits salivating so hard, their brains got dehydrated. Despite all the evidence that the current LLM technology can (a) never get to AGI, (b) never do […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

#ScribesAndMakers Sep 3: Which ebook reader do you use? Mainly Kobo, but sometimes the public library opens a book in hoopla. I migrated everything off Amazon several months back for both the books I authored and the ones I read

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@Lazarou What is the voter turnout on the left? Could be you have the problem here in the US - low voter turnout means advertising determines re-election chances, which means donors determine success, which means the party consistently courts centrist and right-of-center voters and donors over left

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

The existence of angel investors implies the existence of demon investors

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Men give each other the fucking weirdest advice about women

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Wait, it's Wednesday today? How did that happen?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

If you don't hear from me again, it's because I poured pickled beetroot juice over my yoghurt instead of blueberry, and I'm too cheap to toss it out

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Interesting social experiment "I Made 5 Fake Dating Profiles to See Which Aesthetic Wins" youtube.com/watch?v=dE9jVcPF4xQ&is=…

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

It saddens me to announce that Harrold Potter, alumni of Hogwarts, has been diagnosed with primary liver cancer, as a consequence of hepatitis contracted via unprotected sex

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

From today's #writing prompt from "Dusk After Your Passing" by Ada Limón (1976) #writinggroup

Content Warning: Mild SA

"Swallow Dive"

Cliff Swallow was a hedge fund manager, the headlines said - but I knew him as the fawn-coated frotteur on the evening L-Train from Framingham. He was a sidling kind of fellow, with an unremarkable face, and an unmemorable presence. Those, I suppose, were the tools of his trade on the train - the better to be unnoticed.

He was the master of the pelvic graze, the shoulder slide, the drifting, floating, lingering touch. Just present enough to raise momentary notice, but insufficient to be seen, to raise ruckus, to create alarm. But the women knew. They felt his presence, they knew his passing, they marked him well.

Far upfront, from my favorite seat, I watch the faces flit on by. As the train pulls in, I see the solemn forms of familiar folk who board here. And I see Cliff dive with arms thrown high, as if in supplication to a jointed god. I see mouths open wide, but only one face turns to me. Red lips parted with a question - did you see me, shall you say?

I look away - "Not I."

~fin~

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Ciao Tim Curry, and thank you for all the amazing performances

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@lowqualityfacts Done whilst struggling with schizophrenia, if memory serves me

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

#writerscoffeeclub 22. Have you ever used a sensitivity reader? How did it go? A blind person helped me write better plot elements for a blind character. It added depth, realism, and better representation. Same with lesbian characters, ENBYs, people of color, women, etc. It also allowed me to […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Shove it up your tight ass, Bessent, you stutterfuck

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Any #feminists up for #betareading my current #wip #shortstory? Sadly, no money being offered, but you do get to #read something probably enjoyable

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Current #wip Give me a name of the driver who tries to abduct two kids, and then gets killed by another hitchhiker he picks up

My strangest unsolved case? Sure, I've got time to spare before shuffleboard.
Want a chocolate ginger snap? I don't usually offer them, because my daughter only brings me one packet a month, but you are pretty, so I don't mind. No? I don't blame you, they are kinda addictive, and for a retired cop, that's saying something!

I wondered if you would get round to me. The "demon hitchhiker" is a better story than any of these other fossils have to show for their lives. I was a new detective then - full of eagerness and a stickler for the rules, and boy, that case put rabbit ears on me!

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@mcnado @autolycos My Dude is in the driver's seat, hunched over the steering wheel, ass shoved back into the seat, and refusing to stop to let out milady the hitchhiker. She stabs right through the seat, and nails L5/S1 space with about 30mm of the blade […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Aug 19 How do you write characters with expertise outside your own? I ask for help from people who do. If I'm writing a lock-picking character, I ask a person who picks locks. If I write a lesbian, I ask lesbians. People are generally happy to help writers

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