Jared Gray @jaredisgray@wandering.shop

Just realized I forgot the whole #introduction thing. Former .NET developer, currently househusband and sci-fi writer for the last 3 years. My current WIP is Firefly meets Tomb Raider with a dash of Babylon 5.

I run the Practical Transhumanism page on FB, and I have a magnet implanted in my finger that's fun at parties.

I dabble in just about anything (firebreathing, electronics, bookbinding, classic cars, lifecasting, and so on). I have the attention span of a ferret in a jewelry store.

RT @thoughtfix@twitter.com
The pitcher I got for my cold-brew tagged itself as "a healthy, safe, BPA-free environmentally friendly alternative to plastic. I have to ask: WHEN DID PEOPLE FORGET WHAT GLASS IS?

RT @stiggib3@twitter.com
My daugjter just ruined Toy Story for ever. She said if one of the toys died Andy wouldnt know and he'd carry on playing with its corpse

I say no because I choose to, because that path doesn't fix anything. It only makes it worse. It's not that hard to simply not be a dick. It can be done, even by lonely, anxious cis het white dudes who desperately want the world to be good to them. My life is better for it, too.

Without that deliberate choice, I could have easily been one of them. It's compelling when afraid, angry, frustrated, or feeling powerless. And the fact that I'm a middle-aged cis white male means it's an outlet available to me.

We have a need to feel disaster is someone else's fault. To be in the right. We have a natural urge to punish those we feel have wronged us, and a belief that if we're severe enough, we can prevent anyone else from ever daring to make that same mistake.

Without that deliberate choice, I could have easily been one of them. It's compelling to feel powerful, to feel part of a special group, to be one of the worthy elite. To be a conqueror and keep your enemies weak is to be safe from being conquered yourself.

It created tremendous suffering without fixing the problems AT ALL. The people harming the world the most were never the ones being eliminated. It's never been a valid, effective solution. I'm self aware enough to know this and deliberately choose never to go down that path.

Pretty much all of the same awful things these fascist pieces of shit are trying to act on. It's in me, too. Only 2 real differences. 1. My choice of targets are THEM. 2. I paid attention to the results of all the many times that crap has already been tried.

And yes, conscious, deliberate choices, over and over. I'm a binary thinker and my first instinct is extreme, simplistic solutions. When I'm angry, my first thoughts are power fantasies about exterminating the problem people and reeducation camps for the salvageably ignorant.

Painfully honest thread?
1. Anxiety disorder- too terrified to be openly hostile to others.
2. Bullied half my life- not going to join in.
3. I want women to like me - works better when you're not an asshole.
4. I'm lazy - It's a lot less effort to simply not be a dick to people.

I know many anxious, lonely, heterosexual Caucasian gentlemen worried about their place in this weird world who have managed not to drink the anti-feminist, …
https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/1013440460050878466

War Boy Knitting is the best Fury Road sequel idea ever. https://www.instagram.com/p/BTbYXXMgU50/

RT @scottlynch78@twitter.com
Video games have done nothing to make me violent, they have only trained me to want to

pick

every

friggin'

flower

to level up Alchemy

RT @CastleMacSteven@twitter.com
You... want to... hide in plain sight on the steps? Sure... roll stealth.

Rogue: Rolls a 20.

This is dangerous, because the world is still a trash fire, but I'm going to try unmuting everyone for a bit now that the book is done. We'll see how long it lasts before I run screaming.

This is like the ultimate writing exercise. There's so many interesting stories implied by some of these things, and a few WTF's in there as well.
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They drained a canal in Amsterdam and put everything they found online https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten
https://twitter.com/sarahdal/status/1012446606048800768

Line edits are done. Sensitivity edits are done. All that's left is the proofread and final assets (cover, formatting, etc).

After two and a half years, Falling Into Midnight is finally finished!

RT @kacealexander@twitter.com
Final plug for the day: If you haven't seen, I'm REALLY GOOD at query letters and book cover copy. I also do sensitivity reads. So, check it out, yeah?https://www.kcalexander.com/services/

TFW your spare tire has a lower PSI than the one with the nail in it. At least I discovered this at home and not on the side of the road in Phoenix summer?

Last night, I learned that there's a company named Smeg that makes 50's style refrigerators. Now I want a Red Dwarf themed fridge for our kitchen.

RT @thoughtfix@twitter.com
I hope this Pride celebration lasts until people don't remember life any other way. We must never victimize another Oscar Wilde, Alan Turing, or any of the countless persecutions, exiles, or suicides.