Not everyone who signed up for TS is on the Trump train especially anymore, a lot are, but many aren’t. I know 3 in my family alone that are getting annoyed with the whole MAGA movement but have accounts from before his indictments and have unfollowed the crazy ones they used to follow but still use it as it’s the path of least resistance for their social media.

Gotta go where the people are. If they truely believe there are republicans that will vote for them because he is that alternative to the Trump they are tired of (an admittedly small amount), this is as good of a place to go to speak to them. The country right now is biased enough that the margins of swing are super small and if this can help attract those people it makes sense for a campaign like Biden who has maintained that there’s a subset of republicans that are non-MAGA and just want to get back to “normal”.

I see it on this local account

But not as the same username on literature.cafe

That’s where I first noticed it. Posts on literature.cafe never posted but did show in my Midwest.social profile.

We need you to go to the store and get two quarts of elbow grease… and, uh, pick up some... headlight fluid for the Puma too.

Look, I know you don't know me, but you have to believe what I'm about to tell you. Sometime in your future, I get stationed here in Blood Gulch and we meet. And this guy here, he gets promoted to Sergeant of the red army and we spy on them. And they get this new jeep and I'm all like, "There is no way you can pick up chicks in a tank!"

I hear this guy is super excited

I love Joe. And even though its last update was a while ago, it’s still my preferred editor.

I read this in Maurice Moss’ voice

An unfortunately significant number of people.

Is 4 out of 55 Chinese ethnic groups a good percentage?

The Simpsons did an episode where a monorail salesman tries to sell Springfield on installing a monorail, and there’s a song somewhat evoking the 76 Trombones scene from the musical The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Mine and other comments are lyrics from that song.

I hear those things are awfully loud.

I’m torn. While I highly support right to repair, I also support measures that make high-value theft targets like cellphones and catalytic converters worthless or extremely hard to convert to a payout.

I completely read past that and missed it in your essay. You truly covered all the bases.

I respectfully submit that beans are not a vegetable, they are a fruit. citation

If it’s replies to a post of mine I upvote virtually everything. If something is so incorrect is borderline misinformation or so off topic that there’s no connection to the thread, I downvote. If it’s really insightful that I think more people should read it, I upvote.

Something else just occurred to me, you might try the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman or This Quest is Broken series by J.P. Valentine too. They are a newer genre called LitRPG where the conventions of gaming (like things being “quests” or health/mana bars are directly apparent to the characters and it makes for some interesting moments.

I don’t read a bunch of strict Horror, but I have enjoyed the ones I’ve read by Grady Hendrix.

Otherwise, based on your answer, here are a few books I’ve read that line up for one reason or another. I’ve placed them in a specific order but they are all enjoyable:

Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi John Dies at the End by David Wong Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey