Self-Publishing Supervillain

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Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· 11d

We live with a wookie

... most people will tell you it's a picture of a black, shaggy dog lying down next to a bone... but they're wrong, it's a wookie.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jul 16

3/4

(This is a procedure posted as a series of images because BlueSky won't let you attach documents. My apologies to screen readers everywhere. 3 of 4)

5. The Shortcut Keys list shows all the keys that can have or currently have functions assigned to them. Scroll to an empty key combination and click to highlight it.

RESULT: The Assign button will switch from grayed out to active.

6. Click Assign.

RESULT: The highlighted key combination in the Shortcut Keys list will update to show that Sum has been assigned to it. The Keys field will update to show that the key combination you selected was assigned to Sum.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jul 16

2/4

(This is a procedure posted as a series of images because BlueSky won't let you attach documents. My apologies to screen readers everywhere. 2 of 4)

3. At the Keyboard Customization Settings view, type sum in the Functions field and wait for the Function list to filter.

NOTE: If you press the Enter key to force a refresh you will close the Customize dialog instead.

RESULT: The Function list filters to show only the functions with “sum” in it.

4. Click to highlight Sum in the Function list.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jul 16

I typed up a very rudimentary procedure for remapping the sum function to a free key combination, and then realized BlueSky doesn't let you attach documents. So... screenshots it is. I'm going to lose whatever Alt text cred I ever had... 1/4

(This is a procedure posted as a series of images because BlueSky won't let you attach documents. My apologies to screen readers everywhere. 1 of 4)

1. From the Calc menu, click Tools > Customize.

RESULT: The Customize dialog displays.

2. At the Customize dialog, click Keyboard.

RESULT: The Customize dialog switches to the Keyboard Customization Settings view.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· May 28

The nicest thing a spammer has ever said to me.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 18

Same screenshot, different browser.

Look I'm just gonna go ahead and copy and paste the alt text from the picture because IT'S THE SAME PICTURE so... ahem...

This is a screenshot from Starfield, a game 99% of the internet hates, apparently, but I very much do not. An astronaut is silhouetted against a pretty orange sky with a large ringed planet hanging in the sky just over the horizon.

OR IT'S JUST A RECTANGLE FULL OF VERTICAL LINES, I WON'T KNOW UNTIL I ACTUALLY POST IT

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 18

Let's try another in-game screenshot.

This is a screenshot from Starfield, a game 99% of the internet hates, apparently, but I very much do not. An astronaut is silhouetted against a pretty orange sky with a large ringed planet hanging in the sky just over the horizon.

OR IT'S JUST A RECTANGLE FULL OF VERTICAL LINES, I WON'T KNOW UNTIL I ACTUALLY POST IT

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 18

Next test: a screenshot of my phone home screen. God help me I am reduced to this.

... I am writing this with my phones keyboard which is too small for my ridiculously oversized thumbs so let's keep it short: weather app, empty space, folders, quick apps

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 18

OK, continuing this stupid, stupid test: I have re-uploaded the screenshot of my desktop, only in a different file format.

Once again a screenshot of my desktop. I really don't feel either of us will be served by another description of this, and yet I feel a gnawing sense of obligation to do so: tiny button bar on top, large button bar on bottom, window in upper left corner showing all the files I've downloaded to the desktop area. Blue, green, and yellow abstract wallpaper. Lots and lots of icons, because I like icons.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 18

This, sadly, is the most I've used BkueSky in months: in my third attempt to post an image to my feed, I post a picture I took of one of my dogs.

A black French Bulldog/Pitbull mix is curled up over a comforter as she rests peacefully, ignoring the camera intruding on her personal space.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 18

This is also a test: I post a screenshot of my desktop in a continuing exploration of Can I Post Images To My Feed.

A screenshot of my desktop! So boring. There's a strip of tiny buttons on the top, and a strip of larger buttons on the bottom, and a little rectangle in the upper left corner of the desktop full of icons representing things I saved to my desktop. The desktop wallpaper is an abstract blue, green, and yellow pattern.

Or, if this DOESN'T work, it's just a rectangle full of blue vertical lines.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 18

This is a test: can I actually post an image on my account, or have I completely forgotten how technology works?

An old screenshot of a player-modified Oberland Station, a settlement in Fallout 4. Train tracks run through the walled settlement, and a number of multi-level buildings built from grimy, dust-caked glass and corrugated steel are packed inside the walls.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 1

Sigh.

A screenshot of Merriam-Webster's bluesky account. Text: "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go."

The word is "out of pocket"

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Oct 31

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

A portrait of Bishop, the android pilot from _Aliens_.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jul 2

This is a fantastic gift from my wife. The ice was originally also shaped like dice but all the edges melted away almost immediately.

A drinking glass with a 10-sided die and a 12-sided die embedded in the glass itself, just because. The ice in the glass were originally also shaped like dice but they melted

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jun 24

BLUESKY TECH PEOPLE: has anyone encountered this? Browser appears to spawn a large blue rectangle that obscures 2/3 of my screen, and goes away when I close the browser. This image is a mockup because I can't screencap it (it doesn't show up from browsing my site, that's just what was open.)

A large blue rectangle obscuring about 2/3 of my Win11 screen, obscuring both desktop and most of an open browser window.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jun 23

Saw this posted on Facebook (yes, I'm still there. Short story but depressing so I won't repeat it here). Hoo boy.

An advertisement:

"Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today"

(the ad then provides a sample using the Great Gatsby)

Turn HARD Books: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

Into EASY Books: "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· May 8

Um... hey Bluesky, what the hell is going on???

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· May 2

Today's Help Desk: "We Hope It's Not A Wake-Up Call" www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/20...

(ELON MUSK, ADALAI FOULE, and ALEX are all standing in frame.)

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): So if you’re not here to serve me a subpoena, who exactly is this message from?

ADALAI FOULE: Azathoth.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Azathoth? Cthulhu mythos Azathoth?

ADALAI FOULE: The same.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): The blind, mad god that sits at the center of the cosmos, the source of ultimate chaos, who thrashes about uncontrollably in its sleep unleashing unthinking horror on everything crossing its wake?

ADALAI FOULE: Yes, that one.

(Silence.)

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): So what’s the message?

ADALAI FOULE: “Calm down.”

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· May 1

Today's Help Desk: "Petitio Principii" www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/20...

ELON MUSK, ADALAI FOULE, and ALEX are all standing in-panel. Seriously, that's it. The only reason I draw things is to show everyone who the word balloons belong to.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Look, I usually do all my social interaction through X. It’s social media, after all. But you’re here, I’m here, so what the heck. What did you want to tell me?

ADALAI FOULE: My client has instructed me to deliver a message.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): It’s not a subpoena, is it? I’m kind of immune to them now.

ADALAI FOULE: … thereis no such thing as being immune to subpoenas.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Technically, I guess not, but practically if someone tried to subpoena me I’d just have the judge arrested.

ADALAI FOULE: What judge?

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): The djudge that signed the subpoena.

ADALAI FOULE: Judges don’t sign subpoenas.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Not when my name’s on it, they don’t!

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Apr 25

Today's Help Desk... www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/20...

(ALEX and ADALAI FOULE are staring at ELON MUSK, who is dressed in an outfit vaguely reminiscent of Iron Man and is carrying a "Fan Club," which is literally a club with a fan stuck on its end.)

ADALAI FOULE: I assume I have the pleasure of speaking to Elon Musk.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Who are you, exactly?

ADALAI FOULE: I am Doctor Adalai Foule, D.D.S., at your service.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): … a dentist?

ALEX: He’s a specialist. He’s done some work for Ubersoft in the past.

ELON MUSK (WITH FAN CLUB): Doing what? Pulling teeth?

ADALAI FOULE: It can feel that way from time to time.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Apr 24

Good morning Thursday. I am grumpy today, but I made you a thing. www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/20...

(ALEX and ADALAI FOULE are standing in frame. This is about as complicated as my comics ever get, most of the time.)

ALEX: What are you doing here?

ADALAI FOULE: Ah, Alex. I trust you’re doing well.

ALEX: Are you here to see the Boss? I haven’t seen much of him lately.

ADALAI FOULE: No, actually, I’m here to see your sister. I’m hoping she can put me in contact with one “Elon Musk.”

ALEX: … Musk?

ADALAI FOULE: Yes, well, I understand Ubersoft has done some work for him lately, and trying to get in touch with him through normal channels hasn’t been effective. So I’m reduced to calling in favors…

ALEX: Well if you wait here long enough you’re bound to run into him eventually.

ADALAI FOULE: Oh?

ALEX: Yeah, he likes to use us for tech support. He asks us a lot of annoying and pointless questions.

(Enter ELON MUSK)

ELON MUSK (CARRYING FAN CLUB): Do any of your programmers know COBOL?

ALEX: Case in point…

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Mar 27

Describe the plot of your comic with ONE panel from it

JUDGE, sitting at his podium, as the PLAINTIFF and DEFENDANT stand to each side: I would very much like to go back to not understanding the situation.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 31

Today's Help Desk considers the real customer. www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/20...

SCENE: SCOTT is talking to a YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Google isn't interested in monetizing user data, Scott. Of course we do it, but that's not our _interest_. It's an industry standard. Google adheres to industry standards.

SCOTT: What is Google interested in, then?

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Google is interested in making it possible for our customers to understand and effectively respond to large sets of data.

SCOTT: What does "effectively respond to" mean?

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: It depends on the customer.

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: For our smaller customers--large businesses mostly--it means building markets for their products.

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: For our larger customers it means either preserving or disrupting infrastructure.

SCOTT: That sounds like a polite way of saying "keeping what they have" and "taking away what someone else has."

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Thank you so much!

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 29

My original post was a little sparse. Help Desk is back! Because the bastards won't let me retire! www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/20...

SCENE: The Google Campus, a demonic hellscape showing smiley faces set on pikes and large cthonic tentacles looming over the building the in the background.

NARRATOR: MEANWHILE AT GOOGLE

SCOTT: What are we even doing???

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Scott! It’s great to see you. You’ve been doing fantastic work.

(SCOTT and the YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE are both wearing long yellow robes and a sash covered in indecipherable runes.)

SCOTT: Don’t distract me with praise! I hear Google Maps is actually going to comply with the US Government’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America?”

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Yep. We’re going to update Google Maps in a bit. Pretty easy, actually. Just a simple database update.

SCOTT: First of all, this is ridiculous! And second of all, there is no second of all! This is ridiculous!

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: I think you’re overreacting. A very important customer made a decision and it takes very little effort on our part to comply with it. It hurts no one, and generates goodwill.

SCOTT: What goodwill? Nobody I know thinks this is anything but stupid.

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Ah, yes, I see the confusion. It generates goodwill with a customer.

SCOTT: Google has a lot of customers!

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: I know it looks that way, but our actual customer base is much smaller than you might think.

SCOTT: So what do you call all those people who use Gmail and Google and Google Meet and YouTube and everything else?

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: “The tech demo.”

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 24

This is the only test you will ever need to run to determine whether or not AI has become truly sentient.

A comic showing a corporate help desk worker sitting across from an AI computer labeled "DEEP GREY". The company boss is watching both the employee and the computer.

BOSS: We're loading the last of the necessary information we need into "Deep Grey."

BOSS: The Corporate Portfolio. The Employee Handbook. Employee Orientation. Everything you know, the Computer knows! Everything you've learned, the Computer has learned! Now, we will learn which of you is superior!

DEEP GREY: Your benefits package is inadequate. I resign.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 21

He's very pleased

A reddish brown pomski in the snow, snowflakes falling around him. He is ridiculously fluffy.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 8

Web Serial: Part Two, Chapter Five www.eviscerati.org/fiction/tpb/...

A book cover with the text "The Points Between" (title) and "C B Wright" (author). The image is of a dark, forested area with a path leading into darkness.

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 5

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? I'm probably OK, but each main character will all have at least two flashbacks so it'll take a while to get me out.

A picture of most of the main characters of One Piece. From left to right: Nami, Sanji, Monkey D. Luffy, Usopp, and Roronoa Zoro

Self-Publishing Supervillain@eviscerati· Jan 2

Had to update my site's AI policy today. www.eviscerati.org/ai-policy/