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Heads up: this website also "reviews" publishers, writer-beware-style. Lists big reliable publishers as safe, warns about many known scams, and then... Lists a few scam presses as "safe and reliable". Couched in professional language with buzzwords about transparent contracts and payment schedules.

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The Bayeux Tapestry was sewn by hand by women almost a thousand years ago and every single fucking horse is different, just like the people are different But sure, AI, what we want is everything to be identical, that’s what we like to look at

Reading the Wikipedia piece on Fritz Zwicky, who undertook groundbreaking research on supernovae & came across this: 'One of his favorite insults was to refer to people whom he did not like as "spherical bastards", because, as he explained, they were bastards no matter which way one looked at them.'

He's a stick figure, but the things that really matter to him: his tools, his van, are drawn with detail and care. AI would never be that revealing. That's why this is art. And if I lived there and needed a roof repaired, I'd want to pick someone who cares for this tools meticulously.

reminder of a week-long sale, get your scary romance here. And for other scary romances (a thread):

yeah so this QT led me to their website, where I realise they also publish the incredible Hausa soapfest SIN IS A PUPPY THAT FOLLOWS YOU HOME (just read it okay) plus loads of Manickavel, and I just spent look sod off it's my birthday this week, I'm allowed.

Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

my likeness and my author identity being used to legitimize an "Award" that has a $200 entry fee from a completely AI-generated site is disgusting. it makes me want to throw up. regardless of the fact that i never GAVE this interview. i didn't SAY any of these things. (thread ctd)

Bluesky has three kinds of users

Cannot adequately express how dystopian this is

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

you simply don't have to spend your life arguing with these people. they are receiving the punishment they deserve by having to live as themselves.

"being anti-AI is ablest" is the kind of argument that does not require trying to explain why it's wrong, it's ok to just say "no it isn't and also fuck you"

Twelve-year-old wins Australian slam competition prize with poem about ChatGPT: ‘It’s totally unnecessary’

I remember many yrs ago one of my regular customers asked another of my regular customers "I seen you in Shields th other day with a couple of [racial slur] teenagers, what was that about that?" And the other guy replied "Do you mean my fucking grandchildren?" Never seen a man visibly shrink so fast

A weird change that has taken place in my lifetime is that in the past, British racists were aware of what mixed-race people were and were furious about it, as opposed to the New Racism, which frequently seems actively confused by the birds and the bees.

Lula is bringing back the bush

Anthropic settlement news, from @publisherslunch.bsky.social : "Settlement Administrator will send notices of agreed allocations on or before November 13, 2026, and the initial distribution of the Settlement payments during the week of November 23, 2026."

Evangelical women are why I will never accept the Victorian claptrap that women are softer and gentler and less prone to violence, the better and wiser sex. Nobody commits to hate like someone who knows their only avenue to express power is over children.

I cannot laugh at the very sad anti-spice post going around because the worldview of anti sexual pleasure Christians is so incredibly damaging. Yeah their husbands are bad at sex. No they don't communicate about it or google basic sex ed. They also don't believe in divorce. It's pretty terrible.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

Good grief.

a.i. generated site claiming to have been founded in 2017. Registered on August 2nd of this year via Namecheap. Only avenue is to email their abuse address. 🫠

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

Sad news

ICYMI (I did!), May Xian has the second Nanjing concert up and online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIBU...

Seeking recommendations for Book Riot, my lovelies: What are some Native and Indigenous SFF that you're excited about releasing this year? SFF that leans horror is totally fine as well. Links appreciated!

[Leaving aside how crushingly sad this is] the whole marketing push for AI sounds like a massive attempt at convincing people that they need help to do things which a) they are perfectly able to do themselves; b) don't actually take much effort or time; c) lose all meaning once automated

Looking for queer historical romance with sinister supernatural shenanigans? Of course you are. THE SECRET CASEBOOK OF SIMON FEXIMAL and SPECTRED ISLE are both 99p everywhere this week! (If sale isn't showing where you are give it time, includes Amazon and all the usual suspects, e only)

I've seen quite a few videos about Niu Lai before this, and really, it does sound like more fun - intentional or otherwise - than a bunch of slop.

UPDATED – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 ✍️ By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @claudioangelo.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.