The greatest difference we could make to our future generations is not…any of the shit we hear people saying about tech. It is learning how to care for each other enough to create and hold a real, lasting peace.

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its kind of funny that ai causes individuals to experience psychosis but has also has caused an industrial psychosis where instead of labor and material capitalists just throw all their money into a hole marked "delusion"

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My friends did this, and it's awesome! I can't wait to write 50k words this November!

I have horrible social anxiety, but this is so important. I called Senator Schumer and both my senators. Everyone needs to call! Do not let them cave!

I'm happy to see Thomas relaunching his newsletter (not on substack!) and I just subscribed. I find his writing to be the best about the current state of America, and encourage folk to read it!

Been saying this since forever. Everything that happens in “taboo erotic books” is in fact the SAFEST version of a bdsm fantasy because no human is involved. The barn is not happening between characters. It’s them who allow the READER to live their bdsm fantasy through them. And yes, even

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

A tutorial on how to use the “notify me” tag to request that your library add a title. Here’s me requesting an audiobook by @charliejane.bsky.social: 1) Use “deep search” at the bottom of the author’s page 2) Click “notify me” 3) Click through info page 4) The bell icon means you did it right!

Everything is really scary and chaotic for Trans individuals right now. Regardless of whatever lies and fear that is spread, we know that the world is better with Trans people in it. You are all worth fighting for, and we will continue to advocate for your rights and your safety.

Trans rights are human rights.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

Gotta give it up for wetlands. They look cool and do cool stuff like mitigate flooding, improve water quality, harbor biodiversity, control erosion, and so much more!

I really loved this book. It's such a sweet reframing of one of the villains in P&P, and it works so well.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

SO THE REAL TAKEAWAY FROM THIS SHOULD BE: if you want a million more undertales and stardew valley and indie gems that connect with you on an emotional level you never thought possible, pass Universal Basic Income and Health Care and give away arts grants for games like they're candy.

I don't know if it's related to gender or just random, but my husband and I each have this shirt. He has folks compliment it every time he wears his. I have never had any comment on mine. It's weird!

I started tracking my written word counts on Trackbear exactly a year ago, shortly after I started writing. In that year, I've written more than 215k words. Hoping to do even more this coming year!

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

I took a 3-4 week break from writing for a variety of reasons, and started again a couple days ago with a new project. The first day was a bit of a struggle, but now I'm back in it and all I want to do is write!

Also, and this is the thing that AI bros will never understand, I am energized by writing. I do not need the writing to be faster, because the writing is the point.

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Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.

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The first panel I went to at #worldcon was at 9am on Wednesday morning; the last one was at 4:30 today; the first and last. I am tired, but I learned so much (and got so many books)!

This article is so fun!

So please, do not move forward as normal. This isn't normal. It's imperative to put pressure on Microsoft to end this. Whether that's by canceling Game Pass, refusing to cover their games with your normal cadence on your platforms, or to pressure them internally as employees. Now is the time.

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Article by Jim Fussell. Wonderful to see that this long overdue acknowledgement comes from a Quaker journal.

This is going around for some reason, just gonna point out that many studies have been done about porn addiction, held by researchers who believed in porn addiction, only to find that porn addiction is not real and never was. Turns out it was religion. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

i wrote about gay porn and escapism and despair for @flaminghydra.com, the world's best art collective that im part of flaminghydra.com/gay-smut-sal...

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

RIP to one of the all time greats; half a century gone by and so little has changed youtu.be/iaHDBL7dVgs?...

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:

honestly most of my convalescent activity has been reading @kjcharleswriter.com's 35 books twice and some of them three times, good god that woman can write

Hot take: people new to Blue Prince should not be told to take notes and should only start taking notes when they feel inspired to. I've watched multiple streams where the streamer is like "this is a note game! Write down everything!" And that's not fun and a waste of time

Hugo voting closes in a few days, don't forget to vote for what you loved! Instructions on how to vote are here: seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

why destroy the department of education? would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it? today's column: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

The thing about AI is that it's easy to imagine it's useful for someone else's job. But then when you talk to people who do that job, turns out it's just as useless at that as it is at your job!

My country is doing great evil. There is no other word for it. It is being done on purpose, with malevolent intent to harm other human beings. And we know it is happening.