Spent the last few days chatting with queer men in the Love and Deepspace fandom about its homophobia problem, and why some fans are protective of the game to the point of resisting even men who like men taking part in the romance game's community. kotaku.com/love-deepspa...

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

lrp OpalApparition marked “NO AI” all over her ao3 but there she was, using it. When people first started accusing her, I supported her. I didn’t read her HR fic but we were friends. She would never! There were many chances for her to cop to her lie of not using it. She never took a single one.

If you have some space to plant something that pollinators like—even just a pot of flowers on your windowsill—it is really fun to watch the bees eventually find your plants and bring their friends. They’ll return every day! And you’ll help them find more plants around you.

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

THE GREAT PUMPKIN PANCAKE PARTY is out in the world! This book is about food and family, and the traditions that help us become who we are. Thank you to everyone who has preordered, requested it from the library, shared it, reviewed it, or cheered it on. It means more than I can say.

Over at Literary Rambles today talking about what I'm looking for as an agent... www.literaryrambles.com/2026/07/lite...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Want to fight book bans? Join @portersqbooks.bsky.social @maris.bsky.social @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social @dannycaine.com & me for a "How to Defend Books" virtual panel discussion & fundraiser. Free to attend; donations encouraged (you get a free book!) portersquarebooks.com/event/2026-0...

Oh wow you don’t say? giving ICE more funding to better check themselves doesn’t work?

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

Book community #booksky, the one and only @celestepewter.bsky.social needs our support. She is dealing with intense medical issues on top of trying to rebuild, relocate, and find safe, stable housing. Any donations or boosts are very much appreciated: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-bu...

Between this and OpenAI delaying their IPO, maybe the dopes who keep yelling AI is inevitable are gonna realize they fell for yet another scam. It's baffling to me. You know the names of the men behind all this. They are famous for being crooks. Yet you still buy their massive load of horseshit.

"We should not be telling our kids they are nothing... and replacing their own cognition, their own joy, with trash" No "A.i" in the schools. From at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally with @comixaction.com at City Hall. h/t AMNY - full clip here: www.instagram.com/p/DZ_BLWRlT5H/

It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop.org, the best day to support your favorite independent bookstore, and give your money to working people not billionaries, when ordering one of my books! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

this is really funny research from a microsoft ai guy who is basically like: the arguments being made to suggest LLMs are sentient can be made regarding literally anything www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...

Holy shit. This is terrible. As if it wasn't bad enough that the ed tech companies are invading students' privacy, now community members are doing it facilitated by the school district.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

There is no legitimate reason, none whatsoever, that in an industry as wealthy and powerful as ours that a single dev should ever have to worry about their livelihood, their job security, their health insurance, their crediting, their career longevity, their retirement contributions-

#commission | Vides'lin and Maee'une for @blavamoon.bsky.social #warcraft #art

I am very happy to say that tonight I finished reading: • #TheBloodyandtheDamned by #BeccaCoffindaffer / @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and it was absolutely bloodydamn brilliant and is now one of my very favorite books ever.

I didn't respond to ANY emails while I was on vacation this past week, and I feel like that deserves a fun reward.

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

Fuck. Just...fuck. Rest in peace, sir.

peraventure bycause nobodye doth want techmordor gizmodo.com/americans-ar...

It's my birthday! 🤗 As per tradition, I'm humbly asking for some reposts of this or any other of my art today ❤️

Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

I've seen a lot of "don't get your hopes up" posts about Texas lately and, I mean, don't convince yourself it'll happen and then spin out if it doesn't? But assume it's doable and then declare a progress victory if the margin is even close because BUILDING THAT VOTER MACHINE matters!!!

Time to call your reps again bc they are inexplicably spending time on bullshit book banning bills!!! find your rep here: reps.fyi

The latest from @mkengland.bsky.social is here today, and goodness, I hope you’ll pick this one up. It’s never too late to figure out who you want to be. ❤️ www.sourcebooks.com/978146427535...

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...

***Urgent Action Needed*** We need everyone to call their reps to push back against HR2616, which would punish schools that "teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology" by withholding federal funding. It's part of their continued attack on the trans community. #booksky

this is a masterpiece

I'm about 300 shy of hitting goals until Husbeast hopefully starts getting paid. I'm gonna nap more, eat less, work the same, and try not to throw up. Y'all know how it be.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Hi! Today is *actually* the final order cut off for SUPERNATURAL: CASTIEL #1 - call your local comic book shops!! tell them to get it for you!! www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/vi...

I recently got an external hard drive to free up some space on my laptop, and...how embarrassed should I be that I'm freeing up approximately 300 GB just by moving my folder of screenshots and videos I took over the last year of my Dragon Age Inquisition run? #gamingsky #dragonage

bard, druid, cleric, wizard, warlock, sorcerer

Okay, gamer folks, I have finally finished my canon play-thru of Dragon Age: Inquisition (don't touch me or you'll have to hear all my feelings about it). Do I move on to my canon play-thru of Veilguard? Another BG3 run? Or something else? I have Avowed, Cyberpunk 2077, E33, and Eternal Strands...

In case you missed it last week: Sarah, Sylvia, and Mary did an interview with the fabulous @ghildirthalen.bsky.social, talking about Dragon Age, game development, and a little bit about what we're working on now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAxo...

just three days left! ask your local comic book shop to get CASTIEL #1!! 👼: www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/vi...

"Pope Leo on Friday named a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk to be bishop of West Virginia" From fleeing violence to working construction and other jobs, Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala embodies the dignity of immigrant labor and the power of perseverance.

Oh my heart, I’m so thrilled about this news. I’ve been a @cindypon.bsky.social fan for ages, and getting to work on her books now? A wild honor. SHEEN by Cindy Pon. Viking 2028. ❤️

Happy Earth Day.