This is our main way of getting by at the moment, so any help with this would be greatly appreciated. bsky.app/profile/godd...

Highly recommend basically all of Friday's teas but especially Earl Gay: www.fridaytea.com/products/ear... and Bioluminescence, which I just spelled correctly on the first try for perhaps the first time in my life: www.fridaytea.com/products/bio...

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Found a Borders receipt from 1999 in this book 🫡 remember the fallen

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Today I finally got myself organized and did some food pantry donations. I started with the state-by-state stats on who benefits from SNAP the most and picked the 6 states with the highest percentage of recipients. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Aside from "just do it, coward": do y'all have any strategies for overcoming the reluctance to go back and read/edit a first draft? I've been doing battle with perfectionism over this, but especially if someone else has *seen* the draft, I get stuck on the fear of discovering that it's Bad

I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Everyone vote for the most progressive candidate you can today so Dick Cheney has to watch his nightmare unfold on land as he sinks down into hell

Here’s the reason I spoke to so many video game actors. I attended the launch of TIVA, an independently run audiobook series with all of your favourite voice actors, aiming to fight back against AI and corporations, featuring an all female/non-binary cast. www.thegamer.com/tiva-intervi...

First book I've finished in a long time and MY GOD was it hard. I've had to drag myself out of years of perfectionism and depression hell to get back to a real writing practice but I can feel it taking shape again and it feels really good.

Do I know anyone who'd be interested in doing some kind of sword & sorcery panel at Emerald City Comicon next year?

I'm reading through the Morgaine Cycle books and really enjoying them - lovely, indulgent prose, a tragic but overwhelmingly cool heroine, and weird, fucked up worldbuilding. And look at this gorgeous Whelan cover!

I have a feeling that when the AI superintelligence all these dipshit companies are banking on doesn't materialize they're just going to pretend to have made a machine oracle anyway

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

Hello! I wrote about how and why Americans punish creators buttondown.email/algoldfuss/a...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

"People are getting free food and they might not deserve it!" who gives a shit man literally one of the unambiguously good things about the 21st century is we have lots of excess food production and we have the capacity to have hunger be significantly less important in decision making.

Help I bungled something and need to be thrown in a pit of hungry lions, does anyone have one handy

unfortunately the wanton destruction of government property is allowed without congressional approval if it “makes a really good metaphor”

stormy day at rialto beach

visited the hall of mosses in the hoh rainforest this weekend

The open call for our next #zine bundle runs December 1st through 7th, and details are posted here. For folks waiting to hear back about the Flesh zine submissions, responses will go out late this month or early next. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Israel is not "testing" the ceasefire, they are breaking it, just like they always do. The only thing Israel has been "testing", for decades, is the moral fucking decency of Western media and governments, proving quite thoroughly that they are the same genocidal racists they've always been.

it's also never lost on me when stories that "suspend" the realities of what queer people face also erase the queer people more visibly impacted and shaped by structures being ""erased""

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

Fact-checking should be legally required for all nonfiction books and publishers should pay for it

this also comes right along on the heels of "you don't have to include queerphobia in your story if you don't want to" and I'm like. yes okay yes I hear you. true. the thing is I want to, really bad, and are you going to also be okay with that?

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

good morning #PortfolioDay ! i'm viktor, a trans gay illustrator, looking for work in books, ttrpgs, and comics. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 historical fiction, fashion, and fantasy is my cup of tea ✨🌿🌸🍵 would love to work with more queer authors and fantasy book boxes! 🖼️ www.nooska-art.com ✉️ [email protected]

This thread is a phenomenal example of why you should go over your contracts with a fine-tooth comb even with a publisher you think is trustworthy. Losing these kinds of rights isn't trivial, and "no publication" is better than "a publication that jeopardizes ownership of your work".

if I see a Robert Galbraith book in a little free library it's on sight

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

No matter what I write, I eventually discover that Rabbit Heart by Florence + The Machine is a perfect soundtrack for some part of it

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

A sequel to my previous essay. Here's what happened the night a self-proclaimed fascist said he was going to come back and kill us. tl;dr I experienced the best thing in my 15 year career of performing. www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...

Sex scenes are almost never "gratuitous" or "unnecessary." You learn things about characters and relationships during sex that you can't really learn any other way, such as whether they're into fisting.

Rest in peace, Miss Major. We will carry the bricks forward.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

omg I just got a surprise KJ arc in the mail, today is ✨blessed✨ (the book is already out, you should go get it)