An alien romance tea party! www.clarionwest.org/event/steamy...

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

ADHD requires meds that are hard to get if you have ADHD. Making them a controlled substance (no delivery, no one can help pick them up, only one month at a time) is debilitating. Addiction is bad, yes, but under-medicating people has consequences too. (Ex increased traffic accidents)

Eddie Redmayne is the Jackal we all deserve, but I want to see his hyper-competence, dammitall, not his family life ... And don't even get me started on how badly-written Lashana Lynch's cop character is

Clarion West provides writers all over the world with instruction and community, always with a focus on decolonisation. I'm exceedingly proud of the work we do and if you can support us in any way, I would be grateful www.indiegogo.com/projects/cla... #GivingTuesday

Expecting people to wait 4 minutes to cross the street is delusional.

Just a reminder to all the new folks that Neil Gaiman has been credibly accused of sexual assault by five different women, and is almost certainly working behind the scenes with his PR firm to bury the story. Don’t let him. And don’t follow him. More here:

Hello new faces and old! I'm Shane and I write fantasy fic that pivots around magic, monsters, and messy characters. I have flash fiction forthcoming from Shacklebound Books and I'm currently working on my debut novel! Would you please share to help me find like-minded friends?

5. I believe people can write outside our identities, but if your character is marginalized in ways you aren't: a. Do you think you're being noble? If yes, stop b. Do you understand specifics? E.g. not just Indian but Gujarati? If no, stop c. Do you have CLOSE friends from this group? If no, stop

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We've run 80,000 simulations and in every one of them cars ruin everything.

Amazing question and thoroughly brilliant answer. Do yourselves a favour and read the whole thing!

So, time for not-election stuff: It's Native American Heritage Month and I'll be looking to share and reskeet any and all Indigenous creators I can find. I'd also like fellow artists and writers to share their Native OC's! Let's get this goin'! #art #writing #ocsky #writingcommunity #artcommunity

Dr. Gebru tried to warn us, but too many people who should know better want to talk about whether LLMs can attain sentience (no) and become skynet (no) instead of talking about the real dangers that are not just possible but already here.

YES

Whatever I have to say about how cars ruin cities, @helenczerski.bsky.social has said more elegantly on Mastodon.

I'm researching an article for Writer Beware on editing service Edioak and their new House of Pages promo venture, for which they seem to be soliciting a lot of authors. If they contacted you, I'd be interested in seeing what they sent. My email is [email protected] . Thanks!!

I know it from being queer and trans, not Black, but... it sucks when the only / most common time your work is noticed is when someone else pisses people off enough that they are virtuously looking for a deserving target of their attention for the next 5 mins.

We could, you know, build more public transport.

Savage Mind, an indie Philippine bookstore, was completely decimated by 15 feet of water from Typhoon Kristine. They need help rebuilding! In the link are 18 romance stories written by Filipino authors, all for a minimum of $6. All proceeds go to Savage Mind. They're at $473 as of today.

This feels like a good time to share a thread of stories by African authors featured at @podcastle.org since Shingai and I took the helm. Read on for five powerful, vibrant, wonderful pieces of fantasy fiction. 🧵

To be a good man you have to, kind of paradoxically, reject patriarchal society's conception of a man. I'd love to say this is easier than it is, but it just isn't.

Coming to the heart of this thread now: I cannot but help feel that the reason that these strategies proved so successful in this case was because they offered to people a very easy way of assuaging their guilt, without requiring them to make the effort of actually redistributing power.

We don't want support withdrawn from BIPOC writers, particularly other writers from the same demographic as retribution and punishment. Please uplift and support writers from African countries. There are many writers living there who are doing incredible work! That's all I got.

how about instead of robotaxis rich people were taxed more and that money went into improving public transportation

“The harms imposed by the Rivian are three times the harms imposed by the Prius, in terms of air pollution and death from accidents, but we are subsidizing the Rivian and not the Prius.” -- Stanford prof Hunt Allcott www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/b...

I teach college, but this is much closer to my experience than the Atlantic article.

[Pinches nose] Can't believe we're still doing this, but okay. For reasons simply beyond my understanding, literary agent, Leslie Varney, is again using her Twitter platform to harass, defame, and gaslight me on behalf of her friends in the criminal cult stalking and SWATTing my family. 1/

for journalism, i need to talk to a woman who wanted to go back to work immediately after child birth. please reply or DM if that describes you.

Trans people, you are valid and valuable. You deserve to experience your lives fully. No one has the right to question that, even if they act like they do.

Cars are the real avocado toast -- but, like, in a dystopian world where avocado toast smashes 50,000 Americans to death annually and all of society is built to punish you for not eating avocado toast for every meal every day even as avocado toast alters the earth's atmosphere and kills all life

This should be an international scandal: Blinken should be punished for lying to Congress, and Biden asked why he continued to provide state/diplomatic cover for Israel's campaign of starvation, AND continued to arm and fund them.

no one read this column but a little whole ago i wrote about the kinds of questions we should be asking presidential candidates (hint: not questions about polling or narrative) www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/o...

On Oct 6th, I’m teaching a one day online class for @clarionwest.bsky.social about one of my favorite types of stories! Open to everyone! secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/c...

Justicia Urbana by Fabián Todorović Karmelić

Today is World Car-Free day and, not uncoicidentally for me, my oldest child's birthday. Before he was born I didn't understand the extent to which a society built for cars is harmful and ineffective for so many people and purposes. As always @tomflood.bsky.social has the graphic ready:

cars suck!!!! they suck!!!! they eat all our space for cool shit!!! I need one to live and idgaf they still suck

In 1907, Congress passed a law that American women lost their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold this act. It was changed in 1940, but citizenship was not restored to those women, nor their children.

Nick Offerman, welcome to The War on Cars. thewaroncars.org

he’s doing it. he’s doing the meme

Heavy, powerful cars quickly destroy tires. Tire wear spews tiny, toxic particles that have caused the collapse of fish populations in the Pacific NW. Moral of the story: EVs shouldn't be overpowered and massive. 2/2 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A pet peeve of mine is when parents don't (gently and age appropriately) teach their kids not to interrupt them, and instead break off conversations at the child's whim. Not only does this teach kids no respect for their parents' time, they then inevitably go on to interrupt other people, too.

I didn’t realise BlueSky has no algorithm (so you see what’s actually there) - and that you can choose your own filters for feeds. This one’s lovely: people you follow but post infrequently, so it boosts quieter, interesting types. I’ve added it to my feeds and it’s great. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Washington state has no state income tax. Our public schools are in shambles. Yes these are fucking connected.

*time traveler suddenly appears* “You have to listen to me! I’m from 8 years in the past!” www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

My cherished friend @lpkindred.bsky.social has long been one of the most giving, generous folks in the genre. He's now asking for help as he accomplishes the amazing task of finishing his interrupted education & establishing himself in Chicago. The GoFundMe is here! www.gofundme.com/f/support-lp...

It’s good for white people to shame each other for being around Nazis and it’s also fine to check them when they turn to [us] and try to hand out orders

trains are good as hell, finds study theconversation.com/we-compared-...