With my glasses situation, and how I'm trying to move out of FL, I decided to start a GFM for both gofund.me/fd04823c3 Short version: I'm a blind, trans person who can't afford to get glasses that will actually help, or fund a move to a safe city.

Olemme käynnistäneet kampanjan sateenkaarihistoria.fi -sivuston tulevaisuuden turvaamiseksi! Lisätietoa ja lahjoitusohje: lipas.seta.fi/project/sate... Luvan numero: RA/2022/107 Keräyksen järjestäjä: Seta ry. Kuva: Vera Hjelt (1857-1947) Valokuvaamo Charles Riis & Co., Helsingin kaupunginmuseo

Once upon a time Google was literally the most amazing information retrieval system I have seen in my life. It was quick and returned primary sources to read on almost any subject. It was better than magic. It makes me sick to see what they've done to that resource.

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

gonna start calling google's glasses "wormtongue"

Darlings! My new poem, "When Death Comes, Look to The Tower," is out at @smallwondersmag.com!! It's for anyone who needs a reminder of their own strength -- that you have all the power within yourself, that you tell your own story. smallwondersmag.com/piece/when-d...

Let me gush for a moment about what an amazing writer @isaac-fellman.bsky.social is. I recently read The Two Doctors Górski as well as Dead Collections, and I'm so in love with Fellman's prose! What a pleasure to read books that make you think deeply but also include e.g. vampire archivists!

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

COVER REVEAL TIME! Every Room a Hunger will be out February 16, 2027. illustrated by Michael Rogers, designed by Rich Deas and Beste Dogan. Preorders are open, so please please order through your local indies (library requests are also 💜). Order links and description threaded below 👇👇

I can’t express how disappointed I am. But here’s a second disappointment: Tokarczuk is a co-founder of a video game company that uses AI. This interview is her promoting the company (also why it was published in a business venue).

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Look, it is *really* hard to write something snappy for the internet about an event titled "Late Antique Astronomical Sciences in Medieval Compendia" but we are hosting a workshop and you should come if you're into ancient astronomy. 💫 📅 10 June 2026 📍 UCL

Ah, Ditherington, my hometown :DDD

Tähtiin kirjoitetun voi ladata ilmaiseksi tai tilata @koneensaatio.fi rahoittaman 1. painoksen fyysisen kirjan täältä postikuluja vastaan: www.kristelnyberg.fi/glassangel/t...

Oli niiiin hauskaa tiistaina näytepelissä! Suosittelen lämpimästi meidän hankkeen roolipeliä, se on todella hauska ja sopii myös aloittelijoille.

This was an atmospheric & excellent thriller. But the best part was seeing 2 lovers really communicating, learning about how the other thinks/processes feelings, becoming partners and planning for a future. True emotional intimacy is the best. Thanks for this, @kjcharleswriter.com! Great read! :)

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

If you are mourning this Mother's Day, be gentle with yourself.

And here from the early #19thc, & Jane Austen's era--which, let's face it, not enough of us associate with collage--please see a page-spread created ca. 1821 by Miss Mary Watson & her friend Miss Ross (for an album now in the Special Collections Library at Manchester Metropolitan University).

Nice analysis of the climate costs of Chrome pushing a 4GB Geminin nano to people's devices. Even just looking purely at the download (ignoring inference, re-downloads etc) it's substantial (not sure it's 'insane'), and shows the Google is just kinda doing stuff pretty thoughtlessly

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

So excited to share this story from my collection with you! This was published with permission from @stelliform.press as a promotion for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, which probably wouldn’t exist without @torystephens.bsky.social & @grist.org 💚 The book comes out May 21!

Olen nyt lukenut ja katsonut Tampereen vapusta riittävästi todetakseni että meillä on ongelma joka on isompi ja vakavampi kuin väkivaltainen äärioikeisto. Meillä on nimittäin väkivaltaista äärioikeistoa suojeleva poliisi. Selitän: (1/17)

Modern technology could learn from older stuff that does what it's supposed to and doesn't bother you. My toilet just works and never sends me emails like "Good news! Flush® is now Floosh®"

Staring at a wall and imagining your characters doing things is really vital, actually. Sometimes you’ve just got to ✨think✨ and thinking time still counts as working time.

Free newsletter: The economics of AI don't make sense. Monthly subscriptions to AI services are scams that represent a product that is impossible for OpenAI and Anthropic to provide long term, and AI data centers are an economic disaster at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

Reminder that I have a Patreon - I'm an independent author whose dayjob recently went the way of many. Your support helps me spend less time hustling and more time working on awesome stories, plus research to help reach the hopeful futures I write about. Writing updates, in-character Q&A, weird AUs.

Perhaps you would be willing to contribute a few dollars to the @kickstarter.com in support of my stage adaptation of @caitlinstarling.com's The Luminous Dead at @voxel.org ? Making theatre is expensive, y'all! (Especially when you want to pay people!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

Toivoa vielä on mutta kyllä se pitää yhä näkyviin kirjoittaa. Kansallisten arkistojen digitalisointi on aivan varmasti halpaa ja nopeaa, mutta yritetään sen sijaan taata tälle ihmislajille pituutta ja arvoa. Läpi maan eikä vain ”muutamissa toimipisteissä”. #kansallisarkisto

Hi, it's me again! Starting next month I'll have to pay for my mom's and my own bills cause due to her cancer treatment she is not working, so any $5 or $10 you can spare will be of a great help!! Plus you can check my ko-fi for newsletters and artwork, I'm updating it weekly! ❤️‍🔥

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

Eeee, I recognize that cover! 😍

Independent Bookstore Day is April 25! It’s also my birthday! Oh, how the stars have aligned for you to celebrate both events at once by buying or sharing my books through bookshop.org

In extremely cool news I'll be doing an online launch for GRIEF EATER on June 1 (USA)/June 2 (Aus) with the wonderful @kyliu99.bsky.social! I'm so excited!! Details here (free tix but registration required): www.eventbrite.com/e/emma-osbor...

THE OVERSTORY x Grimm’s fairytales x Slavic folklore 12yo Belarusian girl loses herself in the last old-growth forest in Europe and finds that the folk from ancient tales have taken refuge there due to the destruction of their habitat and distortion of their stories #PosterPit #SO #SPF #FT #C

"That's AI." As an 8th grade teacher, this is a new insult the kids have been using this year, even on things unrelated to writing. Someone does something stupid, or ridiculous, or cruel: "Ugh, you're AI."

Here you go ❤️

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious. Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.

I'm offering developmental and copy editing services! If you or someone you know wants far better editing than AI can provide, hit me up either here or through my website: whatsmacksaid.com/services/ And because I'm starting out, if you mention this post I'd be happy to cut the price in *half.*

'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

Mages for gender diversity 🔥

For all of those people who keep saying singular they is a modern thing: I'm looking at a manuscript (mostly ritual magic) from the early 1600s with this line: "Whosoever shall carye thes names of god about them, neede not to feare the perell of water, fyre or inchauntment, evel ende or enemie".

I wouldn't. I'd try to get "HWÆT!" (shouted really loud) to become a thing again in today's world. Office meeting, and Bill from accounting interrupts Barbara again, and she just cries "HWÆT!" at the top of her lungs. "Right, so as I was saying..." she continues in the stunned silence.

* ha ha ha ha * The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱 No, it’s not AI. Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team. 📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th). flic.kr/p/2s5Z9yc

Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop. Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything. It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free.