Then shut it the fuck down. Trans rights are human rights. If Democrats capitulate on this, they'll never win another election.

WE'RE FUNDED! BASE GOAL ANNIHILATED IN FOUR!! HOURS!! We're full of SO MANY emotions. OTHERSIDE means a lot to us, and we're so grateful to everyone who wants queer stories, poems, and art to have more space to exist. Now more than ever, that matters 🪐🗡️ Now onto stretch goals?? 👀

I laughed at this, so I'll probably be disappeared into the gulag by nightfall

also I love independent journalists but what I would love more is journalists who are currently independent being able to do their work in newsrooms with legal departments and legal funds as opposed to not having that infrastructure/safety net when the government is disappearing people.

Apropos of absolutely nothing 👀

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're going to try to use the "antifa are terrorists" EO, in conjunction with this, to strip legal citizenship, and thereby voting rights, from everyone who's not a reliable Republican voter/supporter of this administration (because "terrorist")

This is actually really fascinating (and it has to do with linguistics, not em-dashes) open.substack.com/pub/hollisro... #ai #llm #writing

I've never seen a more perfect demonstration of DARVO than this memo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO?w...

Shhh let them cook

Manny Jacinto posted this bc he knows how sad and anxious we all are

THIS IS SO COOL 🤯

I've been blocked by many AI "artists" replying with this image 😂

Just your periodic reminder that AI generated "art" is theft and any creative person, artist or writer, using it still needs to really re-evaluate their ethics and where they stand, cos yikes 💀

Share your favorite black and white movie

This is quite lovely

It is way too early in the morning for this shit

At the end of the day people who insist on only using the discover feed, instead of making a searching for things & people they enjoy by making a following feed into a community of their own, need to learn to actually use the internet and moderate their experiences with the tools provided.

I've had so many distractions today that my brain is just white noise now. No coherent thoughts. Just static. 💀

Y'all may want to opt out of LinkedIn's AI training nonsense, if you haven't already proton.me/blog/linkedi... #ai #llm #linkedin

Social media was a mistake

They're so mad that we know what fascism is and aren't just blindly submitting to it

I've seen this happen *so many* times 😓

That's not how freedom of the press works

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

This is perfect. No notes.

Oh my god can I do this to write my next book www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #writing #writingcommunity

Yoooo new Picasso just dropped www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

So completely thrilled that my poem STAR STITCHER (@havenspec.bsky.social) will be in the Year's Best Canadian F&SF alongside this incredible lineup! What amazing company it's in. Can't wait to read everyone's wonderful work in this year's collection.

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

the ai sludge that buckaroo authors are now endlessly sent by robots summarizing their books and then offering 'promotional services' is very annoying, but i did have a good laugh that the made up name some dang computer came up with to sound like a real editor was HARPER COLLINSWORTH

Those who learn from history are doomed to watch others repeat it 😓

Love this!

*unintelligible screaming*

I'm having a real hard time with that video clip leading to this screenshot

This is gonna go great when it's installed in military drones 🙃

This is exactly the kind of harassment that happened during Gamergate except now the vice president of the United States is personally egging it on. We are so goddamn far from okay.

If you haven’t read Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in a while you probably should because it’s a timely allegory. Goodnight.

Not now, SpaceX cocaine, we're busy surviving the fall of democracy

I don’t know what has sparked the resurgence of library discussion today, but I will add to the chorus of author voices on this one. Please please please request our books at your local library. Just as a reminder, if half the libraries in the US carried my ebooks I’d be in another tax bracket. 💙📚

Posted a little while ago about my "Book of Tiny Wins". Basically, any time I get any sort of good news about my writing career, I put it in here. This career is SO hard, so treasure the wins! (Shoutout to my husband for buying me a lovely Folio Society diary every year for this express purpose!)

Have been waiting for this thread! (no alt text in the photos, but the thread is full of pictures of Robert Redford looking hot, dressed in a lot of suits throughout the years, which Menswear Guy describes.)

I'm almost through reading this (the book, not the review) and I've *really* enjoyed it.

Others will say the serious stuff about Redford, understandably. I just want to note the amazing prank he and Newman played on each other, as Redford detailed after Newman’s passing.

Considering the *multiple* reported instances of AI-induced psychosis, including people being driven to literal suicide by chat bots, I think I'll pass on ever letting this shit anywhere near my kid

A U.S. Army psychologist who dealt with the war criminals tried at Nuremberg defined "evil" as "the absence of empathy." It says a lot about today's right who regularly disparages empathy.

It's so cool the Democrats just sorta sat back and watched us to get to the point where now if you speak out against this emergent fascist regime your life can pretty much be snuffed out

This is the way ❤️ Gonna have to buy a print of this when it's done, I think! It can go up next to my rainbow "we can do hard things".