This speaks to people who say 'no one understands Shakespeare, including the actors.' Such a limiting and resentful way to live, closing oneself off from deeper language, poetic expression, new ways of seeing and thinking. No wonder people are using Chatbots to think for them now.

My lovely publisher @jms-books.com is having a #fathersday weekend sale - 45% off ebooks! Come pick up something of mine that you might not have - or something by any of our fabulous authors! #books #sales #romance #lgbt #BookSky www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-m-2...

THE GREEN MANTLE OF THE STANDING POOL ... 😏

Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.

1) This is amazing. 2) Russo was one of the co-founders of GLAAD, and the fact that this basic, powerful statement of pride and defiance is now unimaginable coming from any of the Gay Inc orgs is incredibly goddamn telling.

Ye brynge to mynde the babe. What babe? That babe wyth the knowlech. What knowlech? The knowlech of sorcerye. Sorcerye? Assuredlye! Assuredlye what? Brynge to mynde the babe.

Could not agree more! Not only did Hillary beat the Orange Atrocity by 2.8 MILLION votes, but Al Gore got 543,895 MORE votes than Bush! The Electoral College allows candidates who received less votes to win the presidency. ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This should concern all of us. What is your institution doing to preserve collective memory?

"Did you get that photo of Sting reading a book?" "Sure did, boss. Real cunty vampire, just like you asked."

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy Father's Day 🖤

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

the full clip will be online at some point but ofc i had to end with a quote from leguin, who never misses

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

Magneto was right

“Ha! Ain’t a rattler, Jake. You got one of them maraca players down your bag—and he’s probably more scared than you.”

Would you like to be a panelist at #RainbowSpaceMagic (a virtual queer #speculativefiction con)? Check out panels from previous years & submit the panelist application form by July 7th at RainbowSpaceMagic.org If you have an idea for a panel, we'd love to hear it, but that's not necessary 🌈 🚀 🦄

🎶 Make a litel tea Seranade the catte Staye yn tonighte! Staye yn tonighte! 🎶

Looking for a #RomanceResearch piece to read during this Pride Month? We've got you covered: Jessica Taylor analyzes E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919) through the lens of queer and trans studies in JPRS' article "Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik". Find the article: doi.org/10.70138/VBE...

onlye villains have trillions

What a day for signage news

Hello! 👋 I'm hoping to raise money for two Bay Area cat rescues. If you post a screenshot of you donating at least $20, I will answer a style-related question for you. But first, let me tell you about the rescues, why they're worthy of your support, and hopefully get you to adopt a cat. 🧵

Jane Yolen was one of America’s greatest authors. I highly recommend her urban fantasy “Briar Rose” which is a Holocaust story like no other. It is tiny jewel of a book about family & survival & stories and a fairy tale retelling that is without compare. Rest In Peace to the wonderful Jane Yolen.

Oh, this one hurts. She wove silver cities out of thin air and conjured rain with her words; the world is a bit darker tonight for the loss of Jane Yolen. But how blessed we all are to have her writing to live on and light candles in new readers still.

Romancing the Vote is BACK! Y'all helped us raise over $1,000,000 for voting rights orgs since 2020. But the work is never done, and we want YOU! Send us your art, your books, your crafting skills and nerdy knowledge and editing experience! form.romancingthevot...

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Awesome Husband, randomly: “hey, want to watch A Knight’s Tale? It’s been a while!” Reader, I love him. #nerds #medievalism

Hi guys! What do you know about 18th/19th century Gothic drama? Want to know more? Want to know about one of the most popular playwrights you may never have heard of? We've got Helen Dallas' new talk on Joanna Baillie here! youtu.be/pgJGoCMk85A

"Why are first-year writing and reading-intensive general-education courses still the most adjunctified, lowest-paid, highest-load corner of the university, at the precise moment when their work has become the most important work the institution does?"

In honor of Anthony Stewart Head, we’re watching Repo: the Genetic Opera tonight 🎶

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This Pride month be like Batman and become a rainbow of dazzling action whenever you encounter bigotry!

Ever wondered about the #Pride flag and how it came to be or changed over time? Well, Encyclopedia Britannica has a nice graphic showing its makers, its evolution, as well as how other queer community flags came to be. Check it out! 👇🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Congrats to my mom and her newly published (so many co-authors; that’s the sciences!) article on biotherapies & cellular starting material! (Yes, we work in very different fields 😄) (Someday I’ll get her to co-author a paper on blood transfusion & vampire novels with me, though!) #AcademicSky

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

JOB: Lecturer in Creative Writing (Research & Teaching Track) School of Critical Studies. University of Glasgow Salary: £41,064 to £46,049 per annum #HigherEd #English #EduSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR372/l...

I skim-read Middlemarch overnight and handed in a university essay by 3pm the next day. AI is for cowards.

Happy #pride! To celebrate, my lovely indie publisher @jms-books.com is having a 99c sale - including all of my books, even the box sets and full length novels! Plus over 80 more participating authors! #lgbtqia #romance #BookSky My books: www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-m-2...

Easily as important to me as Mr. Rogers was when I was kid. A life well lived indeed.

THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.

Happy Pride Month. Let's celebrate with anger and activism--but also with some levity. Let us bring, as the Sibyll of Cumae is said to have said, fiddlers and fear and fire.

REPEAT: If you’re a Californian who is planning to vote remotely, it’s too late to mail in your ballot. Take it to a drop box or any voting center by 8 pm on June 2.

Hey hey we are the monkees and People saye we monkeye arounde People saye many thinges The worlde ys an uncertain place Who kan tell trouthe from lyes? We kan, the monkees, for our mirthe Ys but a cloake for our wysdom

IT IS TIME #Pride #asgaeilge

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

Sometimes even hellhound puppies need training, and an underworld god just might fall for a very human dog trainer. MM fantasy by K.L.Noone now available from JMS Books! www.amazon.com/dp/B0...