It occurs to me some here might not yet be aware of this banger by @tkingfisher.com, the hardest burn to have ever burned, so: here, enjoy. www.tumblr.com/tkingfisher/...

I have openings in my editing schedule. I do primarily developmental edits of novels and novellas. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing and I'm always happy to answer questions.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

@raeloverde.bsky.social saw this, thought of you www.tumblr.com/calvinsarchi...

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

some days I have actual commentary and some days I'm like this is all stupid bullshit and today is one of the latter this is all stupid bullshit

PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam. It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.

I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.

Got it!

Does anyone have access to the article below? My ILL librarian is struggling. Bruce-Mitford, R.L.S. "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial." Nature, vol. 165, 1950, pp. 339-341. Thanks!

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

Sometimes I wonder what the point of it all is.

it's rapture day and bisexual visibility day so be advised that everyone you can see today is by definition a) not going to heaven and b) down to fuck nasty

We’re looking for some cover artists/designers for a couple of upcoming projects! But you gotta be real. •No AI •We have no interest in anime-style work, sorry We need someone comfortable illustrating plants and animals (especially birds). Please reply with a way to see your portfolio.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

you know what, in the spirit of this, just throwing this out there: are there any people who know detailed history of the secularization of the Teutonic Order-State under Albert, Duke of Prussia? I need it for a half-written fantasy book.

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

trying one more time I need to rehome my cat, been trying dor months woth no luck, he deserves a loving home I am located in eastern PA right next to jersey, im willing to travel a bit alt text has the screenshot info ⚠️please share this, help me find a miracle⚠️ #cat #rehome #help #helpsky

tw pet death We had to let go of our little warrior princess who fought a brain tumor, lymphoma, and being sixteen with everything she had until she couldn't anymore. We're going to miss her a lot. This is the last picture I took of her.

Scumbag medievalism! It's not about the fact that we've got a South Asian dude (who looks like the lead in a stoner comedy who, through a series of preposterous events, finds himself in way over his head) invoking Norse mythology in memory of a Christian, it's about the vibes and the signaling

Nothing has changed. Transphobes are still trash.

1. Trans people exist 2. Trans people have the right to fully participate in society. 3. Trans rights are human rights

I need to move an adult female and minor child out of south Carolina. This person cannot ask anyone they know because the people they could ask would tell someone who don't need to know about the plan, which also needs to be drawn up. All hands call.

YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN is out today 🪱 My horror novel about worms, cults, unwanted pregnancy, Roe V Wade, undiagnosed autism, and trans men’s invisibility in discussions about reproductive justice… I can’t believe it’s on shelves. Thank you ALL 😩💕

It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.

I have just finished the Netflix series Ragnarok and I need someone to scream at/with but the friend who told me to watch it in the first place is in a timezone where it's the middle of the night 😡

AUTHORS: AG has prepared a detailed explainer on the Anthropic settlement and how it affects us. Full details:

oh god same

September is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.

Happy Bisexual Visibility Month to my homies who can't sit straight 💗💜💙

important to reiterate from time to time: "artificial intelligence" does not exist. there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator. what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.

If you think I'm being a crass insensitive smartass about this now, wait until you see how I am if he actually does die.

Do any #writing folks know of Discord servers or forums or stuff for writers who are querying?

Um...as the old saying goes, when you want to convince people you aren't being Weekend At Bernie's, you open your press conference with serious unexplained technical glitches.

NYU: universities should go medieval on students using AI Medievalists: *screaming*

I actually have a bunch of PhDs in my pocket. it's not as useful as you'd think. half of them keep telling me niche facts about the agricultural power of Norfolk in the 1700s, and the other half keep asking me if I can help them find funding

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

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EAST TEXAS DWELLERS❗️ I am once again asking that if you or a friend of a friend of a friend might even POSSIBLY know someone who could take 1 or 2 sweet healthy adult female cats with all vet care done and no behavioral issues, their disabled senior owners are being evicted and cannot bring cats!

You know what I really love about the Dark Agers? That their main argument is how much better life was under the slave-holding, mostly rural, highly militarised, lead-in-the-waterpipes, civil war and usurper ridden state that the Roman Empire was.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” "Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

Get in, loser, we’re headed to the Alph caverns to construct a pleasure dome measureless to man

Logging on here these days has a very “clumsily sorting through the apocalyptic wreckage of broken glass and rusty shards of metal with your bare hands in the hopes of finding a bag of candy or a cool yo-yo or literally anything good” vibe. (Not Bluesky’s fault. Just reality in America in 2025!)

It's good that James Dobson is dead and let's use the occasion to say that it's bad to beat children, because he is one of the main reasons we have to say explicitly that it's bad to beat children