this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Listened twice already via Patreon and loved it- fantastic cast, phenomenal soind design, engaging story and memorable characters (including our beloved Troughton 🥰) - definitely listening again over the public release!

Co-signed. If you can’t be arsed to put the necessary work into your own book, why should I put the work into reviewing it?

So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’. I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY. Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙

The thing about this is that Amazon is widening their own cut of each book, while narrowing author royalties. It's not about "paper costs" or anything, it's sheer greed. I recommend getting out of KDP, both ebook and paper, as fast as you can. It's what I'm doing.

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Everyone go listen to Carmilla for your lesbian vampire fix! @redracula.bsky.social are releasing it now.

Like it's fine but I was born into the final moments of an old world that's now unimaginable to those born later and I was raised during the dawn of a new age that baffles and alarms those who came of age before it emerged. 's weird

Fred Rogers does seem to have been a genuinely decent human being and also he would probably be the first to tell you not to idolize him, but to find in yourself what is beautiful and special and hold that up to the light so that you can see it clearly, and can everyone else.

10/10 recommend deleting Facebook and Instagram from your phone and replacing them with the Libby app. Then download the genre of books you find most addictive. I'm currently tearing through Lauren Groff's "The Vaster Wilds."

Written before the election. I have found that immersive reading is saving my mind right now. That means without my phone nearby to doom scroll, btw. Immersive reading does not work with constant distraction. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Mozilla's advocacy arm was also super helpful on issues like consumer privacy

A reminder that this live stream of a waterhole in Namibia exists. It is weirdly well maintained, constantly features a pretty huge range of animals and you learn individual creatures / family units pretty quickly. Very relaxing www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAmF...

Stuff from the Larchives! Posting random cartoons to help fight the doomscroll for the next few days. Feel free to request topics and if I've got a toon for it, I'll share it :)

Your most annoying neighbor might be trying to Karen up the school board so she can scream at queer kids and threaten teachers and your single vote could literally ruin her year and make her cry.

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Impeaching Alito for this will be just like busting Capone for tax evasion and we should 100% do it.

If you're in Ohio, read this before heading to vote: The ballot language on redistricting was written with an eye to confusing ppl. I talked to someone who says it tricked them. Others have come forward to say same too. Make sure you know what you want. boltsmag.org/ohio-issue-1...

Save this image (and/or its Alt text) to your mobile device. If you experience or see intimidation, harassment, or suppression of voters at a polling site, call the number for your state, or the national number. If you are turned away at the polls, ask to vote by provisional ballot per federal law.

This is the funniest thing for a Supreme Court justice to get impeached for, and so absolutely perfect for Samuel Alito. Say what you will about his opinions, but he has always been likely to go down for accepting a bejeweled scepter from the most racist living member of the Bourbon dynasty.

Ban this crap.

All those news orgs that justified taking money from Facebook look pretty pathetic right now

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Dear PA’s absentee voters, To make sure your vote gets counted & doesn’t end up in a legal fight: - seal ballot in the YELLOW ENVELOPE - sign & write the CURRENT DATE on the outer envelope - return in person by NOV. 5 Best, The reporter who wrote this: www.npr.org/2024/09/26/n...

Updates! The Pennsylvania DA has filed a motion requesting immediate remand on the grounds of “are you fucking serious right now with this?” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I have eaten the candy I bought At CVS And which I was planning To give out On Halloween Forgive me There’s an election So bleak And so close

Poet friends! A good friend of mine is looking for queer, disabled speculative poetry for a slightly unusual project. Please see the link for more details. www.interstellarflightpress.com/submissions....

Casting call: Paid: EST. $125/USD for about a half hour of recording - remote via Zoom. Looking for Brazilian men (who sound 30’s-40’s) voice actors. Info below: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v4jk6...

failing to vote because you don't like the system is like refusing to tip waitstaff because you think minimum wage ought to be raised. it's a personal exercise, somewhere between ablution and masturbation, and the kid serving you lunch still goes home hungry.

Quote with one thing you've written that everyone should read 👀📚 Look the world is kind of a dumpster fire atm. The best antidote I've got is my absurd little story CRYPTID CAR RENTAL. May induce spit-takes, cackling & shortness of breath. LOL & pass it on: magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-...

Consumers are actively turning away from AI, when will companies learn? futurism.com/the-byte/stu...

*ringing a bell and walking through the town square* Here ye. The billionaire wants your bones. Come out and give the billionaire your bones.

I am a single-issue voter and that issue is "never having to think about or listen to Donald Trump ever again for the rest of my life."

Signal Boost time. If you've got a creative project you want to promote, leave the details people need in replies, like a title or a link. If it's a crowdfunder pre-launch, let us know no more than 2 weeks out. We'll include as many as we can in this week's issue of The Full Lid.

Do you have a voice? A nice voice, in your opinion? Well, starting on Oct 15th, @escapeartists.net is accepting applications for narrators. Record an audition and submit! escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

Nice note from my distributor saying that Netflix are late paying AGAIN this quarter. It must be nice to be able to get away with it.

look if you don’t want to be called a garbage racist nazi then stop supporting the garbage racist nazis

ROYAL BLOOD is very close to its next stretch goal, which is an exciting one: silver foil on the tarot cards! Almost as exciting as that: once that goal is reached, a new one will be announced. If you haven't backed the moody tarot heist ttrpg there's still 15 days left:

me too lil buddy

Remember, those "cringe visible queers" will take the brunt of street harassment that would have been targeted at you had they not been there. Often, as with butch chivalry, very specifically to be your defense so you can have the normalacy millennials lacked as youth.

This is… also just factually wrong? I literally am a voter who filled out my ballot yesterday and consulted multiple local media outlets’ endorsements while doing so. I mean I knew who I was picking for president obviously but most informed voters I know actively read endorsements for information?

Here’s a handy dandy website to track your ballot. Not all states may have it, but it doesn’t hurt to check. Also, needless to say, please exercise common sense. If a library or facility doesn’t accept ballots, find a legitimate place that actually does. www.vote.org/ballot-track...

It’s because Critical Racing Theory correctly says that Cybertrucks are 1) dangerous to public safety and 2) fund a certain billionaire’s dangerous exploits. Remain maidenless, you bootlicker.