Glyer has a history of "showing poor judgement," stirring up drama, and then acting bewildered by the idea that he has any responsibility for what he publishes. His comment section is often a cesspit that he deigns to moderate only when it suits him.

It's kinda funny how every third political post on has some variation of "oh so you think there's going to be elections how cute" in the replies while the daily news is of Republicans getting boatraced in elections, manufacturing the reality you desire to be outraged about isn't just a rw phenomenon

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Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

The habit I'm currently working on is going to bed by eleven but let it not be said that this story is defeating me It has to end SOMEHOW and I will figure out how But first I will go to bed because if I start writing now when I'm not really rested it will upset my thinking which is no good at all

Let the record reflect that on this 30th day of 12th month two thousand and twenty five, before the year died, @larcenousdesigns.bsky.social at last acknowledged that Synthesis is better than Destroy

It had better be; this short story still needs an ending and I'm out of things to clean

Hey can we talk about Leslye Penelope because I don't see enough people talk about Leslye Penelope I haven't read all her stuff yet but THE MONSTERS WE DEFY was a masterpiece so maybe start there

My entire kitchen is spotless down to steam mopping the floor and I still don't have a punchy ending for this short story Which is rude and frankly should not be legal

Never mind that people CAN change. But it requires real work and real acknowledgement of the harm you've caused. It requires that you actively look at the causes you've supported and start doing the work to undo the harm. MTG hasn't changed, she's just playing the game.

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

me from Christmas until Sunday 4th

A prom chaperone put his hands on me for daring to walk down the hallway towards my room at a hotel. After I scared him off me, the towering baby tried bullying John Hodgeman instead. Hodgeman was there MCing the Nebs and spent his intro mocking the dude. Don't fuck with writers. We bite.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I have a couple of pens that cost a couple hundred bucks and I sometimes feel silly about that but at least I've never spent $900k on something I can't even sleep in so there's that.

I have two jobs: being a student at an elite military academy and not getting assassinated before my parents can overthrow the tyrant king. (The book is A Stranger To Command by @sherwood.bsky.social; read Crown Duel first)

This is why so many of us get angry and suspicious with the slightest whiff of financial difficulties coming out of small press, book stores, distributors, etc. A lot of us have been owed money that we will never see. So when the red flags go up, well...we've all been there before.

Just glancing at this in my timeline, I thought it was a D&D battle map.

The most important post on Bluesky today

I've been catching up on Victoria and seriously how many European queens does Netflix plan to make costume dramas about? I need to know how much room to keep clear in my schedule

I think my most and least woke opinions are the same opinion, which is that in a normal country with normal politics, my politics would not be the least bit radical. I'd be socially liberal but otherwise extremely boring. (Note that I did not say "in a normal America.")

This is beside the point but Ripped George Washington is so weird Spending hours a day in the gym is a MODERN sign of wealth and wealthy masculinity. Our man trafficked and enslaved hundreds of people to do his heavy lifting for him.

That part.

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Corollary to "treating potential colleagues as insignificant bit players is a bad way to build a community that will root for your success:" Treating anyone like a pez dispenser of power, influence, or social advantage is a good way to have a bad time "breaking in" to a community

Psst. Jewelry-making pals. I've got some market intel you might be able to use. This is a cane strap. It's a common functional attachment that allows a cane user to drop their cane without it falling to the ground, which is useful for temporary use of that hand, or if they don't have a great grip.

Being able to take feedback on board is a critical skill for writers. And that does create real problems for marginalized writers, who need the additional skill of learning to identify and quietly ignore bullshit "feedback" without seeming arrogant or resistant And then there's these fucking guys

I'd believe this anecdote because I've met guys like this at conventions. People do ask (politely) about their work and they can't pitch it because what makes it special is that they are the specialest boy. They go to panels and hear queer and BIPOC writers talk about their work and think "ah ha". +

IMO the best responses to someone using the phrase "heritage American:" - point and laugh - "what? sorry I don't speak racist dweeb" - [blockity block block block]

The only correct answer is Pippin in the Mines of Moria after he knocks the skeleton down the well saying, quietly but with feeling into the subsequent horrified silence, “Fuck.”

Me: [writes an evocative description of a Martian dust storm] Me inner critic: ... So it was a dark and stormy night? Me:

This is because for every dollar you spend on Harry Potter media or merchandise, a large portion of it goes to Head Bigot JK Rowling, who specifically uses that money to finance her fellow raging bigots threatening ruinous lawsuits against UK people who point out their raging bigotry.

I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are. You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was here as on a darkling plain, swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

To me, my X-Mas!

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half-sunk, a shattered visage lies

Spare a thought for Steam SRE getting paged on Christmas/eve.

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

And to be clear: the action one does if one is feeling guilty tonight or tomorrow is give cash to organizations feeding the hungry and sheltering the houseless. It is not to show up at a shelter and ask to serve food. You gotta get vetted to volunteer, so you start with cash, put a reminder —

Mute Lake Michigan . If you aren’t following the Epstein file MUTE LAKE MICHIGAN NOW

Are these schools who are using blue books also doubling their testing times to account for the fact that most students don't learn cursive, or even how to print letters with any speed?

I'm dysgraphic, and "it's okay to put people through unnecessary physical pain because that's the most convenient way for instructors to prevent cheating" is um. Not a take I'm aligned with. Hand cramps can be debilitating and BLOCK STUDENTS FROM THE SCORES THEY DESERVE and YES that is a problem

Banger from the past. theonion.com/cat-clinging...

And now it's tangent time: becoming a programmer ruined puzzle games for me for a while. Both programming and puzzle games require problem-solving. But when coding, the most efficient thing to do when stuck is to seek external resources: check the docs, Google the problem, ask a colleague.

I'd argue it's worse than a blank page, in the same way that garment pieces cut slightly off the grain are worse than not having cut yet. When a thing is wrong, it will suck your energy into making it Less Wrong, which is often not the same as making it right.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

@evilrooster.bsky.social hello we seem to have attracted some gnomes, any tips

It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first. You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.