Take your Kimmel protest energy and use it to freeze out that hateful JKR too! Maybe HP was a part of your childhood. Well now it's a slap in the face and a dagger in the back of people who just wanna live. Don't let her see a dime!

"On nous reconnait au moment où nous nous éteignons. C'est comme dire à quelqu'un sur son lit de mort : maintenant tu existes". Rami Abou Jamous cité par Dominique Eddé. A quoi sert la reconnaissance d'un Etat de Palestine si l'on ne contraint pas Israël à stopper le génocide des Palestiniens ?

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

So now we know where accomplished trans women authors with good politics fall on the social ladder: slightly below cis male credibly alleged rapists

Holy FUCK

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

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World Central Kitchen got fired on in Gaza by Israel, had members killed, and went back anyway because people shouldn't have to starve to death. This is an amazing humble bundle.

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

Ça serait bien qu’on se rende compte que si Georges RR Martin ne finit jamais son bouquin, bah, ce sera pas grave en fait.

Attacks on so many institutions at once (UO, U Chicago, Virginia Tech) just make the playbook clearer: manufactured fiscal exigency and/or actual financial mismanagement used to purge faculty and hollow out humanities education, w/ the current admin giving new cover for their own ideological agenda

I'm telling you: this is happening everywhere. Don't give me your dissembling about budgets or private/public or whatever. There is a complete wholesale attack on knowledge production and it is dismantling every university. They're starting with the Humanities b/c they know you'll let us die first.

Pour remplacer le directeur de l'INA, mis en examen pour trafic de coke, la ministre de la Culture, mise en examen pour corruption, a nommé Agnés Chauveau, licenciée de Sciences Po pour plagiats répétés. Merveilleuse macronie.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Many of these are debut authors. Please check out their books also.

I know I, as a nonbinary person, do not owe the world androgyny, but I wanna be androgynous so badly. I want no one to be able to tell what I am. I want conservatives to wrinkle their noses when they see me and say, in Westley's voice, "Dear God, what is that thing?"

J'entends Aurore Bergé sur @franceinfo.fr expliquer que les gens sont contres la loi Duplomb parce qu'ils sont désinformés. Désinformés par qui ? 14 sociétés savantes ? La ligue contre le cancer ? Le CNRS écologie environnement ?

Florent, alias Paris Pas Rose. Si vous étiez sur Twitter, vous avez sûrement connu ce militant queer. Il m'a personnellement beaucoup apporté, on parlait très souvent ensemble. Un vrai modèle qui avait à coeur de partager ce qu'il savait. Voici son histoire : agencekara.my.canva.site/dagth7m4ggw/...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

10 écrivain·es dont j'ai lu plus de 5 livres: Ben Aaronovitch Robin Hobb Diana Wynne Jones Ursula K. Le Guin Terry Pratchett Philip Pullman Anne Rice Jonathan Stroud Nghi Vo Martha Wells

I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

ESR Alerte!!!!!! Extremement grave (en plus juste avant les vacances... habile mais immonde)

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This week… 📚 Mia Zapata & the Gits – Steve Moriarty 📚 A Spy Among Friends – Ben Macintyre 💿 Enter: The Conquering Chicken – The Gits

✨️ Appel à témoignages Pour un article je cherche des parents de préados/ados qui essayent d'accompagner leur enfant au mieux à suivre l'actualité très anxiogène (guerres, tensions géopolitiques, réchauffement climatique...) Vous galérez, vous doutez, vous édulcorez (ou pas), glissez en DM 👋

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

Une jeune femme trans a besoin d'un hébergement en urgence en région parisienne cette semaine (une solution a été trouvée pour juillet/août). Le RT ne coûte rien et peut sauver quelqu'un.

When I stumbled upon this book by chance, it instantly became my favourite of the year and my favourite novel about shapeshifters. I loved its grounding of the narrative in bodily experience and body horror—and finding out that this was the type of shapeshifter story I had been looking for all along

Please share & give to help Sahar's family, including her son Odai who was shot by an Israeli quadcopter & needs urgent treatment, survive Israel's genocide in Gaza. They're being starved, attacked, & displaced, & donations are slow:

Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.

"Le jour où Israël, sans provocation, a attaqué l’Iran, tuant 80 personnes, le président d’une grande puissance européenne a finalement admis qu’au Moyen-Orient, Israël, et lui seul, avait le droit de se défendre." - Francesca Albanese, réagissant à la position de Macron.

nah think i will continue to do my writing and thinking in-house and not atrophy my brain to send faster emails

Because sometimes, what you really need to see in this life is Vincent Price with an armload of extremely floofy cats. Well, I do. Love that man.

"oh no, this'll make the right wing mad!" Buddy they get into a frothing rage over like, cereal mascots and cartoon characters and the mere existence of gay people and what oil a French fry is cooked in and women knowing how to read, etc. They'll get mad anyway, no matter what. Tell em to fuck off

Chief Clarence Louie, stated “The recognition of unceded Syilx Okanagan land is not a political maneuver; it is an acknowledgment of historical truths and legal realities. Attempts to silence these acknowledgments are attempts to erase Syilx Okanagan presence and rights.” syilx.org/syilx-okanag...

I’ve had a few hours to digest this, and yet I’m still speechless at the spineless audacity one has to have to file a lawsuit like this and claim it’s in the name of “many students and faculty”

Having 3 minute videos means you can now enjoy Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote the Twin Peaks music for David Lynch.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

the Heavy Metal mag instagram account just posted Isolation by Philippe 'Manchu' Bouchet, very Blade Runner-y, easy to confuse his work with Syd Mead's. really love this piece

One more time, because I’m not afraid of being fired from the VA - and I will NOT let this go quietly.