Yes I'm a Queer writer and I write Queer characters, but... My MC is straight. (His apprentice is bi, but she's not in this one.) My villains are straight, too. (Probably, maybe, but who can say with genderfluid vampires?) My anti-heroes/anti-villains though? 👀 #AmQuerying #UrbanFantasy #PrideMonth

You can't use AI in moderation; it's all or nothing. If you used it to make a cover or promo materials for a book or a thumbnail or narrator for a video, why should I think you didn't use it to research or write the project too? You either use AI or you don't, and I don't support anyone who uses it.

When we got 10" of snow, @catdragon513.bsky.social and I cuddled up to watch The Thing. Tonight, with the rain coming down in bucketfuls, there was only one logical choice of horror movie...

It's always a blessed #Caturday when I run into everyone's favourite blind cat, Strabo. #Cats

For years we’ve been told by MAGA that voter fraud is everywhere and that elections are being stolen. Yet when actual investigations produce evidence, it often seems to lead back to some of the same people making the accusations. This year, GA election officials reprimanded Elon Musk’s America PAC

Met a smol fren™️ at work today. #spider🕷️

Trump found a new way to steal. The Trump administration is redirecting at least $90 million in National Park Service fee revenue to Washington, D.C. projects tied to this year’s July 4 and America 250 celebrations. According to published reports, that includes a $1.6 million fireworks

A win! A federal judge in Rhode Island has blocked several Trump administration immigration policies, ruling that they unlawfully left many immigrants trapped in legal uncertainty.

The price tag for work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool keeps climbing. The Trump administration has now committed another $1.1 million to apply a blue-tinted waterproofing material, pushing the total project cost to $14.2 million, according to federal contracting records.

The Defense Department is eliminating roughly 150 religious designations from military personnel records, cutting the available options from about 180 down to 31 almost all are Christian denominations.

More juxtaposition for you.

I've encountered an unexpected hurdle while researching the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Here's a partial list of the relevant aliʻi: Kamehameha Keawemaʻuhili Kaʻiana Kahekili Kāʻeokūlani Kalanikūpule Kaumualiʻi Keōua Kūʻahuʻula

If you see this, Q-bleet with a monster!

It’s odd that Sam Altman said this mere months after moving enterprises to token-based billing. It’s almost as if his customers are intolerant of the actual cost of AI when they’re not using subsidized subscriptions. Almost like the real cost is too high and that’s why you hid it.

One of the very first things that were gutted/interrupted by this admin was screw worm management but, in particular, the cooperative component with the Mexican government and agribusiness, who were desperate for maximum collaboration/management.

Watch enough Star Trek and you get used to the Bolians being kind of plump and vibrant, so it's a shock to see that the first Bolian on-screen was gaunt and pale (and played by Michael Berryman!)

Maybe I'm just cranky, but agent bios need to have a basic list of genres. Yes, I understand interests don't always fit in neat boxes, but I shouldn't have to read a wall of text starting with "J.D. McAgent first fell in love with books at age six when..." just to see if they rep scifi. #AmQuerying

The three genders: male, female, and rat. #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈🐀

I'm a Queer author and I write about Queer characters, but I don't write Queer Stories About Queer People Being Queer... because my characters have personalities and interests that extend beyond their sexual orientation/identity. #WritingCommunity #PrideMonth

It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.

The first roll of the new #DnD campaign was a (failed) con save against puking on a viking boat ride. Unrelated to that: "You fatally insulted an eight-year-old girl!"

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

Wrong to the point of malpractice

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

Today's aesthetic isn't Star Wars, despite appearances.

Because “Reduce your Carbon Footprint”, while still a worthwhile effort, was essentially an astroturfed advertising campaign by BP to have individuals reduce their personal emissions through lifestyle choices while the oil industry continued to expand fossil fuel extraction infinitives.

Happy 115th birthday to Vincent Price! #WizardWednesday

Happy #WizardWednesday

The Trump administration is ordering federal agencies to install a White House app on the government phones of millions of federal employees. The FAA confirmed it this week, telling workers their IT team would push the installation automatically “as mandated by the White House.”

Here comes the tickle monster!

Your word of the day is laniferous: wool-bearing.

"There's an inherent mirth to prancing." —me, re. cat locomotion #Caturday 🐈

#OriginalFact: bobcats are named after their creator, Robert Katzenberg, who created the first one by crossbreeding a lynx with a skid-steer! youtu.be/IryZiIpYudg

"That's what I love about the American Southwest: everything that isn't pointy or venomous is too hot to touch. It's a biome about respecting personal personal space."

You can buy anything with this administration. Reynolds American donated $5 million to Trump’s super PAC on April 30. Eight days later, the FDA handed the tobacco industry exactly what it wanted. In between, a Reynolds executive and two lobbyists had lunch with Trump at his Jupiter golf club.

A win! A federal judge ruled that the White House must preserve all presidential records including text messages and has to comply with the Presidential Records Act. This blocks a DOJ memo from April that tried to declare Trump’s White House records his personal private property.

Tonight's Aesthetic: Giant Peeping Toms

Tired: trip-sitter Wired: copilot Inspired: opium den mother

"If you don't learn how to work with AI, you'll be useless," say people who are already useless because they're reliant on AI. 🙃

Drop an alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek. "Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn—whatever they had been, they were men!"

Microsoft sold around 30 million Kinects to 84 million Xbox 360. That gives the Kinect an attach rate of approximately 35%. Yup, the Kinect was ten times more successful than AI.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I can't believe how quickly all these people became terminally AI-brained to the point that the concept of being forced to do their own research with their own brain feels like punishment

I think about this alot. #forthechildren

Spoor isn't always paw prints; sometimes, it's poo prints. #SundayPunday 💩

Tonight's Aesthetic: irradiated water ☢️💦

The two genders:

Tired: vampire Wired: sanguivore Inspired: hæmogoblin #Puns