"Al is the world's most expensive and energy intensive plagiarism machine … this is all a bunch of horseshit." Vince Gilligan speaking with Variety about how much he hates Gen A.I.

Maybe I’m a boring snob but I really feel like English majors should be required to do their capstone projects on literature rather than like movies, shows, video games, etc. They can be supplementary texts but the field is about the study of language arts and we’re often too ready to dilute that.

Do you ever think about how “Dracula’s” fundamentally conservative and regressive politics have been largely forgotten because Bram Stoker fucked up the American copyright for the title character thus instantly putting him in the public domain?

I wrote about one of my ancestors is finally seen as valid :') representation matters defector.com/let-us-now-c...

I love Maryland. It’ll lure you into complacency with a week of fifty degree weather and then slap you in the face with a Tuesday that’s nine degrees with windchill.

Just realized that Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social could be described as a forest feminization story

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

With alt text. But also, I told you when used effectively shame works. The problem is Elon isn't shamed by normal things like the weight of being responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, or being a white supremacist or whatever. Oates just landed on a pressure point.

Because this really annoys me, I went and checked. I've read 60 books over the last three years that could be classified as contemporary literary fic. Of those, only four could roughly be categorized as this and two of those are explicitly engaging with the concept of autofiction as a genre.

Sometimes I'm like "Am I spending too much time in this novel on this minor plot point?" and then I remember that Donna Tart dedicated like fifty pages of "The Secret History" to that time Richard lived in a very cold apartment for a couple weeks.

If you really have to put it in all caps, I would suggest this framing instead SHOCKINGLY, CORRUPT MAGA SUPREME COURT COURT DECIDES NOT TO DISCRIMINATE FURTHER AGAINST THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY BY RESCINDING SAME SEX MARRIAGE Don't celebrate SCOTUS for this decision. They don't deserve it

What I hear when you claim that most contemporary literary fiction is about English professors/writers with relationship issues is that you don't actually read that much.

Flyaway - Kathleen Jennings A Spectral Hue -Craig Gidney Lone Women-Victor Lavalle In Universes-Emet North The Strange-Nathan Ballingrud Siren Queen-Nghi Vo The Lesson-Cadwell Turnbull Those Beyond the Wall-Micaiah Johnson The Practice...-Sofia Samatar These Fragile Graces...-Izzy wasserstein

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Do not give @democrats.org your money. Give to local grass roots organizations. They actually have spines.

They literally couldn’t even make it a week before fucking up the good vibes. This party needs a ground up overhaul.

Well, at least everyone suffered for nothing.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

Tim Kaine is a chump who believes Republican promises. Call him and yell at him if he's your senator. Phone numbers here: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/offi...

It seriously feels like the Democratic establishment has a humiliation fetish.

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy

A cautionary tale in being a woman who appeals to a conservative audience: While MAGA has co-opted Sydney Sweeney as their new star, her latest film debuted in the top ten worst box office openings and the same MAGA crowd brutally attacked her appearance in 2024 while she was training for the role

I just did this and if nothing else it was cathartic. I said I would make it my life’s mission to make sure there’s a primary challenger for any D involved in this deal, it’s fucking embarrassing.

If you don’t derive any benefit from the act of writing, no pleasure or catharsis or satisfaction, why are you doing it? This isn’t meant to be an aggressive question, I’m not demanding an answer, but it’s a thing you may want to ask yourself. Life is short and you could do something else?

Joyce Carol Oates is the Babe Ruth of posters. Big swings and big misses, but when she connects? She parks ‘em in low earth orbit 🤌🏾

lol she got his ass and he knows it

I need to stop saying "now this is podracing" after every time I get gendered correctly

Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

🥲 this means a lot to me actually

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

This drama major I kinda knew in undergrad got into a fight with his roommate once so he moved into the basement beneath the theater and just lived among the props, costumes, and stage furniture for months. Sometimes, if you entered a room at odd hours, you'd hear him scuttling away into the dark.

Also, I unfortunately know many straight men and this is just fundamentally not true? Like I had to listen to multiple "awooga" style reactions when she dropped her cover art for Man's Best Friend. The undergrad men I teach spent days roasting Barry Keoghan for fumbling her.

Today in @thenation.com: thrilled to have @gbbranstetter.bsky.social on how this week's elections should bury once and for all the toxic myth that trans people are to blame for the Democratic Party's political failures www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi's performance in Predator: Badlands makes the film and is one of the best I've seen this year. It's about time we start awarding voice and motion capture performances.

"It took me a few months to track down all the issues. As I read them, I remember feeling more and more amazed. This zine was rewriting my entire understanding of transsexual history." defector.com/unearthing-t...

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

new new year’s ball just dropped

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I can’t believe this isn’t a satirical headline. Wild how after this week they’ve just decided to get MORE openly evil than before.

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

NOVEMBER WORKSHOP with @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Sun, Nov 30 at 10 am at Rhizome DC Writers of all experience levels are welcome to join. We want you here even if you’ve never attended a workshop before! www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...