Booksellers rock, just fyi 🖤

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

I live in Alberta. This time last year we were drowned out by separitist chuds. Now we rejected Provincial meddling in our civic elections, used our provinces own laws that they made to reject the issue of separation, and 24+ MLAs are in the process of having *their* recall legislation used on them.

imho one of the most effective ways to gain a genuine respect for someone’s craft is by trying to do it yourself.

There are people who say “I would sell my soul to write a book that good” who aren’t willing to write the four or five shitty books that stand between them and the good one.

Meanwhile, in Manitoba… At least one premier has a grasp of just how serious using the notwithstanding clause is… And is taking steps to ensure that at least one province doesn’t use it before hearing from the courts. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

youtube.com/shorts/UEVW3... Not a Good day in Alberta Naheed Nenshi made this statement today. Which of your rights is Danielle Smith going to come after next? #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith #NotWithStanding #Clause #AbuseOfPower #Canada

Canadians don’t actually have rights when premiers can use the notwithstanding clause at will to revoke them. This is a giant problem.

✨️ Evergreen reminder that municipal elections are important! Go vote in them!! ✨️

Read it again. Next year. You have to preorder the vaccine over a full year in advance or you just don't get one. So, Alberta folks, go do that. And then get really vocal about how weird, unhinged, and harmful this is as a decision.

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

pathetic

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck. Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special. "She probably doesn't mean me" I do.

Has anyone else noticed that many non-writers don't seem to have a sense that there is anything between "full time writer who writes for a living" and "total amateur who writes for funzies and never shares it with anyone" even though the middle makes up like...almost all writers?

I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something adding alt text to help

Important info on scams for authors here.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story. Where the fuck are they Where the FUCK are they

This is the way

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

Hey, Rapture's today. This could be your last chance to tell me I'm pretty

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

All genAI should be banned, and no magazine or book publisher of any kind should use it for anything whatsoever. Utter trash fucking up everything.

I recently learned that my local Canadian library is connected to Hoopla! I had thought Hoopla was an American thing. The number of ebooks I can borrow without ever having to leave my house has just multiplied tenfold. It's great. (And audiobooks, comics, movies, shows...For free! In a legal way!)

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

Authors:

Little pumpkin thieves

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

in ~17 years, the writers and narrative designers have consistently been the kindest, smartest folks I've worked with in game dev. they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time. diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.

It's really important you read the article because it's easy to miss what's happening *in the headline* -- because a lot is happening here. Words I never thought I'd say but the Edmonton police are 100% correct here.

join the war on chicago on the side of chicago

Immediately adding this into my lexicon.

Swordtember- Moss

It should not go unsaid that wildfire smoke makes for *serious* brain fog, and that's in people with otherwise healthy lungs. Alberta, why do we do this every year. Why do we have the same conversation about it every year.

Happy Labor Day, Americaland! Here to remind everybody to JOIN YOUR UNION. And if you don't have one, AGITATE FOR A UNION. Our workplace is currently going through considerable financial hardship caused by a combination of gross mismanagement and ingrained structural unsustainability.. (cont)

10/10 Would Duel to write IP in this universe. Just sayin'. ⚔️

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.

'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!' You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:

I just had a thought. you know how the wisdom says you should write for one person? I usually think of this as a gift that will entertain them in particular but what if it was about doing your best to offer the feeling of being *seen?* Reading novels increases empathy; what could writing them do?

Yes. Every word, yes.

Friendly reminder that the "25 year old minor" is also part of a larger propaganda push to deny abortion and birth control. It was also part of the same push to keep young people from voting. They don't believe in us having bodily autonomy. They don't believe in consent.

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My worst days as a writer are a hundred times better than my best days at all the other jobs I’ve had.