Anyways, every programming job ad now is just "Make AI prompts all day. Knowing how to do things is for lazy stupids. A faulty AI will filter out this resume for seeming to female, but if you do get hired, your boss will be addicted to AI. Prompts! Tokens and PROMPTS!?!"

If you’re a writer who uses generative AI, you can stop. You can just stop. You can quit scraping together excuses for why it’s fine actually and start creating work in a way that requires no excusing. You can just stop. You should stop

Not to be all "it's my birthday, buy my books" but it is and you should. THE DEAD WITHHELD: tiny, quick read, queer, paranormal neo-noir, grumpy protag with questionable decision-making YEAR OF THE MER: big, special editions, fantasy, slow burn sapphic tragedy, grumpy protag, worse decisions

In fact, they should not, because but it’s almost never the way to keep someone from committing the exact same harm yet again.

Nonbinary friends--what gender-neutral word do you use in place of uncle or aunt? Pibling ain't gonna cut it for my partner.

You do not have to give people “due process” before you choose not to vote for them. You can just be like “oh word the guy who wrote rape apologia and had allegations just got another serious allegation? Guess he doesn’t need to be my senator.”

Hi! If you wanted to read the Submission Grinder acceptance speech for the Locus Special Award instead of watching it, we have finally posted the transcript! www.diabolicalplots.com/the-submissi...

Submission Grinder is having a hosting issue at the moment, a ticket is submitted with hosting service, hoping to get site up again asap

Heeeyyyy, would you like to help make another year happen for a publication focused on bringing you speculative stories by immigrant and diaspora authors??? Well here's your chance! You can get issues as rewards, or extras like research consultations or author chats!!!

All right, I’ve kept quiet for a bit because of real life crap, but come on guys. Our KS is moving at a snail's pace, and we can do better. And I’m not just saying this because I’m the marketing director of @khoreo.bsky.social, or because khōréō is my ride or die fam (which they are, ALWAYS)

Khoreo's Kickstarter is almost 7k away from funding with only nine days to go!!! Let's do this for a magazine that has always been promoting marginalised authors and brings a fresh perspective to the sff community ❤️

DIY Marble Maze: I think this is about the end of the internal plywood construction, sharing before I put together the acrylic cube to contain it

WE HAVE ARRIVED!!! All 1,000 items are now visible at auction.romancingthevote.com the time for waiting is over. you know what your choices are. make your final strategy. I'll be over here making sure the streaming software is on this laptop.

Next weekend I have a story in @morningtransport.bsky.social , and this weekend it's my dear and talented friend @aliettedebodard.com ! Here's a 60-day free subscription link so you can read not only the free stories (like mine!) but all of the stories: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/smt2024

Look at this beaut of a dragonfly! A widow skimmer, AFAICT

DIY Marble Maze: quite a few steps tonight it is starting to look cubish

it's going great over there

Choose your fighter!! Preparing the perfect fleet in Children of Infinity. #screenshotsaturday #godot

This beefy little story in @diabolicalplots.com by @kurtpankau.com is a pure protein shot for your mood www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-8...

Your morning image

I actually don’t care what the founding fathers would say about the present and I don’t think you should either

The farmers who get farm lobbying & spokesman jobs, and put in charge of explaining "Here's why farms should be exempt from labor regulations," Tend to be the people who are the least qualified to speak on how manual field labor works.

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

This is the way

Get hyped, Winnipeg! One of Canada's finest authors is coming our way!

BUY IT NOWS? MORE LIKE UNHIDE IT NOWS

500 of you have already signed up for this, which means 1) now Courtney is doing a second session & 2) $10,000 to voting rights in honor of a man who would *fucking hate that*

You know what you could do with a zoom copy edit? Have someone look over your post where your heroine says, in the middle of a busy auction, that she's going to chaotically fix the poorly-patched drywall in her bathroom, and ask questions.

My story published in May @diabolicalplots.com got a lovely little review from @mariahaskins.com in the new issue of Locus! So cool!

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

DIY Marble Maze: starting to look pretty Escheresque!

@inkfoundry.bsky.social , you got your chocolate in my peanut butter! 🍫 🥜 !

I mean it's less that I'm making a direct statement on every dem's policies but more that we should not be able to have a conversation about whether or not the pope might be to the left of our progressive party, WE ARE IN SORRY SHAPE!!!!

Dragon Stitch: armature of the wingies is complete, just some webbing to go. You've seen a forked tongue, but have you ever seen a sporked wing?

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Buy It Nows that Bree keeps dropping $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

I love this story.

I’m really getting sick of people comparing being MAGA to a mental illness. And during disability pride month no less! Bigotry and intolerance are not mental illnesses and comments like that further stigmatize those of us who do have a mental illness.

New fiction! "The Last Optician" by Ann Calandro Where do you go for glasses when the Conglomerate thinks your eyes are too complicated to treat? www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

WE DID IT! We've raised $100,000 for voting rights, and it hasn't even been a full day. Thank you all so much--now let's see what we can do over the next four days!

Now that [RECORDED] is closed to submissions... I wanted to share a few stats! In total, we received 399 stories!!! 🫨 And yes, I have now read all of them! *falls over* I'll start sending out responses tomorrow and over the weekend, but y'all wrote SUCH incredible stuff. I'm proud of you <3

DIY Marble Maze: stopping for the night, two separate constructions thus far

Sony is taking this away from us

46/x The state tried to get info to justify a ban, and they found trans kids had been effectively banned already. In other words, trans kids are in the same spot as cis girls were before the Title 9 era: this is no chance to meaningfully participate.

42/x Some bigots will tell you that the unfairness is about who wins, but that misunderstands the entire purpose of sports generally, and gendered youth sports in particular. There is no right to win. We created girls' sports not so one girl named Faster McFastlegs could get one medal.

30/x We do it bc, as it turns out, breaking kids isolation from community and making sure everyone is valued by society and in turn learns to value society itself is worth the money. Sports are a way to get kids together who wouldn't otherwise come together, for the benefit of all.

14/x And all those are reasons that parents might encourage the kids to play a game of kickball. But hang on here, I'm going to blow your mind: We spend BILLIONS on child and youth sports. BILLIONS. We never even charge admission -- or at least rarely do.