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À quoi bon se préoccuper des pièges quand on saute volontairement dans le moulin à viande?

J'apprends le décès d'Anthony Glinoer, beaucoup trop jeune. Non seulement le chercheur était brillant, mais tellement accueillant, stimulant et sympathique, pour le peu que je l'ai connu. Je n'imagine pas la perte pour sa famille, celle pour la recherche sur l'édition est immense. Quelques ouvrages

FAERIE CONTRACT, the Dragon Soul Press anthology in which my novelette "An Offer You Can't Refuse" will be published, is now available for preorder at books2read.com/DSPFaerie The book will be launched on August 23rd, in paper and digital formats. Follow this thread for a preview of my story!

Gay teen moves to Toronto, must once again live in closet #PrideMonth

You've twisted your final sister

The mandatory plagiarism machine is increasing the cost of accessing the mandatory plagiarism machine.

"They stole it! They stole the precioussss! Nasty, filthy hobbitses and communistses! Gollum! Gollum!"

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

Political vocabulary problem #342: So-called "moderates" reject any change to the status quo beyond what is absolutely necessary to keep the pitchforks away. Anything further (i.e., trans rights, taxing wealth) they see as problematic. That is the textbook, Edmund Burke definition of a conservative

The genAI apocalypse is a self-resolving problem.

We should all look to embrace whimsy wherever we can!

‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

YES, now, tiny particle that could erase the Universe at any moment!

Cyano de Bergerac

"Over the past six years, we’ve studied why some leaders continue to support remote work, while others resist it. […] The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled." -- Adam Grant et al.

Le pays lusophone le plus impressionnant à cette Coupe du monde n'est pas le Portugal. Et ce n'est pas le Brésil non plus.

Wrote for 29 hours this week, the most since my PhD dissertation and the most fiction writing I've ever done. Not bad for a decrepit fiftysomething who's supposed to be mostly retired!

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Cannabis sommelier

Muppet Dracula, ft. Count von Count

Hello, world! Meet the Canadian men's national soccer team.

His only chance to crack the top 10 is to test them all now, when all but four of the others are dead.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Oh, I very much doubt that.

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Seconded, for obvious reasons.

Lorsqu'une offre d'emploi n'affiche même pas d'échelle salariale, c'est que l'employeur a honte de payer aussi peu.

Locutus safety tip: To prevent identity theft, avoid having your own identity.

FAERIE CONTRACT, the Dragon Soul Press anthology in which my novelette "An Offer You Can't Refuse" will be published, is now available for preorder at books2read.com/DSPFaerie The book will be launched on August 23rd, in paper and digital formats. Follow this thread for a preview of my story!

Dafuq?

I just need to see comeuppance for people who do evil things at some point in my life, this whole thing of letting them do the most deranged shit with no consequences has been a disaster, I don't think it's good for anyone's soul to see monsters get away with it every day.

Bienvenue sur Bluesky à @atelierdesreves.bsky.social, la maison d'édition qui publiera mon premier roman en 2027!

One of my few goals as a writer is to, one day, receive a reader's message that is as gracious and validating as those I have received as a teacher. (I still think about those all the time, years later.)

This for sure. We call it a brag shelf and every author should do it. @caseyblair.bsky.social and I share one!

This Nebula Ceremony, in Chicago & online, is a time to reveal our latest winners & also celebrate our special award recipients. It is OUR honor at #SFWA to thank N. K. Jemisin for her tremendous contributions to genre. Our 42nd Grand Master is a powerhouse whose work is not yet done! #61stNebulas

Jeff Hoffman doing Jeff Hoffman things.

I love Horror. I love Fantasy. I love LitFic. I love History. I love Comedy. Fans of one genre or another are not my enemies. They are my fellow readers. My enemy is a censor.

Yourself but as a cartoon

I think one of the upsetting things about the AI art discourse is that it has revealed (all over again) how many people in the world are genuinely angry and resentful that some artists get paid for a living.

Merge two movies: The Grapes of Wrath of Khan

I wouldn’t think so but it’s a good time to remind people of the golden rule of talking to literary agents: Never pay them. Money goes toward the author, in publishing. If an agent asks for a fee or help covering costs or any other up-front investment, run.

What's your favourite movie from each decade of your life? 70s: Star Wars 80s: Major League 90s: Contact 00s: The Lord of the Rings trilogy 10s: Black Panther 20s: Project Hail Mary, I guess, but is anyone really alive in the 2020s?

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society.

My novelette _An Offer You Can't Refuse_, about a woman who somehow gets entangled with the Faerie Godfather, City Hall *and* the Dark Lord, has been accepted for publication in Dragon Soul Press's upcoming FAERIE CONTRACT anthology. The book will come out August 23rd; preorders will begin soon.

Mais que diantre tiens-je entre mes grosses pattes? Serait-ce... UN CONTRAT D'ÉDITION pour mon premier roman!?!? Mais oui, c'est bien ça! #Booksky

Well, well, well, what do I hold in my grubby little hands? Could it be... A BOOK PUBLISHING CONTRACT for my début novel?!?!? Why, yes it is! #Booksky