People still seem to be battling with understanding this in 21st century

This is Horus. He got a lot of attention on a recent flight in Mexico. Clearly the other passengers have never flown with someone so handsome. 14/10 we're told he was very well behaved (TT: denniabuendagalvn, paulinagtza_, cheetahbash, cristianjbetancourt)

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

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I'm a firm believer that when two people who value the Oxford comma find one another, it's an undeniable sign that their relationship will be fulfilling, beautiful, and everlasting.

Knafeh and Arabic coffee make a nice reward at the end of a long walk. My daughter’s “Dubai Strawberry Cup” looked like an overload of chocolates, pistachios, and fresh fruit. #Oslo #summer

Scenes from a dog walk: natural light, nearly midnight. #Oslo

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Writer’s virtual assistant is the absolute worst… #ChatGPT #writing

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

Accurate

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

The dog is walked, lemon polenta cake is cooling in the window, mug of coffee in hand, surreal kafkaesque book in my ears. Sunday morning as it should be.

When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Forgot to mention that today is International Workers Memorial Day when we remember everyone who has died and/or suffered injury and illness from their work. "Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living." #Solidarity #JoinYourUnion ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

Just finished Careless People: a young idealist joins Facebook only to have the scales fall from her eyes as she comes to discover the executives are the sociopaths we all know them to be. Like a B horror movie, I kept yelling for her to "get out". Salacious in the details but no real surprises.

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

Really enjoyed Clair Keegan's So Late in the Day and appreciate @faberbooks.bsky.social putting out single short story books. I'm a sucker for beautiful tiny book perfect for the tram or that small gap between work and making dinner. Next tiny book is Eastbound from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

Remember when the Tay chatbot turned Nazi after briefly being on Twitter in 2016? #xAI buying X is less about buying distribution for AI & more about buying training data for Grok ... and that training data is increasingly toxic. #Musk #Grok #X #GarbageInGarbageOut

NYU canceled a talk by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she intended to mention the high number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza, and Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID. “Antisemitic” and “anti-governmental” to say this ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...

Working from home under close supervision.

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

Tell me where you're from without telling me where you're from

Heard a NYTimes piece about the completed 9-hour Prince biography that was permanently shelved after the estate changed hands. Inspired to start the day with Ƭ̵̬̊ - purple glitter songs stirred into my coffee. #Prince

There is a statue in Venice known colloquially as El Caga Libri, "The Book Shitter". No idea whether the sculptor was commenting on the quality of Tommaseo's writing.

You know it’s spring in Scandinavia when the fastelavns-boller arrive. Soft cardamom rolls filled with cream and jam and dusted in sugar, a last hurrah of excess before the fasting of lent. The sweet indulgence remains even if the sacrifice has not. #Oslo #spring #MardiGras

The energy I bring to Blue Sky

Went to Litteraturhuset last night to hear Elif Shafak talk about her latest novel, There are Rivers in the Sky. Full house, good crowd, thoughtful conversation in a cosy venue by the palace. #Books #BookSky #Oslo

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

Yesterday I made a piccata w/ lemons & capers & garlic & shallot, oh my! Then, late at night, I dreamed that I was in a bombed and occupied city. We, the resistance, would identify ourselves by holding half a lemon up and lightly squeezing it. Subtle. The rebel flag was a half lemon a blue field.

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🏳️‍🌈 Celebrate #LGBTplusHM25 this February, as we share curated content collections and books that raise awareness and build knowledge about LGBTQ+ history and experiences. Explore our LGBTQ+ collection 🔗 cup.org/42AXdnX

Happy Black History Month! Join us as we celebrate the contributions of Black Deaf and Coda authors. Explore books in African American Studies on our website: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Browse-by-Su...

thanks for the appreciation on this post, y’all! here’s a list of black-owned bookstores you can filter by location aalbc.com/bookstores/l...

Oslo, Friday views from the office and the dog walk…

Scenes from a dog walk. Before the thaw.

Really nice and beautifully illustrated essay that not only looks back on an interesting period but forward to what a hybrid digital novel could be. Particularly love the image of Apollinaire's poem: "Voyage". #BookSky #Books #Essay #Proust aeon.co/essays/the-f...

am writing here's a little reflection on how it's going #writingcommunity #memoir #writers open.substack.com/pub/tonyread...

Scene from a morning dog walk. Are the trees advancing on us or retreating into the mist?

Surely this is how the zombie apocalypse starts - it begins with cute California fluffy-tailed squirrels tearing the heads off their prey (?!?) and soon we're running from Stanford students doing the same ... arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Bookstore in need of a little help!

am writing and a minor digression, bit of back story, is growing into a long chapter of it's own will I ever get back to the plot or am I lost in a a swirling eddy of exposition, a time vortex keeping me trapped in a narrative cul-de-sac constantly pulled out of the story's present tense? #writing

POV: when you're having a good hair day but you're sad because it's snowing and you know you need to wear a warm hat

Late afternoon dog walks, I pass a tailor's. He is middle aged, middle eastern, a smoker. This season, his bench fills w/ sequined dresses that cast stars across his stoic face. Next door, an art framer's window features several abstract portraits of Bowie. I revise. Imagine the sequins for Ziggy.

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I am the passenger…🎶 Pensive Bruno on the tram home after a spoiling at the groomer

This is getting to be a habit

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

44 years ago my little sister read Flowers in the Attic & related the story. Incest, abuse, murder. Sounded horrific. I see it on many people’s lists. Just hearing the highlights was too much for me. Not sure I can ever get the appeal to young tween (mostly) girls at the time. #BookSky