In a world where "AI" submissions are a plague, human-written stories are the cure for an editor's breaking heart. Don't let the flood discourage you from sending your work out there. You are better, no what the hype of the moment says. We want your stories. Not the slop-infested noise.

Cthulhuposting.

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

Sometimes your breakfast is a hot dog at a minor league ballpark, and that's okay.

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

How could I possibly quit kdramas right now.

You're gonna have to explain to me how running a Mastodon instance costs a billion

what a stupid fucking sport (laudatory)

remember when people would have a work account and a fun account and then be all work on the work one and leave the shit talking to the fun none, so you could block contact in one context and not the other if needed? anyway, i'm sure this collapse of work and personal spaces down into one is fine

Admins shouldn't be able to block users. If you're making the stew, you should have to gaze upon the rotten meat.

Frowning when I see a terrible post, nodding when it has alt text.

It's interesting, because Canada spent $6.48 billion last year alone on the RCMP: rcmp.ca/en/corporate.... & yet I'm not being inundated with articles about the fact that the service is a financial gaping maw

Really looking forward to the latest Jim Johnstone chapbook from @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

"Pluto is a dog"

Hey. It's me, your bank. I've sent you an email because there's an important message in the app I can't tell you what it is, but it *is* important. Everything I say is important (I am a bank) (checks app) "0.01% cashback if you spend over £500 at Peppa Pig world between 1 and 2pm next Thursday!"

Against all odds I have a draft for the #2daypoemcontest. Time to walk the dogs, get changed, get my horn and music and head to my concert. At least I'll have a couple hours tonight before I have to send it.

I planned to get up early. My older dog beat the alarm by 15 minutes. Laundry, dishes, coffee, and now settling in to the @cv2magazine.bsky.social #2daypoemcontest. I had a few ideas over the week, I think one of them'll work with the words.

A rare test pressing of Robert Johnson containing an unreleased take of his Crossroad Blues has been uploaded to YouTube a couple days ago by Nick Dellow. The sound quality is incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...

This season is cursed. Absolutely cursed.

Sugarman the donkey from the Lishui writing retreat says hello.

I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them

I had to deal with AI generated content about Indigenous knowledge in my day job today and it made me feel sick to my stomach, the epistemic and ecological violence of AI fills me with so much despair

Looks we love

First poem acceptance of the year. ❤️

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

The face of a small dog who self soothes (because the older dog was getting his ears cleaned) by trying to tear a blanket to shreds.

does bluesky have downtime because of vibecoding? hmm, unlikely. is it funny that bluesky seems to have more downtime the more smug and defensive their devs get about how great vibecoding is? extremely so

It's an indictment of this site's stability that I saw this on Mastodon first.

There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!

@jellyssh.bsky.social is a really neat sorta irc style ssh chat i dropped into a while back

The act of cooking would be a lot more relaxing if my hands weren't made of meat

not sure any website is going to be able to withstand the internet joy when It Happens but this one is definitely not

Philosophy poem

It’s a hard time out here for anyone who cares about anything

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine: Shut up fives, a ten is speaking

impeccable

What are we even doing here. Not only should this never happen, it shouldn't be an aside in the news cycle, and he shouldn't have a job after it's made public, either. I feel like I'm going insane every day.

This "age verification in the OS" stuff is deeply dystopian.

Very faintly remember someone telneting into my Linux desktop decades ago, and chatting all night via talk(1)

It's Playtest Zero time again! Jump in, the (pike) water's fine! For our US-friendly session, join us next Thursday, 23 April from 6 pm (PT) / 9 pm (ET) to late over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)

Post the best posture you have ever taken of your pet.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

my big thing about economists saying that "everyone is doing okay" is that absolutely nobody agrees on what "okay" means

diplo dumb bitch

counter: www.patreon.com/posts/155290...

Less than a week left to register for my online workshop about persona and dramatic monologue (link in the alt text).

fell down a rabbit hole, apparently the most thorough guides for Baldur's Gate 1&2 are written by a woman who has been thoroughly blogging all her video game opinions since the 1980s. she gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 2.1/10 rating and scathingly calls it a reddit RPG lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...