Has anyone used BookFunnnel? Any pros or cons? I'm planning to start self-publishing this year so exploring the tools/platforms people use. Any tips? Some that I'm already investigating are Ingram, Draft2Digital, and Book Sirens. Would appreciate other pointers. #writing #writingcommunity

Funny, but how many times does #enshittification have to happen before people are just done with venture capital bullshit? #tiktok Stopped Paying Creators, Now They're QUITTING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQQWb85XJA

I hope you are as happy as this dog riding an escalator.

Our vision is crystal clear: social spaces should belong to the people, forever. 🏡💙 No ads, no manipulative algorithms, no hidden agendas: a platform governed by and for its community. Support Mastodon. Keep the internet in the hands of the people: Donate […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Finished the third and most recent of #AdrianTchaikovsky 's Children of Time series - but the fourth is coming in a couple of months (https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adrian-tchaikovsky/children-of-strife/9781035057788)! This one really worked for me […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

I dreamt that I was watching a 1950s comedy show, with Jim Carrey dressed as a plump housewife, making jokes in a bus. I think I laughed in my sleep. I sadly can't remember any of the jokes. I even watched a remake of this show starring the same Jim Carrey but in the 70s, then in the 90s, and […]

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

This person blocked me after I pointed out that their post is a misrepresentation, and it makes them look suspicious. From their own words, they don't know these children. They stereotyped them, which is typical of NGOs selling poverty porn for donations. Why […] [Original post on mograph.social]

great short documentary: How Netflix ruined Kdramas forever https://youtu.be/p1_j6izmEX4?si=NqmmzH6PQGRiO1VM #kdrama #tv #netflix

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

Bonus #DadJokes Q: What do you call a dinosaur with one eye? A: Do-you-think-he-saurus. Q: What do you call a dinosaur who's a noisy sleeper? A: Tyranno-snorus! Q: What do you call a dinosaur fart? A: A blast from the past. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The idea that other countries should take in Americans as refugees, other countries that are rejecting most refugees at this time, is as problematic as all the people calling themselves ‘Twitter refugees’

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/missing-teen-december-winnipeg-9.7032819 Missing #indigenous girl in #winnipeg #manitoba. Please share. Hayleigh Clearsky, 16, last seen #dec19 500 block of Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg. Info above. #mmiwg #indigenous#winnipeg#manitoba#dec19#mmiwg#missinggirl

#pluribus started strong, but so many questions put me out of the story. (Hope these are not spoilers) Like, converting every human is far-fetched, ignores off grid people/communities, especially as their original plans were interrupted. Then, all humans are in one head but only certain thoughts […]

So in Pluribus, people get pregnant from masturbation? #pluribus

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@cark/115825129532868581 #solarpunk shall we make a solarpunk starterpack?

I saw the sunlight coming in through my window and decided to waste a few minutes trying to capture it, playing with the white balance settings to get different colors of the light. #WindowFriday #Fensterfreitag

RE: https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/115816077450379662 Perhaps the #fedi needs an automatic backup tool to periodically exports your data so you have a starting point if your instance suddenly goes offline. it will keep happening since they are run by ordinary folk whose lives can change in a […]

Happy New Year! Today is also Imani (Faith), the last day of #Kwanzaa which we have been celebrating as a community since the day after Christmas. We gathered and ate food from the African diaspora: jollof rice, jerk chicken, etc. I also made the unity cup […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

We have weird traditions in #denmark, especially around Christmas and #newyears. One is watching the 1963 black/white comedy _Dinner for One_ in night up till midnight. It's such a cute story, and a lot of Danes know it by heart. Why we watch it, or how it started, I don't know […]

On this day in 2020 I published this blog post, that I think has some humour, about that time I was learning to bake a cake and had a date with a lady to taste it. Uhm. If you are looking for something to smile about, this might be it. A love story about a homemade birthday cake – Dilman Dila […]

This is a first. Midnight found me in the loo, taking a dump. I wonder what it means. 😁

I'm told its a German ritual to watch this thing every new years eve. I watched it last year, and again this year, and I couldn't help laughing as if I was watching it for the first time! Happy New Year! https://youtu.be/5n7VI0rC8ZA?si=-YRcWDZoEG_pX7gT #newyearseve #newyear #newyear2026

I think one of the wildest parts of the Epstein Files fiasco to me is billionaires are so different that they talk about the darkest most blackmailable secrets of the worlds elite in gmail when I am miserably embarrassed Google is retaining my everyday online cosplay purchase history to train AI.

Being aesthetically impaired I rarely post photos or art, but this… A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow, Poland | Marcin Ryczek

Look, I don't want to tell other people how to do the fediverse, but here's a tip some of you may find useful: you really don't need to boost every single post in a long thread. If you do, then anyone who doesn't care about the thread is going to be really annoyed, and they may decide to hide […]

The programmer in me is saying "do NOT hard core shelves, they're just special collections!" The product developer in me is chasing that version of me with a Logitech keyboard. The "I want this to work" version of me is saying "why doesn't this come with shelves?" […]

In my early years, I wrote a #shortstory set in the town I grew up, trying to capture the mood of Christmas in this town, how people celebrated, and how they were pressured into spending money and buying new clothes for themselves. You can read the story here […]

Fedi hive mind, I'm writing a story. The MC investigates a Luo folk song (re: oral history, Uganda/South Sudan) that has clues saying 500 yrs ago an astronomer from China visited and documented Luo space travel technologies (portals to the stars). This knowledge is now lost and my MC has to […]

my commentary: in reading all of this, i wonder if, and i hope that in 100 years or less, future people reading about the provisions and legislation of the board of supervisors and the california state legislature will see the anti-homeless laws as the crimes against humanity that they are, just […]

Reading about san francisco's first chinese sex worker, Ah Toy. She arrived in 1849 from Guangzhou. "She was unusually tall for a Chinese woman, with delicate, bound feet and a slender boding and laughing eyes. Shew as 'strangely alluring', as one admirer later put it." "Her first place of […]

I haven't said this in a while, so for anyone new following me: You need a little nonsense in your timeline. Some good, natural fun, with no motive, no agenda, which does nothing but make you smile or laugh. Maybe you have some in your feed already. But you probably don't have enough. And so […]

I'm not sure how they piled up since I live alone and wash them every day! Is there some ghost that uses them while I sleep?

Last pot of the year! I made a second version of the terracotta amaryllis vase at the request of a neighbor. He and his wife are also craftspeople—she makes #pottery and he fashions highly polished wood lids to fit her vessels. This will be her Christmas gift […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Thinking about power adapters when travelling g... After leaving the UK by train this year I had no use for my chunky UK-AU adapters so I posted them home from Amsterdam with a bunch of brochures etc I wouldn't need until back at my desk. I'm a great fan of using postal services to lighten […]

In Berlin this year I stayed at a *new* hotel which only had two spare power points per room. And these were rooms designed for two guests! Two people could easily have six devices to charge between them. Cue me unplugging the TV etc to charge stuff. #travel […]

Discovered a new author to me as well as disability representation because I was browsing favorite narrators. https://share.libbyapp.com/title/10216742 #audiobook #romance #romancelandia #audiobooks @bookstodon

@planet4589.bsky.social trying to keep up with the technical terms here: Was that “fragment creation” by any chance the result of a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”? Cc @sundogplanets

[Illegal and dangerous advice, not admitting to anything illegal] @dilmandila binging Rick and Morty on acid is by far the best holiday memory I have so far.

@dilmandila The Chair Company tv series blurs the comedy/horror line a little

It's the season when pressures mounts to socialize with family. To my neighbours, since I live alone with no plans to "travel to the village" to be with family, I appear to be a very weird creature. Anyway, I'm looking for comedies and horror films/TV series to binge on, perhaps with a box of […]

It’s time to stop treating cars like disposable smartphones. 🛑 We can't buy a new EV every 2 years. Manufacturers must make the onboard computer modular so we can upgrade the "brain" every 5-6 years instead of the whole vehicle. 🧠♻️ #EV #Tech #Sustainability #RightToRepair #GreenTech

(also every single digital product for sale anywhere ever needs a "Make offer" button. Because I'm sure as hell not gonna spend sixty bucks a year on a podcast, that's just completely out of the question for me, but I'd be alright with twenty. A button that says "Make offer" with a number field […]