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The Academy has banned AI • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

I'm working on something for my blog and I had a question for all you authors out there (self published, indie published, and traditional published)... What published book(s) do you wish you'd written? Feel free to give a reason why if you want to.

The Flatiron Building, New York City, 1918, by W. W. Rock.

Stark Beginnings With Style: A Fiction Workshop by yours truly is heading your way the second week of #May! www.meetup.com/just-write-p... #writing #onwriting

Stark Beginnings With Style: A Fiction Workshop by yours truly is heading your way the second week of #May! www.meetup.com/just-write-p... #writing #onwriting

sleep

From: Ghost in the Shell 2 – Innocence (2004), dir. Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G/Studio Ghibli

I do not trust that horse.

Jesus this is an on-point statue right about now www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stan Lee, John Romita, and Jim Mooney mess with the Wallcrawler’s mind - or at least, Mysterio does - in Amazing Spider-Man 67 (1968). Plus original art!

And we have liftoff for Ariane 6 🚀 Flight #VA268 has just left Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana and is heading to low Earth orbit.

Call for manuscript submissions! If you’re querying your YA, new adult, or adult fiction novel, we want to read your pitch. Submit for publication here doubleedgedpress.com #publish #booksky #indiepublishing #callforsubmissions #fictionwriter

I've been hearing that the library waiting lists around the country from HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY are insane. If you run a community reading room anywhere in the US, and would like a free signed copy, send me a DM and tell me about your space I'm giving away TEN signed copies

Damn straight! and check out the insides! all three books are on sale now! @andrelimaaraujo.com

Non Marvel, DC or Image cover of the Day(by @andrelimaaraujo.com )

Non Marvel, DC or Image cover of the Day

Beeple says the work critiques how today’s perceptions of reality are increasingly shaped by algorithms controlled by powerful tech companies rather than artists. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/WnwC

They want to charge a subscription for lucid dreaming.

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

I am so digging this full spread by Steranko. Captain America #111. I never tire of his work.

“You must write every single day of your life...You must lurk in libraries & climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes & wear books like hats upon your crazy heads...be in love every day for the next 20,000... remake a world” Ray Bradbury www.goodreads.com/author/quote...

“Use AI to think but not to think.” Or ignore the plagiarism machine altogether.

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

“You must write every single day of your life...You must lurk in libraries & climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes & wear books like hats upon your crazy heads...be in love every day for the next 20,000... remake a world” Ray Bradbury www.goodreads.com/author/quote...

Just released by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southwest: pics of the lifting and handling of the Artemis II spacecraft in San Diego, April 16-17, 2026. Credit: Mario Icari www.dvidshub.net/image/964539... #Artemis

Bird Box By Josh Malerman Shatters Minds theforgottenfiction.com/bird-box-by-...

As an autistic college freshman-turned Story Warrior, Erica trudges the magical city's snowy, cobblestoned labyrinth full of streetlamp faeries and meddling gods in the hopes of finding the Legioness at the city's heart rjhuneke.com/ants-waking #booksky #sff #fantasy

Shout-out to the Bond movies for making an evil tech founder a super-villain back in 1985, at least 25-30 years before the rest of us caught on.

Terry Pratchett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pratch... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Josh Kirby, Joe McLaren, Laura Ellen Anderson and Marc Simonetti):

so taken by this robin williams image that i had to draw it

Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

The lyrical and moving science-fantasy follow-up to A Palace Near the Wind is finally here... 🌊🌬️🎐 A RIVER FROM THE SKY by @aijiang.bsky.social sees Lufeng and her sister Sangshu fight to protect their culture and their world. 💫 https://tinyurl.com/y3fbxrse

I repel the precipitous precipice and write my life as poetically and bravely as my being can bear, and so time falls fast about, but I have so much to tell, of works, of teaching, of an exciting new venture rjhuneke.com/on-writing-r...

Someone DMed me about the Tomb of Dracula page. Peak Conway. It’s been a joy to see the outpouring of gratitude towards him today. Absolute 👑.

Post a cover to a comic Gerry Conway wrote that you love.

Suzanne Collins is one of the most underrated writers of the generation

actual life goals as a professional is how that lady lives her life. Literally all you know about her is the name of the next book. 10/10 life

Post a cover to a comic Gerry Conway wrote that you love.

I really am saddened to hear that Gerry Conway has died. The comics he collaborated upon were part and parcel of my growing up, and I’m very, very grateful for that. And from their number, there are far more than a few of just plain wonderful comics that I’ll never let stray from my shelves. R.I.P.

You must answer her riddles to pass. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Over 28,000 young people signed on for a Seattle Public Library card, which enables access to e-books even if they don't live in Seattle. The program was started by Brooklyn Public Library to expand service in communities impacted by censorship.

That’s not what Chat said…

Imagine using a "tool" that has a chance of deleting your entire project and possibly forcing you to start over from scratch. I can't think of any other "tool" that has this kind of random destructive capacity.

obviously this is absurd behavior from Claude but I’m actually somewhat more flabbergasted at the cloud provider here (Railway) it apparently stores backups on the same volume as the source data, so when Claude says “delete this volume” all the backups are gone too

Human strong!

My only hope out of all of this is somehow we all emerge, clumpy and clotted with the slop that nearly drowned us all, and we willfully -- viciously! -- demand a world of art and information made only by actual human beings.

“Ennis has the uncanny ability of making every situation funny and entertaining.” @fanlightzone.bsky.social “The dust‑choked, blood‑spattered odyssey that only Ennis and Burrows could conjure.” @geekvibesnation.com Are you reading BABS: THE BLACK ROAD SOUTH by #GarthEnnis & @jacen-art.bsky.social?