But the point of that film is that powers by themselves don't make you hero. And simply using AI to create something doesn't make you a writer or artist. Tech bros know this, so they want to change how we see the entire creative process. They want people to question real writers and artists. 5/

Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/

From lyrical essays to experimental poetry, Fahmidan Journal welcomes writing that expands literary possibilities. Submit now: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit%E2%81...

I think yesterday was the first time I’d been in a room with only QTBIPOC folx and I don’t think I’ve ever been happier

Using Handwritten Letters for Interviews, Sourcing - Nieman Storyboard niemanstoryboard.org/2024/12/19/j...

The Exchange Between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass omowalebooks.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/t...

It’s Disability Pride Month. Fascists are enacting a blatant eugenicist project worldwide. You can disrupt it. You can defy fascists, do community care, keep resistance efforts healthy, & shield marginalized groups from disproportionate harm. How? Wear an n95 in public. Give/get mutual aid:

Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today! lithub.com/jenny-jackso...

my general issues in life can be boiled down to have biriyani tastes but no biriyani skills

Submissions cap update: lots of slots left! Fiction is 47% full (70/150), poetry is 21% full (21/100). If you haven’t sent Jess and Angel a story and/or poem yet… you still have time to write something dark + weird + messy + risky + deeply, deeply fucked up (complimentary) just for them 👀

One of my favorite things about working with young writers is going “HOLY SHIT YOU WROTE THIS???????”

I have emails to send and also two really unavoidable phone calls so of course I had to make a poster

genuinely Quinta Brunson gives me so much joy i grew up with this woman give her all her flowers

The only benefit of not being in an LDR is that my ex and I don’t have to split five hundred bucks to fly to Michigan. The downside is that I only get cat pictures now and not cat :(

A year or so ago I spent several hundred bucks on a version of MS Word from 2019 explicitly so that it would not update and give be subscription nonsense or AI bullshit. It updated and broke everything. Now I can't create or edit documents and I'm out a whole bunch of money.

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I wish I had any hours left in me for this godddd would be awesome to read some kickass shit

Slowly dying of Long Covid, a direct result of my covid infection in March 2020 before vaccines were available. It has been an excruciating few years that will end in early death or homelessness. Covid is still circulating, still disabling & more often than we like to admit, still ending lives.

I represent the 9th ward of the Oakland conglomerate of transgender mice. As their designated consigliere, we are advocating for the rights of all animals to be trans and free.

my broke alternative to going to concerts where i can float away from my body is getting so high i start counting floaters and putting a speaker on my chest in the dark with tiger balm on my shoulders and a heating pad on my back

Me @ the people who’ve come in for convocation and FIFA and don’t have any train etiquette which would be bearable if they were at least observant but no go back to the suburbs where you can keep believing that you don’t owe anyone anything

this is, arguably, the most important part of the thread to *me*. Please, please go support and follow For the Gworls, y'all! as someone who has benefitted from organizations like this LITERALLY saving me and my child from houselessness, this cause is so, so important to me. Thank you for supportin!

'Please boost 📌 Will I get help? 💔 I need $100 to provide food, medicine, and water. Please quote and share.🫂 Hunger is deadly.🥀 We die very slowly.🥀 I need help.🙏 Quote and share.🙏 Please help me.💔🙏 Hunger is deadly, my brothers.Save us.💔🥀🙏 #GazaCrisis #HumanityFirst #MutualAid 🇵🇸🍉'

The Art Institute of Chicago has censured a faculty member for making an assignment that has “anything with Palestine in it,” in this case just quite literally the existence of a Palestinian. US higher education is actively policing Palestinian existence as ‘antisemitism.’

You can help Ziad & Mirna's family feed, clothe, and keep them safe amid the brutal conditions of Israel's genocide by sharing & donating. They're starving, homeless, & in urgent need:

We have added a new payment gateway to our website because some people were having trouble with Razorpay. So if you want to give us money and you were struggling before, come try. www.blaft.com/collections/... This is a pretty boring post I guess. Please enjoy this Tamil pulp novel cover

a few months ago i saw someone trying to justify AI by saying most anti-AI stances are from Western countries and that the global South is excited about the opportunities of this technical so being anti-AI is “imperialist” like wtf??

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"We are dying of hunger💔🙏 We are dying of hunger💔🙏 We are dying of hunger 💔🙏 Look upon my children with compassion They haven't slept a wink all night from hunger. My husband is a prisoner, and I have no provider Any assistance could save my children from starvation. 🥹" chuffed.org/project/1591...

It's easy to cheer this, but we need to remember that Facebook is the Internet for many large developing nations. Messenger is a primary means of communication. This is not something pleasing until the infrastructure has been replaced with something better and uncompromised, this just harms people.

I'm trying! YA: STAR DAUGHTER (a Nebula finalist!) THE DREAM RUNNERS DIVINING THE LEAVES Adult: INTO THE MOON GARDEN Lots of short stories, too. www.shvetathakrar.com

This is a yearly reminder that as queer people our sense of self and our liberation must be and is intrinsically tied to global struggle for self-determination. Especially if you live in the heart of empire—remember your history. Remember that pride is protest #happypride

Thank you @smallwondersmag.com for being the perfect home for this! "Your Cause and Your Effect" is a tribute to the teachers who had an impact on my life. Actually I think I'll dig up contact info for one of my elementary school teachers and send him a thank-you today.

They describe the urgency: “Apparently access to safe clean drinking water - A HUMAN RIGHT - is not at the forefront of people’s agendas for support in Gaza. This is slow burn ethnic cleansing. This is making the situation in Gaza so unbearable that the occupation thinks people will agree to leave.”

DID YOU SEE THIS??? The most beautiful cover by Misha Chernov www.mcversipellis.com for my new novella They Call the Place Wild. I can promise you it’ll be another strange one. Breadcrumbs leading you deep into the dark forest, bare feet black in the rich rotting soil. Let’s get lost!

Boost #1 for today: This is a great magazine and you should show them your love and kindness (with cash!).

And boost #2 for today. Note that Strange Horizons and shifting to Backerkit now that Kickstarter is enshittifying by using useless AI support tools. Book them and get ready to fund another year of award winning short fiction and poetry!

Ended up doing the post-grad school thing of freaking out about my life going nowhere and having too many jobs and now I’m throwing up at 2am on a Tuesday because my tummy hurts

waiting for lefty authors published by PRH- india & elsewhere- to speak up about this... (& waiting...)

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So stoked to say that BURR holes is now readable and findable in The NonBinary Review from @zoeticpress.bsky.social to whom I owe big thanks for picking this one up. Writing about ritual, memory and violent healings got me through the Big Dark and I hope y’all have a chance to read it 🥹

If you've thought about the insidious violence of the coloniser's tongue, of how something you can love so much could gut your heart from the inside out, if you've ever loved a borrowed tongue enough that your mother slipped away, I wrote this for you www.khoreomag.com/fiction/tree...

Of the house only the gabled roof remained over the column of memory— like an umbrella opened for no reason ~from "War Tableau #2" by Fereshteh Sari (translated from the Persian by Kaveh Bassiri) 🔥 AGNI 102 🔥

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Popping up to remind you that the writing workshop's application deadlines are May end. Ok, return to your doomscroll. open.substack.com/pub/samit/p/...

still craving quiet brain from when i got covid three years ago and my brain was just empty so beautiful

Big congrats to @noumenon.bsky.social—you’re an amazing editor and this is more than deserved. If anyone has the chance to work with Andrew take it! You’ll know what it feels like to feel heard and seen all the way through to publication. And go read his work because there’s more waiting there!

This made me giggle lmfao zines I’m ready for all the weirdness that’s in this

follow me for a whole lot of nothing lmao