I'm a reader for the 5th running of the @spsfc.bsky.social (Self-Published Science Fiction Competition). We're in the first round, and I put together a list of the 25 books my team is scouting to generate two semi-finalists. Check em out! strangecurrencies.org/2026/02/08/s...

Don't really want to talk about Discord, enough going around Instead I just want to remind you You have friends who only have close online connections. Please be considerate. Do not scare the hell out of them right now that they'll be abandoned. Talk of going scorched earth scares many people

The fact that if this worked, she would just make money from books and not try to sell you the technique, is something people need to generalize across every thing GenAI/LLMs purport to do. Capitalism doesn't give away money. If using it was more profitable than selling it, it wouldn't be for sale.

I'm a reader for the 5th running of the @spsfc.bsky.social (Self-Published Science Fiction Competition). We're in the first round, and I put together a list of the 25 books my team is scouting to generate two semi-finalists. Check em out! strangecurrencies.org/2026/02/08/s...

Who has two thumbs (for now, unless one is lost to frostbite) and has to go grocery shopping tomorrow in -30 windchill?

I think every pro wrestling company could learn lessons from Lucha Underground on the topic of being willing to be ridiculous/magical about things. I want there to be an in-kayfabe canon explanation for why a cutter is just a move when some people do it, but a devastating finisher for someone else.

"Before we get started, imagine a straight man, unpleasant though it might be to do so." Making me laugh like that on the train is not very nice of you @taliabhatt.itch.io

Re: the Red Ogre thing. There -is- a thing to keep in mind which is that most publishers of content have clauses indemnifying them from suit on the subject of things you submit to them. If you submit a thing, and by coincidence, they were already about to publish a very similar thing...

"Locked in the Trunk of a Car" (The Tragically Hip) "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of War Drums" (A Perfect Circle) "Friend is a Four Letter Word" (Cake) "There is a War Going On For Your Mind" (Flobots)

"All Summer Long" by Kid Rock. Not only is it terrible, but it also tricks you into thinking you might be about to hear Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" which is a FANTASTIC song. The Whiplash is worse than expecting Under Pressure, and getting Ice Ice Baby.

It's here. Just in time to read on my commute to the office the rest of the week.

for real, though. I'm looking for an affordable (definition flexible) place to live with these guys, starting march 1st. I can be normal. but I figure I might as well give the sales pitch of being weird and esoteric too. really any place that I can be reasonably comfortable with the cats works, tbh

Feeling some kind of way about the fact that I just saw the news that my 4th grade teacher was just arrested for sexual assault/interference/exploitation of a young person which occurred...the year he was my 4th grade teacher. So I almost certainly know the victim (name not yet released).

CHOTINER: Did you have any idea whether the plums had a specific intended use? WCW: Well, I don't know if I knew for sure. CHOTINER: But you considered it probable? WCW: Now look, they're delicious and sweet, they make a great snack. CHOTINER: Perhaps for breakfast?

By the time Isaac Chotiner knows who you are, it's far too late.

It’s the last day to submit nominations for the Small Spec Book Awards!

This isn't untrue, but I think the ACTUAL primary blocker to UBI is that the capital class requires a desperate underclass in order to exploit the labour of the workers. The reason all the data showing how successful UBI is doesn't result in UBI is that it's not a kind of success they actually want.

So apparently a game that gradually let's you upgrade, several times with the premium currency only, to the ability to let you generate 7 hours of offline progress, but forcibly stops running after an hour or so idle, is now considered an idle game? Genre words used to sort of mean something.

Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction" (2002)

If progressive voters unwilling to support a genocide were a large enough contingent to actually have swung the election, then they were a large enough contingent to rightly demand the party support their views to get their votes. Can't have it both ways.

I have to keep reminding myself that the term of art my brain has for this kind of player comes from a very specific niche game's creators and nobody else has any idea what the hell I'm talking about. It's a very evocative term for the kind of player who will ignore enjoyment/fun over optimality.

Alright guess I'm just never buying a physical book again that I don't already know I'll enjoy. Was nice to be able to take a chance on something new that looked like it might be good.

Wil Wheaton referring to "Don't actively support a genocide" and "Don't strip basic human rights from an entire class of people" as "demanding a pony". Then blames the left (who voted for Harris in huge numbers) for ...not voting for Harris, and blaming them for Trump. Shut Up Wesley.

One of the first things he did in his first campaign for President was literally state "I could go do a murder in the streets and nothing would happen to me."

Playing Final Fantasy Tactics and really feeling like I need a "Hand Argath over to the Corpse Brigade and join up with them instead" button.

Also serves as a "When you get mad at me, this is who you're mad at" post.

'Brown/Trans/Les' is out MONDAY!!!!!!!!! Grab it at the pre-order price!

This is basically my relationship with my physical form.

Coo coo

Bring Me the Big Naturals of Alfredo Garcia

-9? -9?!? It was -20 when I left for work this morning and I wasn't even wearing gloves.

Well, I think part of it is the extremely high likelihood that if this started happening, the response would be machine gunning people down in the streets, and not like...hitting them with batons and tear gas.

Imagining some kind of snuffbait story about somebody buying these and then going to piss off some mobsters.

One more day to go on this sale!

So do we think Oscar Montoya will only play TTRPGs if he can have a put-upon, long-suffering NPC assistant to be the boss of?

New Year and actually publishing book reviews? What is this, a book review website's social media account? My review of 'Machines of Consent' the debut cyberpunk/romance novel from Sophia Turner. Great stuff, check it out! strangecurrencies.org/2026/01/16/r...

The problem with being an adult is that while I have no set bedtime, I sure have a set wake up time, so instead if I want to stay up late, I get to just be extra exhausted.

HRT is not dangerous, and anyone saying something to the contrary is spreading transphobic misinformation.

3960 pieces later.

New Year and actually publishing book reviews? What is this, a book review website's social media account? My review of 'Machines of Consent' the debut cyberpunk/romance novel from Sophia Turner. Great stuff, check it out! strangecurrencies.org/2026/01/16/r...

The little sit is the inevitable gateway to the big sit. Now it's 6 hours later.

To celebrate 1,000 sales of our books, we wanted take the time to reflect on the past 13 months and share what has worked, and what hasn’t: transistance.press/posts/transp...

When somebody says a scene in a book is a violation of consent and then you read the book and the scene is not a violation of consent and maybe the person just don't know what the word "guarantor" means?

He looks like he and epiclloyd are going to drop a new epic rap battle of history.

Watching "His & Hers" and very early into the show I went "I bet it's X" and it is turning out now, with a huge pile of "OH MAN CHECK OUT THIS WIIILD TWIST" and it's exactly the thing I thought in like, episode 2.

I was a reader for this last year, and it was a great experience. Plus you get exposed to a whole lot of indie/small press stuff you might not otherwise have seen!

Nice to see Falkor's son getting work.