This #BlackHistoryMonth it’s important to remember that Black history is part of many of our tribes’ histories too. For Cherokee Nation, we cannot tell an accurate history of our tribe without Black history.

Oh. Yay. (Said in the tone one uses when confronting a clogged john.) I've already hit 'my gods this is a dumb idea' for the thriller. Part of my process, I suppose. I just keep telling myself I've loved every one of my books once it's finished. At some point, I'll want to burn it in effigy.

Research shows that "up to 75% of autistic people aged 20–49 and more than 90% of those over 50 are undiagnosed. This means that millions of [autistic] people around the world might not be receiving the support that they need." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #autism #neurodiversity #aging

This needs more attention. I'm extremely busy right now and I will get around to looking into it more closely, but if any bored developers have some spare time then consider making a public tool to highlight what's happening here. It needs to be tracked, openly.

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If you were making a jewellery/jewellery components type gift for a dentist, what would you make? I can do pretty much anything with jewellery except casting. #JewelleryCraft #JewelryCraft #Craftersky

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

Okay. I give up for the day. I'm off to watch Sense8 S2 with a kid. Why they ever cancelled such an amazing show... oh. Never mind. I forgot. Homophobia and Transphobia.

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

It wasn’t the most comfortable way to wear a sword, and it made drawing the weapon difficult, but it covered up the hole in his tunic perfectly. (BL Royal 6 E VI, f. 58v)

If you don't say anywhere who the artist or designer of your book cover is, I'm going to assume it's AI and I won't buy the book. Crediting your artist / designer is more important now than ever.

And fun fact. They can claim what little charitable giving they do on their taxes and often get it back. Tax the fucking rich before we eat them. Guillotines are starting to look kinda effective for the problem, if you get me.

Billionaires evaded over $168 billion in taxes while undocumented immigrants paid over $100 billion in taxes while receiving no benefits. I know who should be deported.

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

For any new tech to gain widespread adoption it has to do multiple things better than the current tech. DVDs didn't just look and sound better, they were smaller & you didn't need to rewind them. AI on the other hand is less reliable than a human expert. It just gives wrong answers faster. Useless.

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

Saw in that movie (1408) a line. Paraphrased it was Cusack asking, 'what kind of God would do this to a little girl?' I absolutely choked on my water because whoever wrote that line sure hasn't read the Bible! 🤣

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Watched a movie named 1408 tonight for movie night w/spawn. John Cusack did a great job & wasn't leaning on his looks. I knew where it was going pretty quickly, but they did the tropes so well it was still a great movie. And yes, I'm very *very* behind in movie watching. That's an '07 film. 🤣

Hey tabletop gamers, if you bought or were considering buying this bundle but got overwhelmed by the number of games to sort through, have I got the spreadsheet for you!! All 1,074 games tagged as "physical" sorted by play style, with language, engine, and genre notated to the best of my ability:

Elon Musk could have saved the world. Instead he chose to cut USAID and watch children die. He supports dictators and lies without pause. He's not a genius but a monster

You'd be far more likely to attract my interest with this. 🤣❤️ I don't celebrate it. Partner doesn't care. It's just a date on the calendar. Too much of a historian to *not know* the history behind it. And it's a family member of origins bday so that's all it ever was growing up.

Figured out last night that while my kids can nigh automatically tell if something is genAI... I cannot. Eldest has a valid thought that it's because I didn't have to grow up with the shit. Like, I've been trying to figure out how to tell if new to me music is genAI because I just refuse to

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I don't like gatekeeping (against humans) of any form. It really irritates and annoys me. It just makes people feel like shit. Regardless of whatever specious 'why' is attached. It's, IMHO, a form of elitism. Someone with a degree isn't automatically better or smarter than someone without one.

Went the fuck off on them. Oops. Not sorry. Go fill it out and tell them we don't want fucking AI in our games.

PLEASE. MAKE. THIS. The absolute nightmare left in the wake of an opsec wizard and master hacker's unexpected death is not something I ever want to have to deal with again.

Church architecture can be so gorgeous.

Is my contrary ass putting even more em dashes in my work right now? You fucking betcha. Kiss it.

Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️

So, you know some of the slang for really having to use the washroom? 'Prairie dogging' comes to mind. Petition to call it Trumping since apparently it's well known the monster smells like shit all the time. (Legit. Staffers from his TV shows have talked about it.)

This is because it coincides with Trumps first run for office. I couldn’t find it if I looked, I'm sure, but I read an article that said he hired someone to find a target to pick on to increase his chances. They picked trans people. We're always the canaries in the coal mine.

And if you have an iPhone and you have the sinking realization as the federal agent is bearing down on you that you forgot to disable biometrics: hit the right-side down button 5x very quickly to enter the power down menu.

Is this the “golden age” economy we’ve heard so much about? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Most of us hit a burnout by 30 years old. If we survive that long. I was 27. It often just feels like: I get back to limping along only to have a repeating cycle of burn out-limp along-burnout-ad nauseum. It's exhausting. And I'm on the very edge of it again where I'll be incapable of so much.

A-fucking-men to infinity and beyond, singing hallelujahs with the choir--yes. This. Forever. Always. Yes.

sunstone is a 20 book series this was the plan for many years now. if you thought i was done after the first 5 you were mistaken. ;)

The Repository currently has 146 species available for reference, with new ones constantly being added! Here's a master list: www.animal-photo-references.com/species-list

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

There's still time to take action for Mexican gray wolves.🚨 Congress is considering a bill (H.R. 4255) that would end Endangered Species Act protections for Mexican gray wolves, based on misinformation. 📣Take action now: https://engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocacy?page=UserAction&cmd=display&id=217

Planning to write something for FriTeenth, but I need to do a little research. If you're #LGBTQ and grew up in "the Midwest" of the US, please reach out. There are some questions I have about life there, which come from the perspective of having lived/grown up in Florida. #Writing #Writesky

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Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge. Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today styleguide.transjournalists.org