Bad Bunny on SNL: si no entendiste lo que dije, tienes 4 meses para aprender. Jajaja

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

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This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉 Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people! Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Honestly can’t think of a worse approach to reading than “the book is there to serve me.” Not to surprise, to reflect, to inform, to inspire, to confront, to challenge, to question, to awe, to stagger, to tease, to soothe, or to charm you? Look what you lose when your only language is power.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

Hi everyone from launch day for A Philosophy of Thieves! Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade. www.patreon.com/post...

The Lancet: “Long COVID is here to stay—even in children” By Danilo Buonsenso www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

...Immigration is not a crime to be punished. Immigrants are not only *not* a burden to their new country; they've been proven, again nd again, to be essential elements to a successful economy and a thriving, diverse community. As a country, we can be kinder than this. We really can.

"One work day, her task was to enter details on chemotherapy options for bladder cancer, which haunted her because she wasn’t an expert on the subject." These jobs sound awful and distressing - an important reminder to do what we can not to avoid contributing to the exploitation of others

AI ‘art’ is parasitic on real art and real artists, stealing their work and driving them out of business while impoverishing the totality of the human experience. So no, art is unfortunately not immune to machines. I will fight AI ‘art’ as long as I draw breath.

Unexpected joys: tomatoes growing furiously out of the compost we spread on the lemon tree this summer. They're starting to ripen but still so tiny! #Gardening #Granada

The WHOLE POINT of moral reasoning is holding ones moral center PRECISELY when you might lose and when it is not to your advantage. All the birds can fly in the wrong direction and you have to hold your own in those moments.

""Llegué a Bogotá. Ya no tengo visa para viajar a EE.UU. No me importa", reaccionó el presidente colombiano. "La sede de Naciones Unidas no puede continuar en Nueva York", agregó."

Yes and that some aren't worth doing at all. Easier said than done though!

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Punic workshops uncovered in Málaga produced amphorae used to export fish preserves to Corinth www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/09/p...

If I was still a UK resident, I'd sign this.

A world first win. Unions in Australia holding Uber to account ✊

This is a fantastic resource, both the infographic and how to use it in class. I like the encouragement to consider: "Am I a better or worse writer than the average person on the internet?" and "Do I know more about this topic than the average source online?" before using AI

I already was enjoying this very informative article on watercolor pantings of fruit before they brought in an expert quote from Alice Tangerini

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

Already reposted but for those who may see this thread outside of that, here ya go

Donald Trump begins with a laugh line: he says he's very happy to be up there without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter isn't working. He's doing crowd work, saying he'll speak from the heart, and that whoever operates the teleprompter is in trouble. The crowd is laughing with him so far.

Curious why a standard picture book is 32 pages in traditional #KidLit trade publishing? And why NOT all 32 pages are for story content? In this #PictureBooks101 post, I explain picture book format & construction: debbieohi.com/2025/09/pict...

When we define violence only as physical harm, we overlook how ideologies and institutions not only enable violence but can themselves be violent.

"Social media is so awful", blah blah gripe. Okay. But do you know the story of how this wonderful award-winning SF book won the sales jackpot for the second time? Gather round, kids, if you want reminding how wonderfully good things can happen in this world. 1/

Me, on a normal day: Same jeans again? Why not. Me, packing for a trip: Maybe I’m a 19th century English duchess and also a fan of hats.

WRISTS Pt 2! How to THINK When You draw digital MAGAZINE, (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online) just send “Magazine, please!” to [email protected] #anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #illustration

Hey all, quick question: is it good that mark zuckerberg’s answer to “are we in a bubble” was “yeah, maybe, but don’t worry, it’s just like the dot com boom,” a point easily-disproved? Isn’t he meant to be the guy who has a real answer? Is this good? Hello?! www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.

You are not responsible for how bad someone feels about things they did to you on purpose .

Every day, I find myself wishing that our new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Organizers in Crisis, was already out in the world, because I think it could really help people right now. Preorders really make all the difference in terms of helping a book become widely available.

me to my students: LLMs are like your worst ex. They will LIE to you with the most serene, most confident face one of my students, quietly: I hate that guy so much

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

‼️Ya es oficial: España no participará en Eurovisión si está Israel 🔹La decisión se ha tomado por 10 votos a favor, 4 en contra por el PP y la abstención de Junts www.eldiario.es/vertele/noti...

If you views are abhorrent, I don’t care how civil you are when articulating them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Three times in one week. These are dark times, my friends.