I have tons of fireflies in my yard *every* year! The weather may make conditions for them extra favorable, but you can help foster a great firefly habitat by not using poisons or fertilizers on your yard, having areas of tall grasses and native plants, and leaving some leaf litter.

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co

"Everybody forgets that just about every other attempt by Meta or Google or Microsoft or Amazon to expand outside of their core competencies (if you can call them that) has failed. Everybody is desperate to ignore the fact that Silicon Valley startups have, for the most part.."

Laudna🖤 #LVMS #BellsHells #Laudna

The fundraiser for @clarionwest.bsky.social this summer is a fun interactive fiction game! Donate $5 and you can navigate the labyrinth twice (and get book recs at the end, some of which are rec'd by yours truly!) Kudos to the awesome team who built this! www.clarionwest.org/story-oracle/

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

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I was explaining to someone about how when I was a kid a lot of educational stuff seemed to take place in a pitch black void and people didn't know what I meant!!

‼️CLOSING TOMORROW‼️ Casting will close at 9am PST tomorrow 6/08! Get your auditions in! We still need FOUR Latinx/Hispanic actors for "The Sacred Disease"! Who wants to play a demon!?!? #castingcall #audiodrama #voauditions #voiceover #horror #comedy #voiceacting

Txamsem brings Pride 20” drum Started laying down some paint on this commissioned drum. #nool #drum #mikedangeliart #mikedangelidesigns #pride

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

It's official... The Book Bazaar 2026 applications are NOW OPEN! Apply now on the site: www.the-book-bazaar.com/apply/ Applications are open until end of June so get your app in now!

I have a story this season! Do you want to voice a creepy twin or an eldritch midwest abomination who works in hr? Check out the casting call!

Hey VAs, we're coming into the last weekend of the call, and would still love to hear from you!

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

[RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction! is at $332 out of a $1000 goal!!! Look at how cool this sounds!

🌟WRITER ANNOUNCEMENT🌟 Next writer for para/Normal Season 2! This is Scythe Liu with Episode Five: "Artistic Discipline"! Check out the link below to see a list of Scythe's works! scytheliu.portfolial.com #podcasting #audiodrama

🌟WRITER ANNOUNCEMENT🌟 Our next writer for para/Normal Season 2 is Oz Zeno with Episode Four: "Nevermind the Cabin"! You may know Oz from her incredible work as Nat on @store236pod.bsky.social! ozzenova.carrd.co #podcasting #audiodrama

I have a new baby. Baby cat is a lot more active at 2 months than baby babies. The almost 5 year old babies are very fond of baby cat.

Imagine telling on yourself to this degree. Maybe shame atrophied along with everything else he outsourced to ai.

🌟WRITER ANNOUNCEMENT🌟 Next in our lineup for para/Normal Season 2 writers is the amazing @LysanderTheNerd with Episode Three: "The Problem With Coastal Gardens"! Learn more at para-normal.lawofnames.com and about Lysander at the link below! linktr.ee/LysanderTheN... #podcasting #audiodrama

Table of contents buddies!! So excited for this episode

A Long Road Home: Volume Two print edition is now available for preorder!! www.etsy.com/listing/4511...

An interesting warning for writers: There have been ads, making their rounds on social media, advertising writing contests with large prizes. Beware-- some of these contests are tricks to get you to submit files that will then be used to train AI models (LLMs). READ THE FINE PRINT!

I fixed the latch on my office door after years of living with it broken because i brought a kitten home and needed to keep her away from my work space.

Thing i have: A book. Thing i don't have: consistent marketing Thing i might have: adhd

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my newest book? In FAMILIAR, two sisters hunt down killers and collect body parts while complicating their lives with volatile magics, bizarre visions, and a mysterious mouth in the wall. Think Junji Ito meets Little Women. ghoulish.rip/product/fami...

My little guy is injured. If you can spare anything or help get the word out, we would be eternally grateful. gofund.me/4f7526550

Please, if you can, give this post a share. Our boy Hamlet needs some help.

I am going to make a puppet

A wolf’s winter coat can be around 6 inches thick! I love how this absolute goon squishes himself up again the bars to get pets. Don’t worry, his enclosure spans across several acres and this is a wolf sanctuary where I volunteer! -Wolf Watch UK

If you’ve been dreaming about building your very own webcomic site, Ren will be your guide to the pros and cons, and demonstrating with a live how-to! Making a Webcomic Site on Sunday, May 17th @ 8pm EDT on Zoom #NIF2026 nif.cartoonist.coop/event/making...

Serra Arapaima #MerMay This solitary mermaid hunts in the waters of the Amazon basin. Her heavily armored body can grow up to four meters in length.

It would be cool if my body being in pain didn't also trigger Deep Sads but i guess it just loves a buy one get one on agonies.

My daughter is funnier than me. "What's your inner beast, kid? A squirrel, a duck? A deer with big antlers?" "No. I'm a jellybean."

Aaaa my friend made this it's so cooool!!!!

Hi Critters! Did you miss us? (It is once again finals for the Archivist who handles social media.) Our stats for last week’s episode (C4E024) will be going live tomorrow. In the interim, check out some of our C4E023 data, including some (already-useful!) loot:

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Bean was at the lit fest yesterday and told me that my art was scary to her. I told her that mommy was in charge of those monsters, and they're only pretend. She liked the art at home but in a loud venue it was too much. We're back to appreciating mommy's monsters again <3

T. Kingfisher (@tkingfisher.com) joined us for a LIVE episode at @norwescon.org in was a fascinating conversation about retellings, adaptations, and her novel WHAT MOVES THE DEAD 🐇🍄 Now we’re excited to share it with everyone! 📺 bit.ly/4e3Vj4Z 🎙️ bit.ly/4u1KKnM #whatmovesthedead #norwescon

Which T. Kingfisher book would you most like to see adapted? #tkingfisher #whatmovesthedead #inktofilm #thetwistedones #ridleyscott

Tomorrow! I am going to sell my books at the Tacoma Lit Fest at the armory from noon until 6. Today!! I am gonna fret about it as i hype myself up <3 Come peruse my wares!

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We are live! For the next 37 days, I will be trying to raise 10k for my body horror/monster movie SHE BLEEDS GREEN. As I've said many times before, this one is very very near and dear to me and I want it to be something special. Every bit helps.