IF YOU SEE A BAT CRAWLING AROUND ON THE GROUND DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS, LEAVE IT ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO HELP IT CALL ANIMAL CONTROL. DO NOT APPROACH THE BAT, DO NOT TRY TO AID THE BAT ON YOUR OWN, AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT BREASTFEED THE BAT. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.

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Staggering amounts of money. “An MIT report found 95% of organizations surveyed are getting no return on their AI product investments.”

Hey, this is a reminder that the Unbound for Gaza auction is live right now. I have the complete Wedgeford Trilogy up here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

It's day two of the "just got to hold on until the book check hits" sale! (A very publishing vibes sale indeed. LOL) We have 25% off everything in the shop as long as supplies last (I already emergency reprinted the clicky dumpsters!) Visit http://thebrokencirc...

If you want to do a one-time contribution I have a ko-fi: ko-fi.com/clpolk

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

NC friends! 80,000 NC voters have to either repair their registration in advance or vote provisional and possibly have their ballots thrown out. Please check if your name is on this list! Good info in this gift article on what to do if this affects you.

I literally needed to know this exact thing, so thanks to this guy.

ACA premium subsidies for 2026 will be calculated during open enrollment on your 2024 tax return. So, if you’re filing a self-employed return Oct 15, watch the cliff and if you’re close to it, as others have pointed out, contribute to your IRA to get under that bar. You will save thousands of $$.

I've been asked why I haven't played shows in other cities for a while. If you hadn't noticed, music math for us little Indie acts has changed since 2017. I used to tour with two people. That's not possible at my level anymore. I had to pick up a whole new instrument to be able to tour solo.

This is a fun historical series. I love the setup of the first book.

As the governmental assault on free speech heats up, remember what they did to Lenny Bruce. Have mercy on this land. youtu.be/w0vpzY8JMHw

We're out here reliving the "greatest hits" of the past. wellcomecollection.org/works/s6fq6b...

If you want to know about food in buns, you can't go wrong with @beerinator.com .

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Support Loyalty! An amazing DC bookstore

If you haven't already, please do yourself a favor and watch my FAVORITE Redford movie - Sneakers: It's funny, has an amazing cast, and Redford at his best.

Hey do you like vintage silverware? We need to raise some funds FAST for medicine. The screenshot is from FB. We don't have a bsky for the rescue (yet), so you can chat w me and I'll help! If you don't want this cute stuff you can also donate: www.capedcrusaderscr.org/additional-m...

This entire thread is an excellent set of safety practices

Always repost cheesecake boat

I'm on the fence about some of this, but it takes the current problems seriously. Even the early, idealistic ideology of OA was premised on the idea that access above all meant 1. digital and 2. access above all to stuff.

A wonderful short story thread :)

Related: Even our most dedicated local pharmacy has canceled all appointments until after the ACIP meeting later this month, when eligibility could be narrowed again. Notice from the NC board of pharmacy here: www.southpointpharmacync.com/_files/ugd/1...

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

Do it. Make OpenAI cry. I dare you.

Water ice.

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Yes! This!

Been a fan of Loyalty Books ever since we did a kick ass event together back in 2023, sounds like they’re in real trouble thanks to DC being occupied by the military. Go buy some books!

It’s not that reality and history are being rewritten… but that they’re being essentially erased by a flood of bullshit that functions as a pervasive noise, rendering it harder and harder to find the signal.

You know how you can show Penguin Random House that they should not spend so much money on books by people like Amy Coney Barrett? 1. Don't buy it. 2. Buy other PRH books, for example, by the many authors who have been banned. You can find many of them here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/banned-books/

The CfP for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" is still open!

Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.

The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program. We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful. The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs. www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...

So I guess... if you were published by one of the big guys in the US, don't assume they registered the copyright for all of your books. Go look your books up and find out: publicrecords.copyright.gov

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Friday 8/29 right here on Bluesky!! @romgothsam.bsky.social and I will be liveskeeting their new short film about Byron's evolving relationship to his ancestral home! Film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_3... Press play at 3:30pm ET | 8:30pm and join in here using #Byron200!! Runtime: 35 minutes

This needs to be being said more. Do NOT read the details on the NYT story/horrible ChatGPT thing if you have any kind of trauma history with suicidal ideation etc. For example I feel no need to mute words on this issue but absolutely should not have looked at it & have been v agitated since 😐

I enjoy this take on overtly bananas historical romance, as explained via Snakes on a Plane: "You don’t need our intellectual agreement because, frankly, we handed in our intellects at the door. You just need to give us a hook from which to suspend our disbelief."

which is to ask, what is the standard by which we conclude democrats no longer use this language, if actual evidence of its rarity doesn’t count? if the standard is “republicans no longer accuse them of it,” then you’re just illustrating the basic problem with this discourse

Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen. The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words. The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives. Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.

Someone in comments (and now I can't find the actual comment, sorry) said the best Star Wars trilogy is now Andor, Rogue One and Star Wars Ep 4, and you know what, I'm here for that argument, call it the "Death Star Trilogy"

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🗃️ Variation of this: I gave students one of my chapters w/no footnotes, asked where they thought footnotes should go: What type of source was used? What makes you think that? They have to consider how writing shows evidence vs. context vs. author’s voice. They liked it a lot and had great questions!