would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

One of the best things about this book - which can reasonably be described as a Jewish High Holidays romance - is that it contains an exquisite line about using your procrastination time more joyously and fully. It's so sweet and I recommend it so much I may reread it tonight.

dudes rock

beautiful

{content warning: suicide} GenAI is encouraging teens to kill themselves. open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

re: chatgpt and suicide/psychosis, if somebody talked like that to other people in any of my peer support groups they would be banned instantly. a healthcare or psychiatric provider who did so would be stripped of their licensing. a crisis hotline would be sued into oblivion. shut it the fuck down

"I recognize an insanity bubble, and I recognize hubris."

Gailey's already an autobuy author for me, ever since The Echo Wife, but I am making particular grabby hands at this:

ICYMI! PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

“Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong.” - Adam Morton www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🧵 (1/8) New semester new AI policy for my syllabus. Drawn from my prior policy, @melhogan.bsky.social 's very clear and concise recent post about AI's problems, and reading "Empire of AI" this summer. For context, this is for a creative coding class in an art department. #academicsky #criticalai

I don’t ask this kind of thing often but I urge anyone who cares about ensuring that the pro-ceasefire, pro-Palestinian movement doesn’t just become a grab bag of antisemitic conspiracies read this book as soon as possible

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Many people asked me to make pretty/cool walking sticks! So I did! If I don't sell at least 100 of them. I'll have to cancel them and not make them. I know they aren't "cheap" but I wanted to make something of quality that would last. I wanted it to fit many weights and heights.

“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure” Keep fucking calling.

A quick technical reminder for creators who have revenue sharing enabled on @itch.io : the way to change the amount you're sharing with the aforementioned platform is simple: Log In => Settings => Revenue Sharing => Move The Slider Down to 0 Maybe move it up once the NSFW policy is reversed.

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers. They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.

yessss One of the guys that taught some of the woodshop fundamentals just openly explained that he was involved with the tool library because he hated capitalism. One of the things I want people to think about is this: you can have ANY TOOL YOU WANT and also YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STORE OR FIX THEM.

think of it like this: we eat cause we need nutrition for our bodies both producing and consuming art is how we nourish our minds. you can actually see people who don't have art in their life going off the fucking deep end. it's a processing/centering mechanic. it's a meal for the human in you

I noticed something today that I forgot existed... a garage sale sign. Who knew it would lead to an existential crisis? csferrie.medium.com/saas-self-as...

Just me deleting my old Soundcloud account.

This is incredible. This computer science professor makes his students play a game that simulates the risks and repercussions of getting Long COVID, and then he's like, hey anybody want a mask? And: "approximately 95 to 100% of students who’ve played the game now wear masks in his classroom."

Hey folks, can anyone recommend an NDIS Support Coordinator working in Victoria who you've been really pleased with? Searching on behalf of a client, looking for personal recommendations only, ideally from the client side rather than the coworker side but will take both.

i did not have "ASAN and Autism Speaks in agreement on something" on my 2025 bingo card...

I'm late in spruiking this, but my flash piece 'Optimal' has been out in Banksia Journal for a month or so now: banksiajournal.com/optimal/

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

fun fact: if you draw fanart for a game within the first week of any sort of major PR event for it (announcement, demo, release etc) there is a 99% chance the entire dev team on the game knows who you are because they are doing nothing but reposting fanart in slack

Oops, thought I'd filled both 2025 issues of Weird Horror. I am 8k words shy in issue 11 (Fall). Instead of opening for a full month for 2 slots I am open today til Feb. 28, end of day. No reprints. 5k words max. 2-cents per word. Simul subs okay. Send to weirdhorrormag (at) gmail (dot) com

Proud to be a signatory. #OzJewsSayNo #NO2EthnicCleansing #NO2TrumpsGazaPlan

Please to put my name to this important - and entirely un-radical - message in the SMH & Age today. @timhollo.bsky.social and various other friends & relatives are there too. Notable that many many more Jewish people signed than could fit on this one page. #OzJewsSayNO #No2ethniccleansing

Proud to be one of 500+ Jews to sign this full page newspaper ad in SMH / the Age calling on Australia to reject calls for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. 1/4

I am proud to be a part of this. Today in the SMH and The Age more than 500+ Jewish Australians have raised their voices against ethnic cleansing in Gaza. If you agree with our stance against ethnic cleansing please help share the message. #OzJewsSayNO #No2ethniccleansing #NO2TrumpsGazaPlan

Proud to be one of more than 500+ Jewish Australians standing up against ethnic cleansing in the SMH and The Age today. #OzJewsSayNO #No2ethniccleansing #NO2TrumpsGazaPlan

the first rule of player feedback is that players are not game designers. you are the fucking game designer. players don't know the first thing about game design nor do they know what they actually want until you do the work and give it to them. if we listened to players everything would be fortnite

Meticulously retweet every such clarification. No, not to change the minds of fascists and tankies. To focus the minds of the global lowercase d democratic supermajority: they will see it and it will work as an antitoxin to being affected by the same poisoned media environment that Trump lives in.

Dept of Social Services disclosed private legal letters with the Catholic Church which were then leaked to The Australian newspaper and used in concert to try and silence survivors of abuse by a senior Church member. Yeah, it's nuts. But they admitted it. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

This is the poem I wrote for/about Corey - now available to read online. CWs: grief, death. 💔

i'm frequently sort of taken aback by the number of people unaware of emma goldman's fondness for dancing

this is *before* most of the negative effects of all of this lawless horseshit have been felt.

lol glomar responder is an inside baseball national security joke about foia. Glomar is the name of the case that validated a policy of refusing to confirm or deny whether the government has responsive documents if it determines that any response poses a national security risk.

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

A reminder that @scarleteen.bsky.social is 100% queer and trans run and will ALWAYS be providing educational materials, support, and more to youth seeking sex, relationships, and health education from a source who won't casually erase their existence with their political winds.

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.

This is also what makes writing and reading historical fiction so very rich. An AI story generator can't make a joke about fugio dollars.