Jean Valjean, stealing the priest's silver after doing 19 years of hard labor for stealing a bit of bread for his dying nephew.

HEY AUTHOR FRIENDS!!! Have you got a bunch of author copies sitting around? Would you like to get them OUT OF YOUR HOUSE? We are looking for authors with 5 - 10 copies of a book they'd like to sign and send to some lucky winner, and help raise money for voting rights!

The lawn crew is busy at work. What they lack in experience they make up for in enthusiasm. 🐰🐰🐰

Do you know what? Capitalism finally broke me to the point where I may have gotten over feeling nervous about promoting my book. I just saw someone talking about wanting to read more indie queer books this month, and in my country there are right-wing parents trying to forbid a school from

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

@naomateimufasa.bsky.social Aqui tem umas letras que a gente ainda não tinha visto: genius.com/artists/The-... E amei seu nome novo aqui. 😂

enfim erika hilton sendo uma das maiores vozes do direito reprodutivo no brasil enquanto mulheres evangélicas lutam contra os próprios direitos pra depois vir as anti-queridas dizer que etc etc etc

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

LONG, LOOOONG MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

Happy Pride! Folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum are queer too. The A in LGBTQIA+ belongs to us, not allies. Being queer isn't only about who you fuck.

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

Foto de Carlos Bolsonaro com celular em visita ao pai levanta dúvidas sobre cumprimento de regras do STF Ex-vereador publicou imagem ao lado de Jair Bolsonaro em prisão domiciliar; determinação judicial exige entrega de aparelhos na entrada jornalggn.com.br/justica-2/fo...

another platform drops due to AI enshittification. i'd like to say im surprised, but i'm not. get off linktree ASAP. there are alternatives in the comments.

Bsky is apparently gonna start flagging whole accounts as nsfw soon so if you don't already know about your moderation settings, highly suggest switching nsfw from Hide to Warn; otherwise many creators will completely vanish from your timeline when they roll this out.

Repost to scare Bluesky developers

Me, participating in a discussion about public domain works: When the first Sherlock Holmes became public domain the ACD Estate sued people for including anything first shown in a later story: Moriarty, Mycroft, Mary Morstan... What is it with all of these Ms?

It's the annual attempt at harvesting free content from writers for Pride, and so an annual blanket message of "pay us" is offered. Invest in writers and our communities.

Shout-out to all the other "8 hysterical women" (I was number three hundred something on the list) for whom this is absolutely no surprise. (If you don't get the reference, look up the fallout of S3 of Torchwood.)

I think we’re long past the “ai bad because of stealing” argument and fully in the “ai is also actively and tangibly destroying our planet why are you even trying to use it as an art tool at this point” stage

Statements like this (from Rosenbaum) are intentional propaganda. There are no working writers today who do not know how much the majority of their peers are revolted by the use of this technology. The goal of stating things like this is to convince the general populace that it is normalized.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

e pensar que erika hilton não precisou disputar um cm sequer de espaço em podcast de maluco de direita pra emplacar a pauta mais relevante pra classe trabalhadora

> PL diz que vai apresentar PEC 4x3 > sabotagem da PEC 5x1 óbvia > a esquerda não votaria a favor porque iria prejudicar a PEC 5X1 > daí poderiam dizer que é o PL que luta pelo trabalhador > está tudo arquitetado perfeitamente > PSOL apresenta a PEC 4X3 de verdade da erika hilton > PEC 4X3 passa

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Of course I enjoyed that the Pope quoted Gandalf, but due to all the memes I have only now found out that he also quoted Hannah Arendt. I don't even know what to comment, it's just nice to have something in the news be a positive kind of surprise.

it's funny, i keep seeing critics of AI skeptics saying that we fear or don't understand technology but it's not actually about understanding technology right now. it's people who understand *language* that see through these claims of intelligence instantly, the writers & humanities majors

@derryday.bsky.social Omg, my love, look at these sweet friends. 🥰 (There's a whole thread of them.)

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Saw people using the new Star Trek episode title generator and did this and it's amazing how well it fits DS9.

Running a 50% sale on my ebook and audiobook until Monday 11:30 PM EST! Use the code: memories

blasting out a cheap meme

não só colem mas pressionem a organização, dona da MAIOR parada lgbt do mundo, por um posicionamento político mais forte e combativo. mesmo o comunicado deles de que o evento aconteceria foi extremamente neutro e descompromissado com uma verdadeira luta sendo travada contra uma parte da cidade

Tobacco companies decades ago: ignore the new medical research and look at this picture of a cool and sexy cowboy using our drugs. Tobacco companies now: we know what doctors say, but you're either using our work-provided-drugs to increase your efficiency or you're being fired in this economy.

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

Teaching kids is weird. One second you're secretly grinning because a 10 years old with no knowledge of your life started spontaneously badmouthing your old day job that replaced you with AI, the next you're wondering how is it possible for a kid to live a full decade without ever hearing of Hangman

Pour one out for our foremothers and the Premise

Thread.

YUP. This is why ppl actually acknowledgeable in industries... publishing, gaming, biotech, etc... are literally ignored when they say "That's dumb. That makes no sense, and no one will buy that." re: startups. There is no intent to EVER get something to customers. That's some other guy's problem.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Which is to say, if one is going to say "AI is actually intelligent" but then refuse it rights and agency, then I strongly suspect one either doesn't actually believe it is "intelligent" in any meaningful sense, or one is cool with owning slaves. One of these branches is ethically less problematic.

Robot legs are here and they aren’t going anywhere. [booing begins] Whether you like it or not we are going to cut off all of your legs and arms [booing intensifies] and heads and replace them all with robot legs and only robot legs [shouting over boos] well I can see you aren’t ready for the future

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

No, I will simply use another search engine. And when the time comes that all of them are fully AI, I will return to the pre-internet days of either resigning myself to not knowing or I will look it up in a book.

Nanixja.

"The board members made dubious claims about the intention of the piece, with one member saying the music — which contains no lyrics whatsoever — 'celebrated' political violence. ... Board members also claimed the piece sought to 'indoctrinate' children, a common talking point among [transphobes]."

Saiu na Folha @folha.com

ahahahaha jesus. christ. ffs, switch to duckduckgo. you can turn off the ai and get your images to filter them out, too. or ecosia at least plants trees for its searches. don't even bother with this shite. (also, hang on. 'to google' is in the dictionary. it means to search. not to slop. um???)

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.