I'm so excited for this!!

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

I do not hate America. I hate when someone tries to trap America inside a narrow idea of what she should be. Who she should be. How she should be. America is destroying her cage Yes YES America is out

I have no need for genAI. It would improve nothing in my life. It wouldn't save me time. I could not trust any text it assembled. It cannot research. It cannot write like I do. It cannot create like I do. It cannot justify its existence or its expense. It is not inevitable. It is not unavoidable.

Autism doesn’t need to be cured.

Pushing Daisies.

This is such awesome news!

We're doing DAILY GIVEAWAYS during our Birthday Sale! Today's prize is a pair of Story Engine Expansions: ➡️ Science Fiction 🚀 ➡️ Mystery 🔍 Every order is a ballot for today's draw, and a ballot for our grand prize draw for a $100 gift card at the end of the week! storyenginedeck.com

It's my birthday next week! So Barnes & Noble put the special purple edition of Someone You Can Build A Nest In up for 25% off: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/someone-yo...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

#girlgenius Hated to do it, but we started a GoFundMe. These are chaotic times, and no mistake, and all of a sudden we realized they were chaosing all over us. (www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

OMG!! So excited for this!

Worse than Nixon. Without a doubt.

The decks are absolutely fantastic!!

The United States government is sending people from our country to a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process or hope for release. It’s really important for everyday people to realize that if you truly believe in “never again,” never again is right now.

The enemy is always the aristocracy, no matter how it changes forms or tactics over time. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

"You know that system we already built and that works great that allows people to file their taxes? In the name of efficiency, let's destroy that, so that people have to file on paper or give money to a vendor." There's no pretending that this is about "efficiency." It's an Intuit subsidy.

And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot

Podcast promotion! ✨✨ Now with VIDEO! ✨✨ I'm going to get even further out of my comfort zone and ask you to share this with anyone who likes audiobooks, speculative fiction, and guys with beards who put them together into a podcast. Thanks, friends :)

Oh, just remembered, there's an e-promo of All Systems Red, it should be 1.99 on most US retailers, today (March 30) only. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

This, right now, is probably the most chaotic time to be trying to draft a book. If you have a system figured out to consistently get words written, this thread isn't for you. If you could use some tips, keep reading. I have a book that was frankly supposed to be drafted by now.

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

“We should be able to come together as American citizens and say, no kings, no tyrants, not now, not ever.” Thanks again for an inspiring chat, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social

This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

I just saw someone wanting to spread a little hope in the timeline with their stories. Here's one of mine that I think will do the trick: ethereamagazine.com/germinating-...

This is what dystopia looks like. Everyone who is going through your normal day without being affected by events, you're the people who are living in The Capitol in The Hunger Games.

You can try to erase whichever members of our NASA family you want on our websites, but you can never erase our achievements. Imagine trying to hide America’s history and accomplishments in space of all places. gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...

Trudeau speaking to Canadians & Americans: “we were always there. Standing with you. Grieving with you the American people. Together we built the most successful partnership the world has ever seen. A relationship that’s been envy of the world.” This partnership matters. Don’t let it be destroyed.

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Commit the sin of empathy.

Yeah, so, nobody is paying attention to book releases today, and for good reason. But if you want a distraction, THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF NAMING is a tiny but deep dive into how naming (characters, places, things) can subtly deepen your worldbuilding! (and please go vote if you can)

Civic duty done!

I did another sketch! I'm really proud of this one. #MichaelSheen #Aziraphale #GoodOmens

Bookshop is doing free shipping in their anti-Prime sale! Want to get a monster romance story for Spooky Season *and* support indie booksellers? This is a great time. bookshop.org/p/books/some...

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Yay!!

Scrivener replied to my email about AI. It's an unequivocal no to AI in their product. (Their point being: they won't, if an author wants to they can.) Please repost this. These guys are decent people and a pretty small company.

It will happen in the goofiest way possible, but everything will turn out fine!

I love the Rice Truck Saga 😆

Speaking as someone who knows a little bit about copyright, and has been a proud member of the "edgy internet"* since the early 90s, I'd like to talk about why letting the AI companies freely scrape content is a bad thing for open content, and a threat to everything the commons movement worked for.

They should 100% run with this. All the way. Plaster it everywhere. I promise to feel completely owned.

I’m excited to announce that not one, but TWO of my books have been shortlisted by the 2024 The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. -Unfadeable for Middle Grade -Sweep of Stars for Genre Thank you, Indiana Humanities! #2024IndianaAuthorsAwards #Shortlist #IndianaAuthor

A brilliant new short story from John Wiswell is out! Reading it gave me chills!

We’re delighted to offer you our latest free ebook, Goblins & Greatcoats, an entirely new tale of murder and intrigue from Hugo and Nebula award nominee @travisbaldree.bsky.social, set in the NYT bestselling world of Legends & Lattes and Bones & Bookdust: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

Keep saying it loud and often: generative "AI" is not intelligent, it is riddled with inescapable errors, it is structurally incapable of ever doing half the things its hypers claim it will do, most of it is snake oil in search of a mark to scam, and it's environmentally destructive to boot.