Dear Authors:
Please for the love of god DO NOT use AI to make your cover. Not even if you're in a rush. Not even if you can't afford real art. There are cheap options.

You do not want your hero to hold his gun with his thumb and index finger on the SAME SIDE.
And you don't want to rip off artists.

7 reasons being autistic is so. freaking. exhausting.

1. We're in constant sensory overload

2. We're constantly fighting against our executive dysfunction to do basic necessary life tasks

Autistic people tend to think in complexities... and here's why (according to research) #autismawareness

I just saw someone talking about how no one in corporate is following rules because they are all made up and this literally exploded my mind. Is THIS why no matter how much I adapt to follow new rules I seem to uncover, I can never seem to make sense of any of them?!! 😲😲😲

Tell me why autistic people are always "stubborn" and never...
goal oriented
driven
ambitious
passionate
persistent
consistent
diligent
dedicated
determined
focused
committed
dependable
persevering
🤔

The ‘weather whiplash’ fueling the Los Angeles fires is becoming more common Around the world, dramatic swings between heavy rain and drought are increasing exponentially, according to new research.

The ‘weather whiplash’ fueling the Los Angeles fires is becoming more common

Around the world, dramatic swings between heavy rain and drought are increasing exponentially, according to new research.

grist.org/science/los-...

#Fire #Drought #Wildfire #Weather

Warren on Hegseth suddenly embracing women in combat (if they meet certain standards): "I've heard of death bed conversions. But this is the first time I've heard of a nomination conversion."

Kevin Hearne | The Full Body Druid Tattoos Previously I’ve shared the brilliant work of artist Phil Balsman (who’s been paid!) when he designed the shoulder and arm tattoos for Atticus and Granuaile, as those would be the ones folks most often...

Thanks to some diehard fans and a fundraising drive to pay the artist, we now have detailed full-body designs for the Iron Druid tattoos! Shoutout to the artist, Phil Balsman of @odinstarindustries.bsky.social! kevinhearne.com/the-full-bod...

Rumor: If I receive donations from a GoFundMe page or something similar, FEMA will not help me. | FEMA.gov It depends. By law, FEMA cannot duplicate benefits you receive from another source. However, there are many different types of assistance available through FEMA and we review each application to ensur...

This is useful to know.

www.fema.gov/node/if-i-re...

Square Canva graphic with a curve-striped red, black, and pale pink background. A white square in the middle contains text reading, "Some autistic people can speak, and some autistic people need to communicate in other ways. Some autistic people also have intellectual disabilities, and some autistic people don’t. All of these people are autistic, because there is no right or wrong way to be autistic." Smaller text underneath reads, "@ThinkingAutism tinyurl.com/ASANonBeingAutistic"

Some autistic people can speak, & some need to communicate in other ways. Some autistic people also have ID, and some autistic people don’t. All of these people are autistic, because there is no right or wrong way to be autistic. @autisticadvocacy.bsky.social:

autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/a...

The thing that makes these monsters so effective is that you *can't* tell who they are from their works and public personas. That's what allows them to hide in plain sight. Nobody saw Bill Cosby coming, and no one saw Gaiman either. don't act like you have some kind of preternatural abuser sense.

Rep Landsman: "You're just picking on children. Our government is not supposed to be this intrusive. Your government has become incredibly intrusive. You're in our doctors offices banning treatments. You're in our classroom banning books. Now you're in my daughter's locker room"

Covid is an airborne pandemic.

I’m concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.

You wrote exactly the same thing on a platform owned by a racist misogynistic transphobic antisemite, who openly trains his AI on all the posts you made.

Not a great sign for democracy if Senators are fearful to vote against the incoming leader of the military. bsky.app/profile/leba...

Seems bad

SH@25 Episode 7: An Interview with John Scalzi In this episode of Strange Horizons @ 25, producer Michael Ireland sits down with acclaimed SF author John Scalzi to discuss his 2001 story Alien Animal Encounters, which just so happens to be the …

The new episode of #StrangeHorizonsAt25 is now live!
I had a chat with John Scalzi @scalzi.com to discuss humour in his writing style, the impact @strangehorizons.bsky.social has had over the past 25 years and supporting diverse voices in speculative fiction.
strangehorizons.com/podcasts/sh2...

This is one of the coolest things I've seen an institution do in a long time. Bravo, Getty!

Welcome!

Really excited to watch John Carpenter's The President but damn four years with no intermission is a long time to hold in my puke

Crassus' fire brigade « IMPERIUM ROMANUM Marcus Licinius Crassus was one of the richest Romans in history. One of his ways to become rich was organizing a "fire brigade".

(Crassus had a 500-man fire brigade, mostly slaves, who would arrive at a burning house and then basically stand there doing nothing until the owner agreed to sell him the property for a crazy low price. Or he'd buy the land for less after the house burned. www.google.com/amp/s/imperi...

Isn't it that you have air rights only up to a certain (fairly low) height, which varies by jurisdiction, correct? Or am I way off base here?

The ovulation tracking app, "Ovia", now mandates you identify what state you live in. Delete immediately and warn other women.

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.

'I can't make money without breaking the law and therefore you should let me break the law' is one helluva flex. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

It's not just Elon, btw, there's a whole "Libs of Bluesky" account that's working overtime trying to falsely portray Bluesky as a haven for CSAM and pedophiles.

I'd laugh and say it's all cope, except I think they're trying to create a pretext to send LEO in to shut down servers under Trump.

Cover of Grand Theft Sorcery. Illustration by Julie Dillon, title design by Lee Moyer.

It's out! GRAND THEFT SORCERY is available on Amazon now!
Magic and monsters exist outside the law. The lords of the night harm who they please and take what they want.
Sometimes, what goes around comes around.

Grab it now! tinyurl.com/3rsavsfb

Content warning for Grand Theft Sorcery. It's a lot. Come for the mountain of felonies, stay for the adorable cats!

GRAND THEFT SORCERY stands on its own with no prior reading required, but it shares a world and characters with the GOOD INTENTIONS series... which obviously means it needs a content warning!

Cover art for Grand Theft Sorcery. Illustration by the one and only Julie Dillon!

The world’s crazy. You need a break. I’ve got you.

GRAND THEFT SORCERY is magic, thrills, spicy romance, and laughs that will help you breathe again—and chapter one is free to read on my site!
Read it here: tinyurl.com/5n7rynxf

Never has a quote so perfectly encapsulated what i think the current danger with AI is, i want to drill this into people's skulls

(from philosophybreak.com/articles/wha...)