deliver us from the capitalist hellscape where the only thing that matters is the easily quantifiable output

And that’s why we call it the scientific output, not the scientific method, right?

is it even a real grant proposal if your margins aren’t a sliver of an inch wide

There is only Eastern Europe. You can run from it, you can deny it, but it is how they will ultimately regard you if you move to London, Paris or Barcelona. Better embrace it.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.

Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

would love to read criticism abt the minor strain of fantasy where magic returns to the world--Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist, Crowley's Little, Big, Clarke's JSaMN--esp bc they're *not* inversions of the nostalgic "magic-leaves" story, nor utopian/millennial; they end w a very ambiguous transcendence

Ahmed is like many Gazans trying to raise money to help cover the basic needs of himself and his family. Please help them gain more visibility by sharing this post.

On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk.

If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"

Gouache painting of a female mallard duck. She is swimming on water and has a reflection. The background is filled by a yellow glow.

This is my first ever attempt painting a duck! With mallard ducks most people depict males because of their colorful plumage. So I went with a female one and got real painterly with their feathers.

#traditionalart #gouache #art #birdart #duck #wildlifeart #animalart #bird #nature #stunday #sunset

book pitch designed as a mock movie poster. Black-and-white painting of a young girl’s face with piercing dark eyes and black hair transitioning into the all black background. Book title beneath her: They Call the Place Wild. Logline up top: “there once was a woods lost in a child…” Book pitch stylized as movie poster credits: a Violet Lichen production with Apex Books from the creator of Weird Fishes and The Unidentified a new story by Rae Mariz starring The Shadow Sister, Adolescent Bird Fey and the Ancient Embodiment of Rot as told by An Ecologist Witch, A Giant Raven Mother and The Soul of Białoweiza Forest. Coming Soon Feb 2027. Painting by German artist Moki’s How to Disappear series mioke.de

THE OVERSTORY x Grimm’s fairytales x Slavic folklore

12yo Belarusian girl loses herself in the last old-growth forest in Europe and finds that the folk from ancient tales have taken refuge there due to the destruction of their habitat and distortion of their stories

#PosterPit #SO #SPF #FT #C

Welp

Not too worried about that really. That's the talk of a slop merchant desperate to convince you that the slop trough is inevitably going to replace real food

Mages for gender diversity 🔥

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

A wintery landscape with brown-grey colour scheme

Cold spring in Liaoning. Two anchiornithids fighting. Tianyulong unbothered.

Even native trees have evolved, like literally every other species, to ensure their own survival, even at the expense of others’ - there’s a reason why some ecologists call them the assholes of the plant world!

There seems to be ecosystem services thinking at the root (I won’t apologise for the pun): trees are universally good because they make oxygen for everyone else

I’m observing the tree trend in fiction with interest and mixed feelings - how these novels treat the relative stillness of trees as proof of their benign nature among the chaos and violence of other life forms

Refusal to Review I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”

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The cover of Rua M. Williams' book "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong About AI". The cover image is a spiral of yellowish orange leaves set against a red background.

Come join @civicsoftech.bsky.social's May book club on Wed, May 20, at 7pm ET. I'll be leading a discussion of @fractalecho.bsky.social's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong About AI - and Dr. Williams is joining too!

Register at: www.civicsoftechnology.org/book-clubs

even if you’re a public (or semi-public) figure, people aren’t entitled to your private life!

still wondering how a 6-8h filming session focused on you, your work and your daily environment could be considered a normal thing to do for an award and not a massive intrusion into your personal life

Read ALOCASIA: A Journal of Queer Planty Writing! ALOCASIA publishes queer creative writing about plants, nature, and horticulture. Submit your work or explore their garden of fierce, celebratory voices.

Calling all queer writers who love plants! ALOCASIA: A Journal of Queer Planty Writing publishes poetry, fiction & essays celebrating nature. The weird, the erotic, the anti-colonial & everything between. Rolling submissions. Paying market!

#QueerWriters#callforsubmissions @alocasiamag.bsky.social

Highlighted passage from the book - Pattern Design by Lewis Foreman Day “The daisies make a pattern on the lawn, the pebbles on the path, the dead leaves in the lane; the branches of the trees above, the naked twigs against the sky, the clouds that mottle the blue heavens by day, the stars that diaper their depths by night, all make perpetual pattern.”

Reading this 1901 book on pattern design. Cant get over the loveliness of this passage on pattern

In both writing and academia, the advice going around seems to be: "learn to say no to things! prioritize your writing time! but also, don't pass up opportunities because money is scarce and your career is forever precarious :)"

We lose again: Windham-Campbell Prize manqué Was going to post this on Substack, but they don't let you indent blocks of text.     Today’s insanely long installmen...

Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction
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Chat maybe fighting over limited resources that burn the biosphere to run your society isnt sustainable

Soon AI use will be disrupted by the cheaper and more reliable alternative that's sweeping the business world: hiring human experts to do the work instead

bouncing off of this post, one reason why happy endings in horror books rarely work for me is they so often require you to just not think about any of the other people who have suffered so the protagonist gets their happy ending. don't think about those fools. they don't matter.

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money