Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

The Deadlands - Issue 42 | Psychopomp Includes the work of Nosawema O., |A. E. Weisgerber, Phoenix Mendoza, R.B. Lemberg, Maya Ysabel Ng, Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr., Diana Dima, and Kelsey Dean

issue 42 of The Deadlands is RELEASED UPON THE WORLD

including many deathy fiction and poetry

INCLUDING ONE (1) NOVELETTE, our first novelette in a while it's been too long tbh.

check out the issue page below and DEFINITELY, PRETTY PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SUPPORT US LIKE A SKELETON
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, I'm so sorry :(

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

The Year of the Mer by @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app is GORGEOUS

Toolkit | De-ICE Citizens Bank Your daily action plan & everything you need to help de-ICE Citizens Bank.

"On April 23, Citizens Bank will hold its annual meeting...We need your help to make sure that they are aware of the damage Citizens is doing to its brand by continuing to bankroll the for-profit ICE detention companies"
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As a man of exactly 40, I like to be asked about my daily fiber intake.

Oh looky, 3 of mine. 🥰🏔️👑🐉 If you like intelligent but still animalistic dragons, a frontier milieu, a queer love story, and a dash of Revenge Plot, you might like my novella trilogy The Crowns of Ishia.

Exactly the Gaza playbook: forcing mass displacement, then rendering entire towns and cities uninhabitable.

the fuzziness overload 😭

dancing snoot to snoot

If this #art reaches U, Pls share it!

I start treating patients at my uni in Gaza in a few days—for free. But tuition & dental supplies are getting expensive :(

Pls consider sharing this or offering support so I can keep fixing smiles🦷✨️

Less than 400£ to the next goal!
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

ICYMI I'm fundraising for the increased costs of my continuing breast cancer treatment, so if you can spare a little something, no amount is too small.

Boosting this post helps too :)

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a play in three acts

Took me 60h30m which is CRAZY,, I call this one The Quark Family and I’ve literally crammed so many references and details and hours into this my life feels so empty without it
Posted to Instagram May 3 2025
#quark #rom #nog #leeta #jakesisko #odo #startrekdeepspacenine #ds9

It looks great and I LOVE THAT BUG BUNTING

If those admins could load this post, they'd be very upset

My friend Piper J Drake is a light in this world. Author, editor, teacher, mentor, community builder, friend.... these simple words don't approach how amazing she is. She's fighting Stage IV Cancer & needs help paying for treatment. Pls Donate & Share 💖

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and it's not even an unreasonable hour for you to be up! ah well

If it looks like a concentration camp and sounds like a concentration camp,

uuuugh I know right. and there's all these birds cheeping and stuff uuuuuuuuuuuuggghhhhhh

Looking up at a canopy of narra trees, their young leaves lit by warm, pink, golden morning sun.

the dogs have lately decided that they need to be up and about at 5:30 every morning. and mostly I want to cook and eat them about it, but also the first sun on the high treetops is divine.

Cover of 3LBE Volume XI with a colorful illustration of various odd creatures alongside a list of contributors Thomas Ha · Ruth Joffre · Steve Toase · Aliya Whiteley · Joe Koch · Eugenia Triantafyllou · Christi Nogle · Octavia Cade · A.C. Wise · Mari Ness · E. Catherine Tobler · Avra Margariti · K.S. Walker · Brian Evenson · Nadia Bulkin · Corey Farrenkopf · Premee Mohamed · Katie McIvor

It’s release day for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology! Featuring 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and many more, with 29 new illustrations. Order now! www.3lobedmag.com/store.html

Tom Waits and Massive Attack announce collaboration The two artists (seldom releasing new material) have revealed themselves a pairing, with “Boots On the Ground" arriving April 16th.

I’m sorry WHAT

oh man that's gonna rule

“It is January 2026, and it's my first trip back since I fled the war, and the longest I've spent outside Sudan in my adult life.”

After nearly three years, Mahitab Mahgoub returns to Khartoum and shares her reflections in this personal piece: timep.org/2026/04/14/r...

Cover for The Deadlands Issue 42, Spring 2026. The image shows a pale figure with curled arms and hands laying upon a graying forest floor. A yellow lichen creeps across their hands and face, obscuring their eyes.

COVER

Do Forests Dream of Plasmodial Creep

art by @dorywhynot.bsky.social

it takes a team working for years to publish a book and make it the polished product that ends up in readers' hands. fic authors don't have that luxury! when you read a fic that's GENIUS, that's life-changing work, then imo that's an achievement that should be measured on a wholly different scale.

agree with you on all counts. PLUS if it's a traditionally published book, and often even with self-pub, those books went through several rounds of editing by professionals, including copy editors, in order to make them "good". fic authors MIGHT have a beta, but generally are solo creators.