I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Bianca Nieve, only daughter and heiress to the Nieve fortune, finds herself on the wrong side of the law. Taja Soliño, a hardware tech barely scraping by, finds herself helping a member of the family known for oppressing the city for their own gain. Together, they might just be able to free themselves and the city of New Velles. CyberSnow by A.E. Bross Available Now!

👥 Dual pov
👩🏻 Autistic cis woman MC/LI
👩🏼 Trans woman MC/LI (but w/pink hair)
🤜 Anticapitalist
👍 Making good trouble
😈 Gremlin energy
🍎 Snow White retelling
🩷 Ace, no-heat romance
🏳️‍🌈 Everybody's queer

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So, this happened.

Thanks to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for taking a chance on my strange tale of a weird London.

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

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."

7 characters around a sign that says Happy Trans Day of Visibility. This includes a goblin girl, a tall and muscular alien girl with a horn, and one anime-ish pretty boy with silver hair.

Quick silly art of a selection of my trans characters for the Trans Day of Visibility.

Even this small sampling was a lot to draw.😅

This is indeed a new one and it’s awful.

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It's in our neighborhoods. It's in our unions. It's in our communities.
On March 28, we flex that power. Together. #NoKings2026 social.demcast.com/s/z0FbdlTF
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As technologies mine our attention, we must look to artists | Aeon Videos If technology threatens to flatten our humanity, artists can deepen it. Hear how, from a flamenco musician and a juggler

"He believed that, to prevent us from losing our humanity, we should look to artists, who represent another way of seeing – one that deepens our appreciation of the world rather than flattening it."

“Separate the art from the artist” is a nuanced concept that should be reserved for dead creators only, whose legacies we have to grapple with in the context of history. It should NOT be used for living creators actively doing harm. That’s my two cents.

In a bold move toward sustainability and consumer protection, taken a stand against the wasteful practice of Planned obsolescence. By legally banning this approach, the country is pushing manufacturers to create products that last longer, are easier to repair, and generate less environmental waste.

I saw it tonight, and I wholeheartedly agree.

On a black background with flourishes of red dots and lines is the text: Meet the BFS members! Gabrielle Steele. Gabrielle is pictured in the centre: she is a white woman with short brown hair, wearing black-rimmed glasses and standing in front of a blue curtain.

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week we're in Essex with @eldris.thellian.com, who's "definitely" an epic fantasy gal who loves big stakes, battles, magic and creatures.

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What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have.

This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

I can't say that I'll be boycotting Chili's as it has been years since I've been in one, and you can't really boycott a restaurant you already don't go to. That said, I'll be happy not to change my habits, transphobia leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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At long last, I've had a good day's writing again. What a wondrous experience.
I had almost forgotten what that was like. Not just wringing words onto the page, but actually enjoying the craft
🤩

I think it's perfectly understandable that many people feel a deep sense of resentment and disenfranchisement for the time capitalism has stolen from them, but the answer is not to embrace capital's machine that pretends to show you an inner life you aren't having.

Birdseye view of a pancake pan with batter in it that has run in an irregular pattern forming a misshapen pancake

Has anyone else tried the wonky pancake method of map design?

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

A dream of no immigration is a dream for hatemongers and shitheels.

Fuck this forever.

And abolish "A.i." as much as you possibly can from your life. It's a tool for fascism, pushed by fascist billionaires.

Let's hope it becomes laughable. I'll take it over terrifying any day

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NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.

The Times interview records: "Hodge, who presided over the case with two female justices, defended the decision and pointed out that the case before the court had nothing to do with how or where single-sex spaces should be created. 'These points weren’t argued before us,' he said.

It’s not ‘fantasy’: I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality – because I was one of them | Rickard Berg I remember him as a racist bully, and his allegation that other ex-Dulwich boys and I are liars tells me he hasn’t changed, says former Dulwich college pupil Rickard Berg

"I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality - because I was one of them" - Rickard Berg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

Alternative headline: humiliating and abusing women on X by digitally undressing them is now a privilege reserved to paying users.

Afua Hirsch: Politicians looking to blame others for migration should look at themselves | Good Law Project The west has spread environmental and economic damage around the world. Now the people fuelling the politics of hate are making money from the apparatus of hatred, says Afua Hirsch.

"Instead of acknowledging migrants as the survivors of climate collapse – fuelled by the global north, which is responsible for 92% of excess global emissions – these political parties emphasise 'overpopulation' and 'opportunism' in the global south."