Nasa photo of the Andromeda Galaxy

Night sky in Yellowstone
Andromeda Galaxy, NGC 224
Distance 2.5 million light years
Size 220,000 light years across
Contains about 1 trillion stars
At least 13 small galaxies orbit Andromeda

It's moving towards us at about 120. km/s which means its one of the few galaxies to have a blue shift.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Love this 🤓

Now that is delightful info!

Shy Girl, AI In Writing, And A New Perniciousness I wanna talk about Cameron’s The Terminator and Carpenter’s The Thing, but first, let’s get it out of the way — If you know anything at all about me in this Current Era, it …

Went ahead and talked about AI in writing and publishing (aka, that Shy Girl shit), and the perhaps unseen perniciousness of how AI can utterly fuck up the fidelity of our information environment --

You know why people never get Zbigniew Brzezinski or Quvenzhané Wallis wrong?

Because you don't type them.

You cut and paste them.

William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π. The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh,[3] learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age.[4] By the end of his life, he knew eight languages with critical thoroughness.[5]

Pi(e) day pi(e) facts:

The guy introduced the Greek letter for pi was the father of the guy who discovered proto-Indo-European (PIE)

Oof.
#writingcommunity

Anyway, both with AI and our billionaire class, we put too high a value on chaos and disorder, associating it with genius when it is the furthest thing from it.

What Happens When Your Books (Don’t) Get Banned? When a friend wrote to me some months ago that he’d heard a book of mine had been banned, I felt a surge of excitement. I’m not proud of this. The banning of a book is hardly a badge of literary me…

The will to ban a text is a signal of impact: it indicates that a creative product presents a perceived insult either to power structures or to the self-appointed guardians of an ideology or status quo. In other words, the gesture of banning suggests social relevance

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We all know publishing is hampered by the lack of manuscripts.

Here's one for the peregrine falcon feet fans!!! 🪶

On that note, I used to love the #booksky feed, but that has become essentially unusable while I wasn't looking. It's a nearly impenetrable thorny hedge of promotional glop now 😬

Apologies to the folks I'm following: I'm seeing basically zero of your skeets bc the main feed is a dumpster fire of current events and my nervous system can't take it. For visibility, msgs need to be talking about pottery or birds 😅

It is The Way 😆

Yes 👇🏼

I keep a TBR, and check my mood against it 😜 Most of the time. So I guess mood leads the way!

This post brought to you by the fact that I have now finished the 3rd novella in a day (prior installments also finished in that timeframe), after waiting weeks for it to arrive.

I am planning to reread, just to enjoy it some more.

#amreading
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Okay, Murderbot, this is obscene. Do I have to put the whole series on hold on Libby?

I may, I very well may.

#amreading

It is impossible for my brain not to make sound effects

A small bird in mid-flight among bare branches as snow falls, blurred winter forest in the background.

Snowy starling #photography #SilentSunday #birdphotography #birds #winterwonderland #EastCoastKin

"Whichever consonant you think to double in an Italian word/name, you probably picked the wrong one."😂

Just now getting to Benjamin Dreyer's end of year email 🤓

Hot damn I loved this book / series. Concur with your notes, except I wasn't bothered by the holes in my knowledge so much, for whatever reason. An okay level of vaguebooking for me.

Catastrophe! 😱
Also so many holds waiting to be unsuspended…

Current first world problems: I can’t get a new ebook from the library because I haven’t finished the prior ebook and my device is on airplane mode in order to preserve it. 📚💙

What are words

I get paid for my insight into writing. It would be nice if some of said insight were less shy prior to deadline