Ironic poetry that the never alive AI should feed off a graveyard full of desiccated remains from other failures.

if you’re trying to “save time” as a writer by using AI, i suggest you find another profession. it takes time to write well, time to write exciting books. it takes time to write one good poem. i’ve spent years on a single poem. the time spent learning one’s craft is everything

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When you love a thing you'll always find your way back to it. Also, a writer doesn't stop writing. You might not be putting words on the page, but you're absorbing life and subconsciously storing ideas. When you do come back to the page you will have been enriched by this time away.

Oh no Steve! Whatever will you do now that this random person has lost faith in your judgement??? 🤣🤣🤣

I wasn't even making that connection, but yes!

How quickly we dropped body positivity and neutrality to embrace a new/old emaciated ideal.

Depending on your style and budget:
Anthropologie
Nordstrom Rack
Asos
Selkie
Love Bonito

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I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social

Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
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A brothel in rural Nevada may be the first in the nation to unionize and this is the kind of good news I think we all need right now.

no thank you I will not be engaging with an attempted neil gaiman redemption tour

71,000 Palestinians killed by Israel. This number is unfathomable. The futures extinguished. The families decimated. This is a grief that cannot be put into words. It will be carried for generations.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

The donkey wears a monocle in this graphic, layered over a black and white cartoonish image of an open book, with eyeglasses and a partially eaten pastry sitting next to it.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Let me know if there's an experience or cuisine you were looking for that I didn't mention

4. If you're in the mood for a campy show - Majestic Rep Theater has you covered
5. Jiggle Room for classic burlesque with a modern alternative twist
6. The Erotic Heritage Museum is more educational than you'd expect
8. Eat at Peppermill to feel like you're in a Vegas movie

1. Book a nighttime tour at the Neon Museum (specifically the boneyard)
2. If you like stellar omakase sushi Kabuto is it
3. The Arts District has a lot of fun shopping, people watching, and bar hopping opportunities

Happy to provide Vegas recs if needed 😁

Seriously. No asked for this fucking shit.

Still thinking about The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa even though I finished reading it months ago.

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I got "mid"
I'm trying not to take it personally

One of the frustrating things about trying to "build a platform" is how often the rules of social media change. This is a concise guide that can give you a leg up on what's coming this year.

happy new queer

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Just discovered the Handsome podcast. No one bother me for the next two weeks as I catch up on two years of Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin, and Tig Notaro being absolutely delightful.