For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE.
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if Star Trek is fully-automated luxury space communism, then Star Wars is manually-operated poverty planet capitalism
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
This is the โpersonal responsibilityโ lie weโve all been fed by big business for decades. Weโve allowed industry to convince us weโre at fault for their harms. And weโve allowed them to turn us against each other so we spend more time finger wagging individual people then we do fighting bad actors.
I had the exact same reaction! Yay!!
TOMORROW I am ranting about Harry Potter pull-to-publish books based on Draco-Hermione fic and whether you can have your cake (Harry Potter) and eat it too (read fanfic with the serial numbers filed off) on @theflytrapmedia.com. Grab 20% off for you and a friend as a Resident of the Bog! Just $88!
Did you know Buttondown will migrate your newsletter *for you*? It's amazing.
my way of showing love for others is removing the tracking cruft from a url before i share it
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Today's Classic Cover of the Day is Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown. This Ace Books edition was illustrated by World Fantasy Award winner Kinuko Y. Craft
Chat with community educator, historian, and author/editor extraordinaire Nisi Shawl. Ask Nisi about writing inclusive fiction, the history of black SF, their own writing, or that of Octavia Butler. Donate at https://twp.ai/9PcNcp or through our bio!
Our unit members are ON STRIKE and not participating in this event. DONโT CROSS THE PICKET LINE!
JSYK this account is gonna be all about the GoFundMe for Piper J Drake for the next little while. I love her so much and I want her to be able to finish her novel and hopefully get a chance to hug me (& others) one last time.
Donate, Share, Boost pls ๐
gofund.me/b2674e924
This is something tech people don't grasp about nonfiction writing: the process of deep research, of deciding which little details are interesting or which obscure anecdotes have historical value, is all part of the creative work of writing. It's not grunt work. It can't just be automated.
Some days you run for the bus and the driver sees you and waits for you, and itโs all worth it.
graphic novels do count as books and being mad at your kids for liking them more than prose books is how your kids learn to hate reading
@katherinelocke.bsky.social Hi I read John the Skeleton and it was so delightful! Thank you for the rec! So much more text than an American publisher would ever countenance ๐ but it worked well! Lots of chuckles and one hearty cry.
*wild applause*
@createasispeak.bsky.social Oh damn how did I not meet you even tho you are another kidlit/Sirens person?! Anyway fixing that now, hi ๐
The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike.
Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes.
ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.
ooh yeah I have the envo, which is similar I think? but I end up defaulting to disposables more often because they take up less space and I can see the airflow to make sure I have a seal ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
A little late for my conference, but anyone have a fave aesthetically cool head-strap mask for smaller heads? Ear loops hurt and I think tie-dyeing my fave N95s might un-N95 them.
as a parent I would so much rather that my kid encounter *any* topic in a book before encountering it in real life, lol
hard agree I am crying just thinking about it ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ
Don't forget to check out the Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Resource Compilation and let us know of other useful resources as they come along.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
But I'm profoundly grateful to everyone still making an effort to mask, to clean the air, to distribute tests and PPE, to support mutual aid funds, and more. I'm grateful for the friends and communities I've made because we've all been pushed from public spaces.
On this yearโs long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.
Some of you get so mad when people point out the obvious. But you're not mad at the people in power who deliver nothing.
Every liberal post about why our current technological system of mass ecocide is good always boils down to well life is good for me, a middle class professional and like that's great buddy you are globally part of the top like 8% of the world's population the system
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
