painting of a cat wearing a chef's hat and a necklace with spikes stirring a pot of creamy soup with carrots and broccoli

cat making delicious vegetable soup

We lose again: Windham-Campbell Prize manqué Was going to post this on Substack, but they don't let you indent blocks of text.     Today’s insanely long installmen...

Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction
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Podcast Latest Episode: About the Podcast: A Meal of Thorns is a critical book club hosted by Jake Casella Brookins. Each episode, we’ll be looking closely at works of speculative fiction, thinking a…

I'm really enjoying listening my way through the entirety of the A Meal of Thorns podcast by @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org. Thoughtful and unhurried discussions of SFF books that are just a lovely little pocket to drop into.

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Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

Yes!!! I read Fall Into Darkness when I was 10 and it still lives rent free in my head.

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so funny when people get all upset about genres that other people DARE to enjoy. these big think pieces about ROMANTASY or COZY HORROR or DARK ACADEMIA and how dang upset they make the writer of the article. bud who cares what other people like youll be fine. let people read their books oh my god

My professional and personal stance

We don't just say this to be scolds or more righteous than thou or ruin your good time or police your language. We say this to let you know it's actually contributing to harm of those of us who bear so much of society's harm. You should want to harm us less.

cat keeps crossing US-Canada border

become ungovernable

ARB Fundraiser Incoming! Big news! ARB’s first fundraiser goes live next month! Follow us on Kickstarter to get notified when we’re live, and we’ll be posting plenty of updates as we go. Ever since I’ve been a part of ARB,…

ARB fundraiser, coming soon! We'd love your support in taking the magazine to the next level, and just spreading the word helps a ton!

i saw a post earlier asking if people think the increase in videos of dragons since the advent of genAI is because the AI data centers are destroying their natural habitat and driving them out into places where humans can more easily capture vide of them. i just want to say no, i do not think that

Can guarantee this will be a good time for all because @eliotedits.bsky.social is so knowledgeable and thoughtful and has a fantastic sense of humour to boot.

Yes to all of this!! And no one is willing to acknowledge the ties to fascism, the replication of harmful bias, the environmental impact...I could go on. What are we doing here, people?

Universal Basic Income

I am highly confident that no one should pay an editor who uses AI for developmental edits. If your editor isn’t confident they can handle the “heavy lifting of analysis,” find yourself a new editor.

A marquee in front of a theater, nyc, 1982: IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST TO FIND A WAY TO BE VERY TENDER

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

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Oh I am so excited for this!

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Seeing a lot of articles by people who are like, "Here is one specific problem with AI that impacts me personally, everyone care about it! NOT THAT I'M AGAINST AI in general, I still use it everyday." What is this nonsense??? Deeply unserious behaviour 🤡

This is good news!

Tell Carney: Oppose Illegal Attacks on Iran

Canadians! Here is something you can do: share.nwmd.social/s/tN2sRUS2

THIS

My partner once called Heated Rivalry "Point Break 2"

What the actual fuck

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

rough day for anyone who believes in the sanctity of human life