Editors should not upload manuscripts to AI without permission, says Authors Guild The Authors Guild (AG) in the US has warned editors not to upload submitted manuscripts to consumer-facing AI systems.

Ooooh, this is gonna be a mess

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haven't tapped the sign in a while: "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" when and how you are able

Copy of Split Scream Vol 8 Cursed Places next to a stone skull

Today’s the day! Split Scream Vol. 8: Cursed Places is out NOW from Tenebrous Press! Featuring two novelettes: “Lash Egg” by Matthew Pritt and “Passing Glance” by yours truly. Get it wherever you buy books!

Pretending library workers are superhuman leads to exploitation, by management and by external forces. It leads to burnout, high turnover, diminishing services to the patrons.

Yes, please show your support! Just treat library workers like human beings while you do it.

In the US, it’s National Library Workers’ Day, and I would be remiss to let it pass without reminding you that the “library workers are magic” narrative leads bad places. Love, respect, and cherish them, but also pay them, staff libraries appropriately, and let them draw boundaries.

this works for a lot of Shakespeare too

“To be or not to be? Girl, that is the question”

Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!

Lonely Boys Gambling Fascism, isolation, and those fucking betting apps.

for @theflytrapmedia.com today, I wrote about how the fascist fuckos want to us to be spectators to our own lives, isolated from each other and literally throwing money and time away

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I tried to balance the aspirational and grounded parts of the talk, just like when I was a teacher.

It felt good and familiar, but as a nice change of pace instead of something I want to do full-time again.

• There are more independent options to building a creative career than ever before.

• Setting dream goals around specific companies/projects puts your legitimacy or failure in the hands of others instead of in things you can control.

• Success is separate from satisfaction with the work. Sometimes they line up, but just as often they don't.

• Success has more to do with luck than any of us would like to admit, but persistence and being great to work with gives you the most spins at the roulette wheel to see how it goes.

• Some people do creative work and get paid for it, other people save most of their creativity for time outside work. Neither path is wrong or more valid than the other.

• The social parts of the job - communication, kindness, organization, and empathy are just as important as raw skill.

• Being good or even the best artist at your high school or in college/university is vastly different from working and making a living in art.

• No one will hire you to make art/write/create until you have a body of work as good or better than the people they already work with.

Yesterday I spoke at a high school in Calgary, giving the students a quick rundown of my creative career and things I wish I'd known when I was their age.

Here's a summary of key points I covered:

• My career is nothing like what I envisioned when I was young, but key parts of it shaped my future.

Jim’s talking about a career in comics here, but the whole thread up and down applies to pretty much every career. Particularly the bit about luck. In Hollywood in particular luck is such a major factor that if we really stopped and thought about, our sanity would snap.

nowhere to go but upwards
celestial deer

The social media pivot from chronological timelines to popular-first was done at least partly to throttle real time organizing

I really wish we started treating Twitter in the same way we did 4chan. The legacy of what Twitter was and the problematic relationship people have with it prevent them from seeing that it’s 4chan. Yeah it can be funny, interesting, and wild…but you’re still on /b/ and /pol/… it’s bad for you.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

can’t imagine why men never gush over cute kids in front of her, if anyone figures it out let me know

(I don’t know who this is but the post is giving 4chan fake radfem op a la “free bleeding,” however some people got brain wormed by 4chan ops and are actually like this, I have no idea if she’s real but I blame 4chan either way)

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I would reframe this. Instead of seeing arguments over, for example, attacks on trans people as a distraction from the real issue, I would say that attacking marginalised people is inherent to how this ruling class reproduces its power.

"Means testing disability right now is putting the cart before the horse. And when that happens in the disability sector, disabled people die. This is not hyperbole, this is the reality we face"

from @normalness.bsky.social

An onion will do well for such a shift

I’m of the opinion that you can always tell which covers are popular by how often they get homaged/parodied.

the wild thing is most of us arent demanding insane stuff from the democrats. "just do stuff that democrats around america like" shouldn't be this hard of an ask.

Photo of my sketch of Sue the T. rex's skeleton in front of the Sue mount at The Field Museum in Chicago. I was sitting on the floor for a few hours working on this and it was so annoying because they have an informative light show that plays on the skeleton periodically and I wouldn't be able to make out details during this 5-6 minute sequence. Also my legs kept falling asleep! Someone was taking photos of me working on it, I wonder if those ever made it online. Anyways, its a really awesome museum

I met Sue the T. rex in real life 🥹

More details to come, BUT Uppercut is coming back, for real this time, NOT CLICKBAIT.

Get your Pride Month pitches ready.