I’ve been taking a break from romance to read Dungeon Crawler Carl, and I have been thoroughly enjoying myself.

👀

Oh absolutely

turns out when christina lauren says nice things about your work, people listen!

i also love reading the acknowledgements, and i'm also grateful for them because I've had at least a few editing clients find me through them.

i'm gonna be honest, everytime i see this story, i assume it's a cry for help from a reporter who really wanted to cover the same thing DT is doing to the entire fucking infrastructure of our country, but instead here they thinking, "it's an allegory, surely everyone will see it."

Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate

It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.

what if, and i’m just thinking out loud, there was a new movie not based on existing IP.

Graphic that reads "No cover, no title, no author. Will the quick summary alone make you click this deal? 😉📚". The background is a navy blue with various colros of small circles, triangles, and rectangles floating around.

The ton's favorite rake is finally ready to change his ways after he runs into the heroine. Meet-cute: he was climbing out a window at a ball.

Historical Romance (MF) amzn.to/4tXDFoc

Thank you, Bill.

the entire chicago sky fanbase to tyler and jeff

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet(s). Can’t stop, won’t stop.

This was Maddie, she was a good cat

hey georgia, today's the last day to register to vote -- even if you THINK you're registered, check your registration! mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

When the new wealth tax drops

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

“The Mohegan Tribe chose to invest in women’s basketball at a time when male billionaires refused. It’s ironic, then, that the WNBA is now prioritizing NBA owners when those very owners turned their back on the league two decades ago.”

On Learning to Read Generously - Reactor What does it mean to be a generous reader, and is it a skill you can practice?

I've been referencing this essay by @mollytempleton.com a lot lately in conversations about reading fantasy and other literature. Templeton's piece includes a discussion of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's useful ideas about 'paranoid' and 'reparative' approaches to reading. reactormag.com/on-learning-...

true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative

I said it before and I'll say it again:

Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

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Screen shot of the panelist "So You Want to Edit an Anthology." 2 row of 3. Going left to right and listing the names each person included on screen. Top row: Becky Siegel Spratford (she/her), Jamal Hodge- Bestiary f Blood, Richard Thomas he/him, KC Grifant, James Chambers, Kristy Park Kulski (she/her).

Recorded the Virtual StokerCon panel "So You Want to Edit and Anthology" yesterday with this crew. Can't wait for people to see it. Thanks to @igreggreene.bsky.social for running the show. @kcgrifant.bsky.social @richardthomas.bsky.social, Kristy Park Kulski, James, Chambers, and Jamal Hodge.

😭😭😭

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

One dollar! ABSURD.

Chicago Books to Women in Prison Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.

YALL.

There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!

Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.

LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org