Working on the knitted Iris Top from @andreagaughanknits.bsky.social ! Top one in a coral pink/orange; bottom one in a deep but muted teal and reddish purple.

Reading more queer (but not YA please) stories would also be lovely 🙏🏻

Favorites:
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Portalmania: Stories - Debbie Urbansky
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu
Minority Report and Other Stories - Philip K Dick
Various stories… - Cixin Liu

Seeking short story anthology rec where every story was captivating or intriguing

rearranging shelves and realizing there are shockingly few anthologies! This must be rectified.

Science fiction first, fantasy second, literary last. If the short stories play with form… 👀

okay there are a LOT of people asking what i thought were easily googleable questions about pitching nonfiction writing. so here is a quick adapted version of a pitch workshop i did at FIYAHCON a few years ago. every good pitch should answer these questions:

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

That feeling when you fully detangle a sticky hank that you, in your hubris, overestimated would be easy to wind without getting out the swift. ❌ ALWAYS use the swift!

Yarn: Cricket: Donegal tweed merino wool yarn
Blue and white ceramic yarn bowl (massive) on a gray couch

I sell my crochet to support my dogs,& pay down the vet bills.This was Karina in Nov. $6k emergency surgery. Then Scooby had surgery in Aug. $3500. and Spice w/arthritis meds. Your gifts are greatly appreciated. Thank you throne.com/debbiew Or visit My shop Debbie Crochets debbiecrochets.etsy.com

Wooden bowl of yarn with one needle cast on with gorgeous sparkly blue yarn!

Adventures in sock knitting! I received a generous gift of random knitting stuff, and I sorted all the double pointed needles tonight. Had to immediately try them out, obviously. I even managed to use stash yarn that has been saved for while now…

It’s National Nap Day! You celebrated well

It was really, really okay. The sequel was also pretty okay. Haven’t played the third game, but one can imagine it’s fine

How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Against the death penalty except for whoever thought of putting mandatory audio and video advertisements at gas station kiosks

We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech Check out the Cognitive Realms Post: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/ai-art-brandon-sanderson-keynote The surge of AI, large language models, and generated art begs fascinating…

"I don’t care if the #AI can create something that is better than what we create because it cannot be changed by that creation. #Writing a prompt for an LLM, even refining what it spits out, will not make an #artist of you."

Love this talk by #BrandonSanderson: youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo?... #booksky

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold and I am a mushroom. My gills expand, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough strands of a mycelium network. She must have transformed into spores and floated out the window with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping

The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

I had a miniseries of vivid dreams about my on-again off-again polyamorous relationship with Benedict. Thanks, Lexapro 💞

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

In the good news department, I'm hearing that Alberta's premier is conceding that Carney's desire for a bitumen pipeline that would endanger the Great Bear Rainforest is untenable and thus this dangerous initiative will wither away. Due in large part to pressure from coastal first nations.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

I was super interested in this until I saw the author. Then it became an insta buy 🤣 can’t wait to read this!!

ICE is younger than my blog

ICE is younger than my email address

ICE is younger than at least one of my ukuleles

Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions for 1943: Don't get lonesome. Beat fascism. Love everybody. Wake up and fight.

My sign today.

“Radiant Star” by Ann Leckie - storygraph page that includes the blue cover of the book, tags, “to read,” and start of storygraph description

When you find out your favorite author is releasing a new book! Ahhh!!

Breaking News !!! Top 5 Very Good dogs of the week

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Post from Julie K Brown that says Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)? As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me? Record Locato American Arlines CONPIDENTIAL for official

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.

Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.