Adele Buck
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Author. Librarian. My books have been featured in Entertainment Weekly and BookRiot and reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, & Booklist. Books: https://adelebuck.com/books-3/ Newsletter: https://adelebuck.com/sign-up-for-my-newsletter/ she/her
Anything with a -ness suffix where a tidier word would do. "She was beset by nervousness" vs. "She was beset by nerves."
jas-o’-lantern✨@pageboundwhimsy.bsky.social · 2d ago#booksky, what’s a word authors use that you hate for absolutely no reason? mine is cantankerous.
I can save you a click: the interviewer is as opaque as the subject. But at least he didn't pose for that photo shoot.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d agoGQ’s Zach Baron is the magazine’s go-to for celebrity interviews. So when Tom Cruise agreed to his first deep chat in years, it became a big deal. We chatted with Baron about his conversation with the award-winning actor: https://wapo.st/4iB5L6m
Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."
I mean, they're the US publisher of HP.
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · last wk.NEW by me: When I saw that the White House had stolen 'The Magic School Bus' to promote its racist ICE deportations, I could not be quiet. The books' publisher, Scholastic, has remained noticeably silent, while others like Hasbro and Tetris have clapped back. www.thequeenzone.com/trump-regime...
Has anyone else tried the new, contemporary version of Tommy and Tuppence? I watched the first episode last night and found it pretty meh. Is it worth continuing or not?
80% of AI news at this point consists of a company announcing “we wrote a computer virus” then there’s something about the apocalypse or regulation, then the next news story is like “we wrote another computer virus.”
I'd like to point out at this juncture that banning people who disagreed with vibes-based enforcement of poorly defined ToS is why Romancelandia did a mass exodus of Spoutible.
"Hair must be perfectly gelled. Nazi tattoos optional, but preferred."
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last wk.Exclusive: The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate troops to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address this September, and says the servicemembers must meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit “impeccable” grooming standards. https://on.wsj.com/3VwFKeF
I appreciate an old classmate wanting to read my books, but telling me they're only going to order in print and want to avoid Amazon - which, VALID - but then do the entire convo on FACEBOOK MESSENGER? Um. I'm not reopening an Ingram account for you, dude.
I've been thinking about this a lot because of all the talk about how Dolly Parton "didn't take sides" and I think she's proof that if you don't want to talk about politics you don't have to, but she took sides with her money & her actions and her side was pretty clear. So is Sheeran's, I guess.
Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · last wk.I fucking hate "I don't take sides" people, which is just siding with the oppressor and hoping you'll have plausible deniability. You're not apolitical, you're not neutral, you're just doing this:
PSA: No Kings is a coalition, not an org, and it does not do fundraising appeals for itself. Partner orgs raise money for costs we're incurring to put it on. But if you get a text from "NO KINGS" or a PAC you've never heard of before asking for $ that is a scam and you should block/shame away.
Last I checked, the entire series was available on Hoopla, too - so if your library has it, check it out!
Fated Mates@fatedmates.net · last wk.Tiffany Reisz’s Men At Work series is sexy, subversive, and turns tropes on their heads. We did a deep dive back in season four. You can get book one of the series, HER HALLOWEEN TREAT, for $4 in (DRM-free!) audio today. www.awin1.com/cread.php?aw...
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!
And you can trust it because META is so goddamned good with priv--- Nope. Can't do it. Not even as a sarcastic bit.
WIRED@wired.com · 2w agoDesigned to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
These guys always want to excuse their Ai use with “It’s just a tool, I want to use all the tools at my disposal,” and so on. But they never want to to walk about how the tool was made. Or how the tool does the thing it does. And there’s a good reason for that...
New band name / t-shirt / protest sign just dropped.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRiley Gaines: "I went to the WNBA game in Minneapolis. It was a bunch of, like, disgruntled lesbians."
"Tax revenue" is the new PR line for data centers; it's true in a handful of counties nationwide but nowhere else. 3 of 95 counties in Virginia work this way, the rest got screwed by a $2 billion revenue shortfall. goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-...
The Economist@economist.com · 2w agoThere is a respectable argument for slowing down AI research, but it rests on the danger to all humanity of the technology being abused or going rogue—not the local harms of data centres
Gnashing my teeth because I'm currently agent-less and have a finished romance manuscript with a Norwegian hero. Ro!
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Alt: Erling Haaland rowing as a viking
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Frankly hilarious to have My Fellow Americans say, "Oh, we don't use that term in the U.S." Um. Well. I have some news...
Great. Maryland's MARC system is rerouting my train one stop before its previous terminus (my stop) and taking it to Baltimore. The solution is to then switch to the Metro (more time, more money) or switch to the later train (WHICH I WOULD TAKE ANYWAY FROM MY USUAL STATION BUT THEN I'D BE LATE).
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
The Verge@theverge.com · 3w agoAs a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3w agoI'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
Mr. B has the Indigo Girls' first album playing. It has me remembering that moment when I was driving the NH backroads to my Pheasant Lane Mall second job and I heard that song on the radio. I DASHED through that massive mall to get to a store where I could flutter through a bin and buy that album.
