"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

This is a terrific video explaining how AI’s voracious demand for RAM is triggering a death spiral in the video game industry. Worth a watch for video game fans. youtu.be/Eo5w2S-h5dI?...

The Gaming Market is Starting to Break.

YouTube video by Mrwhosetheboss

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Farmer for 300 acres. Pigs, Cattle, Chickens; Corn, Soybeans, Clover.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

A poor little tiefling gets stolen by a god of dreams and a crew of elves races across the sea to get her help: without your assistance, she might not make it that far. Check out my campaign for levels 1-5!

Hi sir err@cheisserer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An incredible update! I just published my first 5e module for D&D on Dungeon Masters Guild! A level 1-5 campaign I ran with real people and developed over the past few months. Go check it out! www.dmsguild.com/en/product/5...

could really use a deviled egg based holiday right now

Roadside Flowers

Accidentally poured too much cream in my coffee and now I have a LATTE*! *Not a barista. Might not be latte. I am just a conscientious coffee RUINER.

Thread, from someone with (ahem) rather a bit of professional knowledge of the poem.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"All of the [financial] suggestions were dismissed by NCTE staff, according to a source familiar with CCCC governance who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution."

NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association

The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...

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My first 5e Module has been live for a while! An incredibly fun swashbuckling encounter for levels 1-5. Daydreaming rolling tables! Room for Roleplay! A great way to utilize long rests as places for character development! Eldritch horrors. My massive world with a rich history and full of conflict!

Hi sir err@cheisserer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An incredible update! I just published my first 5e module for D&D on Dungeon Masters Guild! A level 1-5 campaign I ran with real people and developed over the past few months. Go check it out! www.dmsguild.com/en/product/5...

Paul Atreides doth go to a Frensshe bakerye to picke up breade. Upon arriving at the Frensshe bakerye, Paul Atreides doth fynde that the Frensshe bakeres have lefte a box for hym. Paul Atreides asketh: "What ys yn the box?" And the Frensshe bakeres responde: "Pain."

Made a sugar-light (read: natural sugars) daquiri and it’s pretty solid. 1/2 Grapefruit, 1 Lime, 3.5 oz rum, .5 oz Maraschino Liqueur. Not very sweet. Just like Hemingway liked it.

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

hachi machi

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

The most romantic part (and the only romantic part) of Nolan’s Homer’s Odyssey was when Odysseus thrummed his epic bow. After all the memories have subsided from viewing, I still think about that sound.

The fresco decorated the vaulted ceiling of an upper floor room above the tablinum in the House with the Bakery of Aulus Rustius Verus. During the excavation the fragments were reassembled in the finds hut as they came out of the ground and as the dig went on so the puzzle grew.

The most romantic part (and the only romantic part) of Nolan’s Homer’s Odyssey was when Odysseus thrummed his epic bow. After all the memories have subsided from viewing, I still think about that sound.

i wrote a poem about it. not a style i'm particularly confident with but hey, this is what came to me

Beccas can't be choosers@beccanical.bsky.social · 2w ago

the trans elders of the future are gonna be handing down the kind of fucked up advice you hear from people who survived horrors, and we'll be speaking to kids who roll their eyes at the idea that transphobia used to be real

🏹 Cover illustration for THE BIRD AND THE BELL by Sarah K. L. Wilson AD: Stephanie Hess #romantasy #illustration

Imagine being this rich and not having someone to grow you backyard tomatoes, one of the few shiningly perfect foods in this world. Seriously, what is the point of money?

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.

Some excellent spoilers here. Excited to see what comes to fruition.

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2w ago

oh i guess this piece also kinda casually announces abdication, a story collection, and natalie portman developing my story Constellations for film too, as well as confirming Borne is in development at AMC as a series lol... very info rich

Thrilled to announce The Strange Architect series over at Variety. There were several possibilities, but thankful to FSG for stepping up and creating a home for it. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

‘The Strange Architect,’ New Series by ‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer, Sells to Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Seven-Figure Deal (EXCLUSIVE)

'The Strange Architect,' a four-part series by 'Annihilation' author Jeff VanderMeer, has sold Farrar, Straus and Giroux in a seven-figure deal.

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I honestly read this as "Saturblorbos and Sunblorbos" for a moment ngl.

omg

Lots of doc appointments asking me if I take Testosterone injections (for several different meetings!). I finally asked, as a man in the incredibly restrictive Alabama, why they’re asking me. Apparently, LOTS of men are using T to, I guess, gender affirm. Why is this even a convo for people?

Finished another short play: The Steadying Hum. A suburban DINK family deals with the unending drone of lawncare, which becomes a metaphor for data centers and surveillance. It ends by him turning on a lawn mower because he can’t stand the silence of no birds, no bugs, no bustle.

A high-risk extraction turns deadly when Unitech clashes with SLF saboteurs—and an experimental bio-weapon awakens! "Steel and Sinew" is out now for #ShadowsOverSol 2e. Grab it here: tinyurl.com/43wrv43d #ttrpg #rpg #dnd #ttrpgsky

If you need a reason to live or something to help feel less alone, we published the Stay With Us package in late November of 2024 for moments like those. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Stay With Us - Assigned Media

Whether they’re inspiring us through their advocacy, their creativity, or their humor, these essays by prominent trans writers give us heart.

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