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Becca Coffindaffer

@beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social

✨Queer dystopian, scifi and fantasy author 🙅‍♂️Professional gen AI hater 🚫Anti book bans, anti TERFs 🔪The Bloody and the Damned 🚀Crownchasers

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Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

404 Media@404media.co · 3d ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4w ago

1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

i’m just ken@shepardcdr.bsky.social · last mo.

Spent the last few days chatting with queer men in the Love and Deepspace fandom about its homophobia problem, and why some fans are protective of the game to the point of resisting even men who like men taking part in the romance game's community. kotaku.com/love-deepspa...

Love And Deepspace’s Gay Fans Say It Has A Homophobia Problem

The otome hit is a worldwide phenomenon directed at women, so what happens when men who like men want to try?

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Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · last mo.

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

FEC Schedule A itemized receipt, line C. Contributor: Taylor Fresh Foods Inc, 911-B Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93902. Date of receipt: 03/26/2025. Transaction ID: SA17.4550. Amount of receipt this period: $1,000,000.00. Marked "Memo Item" and labeled "NON-CONTRIBUTION." Receipt-for boxes (Primary/General/Other) are blank. Aggregate year-to-date: $1,000,000.00.
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · last mo.

My pre-write turned out to be 70% a. CDC's comms have been wildly irresponsible; b. If I couldn't prove lettuce is not from Taylor Farms, I wouldn't eat it; c. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social · last mo.

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

Thomas Ha@thomasha.bsky.social · last mo.

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

tulipathy@tulipathy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

lrp OpalApparition marked “NO AI” all over her ao3 but there she was, using it. When people first started accusing her, I supported her. I didn’t read her HR fic but we were friends. She would never! There were many chances for her to cop to her lie of not using it. She never took a single one.

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · last mo.

If you have some space to plant something that pollinators like—even just a pot of flowers on your windowsill—it is really fun to watch the bees eventually find your plants and bring their friends. They’ll return every day! And you’ll help them find more plants around you.

jentrification@jentrification.com · last mo.

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Erika Ishii@erikaishii.bsky.social · last mo.

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social · last mo.

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Yesterday’s layoffs at Bethesda Games Studios were not a cut of “14 layers of management”. We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers. Many of whom worked at BGS for decades. If Bethesda fans are worried this will harm the quality of our future games, like TES VI, let Microsoft know!
Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social · last mo.

THE GREAT PUMPKIN PANCAKE PARTY is out in the world! This book is about food and family, and the traditions that help us become who we are. Thank you to everyone who has preordered, requested it from the library, shared it, reviewed it, or cheered it on. It means more than I can say.

A copy of The Great Pumpkin Pancake Party by Celeste Pewter, illustrated by Kelly Wu, sits on an outdoor metal table at sunset. The cover shows a young girl and an older man sharing a towering stack of pumpkin pancakes, surrounded by pumpkins, lanterns, bunting, chopsticks, and cozy autumn decorations. The warm golden light gives the book a soft release-day glow.
Jay Turner@silopolis.bsky.social · last mo.

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

Becca Coffindaffer@beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social · last mo.

Book community #booksky, the one and only @celestepewter.bsky.social needs our support. She is dealing with intense medical issues on top of trying to rebuild, relocate, and find safe, stable housing. Any donations or boosts are very much appreciated: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-bu...

Donate to A Safe Bridge Through a Medical Crisis, organized by C Pewter

Hi everyone — I was encouraged to update this, since I didn't fully explain the scope … C Pewter needs your support for A Safe Bridge Through a Medical Crisis

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Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Between this and OpenAI delaying their IPO, maybe the dopes who keep yelling AI is inevitable are gonna realize they fell for yet another scam. It's baffling to me. You know the names of the men behind all this. They are famous for being crooks. Yet you still buy their massive load of horseshit.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(Bloomberg) - SpaceX’s blockbuster bond sale is weakening so quickly in the secondary market that traders say they can’t recall another recent deal that widened this sharply. @bloomberg.com $SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

DrAnnD@drannd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Holy shit. This is terrible. As if it wasn't bad enough that the ed tech companies are invading students' privacy, now community members are doing it facilitated by the school district.

Courtney Tanner@courtneyltanner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Utah book-ban advocate was given access to a school library system with private student data. The district says there was ‘no breach.’ Story from me and the fabulous @carmenreports.bsky.social: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo ago

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

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