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Steamy in Seattle 2025
Meet authors Ann Aguirre and Elizabeth Stephens as they discuss the alien romance genre, science fiction and fantasy worlds, and what writing romance has taught them! Paranormal romance author Jasmine...
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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
ADHD requires meds that are hard to get if you have ADHD. Making them a controlled substance (no delivery, no one can help pick them up, only one month at a time) is debilitating. Addiction is bad, yes, but under-medicating people has consequences too. (Ex increased traffic accidents)
Eddie Redmayne is the Jackal we all deserve, but I want to see his hyper-competence, dammitall, not his family life ... And don't even get me started on how badly-written Lashana Lynch's cop character is
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Expecting people to wait 4 minutes to cross the street is delusional.
Just a reminder to all the new folks that Neil Gaiman has been credibly accused of sexual assault by five different women, and is almost certainly working behind the scenes with his PR firm to bury the story. Don’t let him. And don’t follow him. More here:
The New Zealand allegations at the centre of a Neil Gaiman podcast investigation
A report on the facts presented in the podcast that is investigating the allegations against author Neil Gaiman.
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Hello new faces and old! I'm Shane and I write fantasy fic that pivots around magic, monsters, and messy characters. I have flash fiction forthcoming from Shacklebound Books and I'm currently working on my debut novel! Would you please share to help me find like-minded friends?
5. I believe people can write outside our identities, but if your character is marginalized in ways you aren't: a. Do you think you're being noble? If yes, stop b. Do you understand specifics? E.g. not just Indian but Gujarati? If no, stop c. Do you have CLOSE friends from this group? If no, stop
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We've run 80,000 simulations and in every one of them cars ruin everything.
Amazing question and thoroughly brilliant answer. Do yourselves a favour and read the whole thing!
Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)@mayadeane.bsky.social · 2y agoI want to know if nuclear-powered bicycles would be disastrous or lead to war
So, time for not-election stuff: It's Native American Heritage Month and I'll be looking to share and reskeet any and all Indigenous creators I can find. I'd also like fellow artists and writers to share their Native OC's! Let's get this goin'! #art #writing #ocsky #writingcommunity #artcommunity
Dr. Gebru tried to warn us, but too many people who should know better want to talk about whether LLMs can attain sentience (no) and become skynet (no) instead of talking about the real dangers that are not just possible but already here.
Hypervisible@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y ago“Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.”
Whatever I have to say about how cars ruin cities, @helenczerski.bsky.social has said more elegantly on Mastodon.
I'm researching an article for Writer Beware on editing service Edioak and their new House of Pages promo venture, for which they seem to be soliciting a lot of authors. If they contacted you, I'd be interested in seeing what they sent. My email is beware@sfwa.org . Thanks!!
I know it from being queer and trans, not Black, but... it sucks when the only / most common time your work is noticed is when someone else pisses people off enough that they are virtuously looking for a deserving target of their attention for the next 5 mins.
Savage Mind, an indie Philippine bookstore, was completely decimated by 15 feet of water from Typhoon Kristine. They need help rebuilding! In the link are 18 romance stories written by Filipino authors, all for a minimum of $6. All proceeds go to Savage Mind. They're at $473 as of today.
Mina V. Esguerra@minavesguerra.com · 2y agoRomance readers! Reaching out to you all. #RomanceClass has a new bundle and we're giving ALL proceeds to Savage Mind, an indie bookstore in Naga, to help them rebuild after Typhoon Kristine. For minimum $6 (or higher amount you choose) #romancelandia minavesguerra.gumroad.com/l/tropetasti...
This feels like a good time to share a thread of stories by African authors featured at @podcastle.org since Shingai and I took the helm. Read on for five powerful, vibrant, wonderful pieces of fantasy fiction. 🧵
To be a good man you have to, kind of paradoxically, reject patriarchal society's conception of a man. I'd love to say this is easier than it is, but it just isn't.
Coming to the heart of this thread now: I cannot but help feel that the reason that these strategies proved so successful in this case was because they offered to people a very easy way of assuaging their guilt, without requiring them to make the effort of actually redistributing power.
how about instead of robotaxis rich people were taxed more and that money went into improving public transportation
“The harms imposed by the Rivian are three times the harms imposed by the Prius, in terms of air pollution and death from accidents, but we are subsidizing the Rivian and not the Prius.” -- Stanford prof Hunt Allcott www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/b...
Electric Car Subsidies Are a Plus, but Could Be Improved, Study Finds
The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.
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I teach college, but this is much closer to my experience than the Atlantic article.
Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 2y agoI saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty." cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlant...
[Pinches nose] Can't believe we're still doing this, but okay. For reasons simply beyond my understanding, literary agent, Leslie Varney, is again using her Twitter platform to harass, defame, and gaslight me on behalf of her friends in the criminal cult stalking and SWATTing my family. 1/
for journalism, i need to talk to a woman who wanted to go back to work immediately after child birth. please reply or DM if that describes you.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y agoJD Vance says “a lot of women would like to go back to work immediately” after giving birth which is perhaps the most batshit thing he’s ever said and proves he’s never spoken to a woman ever
