this is bad

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · 5mo ago

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

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THEY KEPT A LIST. VOTERS KEPT RECEIPTS.

Election Day 2025: Voters Consistently Rejected Book Restrictions in School Board Races - The Authors Guild

While book challenges reached historic highs in 2024 and 2025, voters responded decisively. Beginning with pivotal Texas school board races in May and continuing nationwide through November, voters re...

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Help this guy out! We can think of lots of queer & trans books that did not get attention in the NYT from 2013-2022, I bet!

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

hey good morning, this is gonna be a thread attn: queer/trans writers/readers especially: just want to announce this all again, because I've added some more specifics to this page: www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...

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Taking a moment from this stupid coup to be ridiculously flattered & also to say how great is Torrey Peters’ new book Stag Dance? I don’t believe in great American novelists but I do believe in Torrey Peters!

Torrey Peters@torreypeters.bsky.social · last yr.

Also the headline is funny, cuz I'm not saying I'm America's great novelist, just that a trans writer could be! Maybe it's @jeannethornton.bsky.social! Maybe it's @emotrophywife.bsky.social Maybe it's @anderlawlor.bsky.social and on and on...

Fun!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

This looks enormously useful and also it would be amazing if it could be connected to a posting system on bsky so that whenever it updates, bsky has a repostable post about it

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · last yr.

Not a bsky account, but there is this: www.project2025.observer

But that's not all! @choosedemocracy.bsky.social also highlighted some other inspiring stories getting overlooked right now...

The White House backing away from its freeze on federal grants is a flat out win. As @choosedemocracy.bsky.social wrote in its email blast today: "It doesn't mean we will win every fight. But it does mean that anyone who is telling you it's hopeless is wrong."

Seriously

Claire Dederer@clairedederer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sure wish my book would become obsolete

This does feel like excellent writing advice

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 2y ago

Make it gayer. You can't go wrong

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I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

I might get "not everyone understands or engages with political questions the same way, the diffs aren't random, & we get pols wrong if we forget that." on a t-shirt, actually. It's not a very GOOD t-shirt but it is important and the source of a lot of political mistakes & mistakes about politics.

Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a great, really important paper. IIRC it doesn't cite Bourdieu, but it's a perfect example of the argument in Public Opinion Does Not Exist - not everyone understands or engages with political questions the same way, the diffs aren't random, and we get pols wrong if we forget that.

alright lets do this — I'm the book content editor for Reactor and I'm looking for 2025 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and genre-bending speculative books! If you're a writer or a publicist with a YA or adult SFFH book out next year, please share the link/info here! (or email me)

Every state could do this.

Brooke T. Sample@brookesample.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan. PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

Where do you get your intel about online QT literary events? I know about @ourweather.bsky.social's MEET ME THERE series, and also Sinister Wisdom's events, but I'd love to know if there's a list somewhere.... or if you know of anything great coming up, will you post it here or DM me?

Dudes this was extremely cool to wake up to!!!

Damian Barr@damianbarr.bsky.social · 2y ago

And you’re in my starter pack of LGBTQIA+ Writers go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W

This is fantastic!

Damian Barr@damianbarr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lavender Menace, Gays the Word, Book Woman…I’ve fallen in love with so many LGBTQIA bookshops. They’re places of joy and resistance, good coffee and even better books. Support 🌈 stories and businesses by sharing this Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/G321HCf

Come watch Sally Potter's ORLANDO (1992) with me tonight at Amherst Cinema! 7pm amherstcinema.org/films-and-ev... & you can buy copies of a beautiful new edition of Woolf's ORLANDO & Tisa Bryant's UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE thanks to Amherst Books!

Hey what's up! Not sure if my #westernmass people are here but there's a ton of awesome things happening this week & some of them are actually also online... 1/6