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She/her. Yells about books. Frit Flagey over Barrière.

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dan ozzi@danozzi.bsky.social · 8h ago

live nation is actively killing publications that cover new artists while also promoting festivals that almost exclusively cater to nostalgia and legacy acts. these problems are not unrelated.

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 10h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

Pittsburgh Progress@pittsburghprogress.bsky.social · last wk.

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Erin Hébert@merylscreech.bsky.social · last wk.

For @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social, I reviewed "American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA," new from @beltpublishing.bsky.social and featuring words from @atrubek.bsky.social and @kimkelly.bsky.social. It's a banger of a book, and I loved writing about it. pittsburghprogress.com/review-ameri...

Sarah Parkinson@separkinson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Welcome to polycrisis. Add to what the article describes: Aging infrastructure (water main break+sinkhole=floods in West Hollywood that LA first responders have to address as new wildfires break out) Mismanagement of emergency response agencies (e.g. FEMA, new Wildland Fire Service) & contractors

Todd Woody@toddwoody.bsky.social · 3w ago

New: The US is suffering multiple climate-driven disasters this week - wildfire smoke, heat waves, flooding. These "compound events" are likely to become increasingly common, stressing emergency response amid Trump budget cuts. With @zhirji.bsky.social Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3w ago

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...

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Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 3w ago

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.
anna@fritesflagey.bsky.social · 4w ago

Went to go type in "you" in the search bar and it automatically populated with Youri Tielemans, a man I have never googled in my life but now love ardently (no I was not rooting for the US last night)

summertime and the livin' is dani@daniskitchen.bsky.social · last mo.

If you live in pittsburgh and don't know anything about the TRID that's probably intentional there's a proposal before city council TOMORROW for the city to BORROW MONEY against the next 40 years' *anticipated* tax revenue, thus putting all of us on the hook to pay it back with interest 1/

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

I bought a printer to print pages. It is trying to sell me bread and timeshares. My printer has its own TikTok. My printer is legally registered to vote in Nevada. My printer just flipped a house in Tucson. Yesterday, my printer printed out my novel. It was gibberish I hadn't written.

Greg Greene@igreggreene.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER wins the genre fiction triple crown - Locus, Stoker, and Nebula awards! Maybe the first horror novel ever to do so? Way to go, @stephengrahamjones.com, and thank you for writing your heart out for us! 🦬 www.stephengrahamjones.com/two-trophies...

Two Trophies, One Amazing Night - Stephen Graham Jones

Stayed up all night in Edinburgh, Scotland to watch these two ceremonies. So, so honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award. Did some light s...

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ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump

Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Emily has done a tremendous amount to shape the landscape of modern horror publishing, both through her brilliant critical work and her staggeringly thorough monthly cataloguing of upcoming horror novels. Mark my words, this is going to be fucking tremendous.

Emily C. Hughes@emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Introducing @darkertimes.bsky.social - a new worker-owned website for cultural criticism about all things horror! www.darkertimes.com

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

This is a VERY different situation from PA when Fetterman was first running because there Black folks were warning everyone about him. Here, they are telling people that Platner is the better option given what the alternatives have been and who has a chance of winning. This is important data.

anna@fritesflagey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I also think it's a testament to writers not considering community building with other writers as being a necessary part of their work, which I always contend that it is. A few reliable writer friends who know your voice, craft, and intentions > any LLM.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2mo ago

These problems are very real but I wonder how many "slop writers" it applies too. Many seem to be people who would not be writing otherwise and/or would not be the type of writers who would have gotten arts funding. And another portion seem to be very established writers with plenty of means.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 2mo ago

I'm so fucking furious. So, here's my podcast in a podcast app, which now has this nice "show transcript" button Perhaps it's taking you to our free, high quality transcripts that we PAY A HUMAN to make? Absolutely not. 🧵

Lingthusiasm podcast in a podcast app Episode 116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!) Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics Play, mark played, playlist buttons A prominently displayed "view transcript" banner with the "AI sparkles" Description: Sometimes, you're talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can't seem to get comfortable: they're standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn't quite feel right. But where do our senses of what feels comfortable in a conversation come from, and how can they be so different from each other?
Lingthusiasm@lingthusiasm.com · 2mo ago

Not really an audio person but think linguistics is neat? All Lingthusiasm episodes have high-quality, human-made transcripts, with proper nouns and examples in other languages spelled correctly! (Okay, no guarantees the typo gremlins have NEVER crept in but if they have they've done so honestly)