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@jamscallion.bsky.social

specfic writer and scallion pancake stan 🥬 currently off the clock and if you see me here on the clock, no you didn't

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Everest Pipkin@everest.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamscallion.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's only been three weeks since I moved to Chicago and I've already encountered two book clubs that are just, like, friends vibing. Truly delightful! But still working on finding wherever the queer SFF/romance people are hiding.

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 4d ago

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Florida Freedom to Read Project@flfreedomread.bsky.social · 5d ago

Palm Beach pulled 1800+ titles from its school library collections because AI flagged them for review. Media specialists and principals must sign attestation forms verifying their libraries are compliant with vague law. None of this is normal. freedomtoreadproject.substack.com/p/when-ai-de...

Nicole Chung@nicolechung.bsky.social · 3d ago

We need indie publishers. We need our literary communities to thrive. Catapult was a place where I saw students become published writers, then authors, and sometimes teachers. Where I was lucky to work and collaborate, for a while, with some of the most brilliant & kind people in the business.

Chris “Chance!” Brown@chancesecond.bsky.social · 5d ago

This goes for animation as well. Like none of us can just up and start a studio and maintain what we could have had if the studio system didn’t fail us.

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev · 5d ago

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

sylphy@sylphy.bsky.social · 5d ago

the entire bioware situation is just another episode of how now, more than ever, YOU are important to the small indie things you enjoy getting somewhere. talk about the things you love. buy it physical if you can. make art. share links. don't just go 'everything i love is dying', that's how it does.

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Catapult to Be Sold, End Operations

The independent publisher, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was told “continued empl...

publishersweekly.com

Tobias Carroll@tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 5d ago

Assuming Counterpoint is included in the Catapult news, that means that 20% of this year's National Book Awards longlist for fiction was published by imprints that will no longer exist in their current form by the time of awards night.

Meg Reid 🦦@megireid.bsky.social · 4d ago

A bit more info. I feel so bad for the staff and stranded authors, especially as we've all watched the way catapult management/owners have handled this. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Catapult to Be Sold, End Operations

The independent publisher, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was told “continued empl...

publishersweekly.com

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 6d ago

I spoke about corporate consolidation and how sales teams across imprints are told which books to prioritize. And also book coverage in general interest outlets -- where once these publications were tastemakers, now they want to talk about a book only once everyone's already talking about it.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d ago

Elle magazine talked to @maris.bsky.social and me and others about whether literature is becoming a monoculture www.elle.com/culture/book...

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 5d ago

GenAI is unethical across many axes including environmental, political, and because the industry is based on mass theft from authors and other creatives. It's also incredibly reputationally damaging for people who are being accused of its use. I don't think any publisher has the right to tarnish me.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 5d ago

I have called for the SoA to facilitate whistleblowing from staffers and authors alike, in the absence of voluntary transparency. I would also like publishers to explain why, if they believe GenAI use is either ethical and valuable, they aren't prepared to say how they're using it.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 5d ago

Apparently the Charter was so vague (just a bunch of fluffy aspirations) because publishers had indicated they wouldn't sign up to anything more specific (such as measurable and meaningful commitments to transparency and consent). That will not do.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 5d ago

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.