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Jamieson Ridenhour
@jmridenhour.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, lover of jazz, punk, and prog. Creator of the audio drama palimpsestpodcast.bsky.social. Horror for the ears and eyes.
As someone who saw this shit happen in audio fiction podcasting, LISTEN when people say this. Every smug podcaster I saw make a comment about other podcasts being 'the competition' is no longer a going concern in the industry. None of them lasted or had a scrap of community to work with.
jay Dragon is sleepy@jdragsky.bsky.social · last yr.not only is it very rude to treat your peers like competition; it also misunderstands the base market systems of small-press/indie ttrpg spaces
I just had an epiphany that solved the thing I couldn’t figure out about my current WIP. It deepens all three main characters, ties together two disparate plot threads, explains a later event, and has real emotional heft. It just fell into place after months of trying to figure it out.
Sad to hear of the death of Dave Cousins of Strawbs. I’m in the midst of writing a new show heavily influenced by the sound of their Hero And Heroine album, a record that is permanently etched in my brain. His idiosyncratic voice and songwriting were important pieces of my musical history. RIP.
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner
The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.
vulture.com
Maureen Johnson@maureenjohnsonbooks.com · last yr.We have to keep the fact that this man is a monster out there because there is a lot going on. Fuck that guy.
Just read a passage in House of Bone and Rain that made me flinch so hard I dropped my lit cigar on the book, then leapt up blowing ash off me and the book, yelling “fuck” so loud the dog came to check on me. That’s how good @gabino.bsky.social is. 😂
I’m about to pitch our new show to our agent. It’s just a test run to see how to package it. But I’m hells nervous, y’all.
If you look around at everything and all you have to complain about is Zohran Mamdani, you’re probably an asshole.
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
1000 words today. Actually writing on this thing now.
Hey! My story “Dark Gonna Catch Me Here,” (originally published in Mirror Dance) just got accepted into an anthology raising fund for reproductive rights, called Midnight at the Crossroads. Very cool.
I hate that "AIs" (aka people-pleasing hallucinating plagiarism engines) are trained on work stolen from writers, incl. all my books. I hate more that it's eroding our ability or even desire to think. I get it. Thinking is hard. It's ALSO the work. It's the whole point. It's what makes us human.
Just finished my last week of fulltime teaching, which coincided with working alongside my freshly ex-wife to put on a garage sale of many of the things we amassed in our life. Feeling kind of broken at the moment.
New painting by Chloe Gilmore. I love it a very lot.
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.
Spent the morning at @kellylink.bsky.social ‘s amazing bookstore Book Moon, where I bought books and a t-shirt and browsed for over an hour. Such a well-curated store.
Writing at a coffee shop in South Hadley, Mass while I wait for my daughter. A good Friday.
Your nostalgia for HP does not and never will be more important than trans lives, safety and welfare. Get rid of the media, stop buying the merch and don't support new things cause it just lines that hateful transphobes pockets so she can continue to use her wealth for evil.
Don’t want to be bragging-pants, but I’ll ride on this for a minute. Glenis Redmond!
I’ll be reading with Dark City Poets this Friday with this excellent line-up. WNC come through…
Worth remembering that the point of confronting officials, if that's a tactic you choose, isn't to make them see how they're wrong or whatever, it's to break their morale. Keep going y'all.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last yr.Sickos.jpg
DO. NOT. BUY. THE. AI. HYPE. I cannot stress it enough. I know your grad schools are teaching it, I know there are content/tech jobs in it, and I know you're using it. But for the love of fuck, run the opposite direction.
Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · last yr.Librarians and other info professionals, what do you think is the most important career advice that MLIS students need right now?
Do not travel to the US. If you absolutely have to, scrub your SM and make as much private as you can. Use a temporary phone with no biometrics only PIN - they cannot compel you to give a PIN but can for biometrics. Have a photocopy of your passport. Set up regular check-in times with friends.
Paul Cohen@paulecohen.bsky.social · last yr.Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated