got some sneak peek photos of my beer can label! 🏳️⚧️💙🌸
Jordan L. Hawk
@jordanlhawk.com
Writer of queer romance. He/him. Currently haunting Massachusetts. http://www.jordanlhawk.com
I blogged! On GenAI and full-fat plagiarism, and some striking similarities between the two.
The Plagiarism Machine — KJ Charles
Back in the day, as an editor, I was witness in varying degrees to various plagiarism cases. The thing about plagiarism accusations (real ones, not nonsense vexatious lawsuit ones) is, every damn time...
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The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 11h agoWanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker
Ok this is great. Enjoying reading while I have my coffee.
Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 2w agoI have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
Reminder, I am still able to post to non-USA countries!
Jack - Oi, Shiny!@oishinythings.bsky.social · 2w agoSo, current situation: Post office just charged me 21% + fees for tariffs to the US. This is unworkable so I'm not shipping to the US while I find out what is going on. I *am* still open for other countries. UK, Canada, Australia, NZ. oishiny.etsy.com Please just... bear with me. #Handmade
personal works I've drawn this year to force myself out of burnout 😮💨
I got salty about AI bullshit because it's all such bullshit, so here is me being very mad and probably not very clear about how mad it makes me. Do with this as you will. *kicks rocks*
You Cannot Use One Bullshit Machine To Catch Another Bullshit Machine
I really fucking hate AI right now. I really fucking hated AI yesterday and the day before, too, though I think the hate is growing faster and hotter, like a sun about to explode and consume the ga…
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My garage has found a new solution to the problem of an appropriate gender-neutral salutation that works for all customers. It's 'Legend'. All communications start "Hello, you absolute legend." I mean, it's no less or more sincere than 'valued customer'.
SLEUTH-HOUND isn't even out yet (Oct 20!), but here go. 😅 Thrilled to announce ETHER WARS—the story of anesthesia's discovery in the 1840s & the fierce battle over credit. When a discovery changes the world, who, if anyone, can claim it as their own? Thanks to my agent @dconaway99.bsky.social!
Hello, welcome back to DAY TWO of Etsy Sales to Pay Lawyers to Help Us Get Back Our Money, my least fun new repeating holiday but we're gonna celebrate it with rainbows anyway! Want some rainbows???? WE GOT RAINBOWS!!! 20% OFF RAINBOWS!!! thebrokencircle.etsy...
I've been pretty quiet while focusing entirely on Canfur prep, so here's a quick update- if you want to order something from my ko-fi shop, you have until next monday. After that, my shop will be closed until I return in September!! that'll be about a month-long closure! ko-fi.com/telekitnetic...
Visit TeleKitnetic's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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Salisbury Steak Was a Treatment for Dysentery
Glow in the dark firefly squid shirts are live in the shop and the first batch is shipping tomorrow! Squidfacts.net
I might be a genius. Take 1 corn tortilla. Dampen slightly. Microwave til it's flexible (10-20 seconds). Use what you have as a spread. I used street corn dip. (Salsa, guac, hot sauce, or refritos would work. Be creative!) Unwrap 1 cheese stick. Roll tortilla around it. Air fry 7 min @ 370.
This week on the reading blog, I'm getting very specific with my #mmromance sub-genres with two excellent contemporary paranormal ghost hunting stories from @jordanlhawk.com and @rhysford.bsky.social. Great spooky reads! elliethomasromance.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/r...
Recent Reads: The Hollow Sea and Fish and Ghosts
This week on the blog, I have two contemporary paranormal ghost hunter stories! The first is from Jordan L. Hawk, continuing his wonderful Outfoxing the Paranormal series and the other is from a ne…
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No amount of hard work will ever earn you sleep that good. 🐾
one of the major problems with publishing is all the people you work with are lovely, and the corporation is a psychopath.
most long running series (especially PNR or fantasy romance) blow this up because they start teasing future couples 2-8 books ahead of time and it is one of the things that makes romance readers abso-fucking-lutely feral to get the next book in a series.
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2w agoI mean, I can think of one or two books including my own that don't adhere to this immutable pattern but perhaps I'm doing romance wrong.
Good morning from sun--*checks notes*--hazy Illinois, where I'm at a writing retreat! I'll be scarce the next few days, so don't break the internet while I'm gone.
New NJ law criminalizes interference with trans healthcare share.google/xT0wTeUXv9Bf... Some good news!
New Jersey makes it illegal to interfere with reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare
The law makes it a fourth-degree crime to harass or harm patients and healthcare providers, staff, or volunteers or block them from entering a facility that provides reproductive care, including servi...
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I shall go to my grave exceedingly smug that I am the person who got to explain about hyena genitals to Chuck Palahniuk.
This is all I need a 26x32” painting from a few years back.
Making the D Ration from World War 2
The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...
Chaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasing
A new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.
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Preparation, sadly, gets shoved in with far-right bs or the american gentry tendency to see everything in all or nothing terms of their own property ("if I can't grow all my food on my 'homestead' what's the point?") I see it as an extension of what frontline communities have always done to survive