Tessera
Folgen

LE Draig (Louise)

@ledraig.bsky.social

A storm is coming... Debut epic fantasy Quartz Storm will arrive in October 2026

515 Posts973 Follower1752 Folgt
Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 3d ago

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

law.berkeley.edu

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️@eliseswords.eurosky.social · 5d ago

I can't help but perceive the mass destruction of rare books to feed hallucinatory, bullshitting, fossil fuel guzzling machines as Amazon saying, 'Hold my beer Climate Change! I reckon we can bring about a second Dark Age too!'

404 Media@404media.co · 5d ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

Crip Dyke@cripdyke.bsky.social · 6d ago

This thread. I mean, you always know that war destroys everything, but it seems like we have very little space in our news cycle to report on anything but the planes and tanks destroyed, the soldiers who died. This thread is about the books that burned, and the booksellers. Hugs when you're done.

Maria Drutska@mariadrutska.bsky.social · 6d ago

📚 RUSSIA HAS DEFEATED the book market of my childhood. Let me tell you about a place you’ve never heard of. Petrivka. A book market in Kyiv, now called Pochaina metro. Before the internet existed for us, it was simply where you went for books...

🌿Elaine Tipping🍃@triaelf9.bsky.social · 6d ago

Absolutely THIS. People think a dollar or two isn't "real"support, or isn't enough and like no no, IT IS ACTUALLY SO MUCH bc it adds up! It feels like just the $1 on your end, but on our end it ends up being $10 or $100 or even $1000s A dollar goes farther than you think

-𝚖𝚘𝚡@moxiest.art · last wk.

people get intimidated by the social belief of "supporting the arts" as like donating $5,000,000 for a new wing at a museum or hosting some gala it's not. 10% of our audience throwing us $1.00 a month would literally be *life-changing* money most artists are in the same boat.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last wk.

Haven't watched yet, but as it has a new season let's bring over to Bluesky my cast list for Lord of the Rings using the cast of S1-3 of Ted Lasso. Let's start with an easy one: Aragorn. No fucking second breakfasts for any fucking hobbits or any other fucking muppets with this Aragorn.

Bret Goldstein as Roy Kent glares to the side.
Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · last wk.

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · last wk.

Might post some good environment news every so often to showcase that it's not over yet and there are good things happening, we just have to fight for it First: beavers are basically magical creatures that help with drought and flooding, and we're reintroducing them more and more

National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 2w ago

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

A wall-mounted sundial inside a walled garden. Text on the sundial reads: "fear god, obey ye king"A traditional sundial on a plinth, formal gardens surround itThe sun beams down on a traditional sundial, with heather visible in the backgroundA shot of a sundial from above. It's mounted on a stone plinth. Text on the side reads "KEW BRIDGE"
LE Draig (Louise)@ledraig.bsky.social · 2w ago

The kids are not amenable to me working this summer holiday morning, so could everyone please repost the below so I can at least feel like I'm doing something towards marketing today?! #writingcommunity #booksky #indiebooks

LE Draig (Louise)@ledraig.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm looking for #ARCreaders for my debut epic fantasy Quartz Storm! If you're interested, there's a few questions here and I'll get back to you asap :) forms.gle/Z2BsiaypZETV... #bookbloggers #booksky #sff #fantasy #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #indiebooks

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️

As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981: To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?
Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Olivia Newton-John Wyndham@kellylink.bsky.social · 2w ago

My standard reply to all ai book scammers that I am a practicing witch and placing a curse on them unless they cease their wicked ways. Highly recommend this strategy to other writers & publishing folk. Twice now I've had scammers email back to ask me to lift the curse.