Wildberries. Tula region. Pure art 🔥

Note to self: I need to talk about my stories more.

Vex Corvine@vexcorvine.itch.io · yesterday

It's strange—but a fact—that people will give you more encouraging attention when you talk about a WIP than when it's out and they can buy/read it or support you by talking about it. This happens for most of my books. This'll likely discourage newbies, so I want to say: it's not you! It's normal.

Want to read a horror story about two people cleaning up a hoarder house? Of course you do! Is it just bad luck that keeps making everything go wrong... or is it something far worse? Read *Demolition* to find out! #AmWriting #Horror #WeirdFiction #ShortFiction www.patreon.com/Leland_Lydec...

Demolition | Leland Lydecker

A completely fictional horror story about two completely fictional people cleaning up a hoarder house, but a series of extremely unfortunate

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"Bluesky isn't a *liberal* bubble - it's a *decency* bubble." I completely agree. It's sad that we live in a timeline where not being overtly friendly to bullies, bigots, outrage farmers, and propagandists is somehow a bad thing.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2d ago

He cites users' ability to mute & block folks as a positive, which is good. It's also why right wing chuds thankfully can't get a foothold here - b/c they violate community norms & get nuclear blocked out of normal people's timelines. Bluesky isn't a *liberal* bubble - it's a *decency* bubble.

Holy yikes. Not cool!

Kitty@klparmley.bsky.social · 3d ago

Amazon is manipulating your digital purchases. When I looked for an audiobook I purchased in 2014, I was told: "Sorry, it looks like this title is no longer available. We apologize for the inconvenience." But, if I look at a list I made that includes that book, I can download it.

The feather markings on the Common Loon are incredible TT: @harrycollinsphotography

Indah said, “How would you dispose of a body so it wouldn’t be found?” I’m not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, “If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I’ve already disposed of.”

Holy shit, this is absolutely ghoulish. At a time when people are often so sick that just taking care of basics and trying not to die is the most they can manage... they're supposed to either work or PROVE they can't? What the actual fuck.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4d ago

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

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Failed the sit-ups. Now trying the lie-downs. #Caturday

The #descent from the highs of life is like the uncontrolled dive of a plane that's lost all engines– you try with all your strength to pull the nose up, to level out and #coast to a smooth landing, but you have no thrust and no #brake. You're going down. You probably won't #arrive alive. #vss365

Absolutely nothing good will come of this.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

“I wasn’t going to let him hurt me.” I said, “If I thought he was going to hurt you, I’d be disposing of his body. I don’t fuck around, either.”

The greatest thing about AI is all the pushback it's starting to get. I'm glad people are waking up to the fact that a world with disinformation-generating plagiarism machines is actually a terrible place.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 5d ago

You know AI is great because every app has to trick you into using it

Love to see it!

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 5d ago

Flock cameras’ days are numbered. Across the country, communities are removing them city by city. Thank you to everyone who is standing up, speaking out, and fighting back against their expansion. Here’s the cities that have fought back and won! Denver CO, Austin TX, San Marcos TX, Evanston IL,

Want to read a horror story about two people cleaning up a hoarder house? Of course you do! Is it just bad luck that keeps making everything go wrong... or is it something far worse? Read *Demolition* to find out! #AmWriting #Horror #WeirdFiction #ShortFiction www.patreon.com/Leland_Lydec...

Demolition | Leland Lydecker

A completely fictional horror story about two completely fictional people cleaning up a hoarder house, but a series of extremely unfortunate

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At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.

Holy yikes. "National security" = "surveilling US citizens." These need to be fought like hell and shut down if at all possible.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last wk.

If you live near a military base, there’s a chance you’ll soon find that a privately owned data center has moved into your area.

THIS

Antisocial Bog Witch@boggywitch.bsky.social · last wk.

Know what would make America healthy? UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE that includes vision & dental

I'd say it's a warning and a wakeup call for everyone. If you haven't moved your important business off Meta platforms, now's the time! Zuck spent a decade helping bring fascists to power in the US and elsewhere. Now his platforms are at the forefront of enacting their agenda. Fuck Meta indeed.

UnicornsRockUK@unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a warning and wakeup call for the UK and Europe. qnews.com.au/meta-shuts-d...

This is insanely sad. How many needlessly died because they couldn't afford to catch it sooner? Universal Healthcare is the only humane solution.

northstar@lucyksy.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey so turns out discovering why we used to have all those food safety regulations in the first place is not all that much fun

I'm not crying, you are.

Jonathan Slater@jonathanslater.bsky.social · last wk.

Goodnight Blue Sky

Can you believe they'll let just anyone rent one of these things?!

If someone ran on this platform, plus a few things like universal basic income, universal healthcare, and taxing the rich, I'd vote for them in a heartbeat. The world does not actually belong to the wealthy, and they need to be made aware of that.

The Nerdskull@nerdskull.bsky.social · 2w ago

I truly believe golf should be outlawed and every single golf course seized and converted into low income housing or homeless shelters.

Some stories are just so freaking SATISFYING to finish.

I look forward to reporting coming out soon on JKT’s funders. I was alerted to it by an anonymous online account on Instagram, but 2 independent sources told me they verified the info via the APOC reports, & we’ll have articles on it soon by journalists. Tl;dr is he’s majorly funded by Anthropic.

AI "writers": "I was using AI to plagiarize other people's work, but they change ChatGPT so I can't anymore! Waaaaah it's not fair!" Me: 🤣🤣🤣

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.reddit.com/r/WritingWit... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHH *wheezing sounds* HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Great question that others may like to know the answer to— I accept MSs of all genres but the genres I work with most are romance, historical/alt-historical, fantasy, paranormal, and contemporary. Romance is the most common style of book among the other genres as well.

Leland Lydecker@lelandlydecker.com · 2w ago

I'm not in the market for an editor yet, but will need one at some point down the road. What genres do you generally work with?

*gently grabs your face* listen to me LISTEN TO ME y'all need to start buying the rights to Horror books written by women instead of trolling Reddit for scraps of creepypasta. There are SO MANY BOOKS that would make great movies just sitting there, complete with PLOTS and THEMES and CHARACTER ARCS.