My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
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“I am not in denial, I am in open rebellion.” (Thanks, Ethan Hawke, for so succinctly stating how so many of us feel.) books, knitting, crochet, cats, Pratchett, sf/f, horror autoimmune/PsA she/her No, I will not shut up.
The important thing is have you heard about the raven that used to be at the tower who would pretend to be dead for attention
Seeing all sorts of references to Weird Girl Lit these days, so now’s my chance to beg everyone to take an hour to read Christina Rossetti’s 1962 poem, “Goblin Market.” You are simply not prepared for how crazy it goes.
Alright I'm doin this Gonna keep all my posts to this thread but sitting down and watching Deep Space Nine I've seen a good chunk of it already but never sat down and watched Every Episode so this is gonna be a long one
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also: support your favorite indie bookseller and order from them... AND/OR ask your local library to carry them. writers still get credited for it and it then becomes accessible to the larger communities.
and thirdly, my 1st full-length collection from 2020 Deifying A Total Darkness available from gumroad or you can dm me and pay through paypal or cashapp. upfromsumdirt.gumroad.com
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2nd... 2023's The Second Stop Is Jupiter from Wayne State University Press *still with name typo* wsupress.wayne.edu/author/upfru...
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it's been brought to my attention that i havent promoted my books in a minute, so here's a thread of links for my books (tho, to my knowledge To Emit Teal is out of print) 1st up, 2025's The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife from University Press of Kentucky www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...
The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife - The University Press of Kentucky
The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa...
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upfromsumdirt@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6mo agofor my follow-newbies: im upfromsumdirt, a poet, visual artist, & graphic designer residing in lexington, ky. i don't submit often but my poems have appeared in a variety of anthologies & journals. my art is mostly limited to bookcover design, but ive shown in galleries & exhibitions. my chirrens:
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
There are something like 7,000,000 Muslim Americans. If they were all "prone to terrorism," they'd probably, you know, do some terrorism. White supremacists, on the other hand, ARE prone to terrorism - and responsible for the majority of politically motivated violence in the US.
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
I fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
It is worth noting that the writer of that HWA newsletter telling people to embrace AI, has an AI based coaching app they are selling
😳🤢🤣🤣🤣 God damn. I bet between him and Trump, they can stink up a room right quick. Everybody who ever invites this guy to a dinner party will be making damn sure there are no decorative screens or long curtains in the room.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterdayOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
So awesome, @reactorsff.bsky.social! Thanks for putting my story out there. Hope folks dig it!
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · yesterdayThey're baaaaaaaack! You loved Never Whistle At Night, and your howls for more have been answered. We're thrilled to share “Neon Moon,” a short story by @tvayyyy.bsky.social from Part II Back For Blood!!
There are 8.5M people in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
I have never encountered Lynne Freeman's work and I intend to keep it that way.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last wk.You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
