this made me laugh so hard I genuinely did not realize it was serious

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5h ago

I will certainly be among those encouraging people to mark England's 1100th birthday - and am aware of three or four efforts to do this. The simple challenge here is that more than 90% of people in England would not yet know that it is England's 1100th birthday next year.

Why this is just a thinly veiled ad for this book! The audacity!

The Midnight Society@midnightpals.bsky.social · 5h ago

Bitter Karella: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the quaint folk Barker: whoa there pal Barker: don't you have to label when you're doing an ad Karella: ha ha this isn't at ad Karella: i'm just making a funny joke about a GREAT book that you should all BUY

Oh my fucking GOD at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if I wake up to a headline that Carney has personally begun hunting endangered orcas for sport

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d ago

Feels like EVERY SINGLE DAY there’s another story about the many ways Carney is killing the environment (and protections for people living near project sites!) for his pro-corporate agenda. Every! Day! This isn’t 4D chess. It’s corporate greed made manifest in the form of a government.

Feels like EVERY SINGLE DAY there’s another story about the many ways Carney is killing the environment (and protections for people living near project sites!) for his pro-corporate agenda. Every! Day! This isn’t 4D chess. It’s corporate greed made manifest in the form of a government.

Oh, AI spam bots. Sometimes you manage to actually be funny. (The mantis, the velociraptors, and the merfolk were all in separate stories/poems and did not, in fact, meet. But now I'm wondering what would happen if they did...)

I wrote a Fantasy novel about a dragon. Not a mindless, greedy monster, but a wounded animal with PTSD and a grudge against those pesky humans. His mission? Infiltrate their dragon riding academy and eat all their damned food.

The Dragon Has Some Complaints

"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of tension and heart." —Caitlin Rozakis, New York T...

bookshop.org

You could in theory purchase WICKHILLS, a sort of... a kind of Cold War spy thriller in a magical city that doesn't define 'hostile architecture' the same way we do! It is a very welcoming book! It is about urban planning and public transit! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

us.macmillan.com

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last wk.

You should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.

I guess I can get in on this. I have a lot, but what I'm still particularly flogging is the REMNANTS duology. (Formerly OBELISKS, but I had to change the name.) Book 1 is DUST, book 2 is ASHES. Sci-fi/horror. Link is to the first book, but they're both available. link.amazon/B0h5ddikU

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last wk.

You should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.

I am so fucking tired of "seeking justice" being framed as "getting even." Arresting and/or impeaching people who are legitimately guilty of actual crimes is not revenge. It is justice. Innocent people should be released from detention and guilty people should be in prison. Again, that is JUSTICE.

I have $14 in my checking account that is unspoken for and about $582 in bills to pay in the next two weeks. I also need to order more resin to get casting done for MFF, another $142. I have been hoping for commissions but nothing has come through since last week. Please help by sharing 💜

@verdantsculpts Lnk.Bio · link in bio

@verdantsculpts Lnk.Bio · link in bio - Profile and social media links for verdantsculpts

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And kiln goodies, aka what I was up to the last few weeks without photos. This will be a thread. First up, a bear I started, oh, um (scrolls waaaay down photo gallery). January. Um.

Today's progress. Apparently I last worked on this on August 18th. That tracks; when I went back to the studio next, it was to throw a few pieces which were NOT to be overly decorated, so I could take a break from carving. Except that's not wholly true. I worked on this ONCE in between. Sorta.

*pleasantly* May all grifters, scammers, and sloppers fall off a cliff into a vortex of angry hornets today, and may they return in their next life as something with some actual worth, like the bewildered outsider stuffed into the giant wicker effigy burned to placate the old gods

Zappshot@zappshot.live · 2w ago

Hey streamers/influencers/artists/anyone with any social media presence: There's a site that's currently using your publicly available data to build fake sponsorship listings to ruin your reputation and potentially keep sponsorship money that you'll never see! Let's look at SocialDB ->

Anthropic thinks they should be able to kill 50 people at a time. www.forever-wars.com/no-bailouts-... @attackerman.bsky.social

"Last year, authorities raided a facility in Bamban, north of Manila, freeing nearly 700 people who had been trapped there and forced to work as scammers." Poor sods. Those fake book club mails you keep getting? They're part of a massive industry.

Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back

The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn

theguardian.com

We have seen a huge upswing in images depicting ghost trees. We believe this may represent both a growing awareness of ecological concerns and some form of horrific prophecy. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981

Last week at the studio was finishing pieces to bisque, which might have been photo worthy but I am dumb. This week was glazing the ones that actually got their first firing (including some of the dark clay things that have been sitting around). So nothing photo worthy yet. But next week ...

Local politics: voted today. The options for mayor were centr-right encumbent followed by two ithers also right *one much farther. Fourth was actually a left wing option with a decent platform... who's 27 and never ran for Councillor or even school Trustee before throwing his hat in.

Ohhhh this is a 🔥🔥🔥 idea. Plenty of good people to follow on here who have good takes because experience and research

Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 3w ago

at the very least, for every one racist you boost and oppose, find 5 BIPOC you agree with and boost them.

BAAJA IS VERY BAD "If passed, this legislation will benefit the largest fossil fuel polluters, explode the approval of data centers, and enrich tech billionaires, entrenching communities with more pollution, harm, and higher bills." CALL YOUR REPS climatejusticealliance.org/baaja/

Sable is making a point that I try to emphasize in my philosophy of disability class: not all crisis present the same ways and how we have been taught to view some things as crisis, some people as in crisis, shapes the care we extend.

Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️@ghostlysable.bsky.social · 3w ago

the thread referenced here observed that trans people who don't express emotional difficulties through public outbursts don't get much attention or care, and it raised some controversy because people see outbursts as the true emergencies, rather than seeing them as one example of an emergency

We have all we can handle so this plea is for you.

Dev Petty@devpetty.bsky.social · last mo.

A plea to all you wonderful folks who are thinking to adopt (not buy) a dog or cat… The shelters are FILLED with animals who’ve been surrendered. Yesterday they had a bed and a family and now they are confused and terrified through no fault of their own. Consider giving them a next chapter.

New stuff is in the shop! Check the main page for ready to ship items like large bonsais and capybaras. I really need sales rn to make up for lost income at my last show. Please have a look and do some early holiday shopping. Help an indi trans artist too! 🛒 VerdantSculpts.com #bsnm #furryart

The Prince of Fortune

Things I'm worried about when I'm in a public restroom: 1) There are no working toilets. 2) It smells. 3) The toilet explodes in my face. Things I'm not worried about: 1) Trans people. 2) Bears. 3) Snakes.

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

404media.co

Yell about your stuff! Yell about what you're doing! You're making incredible things and other people want to know about them!

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

I love seeing Bluesky posts like “Wow! Amazingly [person I’ve never heard of] was at [event I’ve never heard of]?!” It’s a humbling and useful reminder that we all have our bubbles, and there are hundreds of other bubble communities out there doing awesome things too, waiting to be discovered.

this guy was one of the dopes who thought They Really Had Something There with the fake talarico story and this tweet will live in meme’dom like a dril tweet forever

This whole AI chatbot thing could not come at a worse time in this country. People are absolutely DESKILLED at building meaningful relationships and every suggestion that "YES, you DO have to talk to your neighbors" is met with rage from some corner. But relationships ARE humans' CURRENCY. The End.