I haven't posted about this in a while, but I made 2 free creative writing courses: the Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp & the 100 Day Writing Challenge. Each session, you listen to a short podcast & do a 10 minute exercise. The timer is included in the episode. www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwr...

Free 8 Week Writing Course by Podcast - The Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp

The Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp is a free writing course by podcast. Want to write a novel? Low on motivation? 8 weeks of daily 10 min exercises.

timclarepoet.co.uk

I really wish that people would spell others' names correctly. I don't want to have to mute every possible permutation of someone's name to avoid hearing about them.

#artsky #ocsky A little guide on why alt text is important and how blind people may perceive/interact with your posts, from a low vision person

10 minutes huh?

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com · 4w ago

big video update today! 🚢 now in beta: - you can upload videos up to 10 min long - video uploads should be much faster than before - upload progress indicator should be more accurate try it by enabling beta features here: bsky.app/settings/bet... may take a bit to fully roll out. lmk how it goes!

Downgrade a movie: C Movie

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Downgrade a movie: Somethings Somewhere At Distinct Times

Okay, one more, for the road. I haven't proxied the grail before now, and I got inspired. Good night, y'all 🖤

Years ago, I came up with a taxonomy of creative writing teaching styles. It's a series of archetypes I've encountered over decades, in myself & others. You can think of it as the creative writing teaching Fighter Select screen. Here goes:

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Oh FUCK RIGHT OFF.

You guys won’t fuckin believe how fast a car can do it

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w ago

A Chinese humanoid robot outran Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record on the opening day of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, posting a time of 9.39 seconds — 0.19 faster than Bolt’s pace in 2009.

Make a band bigger: Joy Addition

Jordan Sorcery@jordansorcery.bsky.social · 2w ago

Make a band bigger: The Mighty Mighty Mighty Bosstones

A cynical person might suggest that the petitions system was created as a mechanism to redirect the public's energy away from action that could meaningfully change anything

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

It's depressing how cheaply they can be bought.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4w ago

An increasingly pervasive element of modern life is having a machine in your home or a phone in your hand that is constantly trying to do things that you do not consent to.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4w ago

Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...

Everyone in the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be required to play The Campaign for North Africa

“Well I’m a man and I never know when I can say something without being accused on mansplaining!” Okay it’s real simple so let me explain. Does the post contain the words “I would like advice” or “can somebody please explain”? If it does, go ahead! If it doesn’t, do not go ahead.

Last night I couldnt sleep and made these cryptic clues for boardgames (so no pool or billards). Except for one the games are all well known. Dont know if they are fun or difficult, but goi nuts

THERAPIST: you need to give yourself some grace. is that how you would talk to a friend? ME: if she was a dumb bitch like me yeah

The silver lining is they are almost always failsons who relative to the potential gains they could make are costing their families money and the industrial system of sport they belong to is phenomenally good at wringing rich morons of their money to force it back into circulation.

Its worth emphasising, racing is very much a rich man's sport drivers are always the kids of industrialists, economists, investors, bankers, that sort you should never consider them heroes they come from the ruling class

This is almost poetic in its capacity to symbolise how fascism is destined to repeatedly re-emerge from the harms and destruction of capitalist expansion, and will keep doing so until those underlying conditions change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the depths as Europe’s Danube dries up

Unexploded ordnance and a military motorcycle also recovered following record heat and drought conditions

theguardian.com

I don't think the world would be improved if certain people got to read/hear what others truly thought of them *before* they died, but it would be very satisfying for me.

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

As a prof this is how I dealt with the person in the group project who everyone else complained privately about because they did no work come presentation time: “Nice work, everyone! For the Q& A, why don’t you start us off [Obvious Fuckup Name]! Can you tell us a little about [creative choice]?”

Organisations and institutions will not fight the good fight.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

And of course he’s ‘Nolan’ while she’s ’Emily.’

hey man, sorry for what i said earlier, when i was right

You are not arguing with a fascist incel chud. What is happening is not an argument. You are not in an argument with them. They specifically derive pleasure from seeing you acting as if they are arguing with you, as if you are both having an argument.