M. K. Martin
@mkmartinwriter.com
#Writer - mostly #SFF * #Editor * #Veteran * SJW * Linguistics * Will work for tea, but not before 9:30 am
"Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...
Never Apologize For Being a Class Traitor
All rich kids should be socialists.
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Introverts will spend hours alone and never feel lonely, then spend two hours around people and need the rest of the day to recover
I should mention this more often: I write books! You can get them, read them, and talk with me about them. I love communicating with readers, and I’ll always sign your copies. You can find all my books at @notapipe.bsky.social’s notapipestore.com
I made this for a friend but it’s worth sharing, printing or saving to your phone so you can get the QR code in front of someone
Leave comments for creators!!! Think of it as putting out a little bowl of food for us. We're feral and starving
We're making a new indie web series that satirizes the manosphere with Internet Vampires! If that sounds up your alley, check out our trailer! (The more views we get, the more likely it will be that we get funding and make the show, so please click the link in our bio to watch it on YouTube!)
On WRITERS NOT WRITING, @benjamingorman.bsky.social interviews @zlatkoenev.com, author of the FIRECURL trilogy! YouTube/podcast here: bit.ly/WNWHome or subscribe to Benjamin’s Patreon or Substack!
for-profit prisons are top 3 most evil things we do in this country and its exciting to see a dem senate candidate take this on. fuck geo group forever
Morning Joe@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 5d agoFlorida State Rep. Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won the Senate nomination in Tuesday’s primary in a surprise victory over Lt. Col. Alex Vindman. On Morning Joe, she's asked about the DSA's agenda, including defunding police and abolishing prisons and the border.
It's HERE! If you loved Never Whistle at Night, it is back for Blood with Part 2! Quite literally back for blood as this new collection is more bloody and haunting. Some of these stories stay with you and will have you squirming in uncomfortability and fear.
I’m using my executive authority to ban nonferrous mining in the Boundary Waters. As far as my administration is concerned, the fight for the future of the Boundary Waters is over. The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.
Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.
There are so many reasons to not shop Amazon if you can help it, but it turns my stomach whenever I see authors advertising Amazon and Audible sales. Stop feeding the thing that’s eating us. Fuck Amazon. Get your books indie or from libraries.
404 Media@404media.co · 7d agoSCOOP: 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:
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:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on.
Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
Emergency services are underfunded, the folks doing the jobs are over-worked. The entire industry is hanging in there by a thread largely due to the decency of the minimum wage workers who refuse to let you die in their ambulance in spite of their own lack of support from higher.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
Real answer: unless you get lucky, most people will not care that you wrote a book. That's something you need to be okay with. I know it was hard work. I know you're proud of it. Many of your loved ones and friends will not read it. Strangers almost definitely won't. That's fine.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
"The goal, as outlined in the ShieldFont white paper, is not to get a scraping bot to reject the text as garbage, but to convince it that the text on the page is unusual but sensible."
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
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HAND PAINTED IRISH MYTHOLOGY DECKBUILDER RPG INDIE GAME !!! Enough said? 😎 For exclusive rewards, preorder Bibdu on Kickstarter now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/rat... #indiedev #gamedev #irishgame #cosygame #handdrawn #irish #gaeilge
This is why we should all be shouting about the Climate Emergency. Why we should vote out FFG & other politicians that not only refuse to do anything to fix it, but actively want to make it worse #IrishPol #Speirgorm 📸 Lorraine O'Dwyer Instagram:gallavanting.ie www.instagram.com/reel/Db6H-qx...
EMT here: Don’t do other people’s drugs. Don’t lie about your health to get drugs you don’t actually need.
Matt@itsmattagain.bsky.social · 2w agoMan without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
Ok, kids. Buckle up because I have *had it* with something that keeps on popping up in requests for my services. I'm an editor; I do developmental editing, editorial assessment, copy/line editing, and proofreading, and I've been doing it a long time. I get requests for services (yay!), but I do NOT
This goes for indie publishers as well! Buy books Write reviews (or even just star ratings) Tell people about the stories you've loved or are excited for* *online & in person! Request them through your library Ask your local bookshops to order them Word of mouth makes a huge difference for us.
Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2w ago"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
... all thanks to a female Irish meteorologist called Maureen Sweeney!
