It's so disheartening to see people in publishing use AI for fun or profit. It really is a very cut and dry issue for a million reasons, and yet I still see agents/editors/publicists/etc using it. Grow up and put the plagiarism+climate disaster machine down.

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

in case anybody needed a primer in how to write a press release that clearly states its position

Legendgerry@gerald-t-mc-evoy.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh wow. FIFA is done. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Sorry we tried to stand up for trans people, we won’t do it again, Gender Criticalism is normal stuff actually

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

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

Not sure why this is news, it's called a lunch break

I find Samuel Moyn's latest book so incredibly distasteful, and that feeling is vindicated after seeing that he went on Ross Douthat's podcast

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

SIMPLICITY has been out for ONE YEAR today!!!! happy birthday to my little book :) we don't get paperbacks very often in the graphic novel world so it's tough to keep attention on something when it's no longer new, but i still think it's the best thing i've ever made. simplicitybook.xyz

Literally what fandom discourse has turned into I fear.

Homer called it a "wine-dark sea" because Cool Blue was the most popular flavor of wine back in those days. lost to history now, I'm afraid. climate change and all.

marcie to peppermint patty:

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Permission to flirt, sir

I miss salads. When will salads be safe to eat again.

Staff Reads from Newsletter Editor @mrsslrss.bsky.social: "Though I’m too much of a wimp for most horror movies or horror novels, I loved this poignant reflection on the way trans identity has been treated in the genre, including an empathetic reconsideration of ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’"

Revisiting "Silence of the Lambs" in the Age of Trans Backlash - Electric Literature

Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel tried to paint an irredeemable villain. Instead, it captured something real about trans experience

electricliterature.com

OMGGGG -- I'm not applying for this (because my body is a sad sugarcube dissolving in a cup of tea, among other reasons) but if you can apply you should apply and if you get in you SHOULD GO www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Futurisms Intensive Writing Residency 2027

This residency supports writers exploring potential futures, perspectives, and narratives.

banffcentre.ca

you guys complain that they're an out of touch elite institution, but it turns out the DNC is doing worse financially than all of you

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social · last wk.

Democratic National Committee is horribly struggling. Republican National Committee is sitting on nearly $130 million. While DNC is $2 million in debt. Bad management of DNC but also another sign that the energy in the Dem base is for change--not the establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

For those of you too young to remember the second Bush administration, “coastal elites” just means Jews queer people and immigrants. It’s really never been deployed in a way where it can mean anything else.

Fucking hell, Dara, what a horrible, horrible title for your shitty Zionist book

I have some real animosity toward Sophie Cunningham about the transphobic shit she does, but also because she gets way more media coverage than other WNBA players and for what? Being uniquely annoying?

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

Sophie Cunningham was the ring girl for the rapist Connor McGregor just last week! Starting to think she really doesn't actually want to protect women.

I know that restating what someone said back to them is a therapeutic response that is like, comforting and an opening for an extended response. But my god, when someone does it to me I just get kinda pissy, like yeah, I just said that, keep up.

if you're not reading it already, i urge you with the whole of my heart to go find @trungles.com's thread of their first time reading Pride & Prejudice. i logged onto the train wifi specifically to see if they'd read another chapter!!! i had to type in a 12 digit ticket number, twice!!!

"Literature, in the Prairieland case, was turned into a vector of criminalization. In the hands of a prosecutor, the fact that a book or a zine can be passed from reader to reader became the accumulating elements of a criminal conspiracy." This should concern us all, deeply. Please read this.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2w ago

I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:

Re: the Amy Acton anti-trans thing. I'm so so tired of trans people having to be the canary in the coal mine for civil rights. Dems are walking over thousands of dead yellow birds and saying "we just don't know how it got so bad"

how is this supposed to make me feel | patreon.com/lubchansky

Ok keeper actually had to work a little that time

Spain gets into good positions but they make the common mistake of not kicking the ball hard enough

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