Every interview with an actor from the new Harry Potter series youtube.com/shorts/QVyIw...

every interview with an actor in the new Harry Potter series

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My standard reply to all ai book scammers that I am a practicing witch and placing a curse on them unless they cease their wicked ways. Highly recommend this strategy to other writers & publishing folk. Twice now I've had scammers email back to ask me to lift the curse.

So. Found out a year later that I am in fact allowed to talk to you about books I wrote. I’m even allowed to tell you you should buy them. I’m just not allowed to sell them like…out of my house. Jason can! So. Now that I have fully wasted a year: holy shit I have written 9 books please look

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi! I'm Anna. I am a disabled and queer author of similarly queer and disabled YA and adult SFF. Will post a short synopsis of each, followed by representation you can expect and links where you can find that work. I will not cover every platform, but my books are available widely. Ready? Long 🧵:

"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe," @sandyernestallen.bsky.social writes. "By now, I think I know." www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...

Who goes transphobe?

by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I ...

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This is a brilliant metaphor and every bit as esoteric and “occult” as the Victorians were.

LunchMeat 🍖🍖🍖@lunch-meat.bsky.social · 2w ago

They are doing to old books what used to be done mummies and rare animals. "Let's eat this so that we get a unique perspective that does absolutely nothing for the field but means we control the narrative."

If there was a surface, Maud Lewis painted on it. She turned her small home into a colourful work of art. While she was born with birth defects, she never let that stop her from capturing the beauty she saw in the world. This is her story. 📸 Art Canada Institute 🧵 1/12

honestly the notion that people can just decide to call themselves “allies” of any group they don’t belong to has always struck me as weird it very much seems like the sort of thing *other* people get to decide you are

"I love dusk, the moment when the sun has set but the scattered clouds in the sky are still all lit up in oranges and yellows and pinks, where the sky feels so alive but the light moves so fleetingly that every time you blink, it looks totally different. Maybe the moon is just rising..."

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith - Longreads

The All My Dead Cats and Other Losses author and Flytrap co-founder on grief, breaking and fixing things, and Alice Wong.

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Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green. Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.

My girlfriend is a genuinely INCREDIBLE editor and has some availability if you need something edited! big small, she'll edit it all! (i just thought of this it's not approved). Read these reviews and follow the link to her website. She is great and kind and patient. Don't miss out

My dad’s favorite movie of all time is The Commitments (he’s easily seen it over 500 times) and heck if I don’t want to watch it with him tonight in honor of baby Glenn Hansard on guitar.

Cackles

Rohan Salmond@rjsalmond.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s called The Uniting Church in Australia thank you very much

“Too often, we talk about disability and disability issues as if disabled people are all white. We call disability the “Great Equalizer,” but even among disabled people, it’s clear there’s not yet true equality or equity.’ by Anita Cameron, Disability Justice Actvist, in ‘The Inequality of the ADA.

It is a wonderful musical.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 3w ago

Seriously one of the great productions of recent years. If you don't know, it's a jazzy bluesy take on the story of Orpheus going down to Hades to rescue his Eurydice. A truly fantastic cast, great songs, a great story and a great ending. Even if you're not into musicals, go see it. Trust me.

Tax on cis people sharing screenshots of rowling's latest cruelty - one screenshot, one donation to a trans youth group? I know we need to know what she's doing for activist work reasons - but I wish the work we were doing FOR trans youth got as much online traffic as attacks on them.

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead - Assigned Media

How a decade of hate made me a worse person

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When I said "My next book is going to be a collection of short stories" I really did mean - in many cases - SHORT. www.tom-cox.com/my-next-book...

I’ve said this so many times because it’s absolutely true.

Raja Dasgupta@rajadasgupta.bsky.social · 4w ago

In Australia, I do think it is more taboo to accuse a racist of being racist than it is to actually be racist

This is a bit of a cringey desperate post but needs must….😢 I’ve just lost a couple of thousand self publishing a book - I’m a hybrid author (published traditionally and self published) and I decided to self publish my book I was most passionate about to have total control. BUT….

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last mo.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

Life after 50.

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My last night’s physic worked and did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four stools, and walked up and down my chamber.

Big bin day is happening across Australia. What is it ? People are dumpster diving for food and then giving it away outside of Coles and woolies. To not only show the waste but to show the price gouging.

If you want to talk about governments who have completely and utterly failed @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social there's 10 people who would love you to hear their stories via @earthjustice.org. You're not alone. earthjustice.org/hardtruthsca... #HardTruthsCase #AusPol #NZPol

Hard Truths: Meet the 10 Australians

The people bringing this case come from communities across Australia already living with the consequences of climate harm – in their homes, their bodies and on First Nations Country

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not to mention that there were so many things that were already in place for the electric transition that were broken and/or rolled back by this government. As individual policy this may be a good idea, but yeah, not in the context of what this government did over the past term.

I'm really sorry to do this again, I've provided screenshots, links and explanations as to the cost needing to be raised for this I'd really rather be safe than sorry I wasn't aware that people were abusing the edible garden like this

♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust@smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Im extremely sorry to do this again. After this, other than memberships helping me pay my bills I'm gonna try not fundraise for as long as I can possibly last for without extra help. But until then I do need help with your strong currencies to help fund emergency healthcare tests

[Food intolerances] PSA if you want flavor but can't eat onions/garlic and you're wondering what that looks like for say, Indian cooking this video recipe is a good primer on what to leave out and what to use instead (if you don't want to make this specific recipe, the techniques transfer well)

Easy Masala Pulao लखनऊ जैसा मसाला पुलाव bonus 2 types Raita recipes Masala Khichdi Recipe - Ranveer Brar

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to make Masala Pulao लखनऊ जैसा मसाला पुलाव bonus 2 types Raita recipes Masala Khichdi by Ranveer Brar. Click to read the full recipe now.

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I keep wondering why I love the City Watch books by Sir Terry Pratchett. I think I know why... It's a Police Force run by the neurodivergent, the queer, and the outcast. They're coppers every single one, and they'd be the first behind Sam Vimes himself to call themselves bastards.

I don't usually get any reactions to vaccines, despite my immune system spending every day shrieking ALERT ALERT, MAKE EXTRA LAYERS OF SKIN, JUST BECAUSE!! and to vaccines is um, whatever and having no reaction. But I had an RSV vax on Monday, and I am getting alllll the flu-like symptoms. Yuuuuck.

NDIS Bill Committee report now due Friday (was due today) www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

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