Read Chuck Tingle’s Bury Your Gays all in one go yesterday. Spectacularly scary. My anxiety could not have gotten any higher.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Apparently all I needed to get back to reading and writing was to remove the source of my 24/7 anxiety.

Online poster-activists will put "boycott this indie creator over their problematic shipping take from 2007" on even footing with "boycott this specific company that's funding fascists and also vulnerable to a boycott right now." In practice, this means no boycott and a lot of exhaustion.

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Flooko.

Local bookstore haul. Was searching for TBHH and Parable (success!), but the double feature of The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road was a surprise. I love double-sided books, they’re a fun format. @stephengrahamjones.com

River Sova@riversova.com · 5d ago

Big book-related weekend plans. Finally got my full Georgia ID so first stop is the library for a card. Also got paid, so then off to the giant, two/story used bookstore.

Hello I have (finally) updated my website www.bettyrocksteady.com and you should go look at it and hire me to draw you things in September

Illustrator specializing in horror with a surrealist underground comix style.

bettyrocksteady.com

In my humble brown opinion, the trans rights movement urgently needs to draw from decolonial movements which have successfully toppled entire regimes by creating radical organizations that encourage and publicize targeted boycotts of specific companies that fund and enable genocide.

am i allowed to talk about how weird it is that the main way liberals philantropize trans people is by donating money to liberal nonprofits for call centers that beg us not to kill ourselves, instead of directly funding our material needs which, when deprived, lead to suicidality? is that allowed?

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6d ago

Sorry i meant to say we need more celebrities to donate $100 million to suicide hotlines so we can call someone who will beg us not to kill ourselves when the state takes away our medication and housing, and then send the cops to our home if we say the wrong series of words. My bad.

Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

Took a nap and had a wild dream that might make a good suspense novel, except the Fellowship of the Ring characters showed up right at the end.

Higuruma Jujutsu Kaisen

Alt: Anime guy in a suit, sitting in a conference room. He smacks his hands to his face and leans back in his chair, then drags his hands down his face with a look of exhaustion and despair.

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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Sure, let’s give this a go!

Zoe Storm@zoestorm.bsky.social · 6d ago

This seems fun. 1 like = 1 answer :)

Big book-related weekend plans. Finally got my full Georgia ID so first stop is the library for a card. Also got paid, so then off to the giant, two/story used bookstore.

"this is a successful blockbuster that has helped ignite an admirable interest in the classics, but as an expert I personally would have been ashamed to write it and couldn't fully enjoy it" is not the unhinged rant some people accused it of being

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

i feel like a good metaphor for this would be a hot new chef having a meal laid out when their investors arrive (they actually ordered take out) so they get huge investment and on the restaurants opening night their kitchen staff immediately realizes the chef dosent know how to even turn on the oven

Chuck Tingle@chucktingle.bsky.social · 5d ago

interesting thing that is rarely talked about with authors trying to use AI in debut novels: you will get caught once edits start or at MOST on book two. self publishing is different i suppose, but anyone out there trying to break into traditional publishing with AI clearly does not know the process

the thing Star Trek got most correct is that, if advanced sentient life exists, we will fuck it immediately and some of us will be marrying into the species within a year

Micah@rincewind.run · 7d ago

“can we fuck (in) it” truly the driving force of human nature

How it started: I’ll just write the weirdest idea I have and see what happens. How it’s going:

Charlie Day ranting in front of the Pepe Silvia Conspiracy board.

Alt: Charlie Day ranting in front of the Pepe Silvia Conspiracy board.

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Mostly load-based so they don’t fall over. Hardcovers on each end, then tallest to shortest paperbacks. No order, but I try to keep one author together.

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?

“If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

liberalcurrents.com

I cut my coffee intake from daily to 1-2/week and it turns out I was not having paradoxical responses, I just had a ridiculous tolerance.

This story is still the most fun I've had writing in a long time. I just wrapped up the first chapter and I can't wait to write more tomorrow.

River Sova@riversova.com · 3w ago

I'm always hesitant to post too much info about a story I'm working on when its in the early stages, but please know I'm working on a zero draft of a horror/comedy with a protagonist who's very much In Over His Head And Over It. I'm having a blast.

Writers are people who have imposter syndrome and main character syndrome at the same time

folks, let me promise you this: when I finish my sequel the horny drug addicted cyborgs will be just as problematic and violent as before and i 100% endorse every single action they take

@jawless-fish.bsky.social · last wk.

theres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often

Watched a clump of cat fur float around and now know how air circulates in this room. Also, I need to vacuum. The summer shed from such a small cat is remarkable.