Scott F Jarvie

@scottfjarvie.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Disabled Sci Fi and Fantasy Author Writes stories for readers with aphantasia. The Scientist is available at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, kobo plus, and Rakuten kobo Book 1 - https://books2read.com/u/3LM2A5 Book 2 - https://books2read.com/u/mgdxqx

🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 11h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

The Right seems to think PressProgress is dying. That couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s been an eventful few weeks here at PressProgress. Here are some updates 👇🏽

My review of VILLA COCO by Andrew Sean Greer is on IG/SG. This is a coming-of-age story of American Geoffrey, a new grad. He takes a job as an archivist for an eccentric Italian Baronessa in her eclectic villa. There’s a small mystery but this is a gentle book about atmosphere & quirky characters.📚💙

The cover of the book Villa Coco, by Andrew Sean Greer has a colorful picture of an elderly woman wearing a light colored dress and a big hat. She has a cane and there is a small dog next to her. She is standing in the doorway of an Italian villa, and there are flowers and trees around her. 

Digital platforms encourage people to project their feelings onto a screen I was just subjected to days of people making up unhinged lies about me on X dot com for no reason, people use these platforms as a dumping ground for their deepest paranoid fantasies Our humanity gets lost in the process

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think there's a case to be made that we should care whether people in power are, in fact, total jerks. In today's video, I muse about exactly that: why isn't empathy treated as a prerequisite to shape public opinion or policy? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

HUGE NEWS!!! @rumneeek.bsky.social is incredibly talented, smart and badass. She really deserves this. I'm so excited to see where she takes this newsroom -- toss her a follow so you can see it too!! So happy for her and the team at PressProgress. ❤️

PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 6d ago

Introducing PressProgress’s New Executive Editor Rumneek Johal, former Associate Editor and BC Reporter, steps into new leadership role pressprogress.ca/introducing-...

Okay, I am working on three characters. And there are three character arcs. So I have: • The Heroine • The Nosferatu • The Confidante The Heroine needs a negative character arc. I can't do a godfather part 1 story without a negative arc. So let's there.

DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d ago

August Character Workshop Day 3. #AugCharWork Character Arcs A story can, in theory, exist without a character arc. I don’t recommend doing that. A character doesn’t necessarily need an arc, depending upon their role in the story though.