Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

incredible new Bill photo has dropped from my partner

Why the artist must take sides @saulwilliams.bsky.social

Oh I quite like being notorious EIGHT years ago??? God my agéd bones

Oliver Morris@oldermodal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The notorious @itswil.bsky.social and @shomarq.bsky.social did this 8 years ago so your excuses are thin. wilwilliams.reviews/2018/05/08/p...

Now I work for a newsletter that does podcast reviews (shout out @ear-wax-magazine.bsky.social ) I am BEGGING audio fiction podcasters to make a press kit. Resources below:

I wrote a book all about making audio drama and it can be yours for only $7! It's got everything I've learned from 8ish years of making shows - perfect for total beginners or folks who want to level up their production game.

EBOOK! How to Audio Drama: A Guide to Fiction Podcasting - Tal Minear's Ko-fi Shop

Interested in making an audio drama but have no idea where to start? Mid-production on your first show but getting lost in the details? Just want to l...

ko-fi.com

Gathering all my published writing, I came across this article I wrote for Simplecast in 2022 and am still extremely proud of. Paranormal call-in podcasts in the context of my father's death and the development of my own illness. Edited by @shomarq.bsky.social blog.simplecast.com/welcome-call...

Welcome Caller: Hauntings, Hope, and Late Night Paranormal Podcasts

by Amanda McCormack

blog.simplecast.com

This was incredibly good and I am fucking obsessed with the writer/editorial choice made to have the article broken up by slightly different photographs of the same first four volumes in the reviewer's home.

Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 3mo ago

for the great @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, I wrote about the On the Calculation of Volume novels, why I find them so bizarrely compelling, and what it might have to do with our favorite new american proverb www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/maybe-it-wil...

really appreciate everyone who’s sent in responses to this. still looking for more ahead of publishing next week (and will continue to afterward, as well!)

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

working on a new project for @aftermath.site: a semi-comprehensive, regularly-updated list of every game studio that refuses to use AI. if that sounds like your studio, message me with the reason(s) why as well as basic details about what you make. DMs open and email is nathan@aftermath.site

Our first issue is out now, and we're really proud of it! Featuring reviews of Higher Grounds by Rhianna Stephenson, Something's Amiss at Juniper's House by @chemicallywrit.bsky.social , ten 2026 song recommendations, and an interview with @laurenshippen.com! www.earwaxmag.com/ear-wax-maga...

EAR•WAX Magazine: Volume 1, Issue 1

Now available to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or your podcatcher of choice. Or listen right on our website. Tracklist: * Vinyl by Oliver Morris (0:00 - 1:15) * Table of Content...

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being a perfectionist with ADHD is fun because you get to spend every waking hour being mad at yourself

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

An utterly worthless article about two utterly worthless studies The first study looks at AI audiobooks vs human narrators, is funded by an AI audiobook company and compares a single narrator vs AI generated multi-cast So the actual conclusion is that people might prefer multi-cast audiobooks

Podnews podcasting news@podnews.net · 3mo ago

Listeners prefer AI voices, claim two studies: They don't like the idea, but after hearing an AI voice they are twice as likely to like it

Mom, Dad & their 19 babies drinking some water from a backyard pond. These are Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) in the Catalina Foothills of Arizona. Let's ask why they drink via the 'sip-and-tilt' method... (📷: Desert Critters of Arizona via YT)

Only took fourteen years of dreaming & heeeeerrreee it is! Friends, I'm thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel with you all. The most desi haunted haveli ever! Haunted places. Haunted people. And some very haunting stories Preorder link in the thread

Huzzah! My short story "Clanker, Meatbag, Traitor, Scum" has just been published in this cool new anthology: "Trans/Port: Trans Speculative Fiction for a Queer Future" draft2digital.com/book/4305329 It's about a robot trying to transition to human, and about one very confused support group. 🙃

your moment of calm: baby ducks sleep-floating...

I really love this project (shoutout to rommy for suggesting it). May and June's proceeds went to @redcanarysong.bsky.social, an organization I nominated and love supporting. This July and August, we're contributing to the Homeless World Cup Foundation, nominated by @katelynburns.com.

The Flytrap@theflytrapmedia.com · 4mo ago

It's July, which means we have a new recipient of the proceeds from our charity bandana: The Homeless World Cup Foundation! Grab one today and support programs to support unhoused people worldwide.

if you had asked me what one of our top fundraisers in this year's auction would be, the chances are not high that I would have said, "you see everyone on bluesky just got deeply into catholic schisms...."

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 4mo ago

good morning, Team Schism! if you enjoyed this thread, might you also enjoy supporting democracy by making me read JD Vance’s shit-ass book and joining me for a Zoom where I scream about it? $75 live hang with Q&A www.32auctions.com/organization... $25 recording www.32auctions.com/organization...

The security guard at the door:

It is the Winter of Our Discontent…@21cpedagogy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One of the buildings they are being encouraged to take shelter in is the African American Museum. 🤷‍♀️

I am genuinely a believer in the notion that at a certain point after all due diligence has been done it is interfering with human freedom to try to prevent people from endangering themselves, god fucking speed I say as I take a long drag on my cigarette

It helps to read the rage I feel from others.

Prism@prismreports.org · 4mo ago

“With continued global chaos fueled & funded by the U.S. government, Borinquen’s self-determination may not be top of mind, but it should be top priority.” For 128 years, the U.S. has treated Puerto Rico as unequal. Lola Rosario's op-ed questions: “What, to the colonized, is the Fourth of July?”

“With continued global chaos fueled & funded by the U.S. government, Borinquen’s self-determination may not be top of mind, but it should be top priority.” For 128 years, the U.S. has treated Puerto Rico as unequal. Lola Rosario's op-ed questions: “What, to the colonized, is the Fourth of July?”

What, to Puerto Rico, is the Fourth of July?

For 128 years, the U.S. has treated Puerto Rico as unequal. Yet many Puerto Ricans celebrate their colonizer's freedom

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Ha ha I hate it here

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

Arguably the best photo I’ve ever taken of an ominous stranger on horseback approaching lazy cattle on a chalk hilltop beneath an irascible sky.

Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.