Join me and other #bookbloggers next month when I host #ShortStorySeptember, celebrating the art of the short story through reviews of individual stories or whole collections. bookishbeck.com/2026/08/17/s...

Short Story September Is Coming Soon!

Every September I make a special effort to get to more of the short fiction on my shelves, e-readers, and library catalogue. Last year, Lisa of ANZ LitLovers launched Short Story September as a pro…

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Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 4w ago

😎🆒 cool tool alert 🚨⚠️ 1BitDragon V5 is here and it's incredibly fun! easily make music for your games. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1864790/... itchio: 1bitdragon.itch.io/1bitdragon worth it if you're looking for something easy to learn with good turnaround. (it has randomness and arpeggio!🎶)

Scott fought to protect sacred sites of local Tribes. Showed up where ever someone needed him. From protests to friends. He was there if you needed him. Fluent in Welsh and Spanish. Read way too many books from the library. Now I hope his spirit continues in every "f*ck you" we give to fascism.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

My martial arts brother just passed away from cancer. He fought hard for immigrant rights. Helped me with my LGBTQ+ training group. He was one of those folks who do the right thing because that's just what you do. You help people. Please help out if you can to support his family. 💔

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

indie gamedev tip: keep a secret collection of all the nice things people have said about your work on social media or elsewhere. when you’re down you can scroll through it and feel instantly encouraged!

Kids shouldn’t be spied on by police on their way to school. This new wave of mass surveillance tech is a creepy violation of privacy.

‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.

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If you sign up all you will have to do is leave a kind comment on someone's social media who is experiencing an online harassment campaign. I think this is a great idea. If people can mobilize to spread hate then others can unite to spread kindness. All it takes is to comment.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

Campaign to fight online violence. People should not be bullied to end their lives by bots or companies that get paid to do these type of campaigns or online groups of creeps. Sign up and help fight back and make social media a better place for those struggling 💖 3K+ folks already on board.

My martial arts brother just passed away from cancer. He fought hard for immigrant rights. Helped me with my LGBTQ+ training group. He was one of those folks who do the right thing because that's just what you do. You help people. Please help out if you can to support his family. 💔

Donate to In Loving Memory Of Scott Sink: Supporting his family, organized by Jennifer Ralph

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Here's something you can do to become cooler and hotter in 2 easy steps! 1) click the link below 2) click "add to wishlist" on the page that pops up store.steampowered.com/app/4565530/...

Divinuet on Steam

A compellingly unique deterministic musical tarot experience, which guides you through a tarot reading in two segments. In the first, each card plays its own musical theme. In the second, music and vi...

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If you sign up all you will have to do is leave a kind comment on someone's social media who is experiencing an online harassment campaign. I think this is a great idea. If people can mobilize to spread hate then others can unite to spread kindness. All it takes is to comment.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

Campaign to fight online violence. People should not be bullied to end their lives by bots or companies that get paid to do these type of campaigns or online groups of creeps. Sign up and help fight back and make social media a better place for those struggling 💖 3K+ folks already on board.

Campaign to fight online violence. People should not be bullied to end their lives by bots or companies that get paid to do these type of campaigns or online groups of creeps. Sign up and help fight back and make social media a better place for those struggling 💖 3K+ folks already on board.

JOIN LOVE ONLY: FIGHT ONLINE VIOLENCE WITH KINDNESS AND COMMUNITY

I just joined Love Only, and I'd love for you to join me. Violent and organized online attacks against activists, journalists, and others who speak up for a fairer and more equal world are growing. ...

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60% funded. If you can chip in please do and if anything please share! I hope for his family not to have to worry about bills while they put him to rest. He was an incredible person always doing something for the people around him. Please share if you can.

Donate to In Loving Memory Of Scott Sink: Supporting his family, organized by Jennifer Ralph

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To look beyond the hype meant for investors I recommend the Empire of AI by Karen Hao, AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor and now Deep Unlearning The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist By Timnit Gebru. If you understand how LLMs work then you see the con.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google for contributing to the paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" in 2021. Her work is a must read to understand how big tech AI is the biggest con from Silicon Valley. Check out her book Deep Unlearning.

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google for contributing to the paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" in 2021. Her work is a must read to understand how big tech AI is the biggest con from Silicon Valley. Check out her book Deep Unlearning.

“Deep Unlearning”: Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias

We speak with Timnit Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, about how artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases and inequality. Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Dist...

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60% funded. If you can chip in please do and if anything please share! I hope for his family not to have to worry about bills while they put him to rest. He was an incredible person always doing something for the people around him. Please share if you can.

Donate to In Loving Memory Of Scott Sink: Supporting his family, organized by Jennifer Ralph

Jennifer Ralph is creating this fundraiser for Gema, the wife of … Jennifer Ralph needs your support for In Loving Memory Of Scott Sink: Supporting his family

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Basically if you buy a book scan and shred it and train your AI model it's not violating copyright because you bought it according to the judge. If they are going to do this crap the scanned books should be online for free for everyone. Not in a hallucinating AI model behind a paywall.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

Who would of though Amazon the company that put local bookstores out of business would be part of the largest digital book burning. Also WTF was that judges ruling "training AI on books is fair ​use under copyright law" which started this whole scan and shred tactic from AI companies.

Who would of though Amazon the company that put local bookstores out of business would be part of the largest digital book burning. Also WTF was that judges ruling "training AI on books is fair ​use under copyright law" which started this whole scan and shred tactic from AI companies.

Have so many stories to tell about this guy. What I remember most is his dry wit. Ability to point out inaccuracies in logical thinking and somehow spinning that into a joke. How he read books he didn't agree with to talk about them critically. He was a thinker, an activist, a teacher and friend.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

My martial arts brother just passed away from cancer. He fought hard for immigrant rights. Helped me with my LGBTQ+ training group. He was one of those folks who do the right thing because that's just what you do. You help people. Please help out if you can to support his family. 💔

smartphones have never ascended to this level of technological achievement (sound on)

Have so many stories to tell about this guy. What I remember most is his dry wit. Ability to point out inaccuracies in logical thinking and somehow spinning that into a joke. How he read books he didn't agree with to talk about them critically. He was a thinker, an activist, a teacher and friend.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

My martial arts brother just passed away from cancer. He fought hard for immigrant rights. Helped me with my LGBTQ+ training group. He was one of those folks who do the right thing because that's just what you do. You help people. Please help out if you can to support his family. 💔

Scott fought to protect sacred sites of local Tribes. Showed up where ever someone needed him. From protests to friends. He was there if you needed him. Fluent in Welsh and Spanish. Read way too many books from the library. Now I hope his spirit continues in every "f*ck you" we give to fascism.

Tanja THE Awesome@tanjatheawesome.bsky.social · last mo.

My martial arts brother just passed away from cancer. He fought hard for immigrant rights. Helped me with my LGBTQ+ training group. He was one of those folks who do the right thing because that's just what you do. You help people. Please help out if you can to support his family. 💔

My martial arts brother just passed away from cancer. He fought hard for immigrant rights. Helped me with my LGBTQ+ training group. He was one of those folks who do the right thing because that's just what you do. You help people. Please help out if you can to support his family. 💔

Donate to In Loving Memory Of Scott Sink: Supporting his family, organized by Jennifer Ralph

Jennifer Ralph is creating this fundraiser for Gema, the wife of … Jennifer Ralph needs your support for In Loving Memory Of Scott Sink: Supporting his family

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2018. "ICE has filed a request to begin destroying a variety of detention records, including those related to sexual assault, solitary confinement, and death in custody." theintercept.com/2018/04/11/i...

1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE.

Immigrants sexually abused in ICE detention have been saying #MeToo for years. They faced retaliation, and a system unwilling to hold itself accountable.

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I should mention this more often: I write books! You can get them, read them, and talk with me about them. I love communicating with readers, and I’ll always sign your copies. You can find all my books at @notapipe.bsky.social’s notapipestore.com

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Koi fish are wonderful they recognize faces and are very social

Library funding is tied to usage.

There's something very 2026 about trying to ride the wave of distaste in AI by vibecoding a site to (poorly) detect vibecoding.

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · last mo.

tetrageddon.com a website i made *long before* any AI vibe coding tools existed, is marked as 100% likely vibe coded by AI detection tools like IsItVibeCoded dot com. one of the reasons given is “alarming statements about infections/cyberzombies”. i can’t 😂🤣🥲

tetrageddon.com a website i made *long before* any AI vibe coding tools existed, is marked as 100% likely vibe coded by AI detection tools like IsItVibeCoded dot com. one of the reasons given is “alarming statements about infections/cyberzombies”. i can’t 😂🤣🥲