Being around a grumpy person and the heat has my head hurting. Gonna enjoy the quiet of being alone and read a little.

I'm a dinosaur. I still write, create, and research without AI. Amazing, huh? All errors are mine and I had semi colons, commas, em dashes way before they invented AI's nonsense.

First books. Now AI is destroying music.

Michael Kupperman@mkupperman.bsky.social · 15h ago

It's impossible to miss how AI has fucked up every digital interaction, and the awful, bile-inducing "art" is everywhere, but until my son started pointing it out, I had not realized how much AI-generated music there is being played in public

Lol we all functioned better for generations without AI or even technology. I don't know why AI lovers act like we're helpless without their little bots. This world is getting too helpless. We're cooked.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 16h ago

I have one answer.

Everytime I am on Facebook I feel my brains loosening.

Diverse stories deserve visibility. That's why The Lesbian Review offers BIPOC authors 1 free New Release Cycle per sapphic title published within the last 3 months. Book now https://f.mtr.cool/yllxeobkuh #QueerBooks #BIPOCAuthor #SapphicRomance #IndiePublishing #sapphicfiction 

It's such a dilemma - don't you agree? I felt like this while reading The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett. #BookSky

Oh yes! #BookSky

Introverts are kind of like cats. Either we like you or we don’t, and will fight you if you try too hard. You have been warned.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Oh great. An untreatable, possibly fatal virus passed by ticks is spreading in the USA. Good thing we have the CDC looking out for us, am I right?

First Case of Bourbon Virus, Which Is Untreatable and Potentially Fatal, Confirmed in New York

The first confirmed case of the tick-borne Bourbon virus, which is extremely rare and potentially fatal, has been identified in New York.

people.com

this made me laugh my ass off. "they broke your bread...." "who did this to you?" #blacksky

Dating back to pagan times, August 1st is Lammas Day ("Loaf Mass"), where we celebrate the first harvest festival of the year. Traditionally, the Lammas loaf is made from the first wheat harvest, taken to church and shared as an offering for the bountiful harvest to come. #Folklore #LammasDay

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“You will know them by their fruits.” - Jesus

Today was good except for being around someone I just can't stand. I've tried but I cannot bring myself to like this very fake person. Lord, forgive me.

My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.

For the enlightenment of the 💩🤡s going after Fauci:

If only! #BookSky

Amen. #WritingCommunity

AI companies are buying rare and out of print books scanning them and then destroying them. That is so fucked up. This cult is getting way out of hand.

Game over.

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It's already happening. People are losing empathy and imagination.

Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 6d ago

Please read..... #BookSky

I can't wait to move today. This motel has been a godsend but seriously this has been hell with two people living in one room. This is how too many poor people live in America. This is the reality so many ignore. I won't forget this experience and I won't forget the people who are still here.

Don’t let this clip get memory-holed

Yes, they do. #BookSky

An Army National Guard officer has admitted to using his government travel card to fund a secret second marriage

National Guard officer admits using government travel card to support secret second wife

An Army National Guard officer awaits sentencing for using his government travel card to pay thousands of dollars and fund a secret second marriage.

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John Brown was not asked. He took it upon himself because he saw the urgency & had actual care in his heart for Black people, so he sacrificed himself, his comfort, his standing with other whites. You could choose it, but you don't, why you'll never be him! @blaque-natas.bsky.social

@framplings.bsky.social · 6d ago

Our cowardice is a function of our relative comfort. We have not been asked to stand in the face of certain harm to protect our own. The existential threat is not there. But it is worse than cowardice. It is also avarice. Watching others suffer and not standing is complicity. For we are all our own!

“Jamey Giddens and Dan O’Connor have been named co-head writers of the CBS daytime drama, replacing departing head writer Josh Griffith.” #YR #Soapsky www.tvinsider.com/1278386/youn...

Shakeup! 'Y&R' Prepares for Major Storyline Reset as Names New Writing Team

Major changes are coming to 'Y&R' as CBS has officially replaced head writer Josh Griffith with a dynamic new writing duo.

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