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t fritz

@tifawrites.bsky.social

professional villainfucker KU MFA, under the volcano & futurescapes alum, creative writing teacher, queer, autistic, she/they find my writing in analog science fiction & fact, reactor, and hayden's ferry review

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author@thoughtsstained.bsky.social · last yr.

Just a friendly reminder that if I get one sale from IngramSpark, I will be back out of the negative from the *single* return and won't owe them money. And, if I get three sales from D2D, I'll actually get paid out by them. 🥲 #BookSky 📚🌈📚💙 linktr.ee/thoughtsstai...

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author@thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's #IndieApril! My goal this month is to sell twice what I sold last month, so four books! If you like: 🩸breaking period stigmas 🩸female rage 🩸in-depth character study 🩸queernorm world with bi protag 🩸female heroes, villains and powerhouses Then Blood Price is for you! #BookSky 📚🌈📚💙

The novel Blood Price by Nicole Evans sits on a bed of dead leaves and daffodils and green weeds. The cover is blue with Ashilde, the protagonist who is a white woman in black and red armor, wielding a bloodied black spear, as she runs besides a gray wolf and a black raven.
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've seen two roundups of queer books on the Locus finalists list so far, and my book was absent from both, so just a reminder that it is in fact a queer & trans & intersex (!) book and it is a Locus finalist title. www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p113/P...

Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács

Broken Eye Books is publishing the collected short stories, Power to Yield and Other Stories, of Bogi Takács.

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Foz Meadows@fozmeadows.bsky.social · 2y ago

AI replaces thinking, which ought to be the cornerstone of education. But decades of emphasis on rote learning/standardized tests over original thought means kids have already disconnected learning from thinking, while the insane price of US college frames the degree itself as a paid commodity.

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C. L. Polk@clpolk.com · 2y ago

I don’t care what it says. Gen ai bots are a stupid scam that erode your ability to use your brain, pushed on us by Amway-pilled weirdos who spent billions and are wrecking the planet even faster than before because the whole world owes them a chance to make up their losses. It’s giant hogweed.

Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 2y ago

The biggest driver since its inception of writers experimenting with ChatGPT has been this Worldcon kerfuffle driving folks to say "All right fine, what does the fucking thing say about me?"

Joseph Fink 🦃🍁👽🦾@planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2y ago

I find the replies to this, especially from non-women, that are like "just follow the women" or "women will save us!" to be missing the point by a mile. For one, the Trump admin has a number of women working for them. For another, you cannot wait for a demographic you are not in to save you.

Joseph Fink 🦃🍁👽🦾@planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear

t fritz@tifawrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

This Friday at noon (CT), I'll be hosting the Gunn Center for Science Fiction's virtual book club. We'll be talking about Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill! Hit me up if you want to attend. The novella is about 100 pages, so it's not too late to get started reading.

Mikki Kendall@karnythia.blacksky.app · 2y ago

I know I keep saying this, but it is incredible important to understand that the Nazi playbook was US policy. So much of the anti intellectualism has been to erase the fact that the US was on this road before the Germans and is simply reverting to the original horrors that were in motion.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2y ago

I must say I no longer believe that this is reminiscent of the Nazi playbook, I believe they’re using the Nazi playbook - offshore extermination and concentration camps, targeting people on basis of race and manufactured legality, academic onslaught, media, gender policing it’s all there.

t fritz@tifawrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

Favorite genres: 1. local hero/ine stops performing perfection, submits to controllable feral urges, and experiences one cartharsis, aka 2. unlearning how to people please 3. emotionally maladjusted malewife proves more empathetic than the average neurotypical 4. It's Complicated 5. weird pov

David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚@daviddemchuk.com · 2y ago

Favourite genres: 3. Queers: amusing, stylish and frequently horrible 2. If you’ve got nothing in the fridge, there’s always human flesh 1. We have an old story in our country about a nameless evil that stains the land and withers everything in its path and I have always found it most flattering

t fritz@tifawrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm late on this but I needed more time to think. Here's my 10 books by women writers for International Women's Day (Observed): 1. Detransition Baby 2. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things 3. My Dark Vanessa 4. The Mere Wife 5. Babel

Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now@drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'll play too! For International Women's Day, 10 books by women writers: 1. A Desolation called Peace by Arkady Martine 2. The Water Outlaws by SL Huang 3. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 4. Catfishing on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer 5. Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merrill 1/2

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is straight-up fascist dictatorship activity. Not fascist-adjacent or “reminiscent of authoritarian regimes” or whatever euphemistic bullshit — fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2y ago

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Adriana Guatame-García@adriguatame.bsky.social · 2y ago

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
t fritz@tifawrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

i'm trying to make a quippy comment about the value of DEI re: the female justices being the ones who give a damn about the planet and people's health/safety but i can't assemble it because i'm too angry to be snarky

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2y ago

SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...