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There is absolutely derision in the industry towards genre fiction, especially romance.

As someone who reads that stuff out loud for work, you know who really cares about that work? And puts love and attention into it?

The authors. And their readers.

AI peddling trash merchants beware.

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It seems like the position of the times is that reading is a big fucking waste of time and that romance readers are stupid www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Ok that’s pretty bad but also all sports owners are garbage

Convince me on rooting interests for the Super Bowl. I am simply going to make laoganma potatoes and go to my friends house

He was not

I did have one white reply guy insist that he was better at cooking tofu than I was lol

i just want to say one more thing, KU for a long time, at least in the romance space, was really well known for being the place where BIPOC authors were really thriving. So to have this be apartheid-Coral, a fucking white woman be the face of all this grift is even more disgusting than you realize.

Last year, she produced more than 200 romance novels in a range of subgenres, from dark mafia romances to sweet teen stories, and self-published them on Amazon. None were huge blockbusters, but collectively, they sold around 50,000 copies, earning Ms. Hart six figures.

I don't really want to bother, but these numbers? this is just a war of attrition. Each book made $500 in the KU trenches. She expended zero effort writing them, and readers DIDN'T READ THEM.

I wanna point out that the refusal to acknowledge work that goes into romance novels and throwing the people that write them under the bus is how you get an AI grift workshops breeding ground

This is straight up manufacturing consent now

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I am playing this game where you get to role play as the guy feeding hot dogs to raccoons on his porch

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Gene Simmons @genesimmons · 5 Feb My personal philosophy re Bitcoin is to hold (HODL). I firmly believe in the future. You need to do your own research and make your own decisions. MidnightRider @pilky0001 Man you’re 80 years old fuck you hodling anything for? I wouldn’t buy green bananas if I were you

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Jake Paul @jakepaul • 23h Wow pls shut the fuck up From all true Americans If you don't want to represent this country go live somewhere else Chad Caton @Im... •1d What you ski with that flag on your arm and run your mouth on the world stage?? Some of us wore that flag on our arm and buried our friends under it. STFU AND GO PLAY IN THE SNOW Hunter Hess Team USA freestyle skier

the left is also going to get the olympics in the national divorce it seems, while the conservatives will retain [checks notes] jake paul, rob schneider & catturd

Yes x 1000. I told my editors that all of the LLM drama came for romance (thanks to the Amazon marketplace) over a decade ago. Every iteration after that has been the same cycle over and over again. Can’t get serious people to treat it seriously, however, because it’s about women’s economic activity

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

Best response to our study yet: The nativist equation is: Not hearing Spanish > infinite $$.

engagement is off the fucking charts tbh. like the ratio of posters to lurkers seems quite bizarre actually

Tbh this website is legit good for high engagement content— why if you're left of center at all you should be posting here

Gonna do some homework and then make potato wedges for a Super Bowl party

Owls by Size bookmark for the wooden own figurine set that labels each species.

Bookmark key that comes with Owls by Size!

In 2016, when Post reporter Jason Rezaian was freed after spending 1.5 years in Iranian prison, Jeff Bezos personally flew him back on his private plane. Bezos used it as a photo op.

Now, Bezos is leaving people he laid off overseas in a lurch.

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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Olivia Colman: 'I've always felt sort of nonbinary' The actress discussed her feelings about gender in an interview promoting her latest film, Jimpa.

Very cool! Olivia Colman came out as nonbinary, "I’ve always felt sort of nonbinary, and never felt massively feminine in my being female. I've always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, 'Yeah, I get that.' And so I do feel at home and at ease [among the LGBTQ community.]”

DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE' The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.

“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.

“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE' The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.

“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”

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This just happened with the pronoun labeler being deleted

JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):

Superb Owl is going to do numbers like Snoop Dogg’s first album.

"(A survey of more than 1,200 authors across genres showed that about a third were using generative A.I. for plotting, outlining or writing, and the majority said they did not disclose their A.I. use to readers, according to BookBub, a book discovery site that released the poll last May.)" 😡

Opinion: If D.C. can’t clear all roads, it shouldn’t send students to class Kids deserve consideration in school reopening plans, writes a Jackson-Reed High School student.

"I understand that it’s very hard for parents to have their kids home for extended periods of time, especially parents of young children...But conditions were not safe for many students asked to attend class that day," writes ninth-grader Rayna Leibowitz Hampton.