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Submissions open in 3 weeks! Metachrosis issue 6 15th Dec - 28th Feb We'll be accepting submissions of all forms of art and writing. Send your work via Duosoma and Curatorspace Check out our submission guidelines on our website. (A black and white image of a lobster) Metachrosis Magazine

We're counting down the minutes until submission open for issue 6. Luckily there's still plenty of time for research and re-watching Twin Peaks. We've updated our submission portals so be sure to check them out and read one of our digital issue while you're there. #opencall #litmag #literarymagazine

Considering buying a set of waterproof earphones for swimming, or maybe putting them on my Christmas list. If anyone is able to recommend some please I'd really appreciate it.

My favorite time of year!

You’re not sticking it to the bigwigs, y’all. You’re hurting the authors of the books you like.

You can justify it all you like, but trad or indie, we can’t keep writing if books don’t sell.

I just outright asked the last author I wanted to support "hey, which way of buying your book does you the most good?" Then I did that.

I’m so tired of this. Its exhausting. We’re all broke and the people who steal books don’t care.

I’d bet a whole American dollar that saying “Please don’t steal from us” on social media is basically a challenge to double down and yoinks! away! on our titles.

At least then I’d get a dollar.

You're not really screwing over the publishers. They make up for your pirating by jacking up prices, paying authors less, cancelling that series you love because it didn't sell enough, etc. You're hurting authors & your fellow readers because you feel entitled & I, for one, fucking hate you for it.

Great thread.

*laughs in library assistant*

I see it's the seasonal argument about why piracy to fuck over Amazon and publishers is okay while many authors live below the poverty line.

99% of authors I know have a day job and/or a side hustle.

Next.

Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires

Actual artists have a community, genAI users just have a fistful of hot dogshit an Epstein associate is losing billions of dollars on.

Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*

Using genAI is proof you don't.

Using genAI alienates you from everyone else. It doesn't democratize art, it atomizes it.

No genAI user is gonna get an outpouring of sincere support from others because even they themselves don't give a fuck about what they're making.

Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...

Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views

Scottish city area to get £1.5 million investment to restore its heritage A GLASGOW area is set to benefit from £1.5 million investment to restore its heritage ...

I loved govan when i lived there and even then it needed help.

This will be really good for the area.

Seeing what Microsoft is doing to Windows confirms one of my biggest concerns with AI.

These companies have spent so much money on each other pretending "autocomplete with extra steps" is necessary that they're now forcing it into everything for good or ill and giving no one an opt-out.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

It's the women who are going to bring him down.
Good morning everyone.
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Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

2/3 I have made three of my cartoons into new, limited edition prints. You can get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop

In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.” Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.

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Still from the television show The Simpsons showing Lisa in her cool attire talking to her summer friend Erin while sitting on a fountain. Text reads "Yeah, stuff sucks"

33 seconds of Ozzy making biscuits. Sound on for purring.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.

Can’t think why a trans person wouldn’t come forward to the British Transport Police and report that they’d been assaulted.

Total mystery. 🤔

Holiday reminders:

- If someone has a new relationship, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask.
- If someone is pregnant and they want to share that, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask.
- If someone’s body has changed, they’re aware. You don’t need to point it out.

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