Elizabeth Gonzalez James

He’s gonna pardon her. A year ago I wouldn’t have believed it but here we are.

I called too and managed to not swear though the terms stupid, horrible, reckless, and sham were used liberally.

Thanks! I am very assiduously avoiding work right now 😂

Finished!

Update: I finished the mofo #knitting

I made my daughter read Brave New World last year and she haaaated it. I wish I’d known there was a graphic novel.

Elizabeth doing a really good variation of the Pilates 100 on a paddle board at sunset

1.5 years of #Pilates and look at this fucking form 🫡🫡🫡

First time at paddle board yoga and I only fell in twice!

When I play 1960s French film soundtracks on my headphones, even unloading the dishwasher feels freighted with meaning.

Is carbo loading before yoga a thing? Or am I just eating these chips for esses and gees?

Yay!

Horrorstör - Wikipedia

Grady Hendrix already opened this door but there’s definitely room for way more en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrors...

What to Read When You Want to Quit Your Job - The Rumpus Wendy J. Fox shares a reading list to celebrate WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.

It's #Monday which makes it a perfect time to revisit this list from @wendyjfox.bsky.social in @therumpus.net: What to Read When You Want to Quit Your Job, which also includes SFWP author @egjames.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2021/11/12/w...

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

It’s always the ones you 100% most suspect

I didn't know I needed the new Billy Joel documentary NPR critic Linda Holmes has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music...

“It's a kind of ouroboros of self-sabotage, where the inability to ever be satisfied pushes satisfaction farther and farther away.”

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This is fantastic

Tbh I think I’m a transitional person myself 😂

I absolutely write with a reader in mind. I’m asking ppl to put their phone down and turn off Love Island and spend time with a book. The least I can do is give them a little razzmatazz.

I've been a reader of House Beautiful for many, many years, going back to leafing through my mother's issues when I was a small child. It's my favorite decorating magazine, as the feature spreads are usually stylish yet achievable, highlight a diversity of perspectives, and adhere to editorial standards that are consistently high. I was saddened, then, to open the July/August issue and discover "Pick Your Potion," a three-page spread of AI-generated concepts for in-home bars. As a writer myself, I have many, many qualms about the use of AI, and I will not get into them here. But suffice it to say that using AI in any capacity is problematic as many generative AI models were trained on pirated copyrighted works (including my own novels). But my biggest gripe with a magazine featuring AI-generated content is: If you can't be bothered to write it (or illustrate it), why should I be bothered to read it? What possible benefit could I derive from something no one thought was worth the time to compose themselves?

Furthermore, I find it baffling that House Beautiful would put together a spread recommending possible design configurations, when the recommendations are entirely fictive. Can I purchase these cupboards somewhere? This color of paint? These tiles? I understand that much of the magazine's purpose is to get me, the consumer, to buy things. And I accept the terms of this relationship because I am invested in improving the appearance of my house. Hence, why I read the magazine in the first place. But if you are going to show me things I cannot buy because they don't exist... You can see why I am thoroughly confused as to the point of this exercise. You haven't upheld your side of this relationship. What benefit am I deriving from this? And finally, the execution of the pictures is sloppy to put it mildly (as is standard, it seems, with AI generated images.) Did no one look at the photos before the magazine went to print? In the first image there is a faucet that empties into nothing, and the two outer halves of the cabinet do not line up. In the second image there is a sink with no plumbing, nor even any space in which to put plumbing. And none of the pictures show outlets which, I assume, do not exist in the streamlined world of the AI generated home. Again I come back to my previous point - if you cannot be bothered to create your own concepts (nor, apparently, even check the images to make sure they make conceptual sense before they are printed and disseminated), why should I bother to look at what you've produced? Sloppy, insulting, baffling, pointless - these are the words I would use to describe this feature. And this is to say nothing of the dubious ethical implications of eschewing paying trained, professional photographers and stylists in favor of cheap, AI-generated content. I sincerely hope this is not the direction in which this magazine is moving.

I feel like an old man screaming at a cloud but here’s the letter I sent to the editors of House Beautiful Magazine over an AI generated feature they ran in this month’s issue. I’m so over this shit.

(Editors have not yet responded)

This is why I never understood why anyone even fleetingly listened to James Damore. Anyone who asserts that x-group of ppl are disinclined towards y-discipline bc of their biology betrays a stunning amount of ignorance not to mention bad faith. They can then no longer be trusted on any subject.

I cannot believe she admitted to being this petty out loud.

A flier for my writing coaching. Very simple. Words and a picture of me smiling and holding books. Words are in the post.

Hi! I've been offering one hour Zoom writing coaching sessions, and it's been going really well! I think I've been helping people, which makes me feel good. Hit me up in my DMs for some writing therapy and for more details!

This 👇👇👇

Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

RIP to a legend but ngl - I can’t believe he was in his 50s during The Osbournes. I thought he was in his 70s 20 years ago.

Omg!

Dark chocolate is gross and everyone who says they love it is lying.

“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

What are you doing for self-care right now?