The voice of this story is simply beautiful. If you're studying how to get more worldbuilding into the wrinkles of your sentences, read @jenniferhudak.bsky.social.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
By @amalelmohtar.com
I first audioread this while on a long run and actually tears flowing cried out in public it moved me so much
you aren't keeping yourself humble by putting yourself or your work down, you're making it everyone else's problem to make you feel valuable
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
LRP: One of those pictures you can *hear*
Brown-eared Bulbul
/ Hypsipetes amaurotis
雄叫びをあげる毛玉セーターことヒヨドリちゃん。
（※どこかの動画のコメで、毛玉のついたセーターを着ていると評されていました🧶）
#BirdArt
I want to read books by my friends. Drop your links below, please. (Even if we've never interacted on here. Potential friends can become actual friends.)
May I interest you in some plant and bird pomes? (Free download, but donations are always nice)
ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-...
Ayyyy hello fellow Ghost City alumna 🖐️
My favorite thing about AI book club scams is that LLMs ate the entire internet's worth of text but never once told their users, "Hey, authors have no money."
ISWM was one of those “right book, right time” reads for me 💜
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
J'ai dit "DES" trucs.
Je prépare des trucs.
We don't need more ink, we don't need more ink...
(What's your favourite rn?)
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards?
Try the short story "Six People to Revise You" by J. R. Dawson!
It placed 1st on the Uncanny Poll!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/0BzP5C7
Rumi (to warmongers):
What kind of lightning are you, setting farms on fire?
What kind of cloud are you, raining down stones?
What kind of hunter?
Caught in your own trap—
a thief stealing from your own house.
-- Rumi, "Water."
trnsl. Haleh Liza Gafori
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
I'm aware @officialgrammarly.bsky.social has said people can opt out of this, THAT IS ALSO ENRAGING. LLMs have already coopted and stole and plundered creative people's work, now we also have to contact YOU after you steal our identities? Fuck all the way off with that! It's MORE THEFT YOU CLOWNS
So, this isn't just a state or federal privacy law issue and Grammarly has good enough lawyers to know that. This is also a state privacy tort issue and they're banking on the fact that no one will sue them for unauthorized use of their name.
California has very strong laws on this bc Hollywood.
I follow a theatre in Awaji and was ready to get Real Aerated in the comments
Insta block
you wanna learn VFX?
The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything
grab it while you can
thevfxschool.com
halve that, halve it again, and then deal it out over 3-4 payments
Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
I'm fascinated by how poets revise! This is a revision from poet Sylvia Plath. I think we are not often taught how to deeply revise as poets. This is part of my upcoming workshop for NaPoWriMo entirely focused on revising poetry! www.hlwalrath.com/wo...
One of us! One of us!
(Also, Kakuno nibs are adorable)
Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.
PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.
