Jay Wolf

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

A map of New York showing Buffalo city is on the very west tip, and nowhere close to the northernmost part of the state.

Being a Fantasy writer means having to create relatively consistent geography while living on a planet where everybody says Buffalo is "upstate."

Yall imma be real: this disaster season is gonna be bad.

Like, there might not be home to go back to bad. Like, the government might not be able or willing to help bad. Like, all we have is eachother bad.

Read this thread, then donate or snag the bundle to help us get ready.

🧵👇

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

Every penny you pay into the boy wizard IP goes to fund bullshit bans like this:

that random martha lady is the best character of the day we’ve had on bluesky in ages. nobody milkshake duck her please i just love this old lady telling mark cuban off

Possibly relevant to...a lot of folks who follow me

This is a recently published article for GI specialists

About the current best practices for treating GI disorders in folks with hEDS/HSD as well as potentially POTS and MCAS

doi.org/10.1016/j.cg...

#NEISvoid

I'll be selling and signing comics next weekend at Flame Con in NYC at Table K117!

If you're National Guard or any other service member being deployed against people in the US and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status or have any other concerns whatsoever, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:

1-877-447-4487
girightshotline.org

There is a concerted effort by this administration to forcibly remove the notion of trans people existing in public life. That’s why it’s so frustrating when democrats insist on meeting anti-trans crusaders on talking points like sports where they are. This is where they’re at. They want us gone.

The United States Air Force is set to deny retirement benefits to transgender folks who have served and earned them. If you think this is right then you can kiss my black ass French style.

An illustration of Dracula from Drăculești holding a blood-spattered pair of glasses that are not his own. Behind him, portraits of many of the game's characters with ominous streaks of blood.

Illustration done for Drăculești, a romantic horror indie game that is MERE INCHES away from its goal on KS! Please check out their incredible work and consider pushing it across the finish line!

🩸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

in "The Moisture Farm", we'll finally get to see what Luke Skywalker's family was doing in the years between when Anakin left and Luke arrived. thrill at the daily grind to meet Hutt taxes and maintain functional agricultural infrastructure!

Don’t get diagnosed with autism in the United States unless you absolutely cannot get by without services or accommodations. That’s where we are now. I’ve been warning that it was a possibility in a country with such a eugenicist history for years, and here we are.

Kicking out trans people was supposed to be about some shit about cohesion and the masculine warrior paradigm. This has no possible reason—even as *cover*—other than pure cruelty

Hey hey hey, if you'll be in/around WorldCon//Seattle next Thursday, my small press is throwing a sick party and you should come!! www.tixtree.com/e/homeward-b...

The money should be flowing to YOU, not the other way.

Any other arrangement should be vetted by a lawyer, but is probably either a scam or a bad idea.

Gwen’s point about targeting teens is absolutely true. As a precocious writer, Jason had “an agent” contact him through a contest and ask for “submission fees”.

Let me stress: if you are not maintaining creative control, you should never be paying to publish.

I generally, as an independent author, do not care for the term “vanity press”, as it gets applied across the board to all of us, when there are a variety of reasons not to go trad.

However, there are ABSOLUTELY bad actors in the space, and AI will quintuple them.

I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:

"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."

stop doing necromancy with the computer!!

Paper and ink handmade card of two bears kissing, colored with the queer bear flag colors, and the phrase “does a bear kiss’n the woods?”

Left: cut paper and ink collage art of a bird sitting in the center of a wreath on an background embossed with wood grain Right: cut paper and ink art card of evergreen trees on die cut white with green plaid border. Whole card is embossed with abstract layout numbers

Cut paper and stamp-ink art blue polka dot card. At the center is a wild eye, square toothed, squat bear. The words “the secret ingredient” also frame the figure.

Cut paper and ink art cards which involve hand-weaving strips to create patterns. The left card has a rainbow theme and the words “you are amazing.” The right card has red, green, and brown paper as well as white paper with green and red polka dots.

Survival hustle pt 2: husband (not on Bluesky) started paper/stamp/ink/embossing card crafting a bit ago, and we decided to try an Etsy shop. Each is individually crafted, which means he can also take requests! Hallmark doesn’t need your money. www.etsy.com/shop/TheCraf...

If you’re an art director and you reach out to a creative first and they take the time to reply, please don’t ghost them even if you decide not to work with them

With work so hard to come by right now having an inquiry that you have to wait and wait on makes navigating freelance very hard

you, a fool: “I’d better buy a dozen roses so that she likes me”

me, a wise sage: “lol, I’m saving a picture of a possum to text it to her since that’s her favorite animal”

I spent years working customer service/retail and one of the biggest changes is that companies no longer even act like they have to care about customers. So many are getting private equity or VC money which means they have to please investors but not us. So they can make things shitty on purpose.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Do we even need the context here?