Clint Ryan

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.

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Seanan McGuire said "The Imaginary Corpse is one of the best detective noir stories I've read in a long time. It just happens to be about a plush triceratops whose best friends are a disembodied hand and a four-color superheroine."
You can buy it here! tyler-hayes.com/publications

(going to actually promo for me for once)

Hi. In addition to the sapphic and trans femme books I write, I also sell stickers, pins, and bookmarks. Please consider checking out my shop. I'd love to ship something to all the remaining US states I need to this year.

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Hey folks, tell them what you think:

Do I have any humans who make book covers willing to do an interview about the process? Especially Indie authors that make their own ( @danifinnwrites.bsky.social you are at the top of my list to bug about this 🤣🥰)

Covers are such an integral part to the sale of a book that Id like to showcase 1/

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord.

You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too.

discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I'm fairly sure Jason figured this out far earlier.

An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University Our 20th most-read article of 2025. - - -In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it ...

“Our [university]system of governance (which management scientists term ‘Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,’ though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements)”

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist

good morning

Visited the Disney studio during their outdoor holiday market a few weeks back and they had some props from Muppet Christmas Carol, including Miss Piggy’s Emily Cratchit costume. Looking at it up close, I never noticed this amazing tiny froggie brooch in the film.

The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part I What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?

If you're looking for pieces for an undergrad classroom that help show how historians do their work, we've got you covered. For instance, there's David McKenzie's exploration of a shady dentist-cum-gold miner.

Glyer has a history of "showing poor judgement," stirring up drama, and then acting bewildered by the idea that he has any responsibility for what he publishes.

His comment section is often a cesspit that he deigns to moderate only when it suits him.

A google search. The search box contains "tess gallagher dip". The first suggestion is "tess gallagher diplodocus". The third is just "tess gallagher". The fourth is "tess gallagher images". The fifth is "tessa gallagher". The sixth is "tessa gallagher paleontology". But the second is "can a cosmetologist use a straight razor in michigan".

I was trying to find more details on the author of a new paper on dinosaur skin color when I saw this. I was typing fast and it flashed past, but my brain could still tell that something was wrong. Backing up got me this.

One of these things is not like the others
One of these things doesn't belong

Again,

Darmok And Salad At Tanagra

Ugh. I'm so sorry! I hope you recovery quickly and that your father doesn't catch it.

Look, dismembering people is a lot harder than movies make it seem. Check out my 9-part YouTube series on how to do it, and be sure to like, comment, and subscribe.

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina A girl playing guitar in a bar was more than enough to catch Daniel's attention. But she was more than that: something hypnotic, something ethereal, something familiar. What if the girl of your dreams...

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina is out today! (Omg, so brave! Love wins!)

If you'd like a trans self-discovery story & enjoy short (~50 page) reads, it's perfect for you. Get it from the retailers below or many others

Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
PayHip: payhip.com/b/7MrKy

Sometimes I think about my favorite knife lady, Captain Savvy from Valerie Valdes's Where Peace is Lost.

And then I get sad, because not enough of you read it, and now she's not writing more books in that universe with these characters.

A Google search for “vim” generates the prompt “Did you mean: emacs”

A Google search for “emacs” generates the prompt “Did you mean: vim”

If you do a google search for “Vim” it asks if you meant “Emacs,” and vice versa. This is pure chaos agent stuff.

If you search for “pico” it takes you straight to the correct results so maybe they are on the side of the angels on this one.

had us in the first half dot gif

I cackled out loud

Please enjoy this ad even if you do not get my novella from it

Hey, it's ya boy Pang Tong, and I'm in Luo County, where I'll be unboxing this awesome horse, Dilu. I'll just open up the box... That's a sweet-looking horse! Lots of paperwork, tho. Waver of liability? I'm not reading all that. *signs* Now I just hop on and... What's that whistling sound? #rotk

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
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A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

A picture of white egg next to the cover of Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina. It is a beige/off-white cover with the book's title in gray-blue text. At the top is the text "A novella in three movements" and at the bottom is the author's name, S. Morgan Burbank. Below is the text "cracking onto bookshelves December 12".

The weird ads begin today. Whatever could this egg have to do with my book?📚💙💕

Maybe preorder Opus please? 🌈🚀💫 #BookSky 🌈📚

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KING OSWALD THORN: Palawa, do you suppose there's fanfic about us?

PALAWA JOKO, THE SCOURGE OF VABBI: Oh, Oswald, I know there is. Check my AO3.

THORN: You've written 337 chapters where I talk while you have cotton in your ears?

JOKO: My wildest fantasies right there.

#GuildWars2