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Over on my Facebook page there are a ton of ppl who got tickets for this evenings event at Women and Children First and are trying to unload them:

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Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

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Hulk Hogan, guy who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker, dead at 71.

Since I frequently assign the excellent book reviews Strange Horizons publishes in class, I was very happy to pay a reviewer’s contribution fee as part of the 2026 Fund Drive.

Protesters march in the streets

Protesters march in the streets

We’re in the streets in downtown Chicago.

For everyone who feels betrayed by J. K. Rowling

Starting Awakened by A. E. Osworth and hell yes to this dedication.

A thread on our response to AI 🧵

✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.

A hydrangea flower with a blue to pink gradient.

I picked up some soil acidifier for my hydrangeas to hopefully encourage blue and purple flowers again this year.

Forever chasing the June 2022 high when my hydrangea bloomed in bisexual.

Stonewall was a Riot: a Pride Month Reading List We've put together a reading list of books about queer and trans politics, history, and liberation, offered in solidarity with everyone across the world standing up against injustice. For th...

Stonewall was a riot.

Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

Q: Use fo'c'sle in a sentence

A: A lot of fo'c'sle misuse common nautical terms

Wet monstera. The ALOCASIA microgrant for queer writers.

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers!

The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors.

Deadline: July 31st, 2025.

catrocity-backup on Tumblr posted: "tonight I had the privilege of hearing a 13 year old explain the terms "cooking" and "cooked" to my 45 year old manager and she said something so excellent I have to document it. "cooked is bad. cooking is good. you're either in the pot or you're holding it.""

Audiobook Month and Pride both take place in June 💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (Although, let’s be real, these months last all year long over here at Libro!)

What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?

I used to say this, "my relative just has an anger problem"

my therapist asked: did they routinely get in trouble at work for outbursts and fights?

Me: no

Therapist: well they dont have an anger problem- they can control their temper when it counts

Me:

Oh this is a lovely story and I agree with your Mr.! What a fantastic tribute to and celebration of Reg.

I haven’t used this account much because I wasn’t sure what to use it for after my writing slowed way down. I think I’ll probably talk about detective fiction, films, and TV series and see where that takes me

Imposter syndrome is annoying. Like bindweed with all those rhizomes underground and always sprouting somewhere else after you were sure you’d pulled it all up.

Girl Detectives — porkbelly press by Emily Capettini Girl Detectives is a collection of micro fictions featuring Daphne and Velma after , their lives moving on from what they once knew. It’s a coming of age tale of two people, gr...

I keep fighting the impulse to say “I know I don’t know anything about detective fiction” because, well. I wrote this!:

porkbellypress.com/fiction/dete...

Trying to channel the gay audacity this Pride month and start drafting the queer detective novel of my dreams

A doodle of a superhero cat being investigated by Frenchie (a real cat)

There was a helpful label 😂😂

The doodles/personalizations are fantastic. My copy of Even Greater Mistakes came with a superhero cat.

The cover of LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER with daisies on a purple cracked earth, against a swirling purple background. Also includes the Tor Books logo and the words "OUT ON 8/19/2025"

Happy Pride month!

I'm so glad Lessons in Magic and Disaster is the GAYEST book I've ever written. It's about a trans witch who teaches her lesbian mom to do magic. It's about the struggle for queer liberation from the 1990s to today. It's about an 18th century transmasc icon and Georgian lesbians.

A cover collage of the books Cap read in May: Bad Seed: Stories by Gabriel Carle Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh Prisons Must Fall by Mariame Kaba Ghostroots: Stories by ‘Pemi Aguda The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo Drowned Country by by Emily Tesh The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Taproot by Keezy Young The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett Key Lime Sky by Al Hess Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Tee Franklin Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

I think this is the most I’ve read in a month since 2020.

(At least three times before my chair corrected me.)

During the oral defense of my PhD exams, I was talking about the Hugo Correa scifi short story “When Pilate Said No.”

Instead of saying Pilate like Pontius Pilate, I pronounced it like the exercise.

3 days remain!

Guy who has very obviously not read a single book in his entire life, looking at the worst fucking prose ever: wow my AI is really good at writing books

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