Saathi

Helping friends brainstorm transformative works programming for this year's Worldcon - DM me if you want to contribute ideas!

Also even if you charged LESS than current name-brand payment processor fees, you'd still make *bank* (which you could then plow into improving it / other social improvements). The fact that nobody has figured this out yet puts paid to the idea that Silicon Valley bros are financial geniuses lol.

.....it occurs to me that with Elon money, one could just MAKE a payment processor that's explicitly welcome to like. SWers and NSFW artists &tc without involving crypto or blockhain nonsense.

I just hear "long song title" and that sample immediately starts playing in my head haha

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

GET IT MAMA BRIDGERTON!

Esp if they do the little "Mrp?" at you too!

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand

While it's obviously flawed, Bridgerton is such glittery trash I love it anyway. Like fucking Pringles for me, lol.

Separating art from artist can be debated; separating money, influence, and platform cannot. If you really must read their works while still alive, have the decency not to give them free advertising and do it in a way that doesn't fund harm.

ted danson in the good place says well the nightmare continues

I hate every single thing about what is in the Epste*n files but it's one of the keys to understanding what so many of us, in so many fields, were up against. Still up against. The dumbest, awful, most craven people got together to defend their little world of mediocrity, bootlicking and abuse.

Alice Munro constructed a very plausible persona. Good storytellers know how to do this--it's their job. Please sit with the fact that AFTER there was a conviction re her husband, her biographer & media decided to not write about his actions or her complicity. We can make different choices. We must.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

I was hitting peak QUANTITY of regular output when I was younger, but I would agree that my QUALITY has increased since then, yeah.

I'm reading the first book in that series now :)

The "wife" reveal in City of Last Chances still has me HOWLING fyi.

This is not helping my hype level, which was already elevated enough to power a small steamship.

If you haven't read Burn It Down, you really should (if it won't trigger you, natch).

Unsurprisingly, I want to *vibrate out of my skin* every time I remember that @moryan.bsky.social is writing a book about BSG. Words cannot encompass how *absolutely hyped* I am.

A non zero number of people I follow still follow the fucking rapist Neil Gaiman. Apparently blocking someone doesn’t remove you from their followers so y’all should make sure

Dichen Lachmann? Maybe?

Honestly I buy Lupita as "the face that launched a thousand ships." She's probably one of the most beautiful women alive rn.

YouTube video by F.D Signifier Sinners and the Death of Black Art

Really enjoying this video about Sinners rn: youtu.be/ffukF1MvLGk

All the support from here (since she doesn't seem to need it elsewhere, bless).

Yeah I'm torn between "oh holy shit (complimentary)" and "oh holy shit (anxious about physics and anatomy)."

I want to be having a conversation about having a self separate from the physical brain that isn't stuck on religion, Ship of Theseus bodies, & interesting thoughts. Instead we're stuck on "a sex doll isn't a person & claiming they are as you encourage people to buy one adds a layer of disgusting" 🔚

I think Adrian Tchaikovsky might be becoming one of my favorite authors. Not top spot, bc I can't choose for that (McCaffrey, de Lint, Chambers, & Bradbury are all jostling for that spot) but I'm reading Elder Race right now & finding it just as enthralling as City of Last Chances.

Ep 301 of Leverage Redemption S3 had a villa in France full of evil billionaires colluding to pillage trillions in public goods who were keeping a small town activist in the basement until they could execute her led by a guy who admired Putin, and we did not, in fact, go hard enough. Apologies.

- One class had two assigned books, a regular textbook and one written by a dude who clearly wanted to fistfight Erich von Däniken in a Denny's parking lot, which is absolutely fair of him.