My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“
I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.
Imagine the art that would be made if we weren’t all scrabbling to survive
The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.
Go buy your fave comic artist a coffee, they need it!
How can Extraordinary not be coming back it was so so so so good
Theda Bara's lost film THE SHE DEVIL
Canadians have increasingly bypassed U.S. travel for more than a year, and the boycott shows no sign of slowing down.
Yikes, Communato, our local car share, is doubling its charge per kilometer, in response to [various terrible things in the world driving up costs].
Melissa Auf der Maur, best known as the former bassist of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, joins our Books & Ideas lineup with her remarkable debut memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry.
April 27, in conversation with Lisa Christiansen.
writersfest.bc.ca/event/auf-de...
I'm doing an Ask the Agent (Live!) event on 3/25/26. It's a Q&A format, aka, "Everything you've always wanted to know about publishing but were afraid to ask." It does cost $20, but all proceeds are going toward a residency scholarship.
Join us! @joknowles.bsky.social
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On Georges Méliès’s re-discovered 1897 sci-fi short, and the enduring anxiety of technological replacement:
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
Very excited to be a part of this anthology about my beloved NYC. Home of my youth! Kickstarter launching soon! Here are the details to be notified tinyurl.com/3m8fk62t
Totally missed this news. Good thing we have the satirical news...
Am taking a performance art workshop. In French. The direction was to move for seven minutes holding space for the word lieux. Which means place. I heard the teacher say vieux. Which means old. Let’s just say I was moving in the room with a totally different vibe.
This demonstrates the importance for time travellers of having a change purse with clearly marked compartments for different currencies. (Pick one up any year after 1893)
Van Allen Probe A, which studied how our planet has been protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know
Will still read it! Thabknyouuuuuu!
Hoover punk
Got really excited over my new vacuum cleaner today but that doesn’t mean I’m not still punk, right?
Looking for reading recommendations Feminist creator owned Sci Fi Comic Books for grown ups (not YA) (would love if there is a woman on team)
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.
Generally speaking all pre-orders are equal. Publishers note where the preorders are coming from, but mostly for their own information. That said, remember you can also pre-order books at your local bookstores! It's not just an online thing. Pre-ordering locally helps the bookstore and the author!
gotta say, I'm a bit emotional
They do. But it’s rarer.
“Oh, it’s later than I thought it was!” Me just now, earlier, and four times a day for the next three weeks.
I'll take it. Don't care if I'm the fool.
Corey was a student at Performing Arts High School right before I started there but him and his talent were legend at the school for years after he left. Sending love to all who knew him.
still very proud of this piece, for all you #screenwriting #screenwriter (s) and those who write for #tv!
Never let them tell you that enshittification was a mystery. Enshittification isn't downstream of the "iron laws of economics" or an unrealistic demand by "consumers" to get stuff for free.
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