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You know that thing where you permanently associate an activity with the media you watched/listened to when you previously did it?

Anyway, cooking garlic butter salmon will forever remind me of Robert Jackson Bennett's A Drop of Corruption now.

Yes, I know it's a little on the nose. 😅

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GOOD MORNING, CAN I INTEREST YOU IN SOME MURMAIDER (get it?)

Year of the Mer cover reveal. Go buy my book.

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This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!

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Up to some nonsense today

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!
The final thoughts hit especially hard. ❤️

It’s worded the way it is because the current admin has 100% swallowed the “whatever country wins the AI arms race rules the wold” pill. 100%

They are not debating the legality of what they’ve done. They’re asking the government to change laws on their behalf “or lose to China.”

Be aware that another shitty bill has been introduced: The SCREEN Act.

If passed, it would require Full. Age. Verification.

Like KOSA, call all your reps & tell them what a horrible idea this is.

Spread this pls.

Link: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

#screenact #badinternetbills
#stopkosa

Here are some publishing truths that I probably shouldn’t talk about publicly, but OOPS I did. open.substack.com/pub/dianaurb...

pink and white cartoon characters standing in front of a blackboard that says the theory of everything simple Alt: Pinky and the Brain (cartoon mice) in front of a blackboard that says the theory of everything made simple. Brain is writing on the board while Pinky bounces around in a straitjacket.

To be fair, Altman said GPT5 was like having PHD-level experts in your pocket.

I don’t know if you’ve ever tried putting PHD-level experts in your pocket, but I can’t imagine any that would fit could do a better job.

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No matter where you are in your #ESO journey, you can celebrate #QuakeCon in Tamriel! Get the details on everything from Crown Sales, to Free to Play, and ESO+ trials: beth.games/4ljdi7v

4-panel GRU meme where he's sharing a plan. In the 4th panel he's looking at the plan with concern. The 4 panels say: put fake eggs in nesting boxes to fool egg eating hen add hot sauce to eggs to make them icky all boxes fill with broody hens all boxes fill with broody hens

How it's going.

#backyardchickens

Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏

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Honestly why even buy the device? Seems like the sign would do the trick.

- Q 4/16/25 Self Help 80k
- Q 2/7/25 FR 5/1/25 Adult Fantasy
- Lengthy screed insulting the agent's taste, ability, ethics, and intelligence based entirely on the order in which they respond to their inbox
- Q 5/4/25 Science Fiction 99k

YouTube video by marc kerger Real Genius. studying too much, goes crazy

It reminds me of this scene in Real Genius where a studying student screams and runs out of the room, only for another student to calmly take their pace at the table.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNFM...

Highly recommend this episode for any querying authors.

As my own journey through the query mines comes to a close, the one thing I will miss most is the free soap opera that is the comments section of querytracker agent profiles. 🫠

Everyone keeps making the "Wouldn't it save more money to replace CEOs with AI" jokes but I haven't seen anyone make CEO 2.0 yet... 🤔

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I STOLE* BHARADWAJ’S SOAP!

*purchased on ebay

This delights me. It’s like owning the Buckaroo Bonsai watermelon 😂

#murderbot

I do not want to press like on this. What is wrong with people?

Hi Ty!

Um

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A hand holding open a book to a two-page spread. The left side is black with a white headline “PLAYING WITH MATCHES” and subhed “How we break the stable marriage algorithm.” The right page is a greyscale drawing of figures lined up in two rows, one on a conveyor belt, with a network graph superimposed above them connecting the figures together across the rows.

Came home from a two-week trip to my Kernel magazine article in print! Buy your copy here to read about what sororities and economists and the doctor cartel have in common shop.kernelmag.io/products/ker...

Congratulations!!

Rich Baker and I will be on this week's PAGE Friday Night Live. Tune in at 9:30 pm ET on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch.

I suspect some of the "jokes" are emotional responses to the videos of folks wearing AR glasses in public restrooms.

There should be a solution for the disabled that does not turn everyone into a walking privacy violation for corporate profit.

The cover of Cyberpunk 2077.

My team is hiring again!

We've got two jobs posted: EXPERT and SENIOR writer. In our org chart, Expert is a click above Senior and focused on craft. Senior owns big parts of the game and could eventually be promoted to a direction- or craft-focused role.

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What have you done

Photo of two roos and 4 hens standing around food bins and a crow statue. The red hen has bubbles on her legs and beak.

You’ll never guess which hen escaped my clutches midway through her bath. #chickens #backyardhens