Lisa Tirreno

My latest podcast interview is out! Many thanks to Daniel Midgley and the #BecauseLanguage podcast for welcoming me to the show to talk about conscious language and the very real challenges in using it. 📚

#AmEditing #WritingCommunity #Edibuddies #ConsciousLanguage #ConsciousStyleGuide

Image is a screenshot of a Bluesky post from an account called Nothings Monstered showing cave art of a sleeping antelope in Algeria from circa 8000BCE

You’ll never believe what was right under this in my feed

This has become the most viral thing I’ve ever put on the internet and I think that rules

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I ALSO LOVE THAT SHOW! It most certainly is not terrible, how very dare

What can we do to support #queer #kidlit? Ask your local library and bookshops to participate in #ReadOutLoud as a location. Thank you, @authorsabb.bsky.social! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Barry. Seems like a good name for an eel. Mortimer. Susan.

What are they called? The pet eels I mean

But less pet-like under those circumstances

Aaaaaaaah!!!!!!

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

I have never heard of this and am fascinated. I assume they were alive and in, like, an easily transportable jar or whatever? For them to be so … fungible?

The world is very bad, but I found a squirrel that looks like Napoleon

My tween is concerned for this man and would like to know if he is “well”

Ddu-du ddu-du went off in Australia if that helps at all.

Just saw someone tell someone else online that they’re wrong about some law and the other person cracked it. They were from different countries. Just once again find myself begging people to remember these are global platforms. Why are people like this

I am a novice at writing comics, but it has been so striking to hear *successful* creators possess the expectation that they will forever be one health crisis away from total financial ruin. Often it’s expressed as dark humor. But that will forever define the industry for me.

I love that song

The entitlement is so startling. Why do these people feel entitled to “write” a book? I cannot perform surgery. I do not feel entitled to perform surgery.

Person in a party hat giving a presentation and it says The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out

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Give this person a marketing award

I sort of also want that jumper

God I want that book so much. I’m so sad. I hadn’t realised this was why we didn’t get it.

WHAT DID I JUST READ

Seemed like a design flaw to me. You’d think they’d have fixed that.

Australia has cancelled the visa of US rapper Kanye West over his song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

"You're going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism -- we don't need that in Australia," Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said. #AFP

📸 Jean-Baptiste Lacroix

🌈 QUEERPIT RETURNS! 🌈

Happy #PrideMonth friends! The #QueerPit Board is thrilled to share that QueerPit returns on August 15th to *both* Twitter and BlueSky.

This is a pitch event for authors who identify in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Follow us, and more details to come!

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If you see this, quote it with your favourite Star Wars scene