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If a magic system has more rules than impacts on your characters daily life, you’re building lore. Not a world.
July 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If a magic system has more rules than impacts on your characters daily life, you’re building lore. Not a world.
I’ll say it: a lot of people praise shitty world building because they prefer lore building to rich dynamism in fiction. They look at world building like building a wikiwalk rather than building a place to live.
July 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’ll say it: a lot of people praise shitty world building because they prefer lore building to rich dynamism in fiction. They look at world building like building a wikiwalk rather than building a place to live.
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I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
July 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
I’m going to need everybody to stop trying to sell me Amazon prime day stuff. This is so much more desperate than previous years and to be honest, if Amazon wasn’t a turn off, this would be
July 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’m going to need everybody to stop trying to sell me Amazon prime day stuff. This is so much more desperate than previous years and to be honest, if Amazon wasn’t a turn off, this would be
Sending love to the Rokos Basilisk guys. This AI stuff has got to be doing a number on them.
June 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sending love to the Rokos Basilisk guys. This AI stuff has got to be doing a number on them.
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So we're now 3 apologies deep and the only 2 people who have publicly resigned are folks who were not involved in anyway with the choice to use chatgpt.
May 6th Statement From Chair and Program Division Head: As promised last Friday, I am publishing this statement, in conjunction with a statement below from our Program Division Head, to provide a transparent explanation of our panelist selection process, a… seattlein2025.org?p=3918
May 6th Statement From Chair and Program Division Head
As promised last Friday, I am publishing this statement, in conjunction with a statement below from our Program Division Head, to provide a transparent explanation of our panelist selection process, answer...
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May 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
So we're now 3 apologies deep and the only 2 people who have publicly resigned are folks who were not involved in anyway with the choice to use chatgpt.
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The 1268 Conclave gets talked about in the new @tastinghistory.bsky.social episode
Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards:
- Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so.
- Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so.
- Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI.
- Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.
- Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so.
- Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so.
- Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI.
- Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.
May 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The 1268 Conclave gets talked about in the new @tastinghistory.bsky.social episode
One of the biggest things I don’t think I’ve seen discussed in the worldcon AI conversation is the encroachment on data privacy. I don’t care if anybody was excluded or included based on the results of an AI script. I care that participants weren’t told that one would be used.
May 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One of the biggest things I don’t think I’ve seen discussed in the worldcon AI conversation is the encroachment on data privacy. I don’t care if anybody was excluded or included based on the results of an AI script. I care that participants weren’t told that one would be used.
March 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Soren the cat being dashing on our couch. Who even is his sweet boi and how is he 11????
March 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Soren the cat being dashing on our couch. Who even is his sweet boi and how is he 11????
Is there anything more satisfying than cutting a tag out of your clothes?
March 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Is there anything more satisfying than cutting a tag out of your clothes?
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Mark your calendars: our March Stitch & Bitch livestream will be tomorrow on my channel! @bookishdi.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookfinch.bsky.social @breereadsbooks.bsky.social
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Stitch & Bitch - March 2025
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March 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Mark your calendars: our March Stitch & Bitch livestream will be tomorrow on my channel! @bookishdi.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookfinch.bsky.social @breereadsbooks.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIgc...
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The first is Stitch & Bitch, the monthly livestream series I co-host with @bookfinch.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookishdi.bsky.social and sometimes @breereadsbooks.bsky.social when we're lucky!
Here's the playlist of our recorded livestreams:
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Here's the playlist of our recorded livestreams:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Stitch and Bitch Liveshows - YouTube
Combining #booktubesff and #stitchandbitch crafting!
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March 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The first is Stitch & Bitch, the monthly livestream series I co-host with @bookfinch.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookishdi.bsky.social and sometimes @breereadsbooks.bsky.social when we're lucky!
Here's the playlist of our recorded livestreams:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Here's the playlist of our recorded livestreams:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I was unable to get in as a speaker for #iowahf583, so I have joined this lovely social media platform to post it here and elsewhere.
February 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I was unable to get in as a speaker for #iowahf583, so I have joined this lovely social media platform to post it here and elsewhere.
It’s 5 am. Have you called your senators yet?
February 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s 5 am. Have you called your senators yet?
So hear me out. Definite no to Canada as 51st state. But yes to MN as the 11th province????
a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says what do you say netflix
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says what do you say netflix
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February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So hear me out. Definite no to Canada as 51st state. But yes to MN as the 11th province????
Man. “Make America Healthy Again” sure sounds like “I hate fat people” when you put your listening ears on.
January 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Man. “Make America Healthy Again” sure sounds like “I hate fat people” when you put your listening ears on.
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a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
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January 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Not enough rich kids read Yertle the Turtle as kids and it shows
January 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Not enough rich kids read Yertle the Turtle as kids and it shows
For the readers in the room, this is a really good time to read sci-fi and fantasy from indigenous authors. The idea that the world has ended before and that we still live is so prevalent in many of these stories and I think. It’s good to let that inform us.
January 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For the readers in the room, this is a really good time to read sci-fi and fantasy from indigenous authors. The idea that the world has ended before and that we still live is so prevalent in many of these stories and I think. It’s good to let that inform us.
If you want some books that feel like they understand today, here’s a list #booktube #sff #fighting A Reading List For Hard Times
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youtu.be/OZtcybytOTs
A Reading List For Hard Times
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January 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you want some books that feel like they understand today, here’s a list #booktube #sff #fighting A Reading List For Hard Times
youtu.be/OZtcybytOTs
youtu.be/OZtcybytOTs
Things I’m focusing on today: reading, making bread, my cats, my kid. I’m not letting things steal my joy.
January 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Things I’m focusing on today: reading, making bread, my cats, my kid. I’m not letting things steal my joy.
Just a quick reminder into the world that if you are not living by the best practices of BDSM, you are not actually practicing BDSM. You’re practicing violence. #definitelyaproposofnothing #sff
January 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Just a quick reminder into the world that if you are not living by the best practices of BDSM, you are not actually practicing BDSM. You’re practicing violence. #definitelyaproposofnothing #sff
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Nominations open soon for the 2025 Hugo Awards! To cast a nominating ballot, you must either be a member of the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, or purchase a Seattle Worldcon membership by January 31. Don't wait, get your membership today! https://buff.ly/3DNhcp9
January 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Nominations open soon for the 2025 Hugo Awards! To cast a nominating ballot, you must either be a member of the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, or purchase a Seattle Worldcon membership by January 31. Don't wait, get your membership today! https://buff.ly/3DNhcp9
Today, I turned an an audio version of Rahel Varnhagen, life of a Jewess, one of Hannah Arendts interrogations of personhood, Judaism and identity and a crucial precursor to her work on the human condition and totalitarianism. It’s her first book though third published
January 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Today, I turned an an audio version of Rahel Varnhagen, life of a Jewess, one of Hannah Arendts interrogations of personhood, Judaism and identity and a crucial precursor to her work on the human condition and totalitarianism. It’s her first book though third published