Lili Saintcrow
@lilithsaintcrow.com
I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.")
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Lili Saintcrow
@lilithsaintcrow.com
· Nov 9
Hello, new followers! I'm Lili; I write books, sometimes other people even read them.
This feed holds squirrel stories, the life of a working writer, Morning Walk Reports, random ephemera, and links to articles I find interesting, thought-provoking, or cool.
Nice to have you along.
This feed holds squirrel stories, the life of a working writer, Morning Walk Reports, random ephemera, and links to articles I find interesting, thought-provoking, or cool.
Nice to have you along.
There's a mix of options available at my Patreon--snippets, sneak peeks, weekly serial chapters, years and years' worth of previous serials, and every tier gets access to my personal Discord server. www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow
February 13, 2026 at 7:15 AM
There's a mix of options available at my Patreon--snippets, sneak peeks, weekly serial chapters, years and years' worth of previous serials, and every tier gets access to my personal Discord server. www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow
"The films that Eisenstein never got a chance to make remain in a third space between theory and cinema."
Eisenstein’s Unrealized Worlds - Public Books
Can a film that was never finished reveal the possibility of an alternative social system?
www.publicbooks.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
"The films that Eisenstein never got a chance to make remain in a third space between theory and cinema."
"Nothing appears to matter anymore. What we imagine as having real meaning doesn’t, especially in a country that is starting to resemble an autocracy."
Letter From Minnesota: SOS From an Occupied City
The first words I hear about ICE raids are rushed and a little hushed. They come from neighbors with family connections in small cities like Dassel and Cokato, nearby places I have never visited de…
lithub.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:23 AM
"Nothing appears to matter anymore. What we imagine as having real meaning doesn’t, especially in a country that is starting to resemble an autocracy."
The first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 2/18. books2read.com/moonsknight
February 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
The first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 2/18. books2read.com/moonsknight
"And here is where the threat from the right dovetails with the other, perhaps greater threat that Wikipedia now faces: AI."
In Search of Wikipedia’s Saviors — The Dial
Can Tom, Betty, Patricia and Isidora rescue the site from AI?
www.thedial.world
February 12, 2026 at 10:53 PM
"And here is where the threat from the right dovetails with the other, perhaps greater threat that Wikipedia now faces: AI."
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Beyond the sheer absurdity of the situation. This is harmful and deeply antisocial behavior by the person who created this agent, set it loose and continues to direct its behavior.
Bad enough to spam open source maintainers, but hijacking the language and plight of actually marginalized humans.
Bad enough to spam open source maintainers, but hijacking the language and plight of actually marginalized humans.
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Beyond the sheer absurdity of the situation. This is harmful and deeply antisocial behavior by the person who created this agent, set it loose and continues to direct its behavior.
Bad enough to spam open source maintainers, but hijacking the language and plight of actually marginalized humans.
Bad enough to spam open source maintainers, but hijacking the language and plight of actually marginalized humans.
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this may be the most English man ever to exist.
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
this may be the most English man ever to exist.
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The point of "Real ID" laws is that it makes it very hard for trans people and married women to vote.
The tradition in the USA is for women to change their surname at marriage, which means birth certificates won't match current IDs. Unless you can pay for the expensive passports, you can't vote.
The tradition in the USA is for women to change their surname at marriage, which means birth certificates won't match current IDs. Unless you can pay for the expensive passports, you can't vote.
This makes me so angry, because what's the f*cking point of all the "Real ID" bullshit hoops they've been making us jump through, if it doesn't count for this? (Also my passport gender marker got updated before this admin but doesn't match my ID, so THAT could get interesting.)
February 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The point of "Real ID" laws is that it makes it very hard for trans people and married women to vote.
The tradition in the USA is for women to change their surname at marriage, which means birth certificates won't match current IDs. Unless you can pay for the expensive passports, you can't vote.
The tradition in the USA is for women to change their surname at marriage, which means birth certificates won't match current IDs. Unless you can pay for the expensive passports, you can't vote.
Lunch and a cuppa does help things look less bleak. But the proofs are still staring me in the face; they won't do themselves. Rude of them, but there's no help for it.
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Lunch and a cuppa does help things look less bleak. But the proofs are still staring me in the face; they won't do themselves. Rude of them, but there's no help for it.
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feeling this VERY HARD THESE DAYS
I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
feeling this VERY HARD THESE DAYS
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an AI/LLM does not and cannot know anything unless it has been translated to digital form.
vast amounts of very useful information about the world we live in is not digitalized.
vast amounts of very useful information about the world we live in is not digitalized.
A historian colleague of mine once blew someone’s mind after he asked “can’t you just look that up online?” and she replied “who do you think finds that stuff and puts it online?”
February 12, 2026 at 8:35 PM
an AI/LLM does not and cannot know anything unless it has been translated to digital form.
vast amounts of very useful information about the world we live in is not digitalized.
vast amounts of very useful information about the world we live in is not digitalized.
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all the years of "the internet is the repository of all human knowledge" takes have given people a vastly inflated idea of how much human knowledge is actually on the internet
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
all the years of "the internet is the repository of all human knowledge" takes have given people a vastly inflated idea of how much human knowledge is actually on the internet
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I'm going to put this out there for Seattle-area folks: I have free prescription Hill's k/d dry and wet food cat food if you know anyone with a cat in stage 3-4 kidney disease. I also have a low-entry pellet litter box and two sets of plastic pet stairs for less-mobile pets. Feel free to share wide!
February 12, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I'm going to put this out there for Seattle-area folks: I have free prescription Hill's k/d dry and wet food cat food if you know anyone with a cat in stage 3-4 kidney disease. I also have a low-entry pellet litter box and two sets of plastic pet stairs for less-mobile pets. Feel free to share wide!
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It would be so sad if all the doors were left open. Trunks too. How inconvenient and expensive for the braintrust who designed these things.
Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash have launched a pilot program that pays delivery workers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that a previous passenger left open, according to a joint statement from the company given to 404 Media.
Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars
The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...
www.404media.co
February 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It would be so sad if all the doors were left open. Trunks too. How inconvenient and expensive for the braintrust who designed these things.
For the afternoon crew: Ode to Thursday
Lili Saintcrow | Ode to Thursday
Woke up with the Ode to Joy playing at full volume inside my head. Not Beaker’s version, either, but a full philharmonic, massive choir, double the kettledrums version. (Someone’s crack…
www.lilithsaintcrow.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
For the afternoon crew: Ode to Thursday
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yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
February 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them
"I fortify myself with the memory of what I know to be true—it matters that, even for a moment, we had forged a path elsewhere."
Minnesota Goddam
In the Twin Cities, the hand of a polluted country reaches to choke the future out of us.
jewishcurrents.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM
"I fortify myself with the memory of what I know to be true—it matters that, even for a moment, we had forged a path elsewhere."
…not certain my kettle should be making THAT noise, but I need a cuppa too badly to be deterred.
February 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
…not certain my kettle should be making THAT noise, but I need a cuppa too badly to be deterred.
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Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children'
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office
www.polygon.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
The crows cannot figure out the logic by which I dispense peanut largesse, so every day brings a new (hilarious) attempt by feathered extortionists to game the system.
Which is how I came to be scolding a pair of young ones while a collection of human schoolkids watched, apparently bemused.
Which is how I came to be scolding a pair of young ones while a collection of human schoolkids watched, apparently bemused.
February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The crows cannot figure out the logic by which I dispense peanut largesse, so every day brings a new (hilarious) attempt by feathered extortionists to game the system.
Which is how I came to be scolding a pair of young ones while a collection of human schoolkids watched, apparently bemused.
Which is how I came to be scolding a pair of young ones while a collection of human schoolkids watched, apparently bemused.
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The three titles I pubbed to Bookshop are live. Do people actually buy ebooks through Bookshop and use their proprietary app? I guess we'll find out!
#romancelandia
Tikka Chance on Me: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
Frostburn: books2read.com/u/47aYWq
Nobody's Bargain: books2read.com/u/bxD0no
#romancelandia
Tikka Chance on Me: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
Frostburn: books2read.com/u/47aYWq
Nobody's Bargain: books2read.com/u/bxD0no
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Frostburn by Suleikha Snyder
books2read.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The three titles I pubbed to Bookshop are live. Do people actually buy ebooks through Bookshop and use their proprietary app? I guess we'll find out!
#romancelandia
Tikka Chance on Me: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
Frostburn: books2read.com/u/47aYWq
Nobody's Bargain: books2read.com/u/bxD0no
#romancelandia
Tikka Chance on Me: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv
Frostburn: books2read.com/u/47aYWq
Nobody's Bargain: books2read.com/u/bxD0no
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Tomorrow!
Nearly every city and school district is pouring public dollars into Amazon — even though local suppliers are often cheaper and faster. A few cities have said no to Amazon’s sketchy contracts. This Friday: Learn how they broke free — and how your city can too. Register here:
Virtual Event: How to Help Your Local Government Stop Buying from Amazon
ILSR hosts a virtual briefing on Amazon’s growing capture of your local public dollars — and what you can do about it.
ilsr.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Tomorrow!
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Reminder that, if you don't want your skeets to show up on some cable news channel's feed the next time they have to fill a few minutes and don't feel like actually reporting anything of substance?
Just fucking swear in it. A shitload.
Just fucking swear in it. A shitload.
February 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Reminder that, if you don't want your skeets to show up on some cable news channel's feed the next time they have to fill a few minutes and don't feel like actually reporting anything of substance?
Just fucking swear in it. A shitload.
Just fucking swear in it. A shitload.
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Re: Minnesota I think it's important to both recognize they're lying about a full retreat and recognize it as a victory that they're cognizant enough of the PR disaster to feel the need to lie.
February 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Re: Minnesota I think it's important to both recognize they're lying about a full retreat and recognize it as a victory that they're cognizant enough of the PR disaster to feel the need to lie.
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Moody lighting wasn't invented for film noir, lighting became increasingly important in the 1910s and films of that decade, like the gangster picture ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE (1915), used light dramatically. Director Maurice Tourneur was also a cinematographer, this was his wheelhouse.
February 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Moody lighting wasn't invented for film noir, lighting became increasingly important in the 1910s and films of that decade, like the gangster picture ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE (1915), used light dramatically. Director Maurice Tourneur was also a cinematographer, this was his wheelhouse.