A friend: "Art meets fair use question. Is there a bright line point--"
Me: "No."
(It turned out to be more First Sale Doctrine than anything else so it was as much a "you're good" as any possible question can be, but still.)
Me: "No."
(It turned out to be more First Sale Doctrine than anything else so it was as much a "you're good" as any possible question can be, but still.)
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A friend: "Art meets fair use question. Is there a bright line point--"
Me: "No."
(It turned out to be more First Sale Doctrine than anything else so it was as much a "you're good" as any possible question can be, but still.)
Me: "No."
(It turned out to be more First Sale Doctrine than anything else so it was as much a "you're good" as any possible question can be, but still.)
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Hey #LawSky, I'm looking for a referral to a lawyer who handles business disputes esp. around dissolution, in California. Anyone here know anyone for that?
DMs should be open too, if you prefer to send privately.
DMs should be open too, if you prefer to send privately.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hey #LawSky, I'm looking for a referral to a lawyer who handles business disputes esp. around dissolution, in California. Anyone here know anyone for that?
DMs should be open too, if you prefer to send privately.
DMs should be open too, if you prefer to send privately.
Duh.
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Duh.
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Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
Today in coolth, someone online just told me about their experience singing a filk I wrote (the lyrics to), not knowing I was the writer!
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Today in coolth, someone online just told me about their experience singing a filk I wrote (the lyrics to), not knowing I was the writer!
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
Always and forever.
to me the takeaway from that scene with Deep Throat is not “follow the money” it’s “the truth is these are not very bright guys and things go out of hand”
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Always and forever.
There are so many stories.
Too many, not that any are acceptable.
Too many, not that any are acceptable.
This is the horrible tradeoff so many kids make: predation is the price of admission to a "welcoming" community where they can be themselves and gather with other fans.
I couldn't ask my parents for help or they wouldn't have let me go to any more cons.
The creeps know that the fuck they're doing.
I couldn't ask my parents for help or they wouldn't have let me go to any more cons.
The creeps know that the fuck they're doing.
What I love about SFF Cons is that they are refuges for people to share their joy of whatever nerdy thing they love. It's supposed to be a place of celebration where you can be what you want to be.
I hate that creepy con guy ruined it for her. I hate that there are so many creepy con guys.
I hate that creepy con guy ruined it for her. I hate that there are so many creepy con guys.
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There are so many stories.
Too many, not that any are acceptable.
Too many, not that any are acceptable.
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as a CSA victim, it’s a great day to be on an airplane with limited connectivity
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
as a CSA victim, it’s a great day to be on an airplane with limited connectivity
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
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Wikipedia: Where you can dream about things that no one's done in real life for decades.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Wikipedia: Where you can dream about things that no one's done in real life for decades.
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We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
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Also if someone needs a quick roll over for editing a prose piece or a comics piece please hit me up! DMs are here
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Also if someone needs a quick roll over for editing a prose piece or a comics piece please hit me up! DMs are here
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New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
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There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!
"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!
I love that there is a new translation of this.
I don't know how to feel about this from the description: "In an age when the idea of a 'planet B' seems tempting..."
I feel like taking the line "there is no Planet B" and saying "well, maybe there should be!" is missing the forest for the logging.
I don't know how to feel about this from the description: "In an age when the idea of a 'planet B' seems tempting..."
I feel like taking the line "there is no Planet B" and saying "well, maybe there should be!" is missing the forest for the logging.
For a wild, somewhat more recent version of this, in which the cannonball was full of sangfroid, see Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon"- out soon in a new annotated edition from @mitpress.bsky.social, edited by @anaklimchy.bsky.social and with an essay and annotations from meeeeeee
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I love that there is a new translation of this.
I don't know how to feel about this from the description: "In an age when the idea of a 'planet B' seems tempting..."
I feel like taking the line "there is no Planet B" and saying "well, maybe there should be!" is missing the forest for the logging.
I don't know how to feel about this from the description: "In an age when the idea of a 'planet B' seems tempting..."
I feel like taking the line "there is no Planet B" and saying "well, maybe there should be!" is missing the forest for the logging.
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For those who wonder why I get so bent out of shape about NCMEC and the air cover they provide to Donald Trump, see the text with that Instagram photo. "The critical importance of NCMEC's mission to protect children". Just, you know, not *these* children. They're on their own.
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
For those who wonder why I get so bent out of shape about NCMEC and the air cover they provide to Donald Trump, see the text with that Instagram photo. "The critical importance of NCMEC's mission to protect children". Just, you know, not *these* children. They're on their own.
I'm feeling decadent.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I'm feeling decadent.
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
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Holy batman this whole thread
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Holy batman this whole thread
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The Hades II Original Soundtrack, featuring nearly four hours of blood-pumping music by @darrenkorb.bsky.social and various special guests, is now also available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, and more.🎶🌖
Thank you for listening!
Thank you for listening!
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Hades II Original Soundtrack, featuring nearly four hours of blood-pumping music by @darrenkorb.bsky.social and various special guests, is now also available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, and more.🎶🌖
Thank you for listening!
Thank you for listening!
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I hate that this is so legible to so many people
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I hate that this is so legible to so many people
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some local Seattle residents aren't taking the impending election of a progressive Mayor very well
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
some local Seattle residents aren't taking the impending election of a progressive Mayor very well
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...