IsItTheCheese?
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· Dec 10
Over the past 6 years or so, I've done a Spotify Wrapped (W)review on my socials.
It started as an excuse to talk about my music taste, but this year I sort of went off the rails.
The thing is, Spotify has changed a lot this year, and my wrapped felt incomplete without talking about these changes.
It started as an excuse to talk about my music taste, but this year I sort of went off the rails.
The thing is, Spotify has changed a lot this year, and my wrapped felt incomplete without talking about these changes.
As a method of continuing my fight against Spotify and it's notoriously awful practices in the streaming space, I humbly ask you to watch this video.
youtu.be/plleJ0Zv0Ww?...
youtu.be/plleJ0Zv0Ww?...
September 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
As a method of continuing my fight against Spotify and it's notoriously awful practices in the streaming space, I humbly ask you to watch this video.
youtu.be/plleJ0Zv0Ww?...
youtu.be/plleJ0Zv0Ww?...
Just had a new book review published in The Spokesman-Review! Craig Johnson's "Return to Sender", the newest installment of his Longmire mystery series. #booksky #bookreview #mystery #longmire
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Book review: 'Return to Sender' is a care package for Longmire fans
In Craig Johnson’s newest novel, “Return to Sender,” we finally get the answer to the question you never thought you had: “When the mail person with the longest route in the country goes missing, wher...
www.spokesman.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Just had a new book review published in The Spokesman-Review! Craig Johnson's "Return to Sender", the newest installment of his Longmire mystery series. #booksky #bookreview #mystery #longmire
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Love #TTRPGs and want to join some online games? We're currently looking for #volunteers with some acting and/or improv experience (uni or community theatre are fine!) and interest in potentially being part of #podcasts and more as #players. Learn more: forms.gle/pz3fF7NKcLJY...
April 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Love #TTRPGs and want to join some online games? We're currently looking for #volunteers with some acting and/or improv experience (uni or community theatre are fine!) and interest in potentially being part of #podcasts and more as #players. Learn more: forms.gle/pz3fF7NKcLJY...
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Hey #writingcommunity, We're #openforsubmissions! We've got some lovely themes open (including #space themed #scifi, #adventure #oldwest & #artappreciation plus #poetry about peace) and the blog is wide open for #fiction #creativenonfiction #bookreviews and much more. Learn more: shorturl.at/v6s0A
April 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Hey #writingcommunity, We're #openforsubmissions! We've got some lovely themes open (including #space themed #scifi, #adventure #oldwest & #artappreciation plus #poetry about peace) and the blog is wide open for #fiction #creativenonfiction #bookreviews and much more. Learn more: shorturl.at/v6s0A
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Yes, we are accepting submissions! We love getting great new submissions! (But please read our guidelines first.) buff.ly/u7z6l0K
#writingcommunity #opensubs #acceptingsub #fiction #shortstory #litmag #magazine #literarymagazine #ethics #philosophy
#writingcommunity #opensubs #acceptingsub #fiction #shortstory #litmag #magazine #literarymagazine #ethics #philosophy
April 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Yes, we are accepting submissions! We love getting great new submissions! (But please read our guidelines first.) buff.ly/u7z6l0K
#writingcommunity #opensubs #acceptingsub #fiction #shortstory #litmag #magazine #literarymagazine #ethics #philosophy
#writingcommunity #opensubs #acceptingsub #fiction #shortstory #litmag #magazine #literarymagazine #ethics #philosophy
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We’re telling you now so you know it’s not a joke: we’re opening our poetry submissions back up in April, including our fast reads option for a quick response!
Keep an eye out on Submittable for all of the details: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Keep an eye out on Submittable for all of the details: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
March 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We’re telling you now so you know it’s not a joke: we’re opening our poetry submissions back up in April, including our fast reads option for a quick response!
Keep an eye out on Submittable for all of the details: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Keep an eye out on Submittable for all of the details: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
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It must be in the Bsky TOS that every funny poster must repost no less than 75 funny posts by others in a row. I’m not complaining though! This way I can see all funniness on the entire platform by following like 2 ppl
February 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It must be in the Bsky TOS that every funny poster must repost no less than 75 funny posts by others in a row. I’m not complaining though! This way I can see all funniness on the entire platform by following like 2 ppl
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there are two types of male groupchats. they either have a name like “BONER BOYS RES[ERECT]ED: HORNY 4 LIFE, 2 CAKED UP 2 DIE” but everyone’s just encouraging each other on breakups and to try therapy. the other will be named something like “gary chat” and filled with domestic terrorists
January 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
there are two types of male groupchats. they either have a name like “BONER BOYS RES[ERECT]ED: HORNY 4 LIFE, 2 CAKED UP 2 DIE” but everyone’s just encouraging each other on breakups and to try therapy. the other will be named something like “gary chat” and filled with domestic terrorists
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Buried in this article about Meta doing yet another terrible thing is a first (for me, anyway): The Guardian quotes one of Meta's own AI bots as though it's human, speaking with a journalist about the lack of diversity of its creators.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration
Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald’s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Buried in this article about Meta doing yet another terrible thing is a first (for me, anyway): The Guardian quotes one of Meta's own AI bots as though it's human, speaking with a journalist about the lack of diversity of its creators.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
You're never gonna believe this. What if I told you that the official Devil May Cry special edition version of Bury the Light was actually being spoofed by some random AI cover? The album art was adjusted, the song accredited to Casey Edwards, but not actually his version of the song?
December 18, 2024 at 10:15 AM
You're never gonna believe this. What if I told you that the official Devil May Cry special edition version of Bury the Light was actually being spoofed by some random AI cover? The album art was adjusted, the song accredited to Casey Edwards, but not actually his version of the song?
Decided to play through Elden Ring fully. I think I can safely say I'm bad at souls games.
December 14, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Decided to play through Elden Ring fully. I think I can safely say I'm bad at souls games.
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That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are
The $82.5 million sale of "Hot Ones" studio First We Feast is part of a broader strategy at BuzzFeed to shift away from human editors, writers and content producers in favor of artificial intelligence, which result in "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
BuzzFeed sells "Hot Ones" studio for $82.5 million as it pursues more AI-driven content
The company said the sale will allow it to depend less on human-created content in favor of "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
thedesk.net
December 13, 2024 at 1:31 PM
That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who read banned books.
December 13, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Surround yourself with the kind of people who read banned books.
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As we get close to the end of the year I want to thank all the fantastic authors that have contributed to Magic story in 2024. The real privilege of my job is getting to fill the margins of our card game with such stupendous, heartfelt, and exhilarating fiction.
December 12, 2024 at 9:38 PM
As we get close to the end of the year I want to thank all the fantastic authors that have contributed to Magic story in 2024. The real privilege of my job is getting to fill the margins of our card game with such stupendous, heartfelt, and exhilarating fiction.
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Small presses: now would be a really, really good time to condemn GenAI with your whole chest
And tell everyone as loudly as possible why you won't be shitting on your own authors (and the environment, and the human imagination, and everyone whose IP has been stolen to feed the parrots) like this
And tell everyone as loudly as possible why you won't be shitting on your own authors (and the environment, and the human imagination, and everyone whose IP has been stolen to feed the parrots) like this
Says the CEO of HarperCollins on AI:
"One idea is a “talking book,” where a book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an AI facsimile of its author."
Please, just make it stop, somebody.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
"One idea is a “talking book,” where a book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an AI facsimile of its author."
Please, just make it stop, somebody.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray on Hot Print Book Sales and the Use of AI
Deluxe editions of popular titles are driving sales of print books this holiday season, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said at a media conference this week. The company is also looking at various AI-d...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Small presses: now would be a really, really good time to condemn GenAI with your whole chest
And tell everyone as loudly as possible why you won't be shitting on your own authors (and the environment, and the human imagination, and everyone whose IP has been stolen to feed the parrots) like this
And tell everyone as loudly as possible why you won't be shitting on your own authors (and the environment, and the human imagination, and everyone whose IP has been stolen to feed the parrots) like this
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Me: It's 3:30am! I work tomorrow. I really need to get to sleep!
My brain: Right, right! I hear you. I do. But counter point, what about total obsessing about how you should tackle that scene you want to write?
Me: ....dammit!
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #QueerWriters #Insomnia
My brain: Right, right! I hear you. I do. But counter point, what about total obsessing about how you should tackle that scene you want to write?
Me: ....dammit!
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #QueerWriters #Insomnia
December 12, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Me: It's 3:30am! I work tomorrow. I really need to get to sleep!
My brain: Right, right! I hear you. I do. But counter point, what about total obsessing about how you should tackle that scene you want to write?
Me: ....dammit!
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #QueerWriters #Insomnia
My brain: Right, right! I hear you. I do. But counter point, what about total obsessing about how you should tackle that scene you want to write?
Me: ....dammit!
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #QueerWriters #Insomnia
Over the past 6 years or so, I've done a Spotify Wrapped (W)review on my socials.
It started as an excuse to talk about my music taste, but this year I sort of went off the rails.
The thing is, Spotify has changed a lot this year, and my wrapped felt incomplete without talking about these changes.
It started as an excuse to talk about my music taste, but this year I sort of went off the rails.
The thing is, Spotify has changed a lot this year, and my wrapped felt incomplete without talking about these changes.
December 10, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Over the past 6 years or so, I've done a Spotify Wrapped (W)review on my socials.
It started as an excuse to talk about my music taste, but this year I sort of went off the rails.
The thing is, Spotify has changed a lot this year, and my wrapped felt incomplete without talking about these changes.
It started as an excuse to talk about my music taste, but this year I sort of went off the rails.
The thing is, Spotify has changed a lot this year, and my wrapped felt incomplete without talking about these changes.
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"Against legal advice, a Moms For Liberty member’s book rating website will now be the determining factor in which books get banned from St. Francis Area Schools Libraries. "
Did I not say that just last week? This is Minnesota, an anti-book ban law state.
www.hometownsource.com/abc_newspape...
Did I not say that just last week? This is Minnesota, an anti-book ban law state.
www.hometownsource.com/abc_newspape...
School board tightens book ban
Against legal advice, a former Moms For Liberty member’s book rating website will now be the determining factor in which books get banned from St. Francis Area Schools Libraries. The
www.hometownsource.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:54 PM
"Against legal advice, a Moms For Liberty member’s book rating website will now be the determining factor in which books get banned from St. Francis Area Schools Libraries. "
Did I not say that just last week? This is Minnesota, an anti-book ban law state.
www.hometownsource.com/abc_newspape...
Did I not say that just last week? This is Minnesota, an anti-book ban law state.
www.hometownsource.com/abc_newspape...
