J. Q. Carratello
@jqcarratello.bsky.social
Just another writer with a cat
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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“If Kafka were alive today, he wouldn’t be unpublished—he’d be under NDA.” On the dangerous fine print of creative contract law.
Writers Beware: On the Dangerous Fine Print of Creative Contract Law
A writer sits at her kitchen table, pen in hand, staring at her first book contract. The coffee’s gone cold. The pen is poised. The word that catches her eye isn’t advance or royalties. It’s morali…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“If Kafka were alive today, he wouldn’t be unpublished—he’d be under NDA.” On the dangerous fine print of creative contract law.
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Editing is not about rewriting, but about helping a story be the best version of itself. That can mean making things clearer for the reader, but it can also mean making them less clear.
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Editing is not about rewriting, but about helping a story be the best version of itself. That can mean making things clearer for the reader, but it can also mean making them less clear.
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Okay this made me laugh very hard. Bravo and more please. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Okay this made me laugh very hard. Bravo and more please. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Thanks, New Yorker
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thanks, New Yorker
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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"There’s something kind of magical about realizing that everyone in a story is a person, and nobody is an NPC."
My latest newsletter is about who gets to have a POV in your story, and why this is kind of a political question: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
My latest newsletter is about who gets to have a POV in your story, and why this is kind of a political question: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Who Gets a POV In Your Story? It's a Political Decision.
Before we get into it, a few quick plugs! This Saturday at 7 PM I’m hosting a special Writers With Drinks featuring M.M. Olivas, Natasha Muse, June Martin,...
buttondown.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"There’s something kind of magical about realizing that everyone in a story is a person, and nobody is an NPC."
My latest newsletter is about who gets to have a POV in your story, and why this is kind of a political question: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
My latest newsletter is about who gets to have a POV in your story, and why this is kind of a political question: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either
June 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either
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June 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I admit doubting that this darling creature was real.
It is and wow.
Lucky Japan.
It is and wow.
Lucky Japan.
May 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I admit doubting that this darling creature was real.
It is and wow.
Lucky Japan.
It is and wow.
Lucky Japan.
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I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
May 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
May 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
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I guess we can end the week with a little Snowcap. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social this morning.
I think this male is finishing up his transitional plumage into adulthood, as the full males don't have the white throat.
#birds #hummingbirds #costarica #nature
I think this male is finishing up his transitional plumage into adulthood, as the full males don't have the white throat.
#birds #hummingbirds #costarica #nature
May 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I guess we can end the week with a little Snowcap. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social this morning.
I think this male is finishing up his transitional plumage into adulthood, as the full males don't have the white throat.
#birds #hummingbirds #costarica #nature
I think this male is finishing up his transitional plumage into adulthood, as the full males don't have the white throat.
#birds #hummingbirds #costarica #nature
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This is wild.
1/
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This is wild.
1/
November 8, 2024 at 1:22 PM
A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This is wild.
1/
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This is wild.
1/
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Giant reading lady
May 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Giant reading lady
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Dear white people:
HE’S DOING IT TO YOU TOO
Cliona Ward, 54, a green-card holder who’s lived in the US since college, was returning from Ireland after escorting her stepmother to reunite with her father, who has dementia, when she was detained by ICE for deportation for a decades old expunged crime
HE’S DOING IT TO YOU TOO
Cliona Ward, 54, a green-card holder who’s lived in the US since college, was returning from Ireland after escorting her stepmother to reunite with her father, who has dementia, when she was detained by ICE for deportation for a decades old expunged crime
'Unacceptable': Calif. woman detained at SFO by Customs and Border Protection
A Santa Cruz resident was detained at San Francisco International Airport over a conviction that their relative said was expunged 20 years ago.
www.sfgate.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Dear white people:
HE’S DOING IT TO YOU TOO
Cliona Ward, 54, a green-card holder who’s lived in the US since college, was returning from Ireland after escorting her stepmother to reunite with her father, who has dementia, when she was detained by ICE for deportation for a decades old expunged crime
HE’S DOING IT TO YOU TOO
Cliona Ward, 54, a green-card holder who’s lived in the US since college, was returning from Ireland after escorting her stepmother to reunite with her father, who has dementia, when she was detained by ICE for deportation for a decades old expunged crime
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EL's 2025 NEA Grant has be terminated, but we will continue to publish culturally enriching stories with integrity and heart. Read the full statement by EL's Executive Director, Halimah Marcus, about Trump's latest attack on the NEA.
Trump's Latest Attack on the NEA - Electric Literature
Every story a writer tells is one this Administration cannot control
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May 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
EL's 2025 NEA Grant has be terminated, but we will continue to publish culturally enriching stories with integrity and heart. Read the full statement by EL's Executive Director, Halimah Marcus, about Trump's latest attack on the NEA.