Jessica Friedmann
@msfriedmann.bsky.social
Writer, editor, tarot-lover, nice dogs etc. Author THINGS THAT HELPED 🌸 and TWENTY-TWO IMPRESSIONS 🔮
Living and writing on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.
Living and writing on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.
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If you’re doing some early holiday shopping, you could do worse than to buy a friend a copy of ‘Twenty-Two Impressions: Notes from the Major Arcana.’
This book is one that is close to my heart: an exploration of the strange and lovely things that sometimes give us space for quiet contemplation.
This book is one that is close to my heart: an exploration of the strange and lovely things that sometimes give us space for quiet contemplation.
Train announcement a London station: ‘During this hot weather, please carry a bottle of water with you, and contact station management if you feel unwell.’
The weather in question?
The weather in question?
April 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Train announcement a London station: ‘During this hot weather, please carry a bottle of water with you, and contact station management if you feel unwell.’
The weather in question?
The weather in question?
First impressions of London: it is teeny-tiny, and full of bricks.
April 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
First impressions of London: it is teeny-tiny, and full of bricks.
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I realized a while ago that I don't know how to set alt-text for an art piece.
Now I realize the advice I've seen revolves around web design, either SEO optimization or accessibility for tables in e-books/the like.
What do people who need it want out of alt-text on art?
#disability #accesibility
Now I realize the advice I've seen revolves around web design, either SEO optimization or accessibility for tables in e-books/the like.
What do people who need it want out of alt-text on art?
#disability #accesibility
Does anyone know if any substantial work has been done on the way in which people approach writing alt text…? I’m so curious as to how it contributes to the body of art criticism based on writing the image.
#arthistory #literature #linguistics
#arthistory #literature #linguistics
March 31, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I realized a while ago that I don't know how to set alt-text for an art piece.
Now I realize the advice I've seen revolves around web design, either SEO optimization or accessibility for tables in e-books/the like.
What do people who need it want out of alt-text on art?
#disability #accesibility
Now I realize the advice I've seen revolves around web design, either SEO optimization or accessibility for tables in e-books/the like.
What do people who need it want out of alt-text on art?
#disability #accesibility
Does anyone know if any substantial work has been done on the way in which people approach writing alt text…? I’m so curious as to how it contributes to the body of art criticism based on writing the image.
#arthistory #literature #linguistics
#arthistory #literature #linguistics
March 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Does anyone know if any substantial work has been done on the way in which people approach writing alt text…? I’m so curious as to how it contributes to the body of art criticism based on writing the image.
#arthistory #literature #linguistics
#arthistory #literature #linguistics
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Certify Human Authorship:
'In reprints and new publications verify on the title page that your book was created by a human, not generated by AI.' (NZSA)
'In reprints and new publications verify on the title page that your book was created by a human, not generated by AI.' (NZSA)
March 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Certify Human Authorship:
'In reprints and new publications verify on the title page that your book was created by a human, not generated by AI.' (NZSA)
'In reprints and new publications verify on the title page that your book was created by a human, not generated by AI.' (NZSA)
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Protect your works:
'Add a “NO AI TRAINING” notice on the copyright page of your works. For online work, you can update your website’s robots.txt file to block AI bots. Ask for a clause in your publishing contracts that your publisher will not knowingly allow AI scraping of books.' (NZSA)
then ...
'Add a “NO AI TRAINING” notice on the copyright page of your works. For online work, you can update your website’s robots.txt file to block AI bots. Ask for a clause in your publishing contracts that your publisher will not knowingly allow AI scraping of books.' (NZSA)
then ...
March 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Protect your works:
'Add a “NO AI TRAINING” notice on the copyright page of your works. For online work, you can update your website’s robots.txt file to block AI bots. Ask for a clause in your publishing contracts that your publisher will not knowingly allow AI scraping of books.' (NZSA)
then ...
'Add a “NO AI TRAINING” notice on the copyright page of your works. For online work, you can update your website’s robots.txt file to block AI bots. Ask for a clause in your publishing contracts that your publisher will not knowingly allow AI scraping of books.' (NZSA)
then ...
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Send the ASA or NZSA a list of your stolen books:
NZSA
authors.org.nz/new-zealand-...
ASA
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....
then ...
NZSA
authors.org.nz/new-zealand-...
ASA
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....
then ...
New Zealand authors and illustrators impacted by the LibGen database. | New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa
authors.org.nz
March 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Send the ASA or NZSA a list of your stolen books:
NZSA
authors.org.nz/new-zealand-...
ASA
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....
then ...
NZSA
authors.org.nz/new-zealand-...
ASA
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....
then ...
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Authors published in Aus and NZ who have found their work stolen to train generative AI, here are some practical actions, with great advice from the Australian Society of Authors and NZ Society of Authors:
Look up your book to see if it has been stolen:
www.theatlantic.com/.../search-l...
then ...
Look up your book to see if it has been stolen:
www.theatlantic.com/.../search-l...
then ...
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Authors published in Aus and NZ who have found their work stolen to train generative AI, here are some practical actions, with great advice from the Australian Society of Authors and NZ Society of Authors:
Look up your book to see if it has been stolen:
www.theatlantic.com/.../search-l...
then ...
Look up your book to see if it has been stolen:
www.theatlantic.com/.../search-l...
then ...
This scholarship looks incredible! It pays about twice the rate of an ordinary PhD, and is attached to a meaningful project around recuperating othered writing. Indigenous Creative Writing Phd-wanters, get on it!
*Incredible* opportunity for a First Nations writer: PhD Scholarship in Creative Writing. The very generous scholarship is one of the richest in the nation, and is attached to an ARC Discovery mapping Darwin/Larrakia Nation as the lost literary capital. Details below!
www.seek.com.au/job/82887004...
www.seek.com.au/job/82887004...
PhD Scholarship in Creative Writing opportunity for a First Nations writer Job in Darwin NT - SEEK
Join CDU as a First Nations PhD candidate in creative writing & work with a dynamic team on an exciting ARC project exploring Darwin/Larrakia Nation.
www.seek.com.au
March 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This scholarship looks incredible! It pays about twice the rate of an ordinary PhD, and is attached to a meaningful project around recuperating othered writing. Indigenous Creative Writing Phd-wanters, get on it!
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Headlines: 'World leaders express outrage': they need to do far more than 'express outrage'. At the very least, sanctions. BDS now (yesterday, years ago).
March 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Headlines: 'World leaders express outrage': they need to do far more than 'express outrage'. At the very least, sanctions. BDS now (yesterday, years ago).
Looking forward to all the concerned tech billionaires looking at online purges and investing their wealth in print 😎
March 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Looking forward to all the concerned tech billionaires looking at online purges and investing their wealth in print 😎
Fuck me... I don't think I am going to be able to access the PhD stipend for travel in April after all, and don't have enough in my savings for a plane ticket right now.
Does anyone have any work going that might get me to a symposium in London...? Writing, proofing, editing all on offer!
Does anyone have any work going that might get me to a symposium in London...? Writing, proofing, editing all on offer!
March 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Fuck me... I don't think I am going to be able to access the PhD stipend for travel in April after all, and don't have enough in my savings for a plane ticket right now.
Does anyone have any work going that might get me to a symposium in London...? Writing, proofing, editing all on offer!
Does anyone have any work going that might get me to a symposium in London...? Writing, proofing, editing all on offer!
Going deep into the planning-to-visit-Cornwall rabbit hole. There are just so many ROCKS!
March 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Going deep into the planning-to-visit-Cornwall rabbit hole. There are just so many ROCKS!
Art friends -- what are the best little weird galleries and bookshops and ARIs in London?
March 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Art friends -- what are the best little weird galleries and bookshops and ARIs in London?
In yoga, during shavasana meditation, I always laugh when the teacher suggests that we imagine ourselves being filled with ‘light and ease’, because I inevitably feel as though my arms and legs and heart-space and hips and ribs are turning into clay. Nice boggy Golem clay right from the local swamp.
March 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In yoga, during shavasana meditation, I always laugh when the teacher suggests that we imagine ourselves being filled with ‘light and ease’, because I inevitably feel as though my arms and legs and heart-space and hips and ribs are turning into clay. Nice boggy Golem clay right from the local swamp.
Not only was I not longlisted, a bird came through the doorway and shat on the rug.
Pre-processing the disappointment of (presumably) not being on tonight’s Stella longlist so that I can congratulate the nominees with an open heart.
March 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Not only was I not longlisted, a bird came through the doorway and shat on the rug.
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To understand American fascism, you have to understand their obsession with veneers.
March 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
To understand American fascism, you have to understand their obsession with veneers.
Pre-processing the disappointment of (presumably) not being on tonight’s Stella longlist so that I can congratulate the nominees with an open heart.
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Pre-processing the disappointment of (presumably) not being on tonight’s Stella longlist so that I can congratulate the nominees with an open heart.
Currently with my kid at the dentist, and the beautiful young guy asked what kind of music O wanted to listen to – and after I said, ‘I’m not sure you’d have the extreme niche online Greek mythology concept album he’s been into at the moment,’ he nonchalantly located it and started singing along.
February 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Currently with my kid at the dentist, and the beautiful young guy asked what kind of music O wanted to listen to – and after I said, ‘I’m not sure you’d have the extreme niche online Greek mythology concept album he’s been into at the moment,’ he nonchalantly located it and started singing along.
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Missing the days when art + science + technology meant some architect was inspired by bumblebees to make a glass cargo container or whatever instead of some AI thing using some other AI thing to do AI stuff
January 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Missing the days when art + science + technology meant some architect was inspired by bumblebees to make a glass cargo container or whatever instead of some AI thing using some other AI thing to do AI stuff
I’m watching the final season of Bump and had to pause after episode 8 to sob. We’re coming up on my dad’s yarzeit and I’m sitting here cleaning tear spatter off my glasses. This show, I swear to god.
January 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’m watching the final season of Bump and had to pause after episode 8 to sob. We’re coming up on my dad’s yarzeit and I’m sitting here cleaning tear spatter off my glasses. This show, I swear to god.
Applying just the right amount of pressure at the bottom of a Sunnyboy so that it popped up from the cardboard.
what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Applying just the right amount of pressure at the bottom of a Sunnyboy so that it popped up from the cardboard.
This is elegant.
Today is Plough Monday. In agricultural areas this marked the return to work after Christmas.
A decorated plough was traditionally dragged through the streets, visiting houses to invite donations.
Records date back to the 15th century. The picture is a 19th century example.
A decorated plough was traditionally dragged through the streets, visiting houses to invite donations.
Records date back to the 15th century. The picture is a 19th century example.
January 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This is elegant.
Better out than in (plasma, that is)!
January 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Better out than in (plasma, that is)!
My dearest friend convinced me to come to a Bikram yoga class with her, where I got two-thirds of the way through before essentially fainting. Apparently this is not uncommon for beginners…? Should be illegal.
January 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My dearest friend convinced me to come to a Bikram yoga class with her, where I got two-thirds of the way through before essentially fainting. Apparently this is not uncommon for beginners…? Should be illegal.