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happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday to all who celebrate
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday to all who celebrate
the fact that so many agents sell querying advice and pitching courses and get agented masterclasses really stresses me out because i just feel like it inevitably creates a profit motive to make querying as obscure and difficult and intimidating as possible
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
the fact that so many agents sell querying advice and pitching courses and get agented masterclasses really stresses me out because i just feel like it inevitably creates a profit motive to make querying as obscure and difficult and intimidating as possible
sometimes you get so used to being in pain that you forget to question if you should do something about it
September 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
sometimes you get so used to being in pain that you forget to question if you should do something about it
at a conference yesterday a survey result blew my mind: people are broadly positive about ads in places where ppl want to learn about products and services (eg shops). advertisers have strewn the innards of the golden goose all over our floors and now theyre mad that we're getting out the mop.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
at a conference yesterday a survey result blew my mind: people are broadly positive about ads in places where ppl want to learn about products and services (eg shops). advertisers have strewn the innards of the golden goose all over our floors and now theyre mad that we're getting out the mop.
the movies had a very strict policy of only hiring cast and crew who were kind, decent, and trustworthy around children in order to protect their young actors
this policy is backfiring on rowling now because anyone kind, decent, or trustworthy around children wants nothing to do with her
this policy is backfiring on rowling now because anyone kind, decent, or trustworthy around children wants nothing to do with her
"As ever, Rowling is a raving lunatic who’s full of shit. Even the gentlest rebuking sends her into a spiraling Twitter frenzy, and as amusing as that can be, I have to wonder how many more hate groups she intends to fund in her ruthless drive to scour trans people from the face of the Earth."
OG Potter Director Lightly Critiques Rowling, Meltdown Ensues — Assigned
When Chris Columbus offered a very gentle rebuke of J.K. Rowling’s years of devotion to destroying transgender people, she immediately went on Twitter and completely lost her mind.
www.assignedmedia.org
September 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
the movies had a very strict policy of only hiring cast and crew who were kind, decent, and trustworthy around children in order to protect their young actors
this policy is backfiring on rowling now because anyone kind, decent, or trustworthy around children wants nothing to do with her
this policy is backfiring on rowling now because anyone kind, decent, or trustworthy around children wants nothing to do with her
i got harangued by our fact checker last week for describing autumn as "cosy" without a source but this is going unchallenged???
My kingdom for a single fact-checker at the nation's most prestigious opinion page
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
September 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
i got harangued by our fact checker last week for describing autumn as "cosy" without a source but this is going unchallenged???
maybe this is self-serving as someone who enjoys both writing and reading it but where has short genre fiction gone. not everything has to be >300k. not everything even needs to be >80k.
September 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
maybe this is self-serving as someone who enjoys both writing and reading it but where has short genre fiction gone. not everything has to be >300k. not everything even needs to be >80k.
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Yep. Prestige podcasting is dying for the same reason as the rest of the media: Pontificating is cheap and reporting is expensive.
August 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yep. Prestige podcasting is dying for the same reason as the rest of the media: Pontificating is cheap and reporting is expensive.
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Woke up this morning in Greenland. It is game time for my cameras. National Geographic Endurance safely crossed the Denmark Straight and into this fjord! #EastCoastKin #photography #Greenland
August 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Woke up this morning in Greenland. It is game time for my cameras. National Geographic Endurance safely crossed the Denmark Straight and into this fjord! #EastCoastKin #photography #Greenland
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me logging on to bluesky every day
August 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
me logging on to bluesky every day
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White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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I see we’re doing “film criticism is dead” discourse again. Film criticism is alive and well, it’s just being done by sexy podcasters instead of transphobic newspapers 🤷♀️
August 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I see we’re doing “film criticism is dead” discourse again. Film criticism is alive and well, it’s just being done by sexy podcasters instead of transphobic newspapers 🤷♀️
1000 years ago, the world was broken. Now, THE CITY OF 1000 ALTARS watches over the scar.
Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, neither knowing the secrets their chance meeting will unravel.
With:
- transgender fallen god
- older coming of age story
- autistic rebel priestess
#pitchfpp
Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, neither knowing the secrets their chance meeting will unravel.
With:
- transgender fallen god
- older coming of age story
- autistic rebel priestess
#pitchfpp
August 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
1000 years ago, the world was broken. Now, THE CITY OF 1000 ALTARS watches over the scar.
Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, neither knowing the secrets their chance meeting will unravel.
With:
- transgender fallen god
- older coming of age story
- autistic rebel priestess
#pitchfpp
Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, neither knowing the secrets their chance meeting will unravel.
With:
- transgender fallen god
- older coming of age story
- autistic rebel priestess
#pitchfpp
are the literary agents who auto-reject any query from a cis white man in the room with us now
August 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
are the literary agents who auto-reject any query from a cis white man in the room with us now
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i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age
August 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age
1000 years ago, the world was broken. Now, THE CITY OF 1000 ALTARS watches over the scar.
Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, unaware of the secrets their chance meeting will unravel.
- older trans fallen god
- autistic rebel priestess
- badass fat female demigod
#queerpit #a #ef
Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, unaware of the secrets their chance meeting will unravel.
- older trans fallen god
- autistic rebel priestess
- badass fat female demigod
#queerpit #a #ef
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
THE CITY OF 1,000 ALTARS (64k)
In a city where the eyes of the gods are everywhere, only one will win their favour and survive.
COMPS
The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (N. K. Jemisin)
#questpit #a #f #q
In a city where the eyes of the gods are everywhere, only one will win their favour and survive.
COMPS
The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (N. K. Jemisin)
#questpit #a #f #q
August 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Hi. I’m the universal translator in Star Trek. I will translate everything in real time even making lip movements match. Occasionally I will switch off when someone really wants to speak a different language than the listener
Hi. I'm the warp core ejection mechanism in Star Trek. If you ever really need me, I'll almost certainly be offline. On the bright side, there's a 90% chance that my failure will be negated when a temporal causality loop is closed.
Hello. I’m Cortical Stimulators in Star Trek. I think I’m supposed to be like a pacemaker for the brain or something but all I seem to do is make someone’s body bounce on the table a couple of times before they are pronounced dead. If you need to have me used on you, you’re hosed.
July 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hi. I’m the universal translator in Star Trek. I will translate everything in real time even making lip movements match. Occasionally I will switch off when someone really wants to speak a different language than the listener
sometimes i think i'm smart and then i remember that once i ran out of pineapple kimchi and panicked and had my mind completely blown by the revelation that adding some regular kimchi and some fresh pineapple had exactly the same effect on my noodles. i have two masters degrees.
July 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
sometimes i think i'm smart and then i remember that once i ran out of pineapple kimchi and panicked and had my mind completely blown by the revelation that adding some regular kimchi and some fresh pineapple had exactly the same effect on my noodles. i have two masters degrees.
i work in print media and a thing i've noticed a lot is that people say "in the modern world it's impossible to live without digital subscriptions" and when i say i do they start listing subscriptions that they assume i have
July 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
i work in print media and a thing i've noticed a lot is that people say "in the modern world it's impossible to live without digital subscriptions" and when i say i do they start listing subscriptions that they assume i have
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Farewell to Glenn Kessler, who had one job and was laughably terrible at it
My favorite WaPo fact-check is the one where they gave Bernie three Pinocchios for accurately citing a study.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
July 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Farewell to Glenn Kessler, who had one job and was laughably terrible at it
if there is one thing querying has given me it's a real disdain for authors talking about how many times their book was rejected. it its under 100 you did just fine
July 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
if there is one thing querying has given me it's a real disdain for authors talking about how many times their book was rejected. it its under 100 you did just fine
my phone bricked. when i got it to turn on, the only app that would open was pocketcasts. the only podcast that would play was private eye. i was not listening to any podcast when it shut down. sublime marketing by @andrewhunterm.bsky.social but i really did need to pay my rent
July 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
my phone bricked. when i got it to turn on, the only app that would open was pocketcasts. the only podcast that would play was private eye. i was not listening to any podcast when it shut down. sublime marketing by @andrewhunterm.bsky.social but i really did need to pay my rent
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Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.