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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 10

Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 10

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · Sep 10

“There is no place for political violence in this country” say the politicians using legislation and rhetoric to attack trans people, immigrants, women and BIPOC daily. Just because it’s done with a pen and not a gun doesn’t mean it’s not political violence. Hypocrites. Not that they care.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Your uterus,” she announces, “is not happy.”
“I know,” I admit. “I have been sensing its unhappiness.”

New @kathyfish.bsky.social is always a delight. I love this one, especially the use of dialogue and humour. SO GOOD AS ALWAYS! A must read.

Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · Sep 4

I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/

Wyoming - Hot Flash Literary

It’s the time of the Great Evacuation. That’s what my friend Jess calls it. I’ve been bleeding all over the place. My body is emptying itself out. It’s undignified. And painful. Out for coffee with J...

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wow so Earthlings. Read it in one sitting. I have to say I liked it leagues better than Convenience Store Woman, but I could see the thematic throughline between them easily.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 31

This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Aug 31

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

With Substack's latest launch, writers are actually ceding control of the billing relationship to Apple, which now owns and controls the subscription.
These transactions, subscriptions, and customers will no longer be accessible in their Stripe account.

Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously. This predatory platform lock-in is incredibly dangerous for writers. It strips away data and control, while locking them into the platform.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Apr 29

"All Your Fragile History" by @sawers.bsky.social won second place in The Smokey in 2020, went on to be a finalist for Best of the Net and was included in Flash Fiction America. The 2025 Smokey deadline is May 10! www.smokelong.com/stories/all-...

All Your Fragile History - SmokeLong Quarterly

I got this DNA test for my dog because he looks like a cloud and he looks like a luckdragon and he looks like something your lint roller picked up when you banged it around under the couch for the fir...

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NileooooOOOOOoooooOOooooo 👻 (He/They NB) 🍓 @nileoart.rip · Apr 29

For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · Apr 29

Long have the people cried out for this justice, “when, when, o god,” they ask “when will men be allowed to write books?”

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Apr 28

Novelist and critic judecook_ has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors” 👇 #BookSky

New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'

Novelist and critic Jude Cook has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focussing initially on male authors”.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · Apr 22

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Mar 21

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A class action lawsuit is underway. If your work was pirated to train AI, you are included in the lawsuit without having to take any action.

Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild

Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the on...

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Mar 21

Send a formal notice: If your books are in the LibGen dataset, send a letter to Meta and other AI companies stating they do not have the right to use your books.

Here is a template you can use. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work

I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Mar 21

Mine is, as well as two short stories

Search for an author in LibGen
or instance, Stephen King, Min Jin Lee, or Eyodor Dostoevsky. Note that different spellings of the same name— "JK Rowling" versus "J. K. Rowling" —may produce different results.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Mar 20

Is your book on the LibGen list? Let us know.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 20

Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Mar 21

Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Mar 21

Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Feb 28

Oh cool thank you

Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thanks for these recs! I loooove Monster Portraits and had forgotten that it has NF elements.