A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway]
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will sell my soul to keep working with Diana Pho.
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.
Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.
So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.
So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
will sell my soul to keep working with Diana Pho.
just use the fucking library.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
just use the fucking library.
the reverse Sunshine.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
the reverse Sunshine.
Look, am I thrilled that a pigeon just went head-first into a restaurant window? No. Was it worth it to ruin a dinner of about 20 sorority girls? You decide.
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Look, am I thrilled that a pigeon just went head-first into a restaurant window? No. Was it worth it to ruin a dinner of about 20 sorority girls? You decide.
can someone throw me a rave for my birthday?
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
can someone throw me a rave for my birthday?
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I made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Take a look at what's new and keep sending your own links my way!
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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Take a look at what's new and keep sending your own links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
convinced men have great skin because of the ✨audacity✨.
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
convinced men have great skin because of the ✨audacity✨.
but seriously, the thing I want to bring up above everything else is that holyyyy is it a lot of work to just find out if I have murder boobs!!!
bored. gonna live-post my mammogram. Incoming CW: breast cancer scare.
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
but seriously, the thing I want to bring up above everything else is that holyyyy is it a lot of work to just find out if I have murder boobs!!!
bored. gonna live-post my mammogram. Incoming CW: breast cancer scare.
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
bored. gonna live-post my mammogram. Incoming CW: breast cancer scare.
fuck right off.
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
fuck right off.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
a new thing with some thoughts.
Let's Talk About "The List"
*sigh* I had a whole thing written out about a different topic, but fine, let's go.
thesuiway.beehiiv.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
a new thing with some thoughts.
most of the time, the idea isn't even *the* idea halfway through drafting the thing because the idea has sprouted its own wings and is now telling you to go into a different direction, and all the plotting and planning has to start all over again.
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
most of the time, the idea isn't even *the* idea halfway through drafting the thing because the idea has sprouted its own wings and is now telling you to go into a different direction, and all the plotting and planning has to start all over again.
write for the person who's going to re-read this manuscript at least 15 times before it sees a bookshelf—me.
if that person gives up, book does not exist.
if that person gives up, book does not exist.
Been pondering the "write for yourself / no, write for an audience" convos I've seen going around. This obviously varies for everyone, but for me it's "write for myself, edit for an audience." I can't finish a project unless I retreat into a bubble and pretend nobody will ever read it--
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
write for the person who's going to re-read this manuscript at least 15 times before it sees a bookshelf—me.
if that person gives up, book does not exist.
if that person gives up, book does not exist.
don’t stop until the whole industry is six feet under.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
don’t stop until the whole industry is six feet under.
if you are an academic collaborating with someone on a paper, please DO NOT take your collaborator's work, entire sections they drafted, and FEED IT INTO CHAT GPT and justify it by saying you needed clarification. JUST ASK FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
if you are an academic collaborating with someone on a paper, please DO NOT take your collaborator's work, entire sections they drafted, and FEED IT INTO CHAT GPT and justify it by saying you needed clarification. JUST ASK FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
wise words from Sam.
Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
wise words from Sam.
i need a 10h dial-up screech soundtrack just to feel young again.
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
i need a 10h dial-up screech soundtrack just to feel young again.
really wish my microwave wasn't haunted by the food i microwaved two days ago.
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
really wish my microwave wasn't haunted by the food i microwaved two days ago.
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It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
as someone who is writing sci-fi and isn't going to stop any time soon (or i will very soon if my debut bombs, ha!), i find this article simultaneously grim and somewhat,maybe, hopeful?
Romantastic: Romantic Fantasy leads SFF to its best-ever year
In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData’s Science Fiction & Fantasy (SFF) category secured its biggest year since records began when total sales came in at just under £84m – a massive 41% jump compared with its p...
www.thebookseller.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
as someone who is writing sci-fi and isn't going to stop any time soon (or i will very soon if my debut bombs, ha!), i find this article simultaneously grim and somewhat,maybe, hopeful?
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Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
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Simultaneous Times episode 93 is live and available on your favorite podcast player. Featuring stories by Jason P. Burnham & @elianeboey.bsky.social with music by TSG & Phog Masheeen.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Simultaneous Times episode 93 is live and available on your favorite podcast player. Featuring stories by Jason P. Burnham & @elianeboey.bsky.social with music by TSG & Phog Masheeen.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...