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elf/ninja/walking disaster~bookworm/SFGiants fanatic~cynic/hopeless romantic~library gremlin/writer elf~All crazy | 🏳️🌈
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Bye then, 2025. You were… definitely a year that happened.
No need to stay in touch.
No need to stay in touch.
December 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Bye then, 2025. You were… definitely a year that happened.
No need to stay in touch.
No need to stay in touch.
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You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?
December 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?
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Stories of Raksura Vol. 1 by @marthawells.com I have such love for the Raksura series and Moon, Stone, and Jade as characters. This volume collects a pair of novellas and short stories in the universe and was a delight. This is a series I'm desperate for everyone to read please check it out!
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Stories of Raksura Vol. 1 by @marthawells.com I have such love for the Raksura series and Moon, Stone, and Jade as characters. This volume collects a pair of novellas and short stories in the universe and was a delight. This is a series I'm desperate for everyone to read please check it out!
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"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat.
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
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"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
December 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat.
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
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Hooklanders have many names for twilight. Among my favourites are 'the blue hour' – capturing the sky's long-stretching towards bruise – and 'rook rest'. The latter holds part of my practice. I love to stand before wood edge at rook rest and here their gossip of the dying day. – #EmilyCBanting
December 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hooklanders have many names for twilight. Among my favourites are 'the blue hour' – capturing the sky's long-stretching towards bruise – and 'rook rest'. The latter holds part of my practice. I love to stand before wood edge at rook rest and here their gossip of the dying day. – #EmilyCBanting
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This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This Brazilian woman hates AI
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What kind of other Pocket Friends styles would you like to see? Bonus if they are special ones like the Clown and Alien friends! ❤️
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What kind of other Pocket Friends styles would you like to see? Bonus if they are special ones like the Clown and Alien friends! ❤️
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So on Monday I came down with a bad cold and I’m still not coherent enough to really talk about this horrific shitshow of a year. (I’ve mostly been at the “shrieks in hysterical rage and points” stage.) So here’s a link to what I had come out in 2025, marthawells.dreamwidth.org/670572.html
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December 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So on Monday I came down with a bad cold and I’m still not coherent enough to really talk about this horrific shitshow of a year. (I’ve mostly been at the “shrieks in hysterical rage and points” stage.) So here’s a link to what I had come out in 2025, marthawells.dreamwidth.org/670572.html
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It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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If you see items in a black box like this on the Amazon app (presumably similar on desktop), do NOT use Amazon to purchase. Go to the artist's site directly to see what they actually have, buy more easily, and not support this garbage concept that big corps can scrape whatever they want.
December 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you see items in a black box like this on the Amazon app (presumably similar on desktop), do NOT use Amazon to purchase. Go to the artist's site directly to see what they actually have, buy more easily, and not support this garbage concept that big corps can scrape whatever they want.
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An update: there IS an opt-out email, you should check if your site/merch is in this "feature" and use it. If it's not there now, you should likely set a reminder to check back, since it's new. bsky.app/profile/monk...
Update: I emailed the opt-out address listed on their website and got a reply. But, I never. Should. Have. Had. To. Opt. Out. I’m so tired of these tech companies & their entitlement. DoorDash putting small restaurants on their apps w/o permission, AI scraping our sites, & now this? It’s exhausting
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
An update: there IS an opt-out email, you should check if your site/merch is in this "feature" and use it. If it's not there now, you should likely set a reminder to check back, since it's new. bsky.app/profile/monk...
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if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."
Charity warns of rise in 'clothing poverty'.
Profiteering and cuts in real wages force people rely on charity.
Charity provides food, clothing, air ambulance, hospices and more in the 6th largest economy.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Profiteering and cuts in real wages force people rely on charity.
Charity provides food, clothing, air ambulance, hospices and more in the 6th largest economy.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Charity warns of rise in 'clothing poverty' among working people
The Sharewear Clothing Scheme in Nottingham says demand is so high it is running out of clothes.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."
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As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.
December 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
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Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
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Hi there. Isn't it interesting how the most popular TV shows and movies this year (Sinners, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Heated Rivalry) were all hyper specific stories, proving that "universal appeal" (i.e. appealing to white straight folks) is not actually that appealing?
December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hi there. Isn't it interesting how the most popular TV shows and movies this year (Sinners, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Heated Rivalry) were all hyper specific stories, proving that "universal appeal" (i.e. appealing to white straight folks) is not actually that appealing?
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The next Murderbot book, Platform Decay, is also available in the Barnes & Noble preorder sale: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d... #booksky
Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries #8)|Hardcover
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of g...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The next Murderbot book, Platform Decay, is also available in the Barnes & Noble preorder sale: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d... #booksky
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The trade paper edition of Queen Demon, which will be out next September, seems to also qualify for the preorder sale, if you've been holding off waiting for a good deal on it: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queen-demo... (It's already out in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.) #booksky
Queen Demon|Paperback
A USA Today Bestseller!From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel, Witch King. A fantasy of epic scope, Queen D...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The trade paper edition of Queen Demon, which will be out next September, seems to also qualify for the preorder sale, if you've been holding off waiting for a good deal on it: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queen-demo... (It's already out in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.) #booksky
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Hello hello, I'm not quite back on socials yet, but I'd be remiss not to mention the @barnesandnoble pre-order sale. Masquerade, the third book in the Micah Grey trilogy, is eligible, and I believe Emberclaw's paperback, the sequel to Dragonfall, also applies.
December 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Hello hello, I'm not quite back on socials yet, but I'd be remiss not to mention the @barnesandnoble pre-order sale. Masquerade, the third book in the Micah Grey trilogy, is eligible, and I believe Emberclaw's paperback, the sequel to Dragonfall, also applies.
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BTW, for those who may have heard about this issue and were (correctly!) concerned (or, like me, *actively* pissed off): https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/firefox-is-adding-an-ai-kill-switch/
Firefox is adding an AI kill switch
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Enzor-DeMeo, and then Jake Archibald, Mozilla's Web Developer Relations Lead, to assure users th...
coywolf.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
BTW, for those who may have heard about this issue and were (correctly!) concerned (or, like me, *actively* pissed off): https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/firefox-is-adding-an-ai-kill-switch/
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$50,000 away
They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.
We are behind schedule for hitting our end of year goal, making it very likely that we’ll be starting 2026 off with a closed intake line.
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
$50,000 away