@leilasedai

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

The Well by Randal Eldon Greene The well runs deep. This one, placed here in the center of your hundred acre wood. This well is your inheritance I hear, but it's also a structure of failed stewardship for you...

“I am telling you this, but are you interested? Don't believe me. Take a sip! I dare you. Ah, that got your attention.”

💧 from Randal Eldon Greene

www.nightshadesmag.com/the-well/

I wanna read your weird stuff!

At the Library of Teeth by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

Cover of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy"!!! published by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social.
I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!!
Coming January 20, 2026
Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

🛸we’re open🛸 some things you might send:

strange ships, lush worlds, disrupted timelines, borders edges and no man lands, untraceable lights, wrong waters, problematic orbits, upsetting rocks, windowless palaces, threatening foods, unfamiliar implements

🛸pro pay
www.annareser.com/night-shades...

Just a reminder the mainstream news has all but memory holed this incredibly violent political assassination of a leader & her spouse, which was almost multiple political assassinations if the attacker had not been delayed by several Democratic reps not being home & 2 other people he shot surviving.

Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie | Mohamad Bazzi The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself

Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie — my latest @theguardian.com

Behind you L.A. ✊🏽
No masters. No kings.

Attn: Reporters/Influencers/etc - If you are doing a story on the PBR and the science cuts, and you want to reach the mission leadership of OSIRIS-APEX, you can reach out to me. I can't promise access to everyone, but if you're looking to save US space science, so are we.

Boooooo so disappointing @inaturalist.bsky.social

ICE fled the scene after ramming a car in Boyle Heights!

ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent."

"They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."

After six days of being on death’s door and mainlining protest streams, I emerged to a bookstore and went absolutely buck wild in there, and now I feel high af

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas. "People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...

If you're curious

In case you are wondering what started some of the protests yesterday. It's so important to be witnesses to this, and to call your representatives to tell them that this is NOT what Americans want.

what is shitposting

You misspelled "ethnic cleansing" you fascist fucks

(also you have a split infinitive with "to permanently relocate", losers)

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.

P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Are you a US researcher who has recently moved to Canada because of the Trump disruption to science (or are you in the process of doing so)? I want to talk to you for a story in @nature.com 🧪

Y’all do not skip on the Author’s Guild! I’ve been a member for two years and have used their contract review and legal services. It’s best protection authors can get for themselves!

I obviously have a thing for gnomes

I have been off social so long that I have no idea what to say on here anymore. So, here’s a picture of a small slice of my 100% native plant garden, I guess.

icymi, my little tiny magazine is real and i published the first story today!

Also, I guess I’m back on social media now

Anna went and started another magazine! Go read the first story and feel your skin crawl

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