Hey bsky! It’s been a little while since I plugged this, so you probably haven’t seen it. Not only are we making a romcom that is witty, fast-paced, queer and anti-billionaire, but you can read the first 10 pages at the link below! #WorstManOGN
So true... High collar sides plunging down to the navel is the way
I'm torn between plunging and high collar that's open, which I see other people have also mentioned so clearly we're on to something
In honor of the crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS, which desperately needs your spacebucks to get over the finish line, we have the ultimate question:
🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀
imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?
The banana stand sign from Arrested Development badly photoshopped to read “book coverage that won’t make you sick and kill you!” The word “won’t” is underlined
The Ancillary Review of Books anti-billionaire promise:
Thank you for including my game! I hope people enjoy it :D
this shows to me that when there are actual material stakes that people can feel, they act. there's stakes to voting, but they are hard to feel. many political issues don't engage people because they are made to feel distant. there's still some good in people but they need things to feel close, real
The Other Perspective: @mishagw.bsky.social reviews Theodora Goss's collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY (@tachyonpub.bsky.social)
Some people think no one is truly evil and everyone is just waiting to meet one nice liberal who will fix them
Finished reading "your behavior will be monitored" which comes out this year - it was a lot more fun than any novel about current-style AI has a right to be. definitely recommend for an engaging read, though I doubt the real world will follow the path it depicts
Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord.
You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too.
discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?
Wonderful idea! I've applied and would also be happy to help with any admin work if you need volunteer assistance.
Also who wouldn't wear their nicest clothing to that kind of event? I don't have designer clothing but if I was attending the inauguration of my husband I would wear the best thing I could afford.
A very fair point, and I appreciate you explaining. While I am for the time being an atheist, I would be pleased to discover I'm wrong, and we matter in a more cosmic sense.
I really like this review, but I feel compelled to say that the materialist view of the universe doesn't mean human actions don't matter. They matter *to us*. The universe doesn't care, but other humans do. Otherwise, excellent review, really enjoyed it!
What an amazing last line
This is such a cool theme, I'm immediately inspired
Assortment of art hanging on wall, including two embroidery hoops, four unframed prints, four framed prints, and a float frame with three tiny prints inside.
For fun I thought I'd post the art corner next to my desk. There's a lot of art throughout the apartment, but these are my particular selection that stay right next to me - and a rare feature of my own art (the embroidery)
I'm doing art on this, and I'm super excited! Really amazing for my childhood obsession with pod racing
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
From Hell, Olondria, and City in Glass absolutely on my list. I'd add Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino), Swordspoint (Ellen Kushner), Perdido Street Station (China Mieville), and probably there's many others I can't recall at the moment.
No, they are deporting way more people, including those here legally.
I agree - and they're not unconnected. People end up in weird terrible information bubbles because they didn't have the instinct that something seemed off
(cont) how to tell truth from fiction. They have to learn, and if they are not taught, they create a mosaic of truth and lies that is almost impossible to disentangle.
The situation is complicated and has plenty else going on. But whatever solution we find must address this basic problem imo. /Fin
When we get almost all information through reading or videos, not understanding media is a great way to create a confused, misinformed, conspiracy-prone populace.
I really think this is an important aspect of what's happening across the world right now. People don't automatically know (cont)
As far as I can tell, the median American is absolutely terrible at reading comprehension, evaluating truth claims, and even just having a basic bullshit meter. Turns out that meter relies on knowing, fully, basic facts about the world, which you don't probably know if you don't read well. (cont)
(cont) Media literacy is not just reading, but understanding what you read, understanding the context and how people might be lying to or influencing you. It means being able to identify common rhetorical tricks. (Cont)
(cont) that we receive almost all news and sources of facts through media. For the last handful of decades, education has progressively put more and more emphasis on STEM skills rather than liberal arts like Reading Good. Gen Z and younger, studies show, struggle to read well or deeply. (Cont)
I'm sure most thoughtful people have turned to the question of "how did we get here" recently, but I think I've finally arrived at my take: complete lack of media skills.
We live in a highly mediated world. That's neutral, not a bad or good thing, just true. But it does mean (cont)
