Itโs forever baffling to me that their argument is โwe canโt tax billionaires or they might leave and then we wonโt get their taxesโ likeโฆ ๐ง
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Itโs forever baffling to me that their argument is โwe canโt tax billionaires or they might leave and then we wonโt get their taxesโ likeโฆ ๐ง
While you still can, if youโre asking โwhoโs Sinclair?โ John Oliver has you covered:
Such a great event! If you missed it, you can still grab books from these fabulous authors from your favorite local indie bookstore! ๐
Thank you Baltimore Book Festival and @sfwa_inc! Such a great day with wonderful authors and moderators!
Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.
Every pub should do this.
Baltimore Book Festival Panels: Peabody Heights Stage, Sat Sept 13 12-1 PM: Neurodivergence and Creativity in Speculative Fiction 7-8pm: SFWA After Dark
Hello Baltimore! Iโll be at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday so come on by and say hello!
Bluesky had saved posts now!?! Oh I am HERE
LET THE LAWSUITS COMMENCE
It wouldnโt be the worst or weirdest thing theyโve doneโฆ this week. I dunno. Everything is a mess.
Iโm not a tech person so this may be bonkers but hey, itโs 2025 and a posse of evil morons and AI tech bro billionaires are actively dismantling an entire democracy and pillaging the databases it relies on, so I have to ask at least
I realize the most likely scenario is the obvious one (a bunch of publishers dropped the ball on filing) but is there any chance the ๐ฉ DOGE AI that put our SS numbers online and deleted references to the Enola Gay (bc gay) from gov websites couldโve also deleted a bunch of book copyrights? ๐
Iโve been neglecting BlueSky (because I canโt figure out how to save posts and thatโs 98% of my social media usage) but Iโm going to try harder bc the other sites areโฆ well, owned by evil overlords
Hey trad authors, you may want to check and be sure your publisher filed your copyright because a lot of us are learning the hard way: copyright.gov
Getting the impression from friends that quite a lot of imprints are going to return from the long weekend to extra emails, thatโs for sure ๐ญ
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(trad author having a bad day here)
if "bigballs attacked by two 15 year olds" is our Reichstag fire then i officially declare an end to history because we don't want anybody reading that shit later
nobody wants to seem gullible and itโs turned into this pathological inability to simply enjoy a good old fashioned passion play of dipshits
Happy book birthday to Jodie Slaughter's extremely fun f/f romance, READY TO SCORE! This is a great one to kick off your summer with, trust me! Editing it was just a plain old good time lol. ๐๐๐ us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Itโs exhausting to watch so many excellent authors struggling for visibility with great books they worked really hard on and wrote with care and responsibility as a constant cycle of rage bait shoots to the top of the lists every time
I would like to remind people yet again that when you buy a controversial book just to hate read it (see: โIโm reading it so you donโt have to!โ all over social media) all youโre doing is proving that controversy= money. If you DONโt want more books like that to be published THEN STOP BUYING THEM
i mean we all *knew* the death of culture would be a bit silly but "the most soulless rich people of all time decide autocomplete is going to be our new god" is a bit beyond the pale even for this timeline
๐จAccording to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.
the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
My draft deadline and my kidโs tech week falling on the same week is diabolical
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
โIf this country went bad the whole world would I go bed.โ Yes, we can all see that ripple effect happening right now and it is, in fact, VERY BAD
Let him try. Give him a pilotless plane first and weโll wait and see how it goes.
In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights
It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Iโm a restless sleeper and I like that when I try to roll over, my weighted blankets act like someone has lovingly tackled me to hold me still and whisper โShhhโฆ just go to sleep.โ