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We're looking for volunteers to help us judge the sixth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. spsfc.space/2026/10/26/j... If you're not entering a novel in the contest when that opens on Nov. 1, we'd love you to join one of our judging teams. #SPSFC

RIP, Walter. May those nuclear wessels bear you to a better place.

new pet peeve unlocked: If you cannot read cursive, perhaps you should not be attempting to transcribe the census information between 1850 and 1940. FFS, there are some terrible errors. Learn what the hell those letters were shaped like.

Doing a series in #dressmaker based on #sanrio characters. First set, can you guess?

I've never heard of this, but of course I don't support that. If you do use that knowingly, stop or you're compliant in identity theft, as far as I'm concerned. Stop ruining people's jobs for your 5 seconds of humor shit.

ok, I'll play this one. My 1st five ttrpgs in the order I played them: 1. D&D 2nd edition ("AD&D", high school) 2. Call of Cthulhu (high school) 3. Car Wars (1 game, high school) 4. Vampire the Masquerade (20s/30s) 5. Daggerheart (this year) (not including D&D 5e, it's like returning)

I don't do "about me" memes. Those are often scraped for identity theft and data collection.

May the happy bats bring you much joy this weekend. Oh and for those who’ve not seen it, there’s a post below with many more of our flying friends. 🦇 👇

Just as a note: I will never ever publish anything I have written in any format using AI, nor will I ever use AI at any point in my writing process or any other artistic endeavor. If you find anything of mine that has AI, it's either stolen or they're lying. Just like AI does. FUCK AI

thanks so much to Beam Team 3d! They delivered yet again on great headset costume attachments. These cuties mean I can be my Firbolg character since my D&D session is on the 30th. The other players will love this! Great service!

Fuck yes. That is power.

What could be more Halloween than a BAT? How about a bat colored like a JACK-O-LANTERN? Let's meet the Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta), also called the butterfly bat, native to SE Asia. 🦇🎃 (📷: MerlinTuttle.org)

Dammit, hit report instead of quote post. note: I haven't gotten an email from eBay, but that exists. Mine was off by default, but here's where you can check yours. accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜 For this week & beyond we give you Asexuals on Adventures; by sea, land, spaceship, magic portal & more! Some of our aspec main characters are on world-saving quests. Others are exploring life, love, neurodivergence, mysteries or solving problems. 🌈📚 itch.io/b/3946/asexu...

Well, I guess you can't trust whitepages anymore to look up a number accurately. I just tried to look up a # and it mapped them to a landline in Kansas. Um... no. That's a Colorado area code, idiot. Literally every other website said Denver County. Disappointing. Spoofed at best, maybe.

'Parents who believe they did their best' Yes, that's the point. They believe their bigotry and abuse was good, valid behaviour. They're wrong, and now they get to deal with the consequences.

Over and over, people try to put down socializing or organizing or teaching or anything online (usually while being online). There’s a distinct whiff of ableism to it, as well as this Boomer-esque expectation that everyone likes or needs the same things.

A calm, intelligent, informed, comprehensive reply to a troll. Just perfect and so mature and professional, unlike so many in power right now.

Is the weird trend for video shorts to have that "focus on the face while everything else moves weird" due to some AI filter? It's really annoying AF to watch. Almost nauseating, if there's a lot of movement.

A new Daggerheart actual play to watch! Can't wait to see what happens next, it looks awesome! (disclaimer, one of the players is my pen pal, wheee!) youtu.be/z6MLsVs3ntk?...

ok... why are my regular-length videos on youtube now showing the comments on the right and other vids on bottom? things switched, I didn't touch anything, and cant find any setting to fix it. I hate it.

The British Fantasy Society does not allow the use of generative AI in any of its spaces. For more on this, read the interview with outgoing chair Shona Kinsella from earlier this year. This position has not changed since last week's AGM. ⬇️ britishfantasysociety.org/its-a-cheat-...

good lord, no, that's not a mouse. (but super cool) youtube.com/shorts/54M0h...

Guidelines for ethical Gen AI usage is like guidelines for how the Paris museum art thieves can use the stolen art. It’s still stolen to begin with, doesn’t matter how they use it afterwards, and doesn’t change the fact they are thieves. You’re just condoning it now.

OMG they're so fluffy in real life!

Looks like I found an author's association I will now never join. there is NO ethical use of AI in art of any kind. I do not support the use of the hallucinating, environment-destroying, plagiaristic THEFT MACHINE.

Today, I'm launching a Patreon. Token Indian will have two main essay series. The primary series will cover Native representation in old, current, and upcoming tabletop games and other media. www.patreon.com/cw/TokenIndian #RPG #TTRPG #Indigenous

Happy Indigenous People's Day! Between Earth & Sky is live! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m... If you're a fan of me, Coyote & Crow, Rebecca Roanhorse, the books series, or want to support Native creatives today, or maybe just a cool new tabletop RPG, look into this one.

I try really hard to temper this impulse, given costuming isn’t typically meant to be a perfectly realistic reproduction. But. There was no princess seaming prior to the late 1800s. In fact it’s called that because of a specific princess.

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one thing I had in WA state I wish they had here: a newspaper-like booklet mailed to EVERYONE before elections that had every candidate's statement, question answers, and who supports/endorses them. It's a PITA to find information here on all these judges I've literally never heard of.

Whee! Got to meet @atalanta.bsky.social and hang out for real, and scored 9 books and 5 balls of yarn for under $12 total. Friends of the Library sales makes for a fun time!

You win the internet.

Yes.