Writes romance and horror. Sometimes combines the two in a horrible romance. Gluten-free. May contain nuts. No DMs, please, because the UK has determined I'm not adult enough to read them.
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
look, if fear of having everyone on the internet celebrate your death by bringing up every bad thing you’ve done is what it takes to stop people being cunts while they’re alive, i say let’s give it a go
As a BBC licence payer, I'm still waiting for his "thank you" email for making him rich.
Crime novelist Derek Raymond, whose memoir The Hidden Files I'm re-reading for the Patreon, came from the upper crust & was sent to Eton (he escaped at 16). His summation of the British upper class from which he came is memorable.
wait wait wait wait. there was a real life chinese magician who got ripped off by a white guy doing yellowface, and as a nod to that history nolan brought in a chinese actor but as the white guy???
Jess Whitecroft (she/her)Christopher Nolan casting Chao-Li Chi as Chung Ling Soo in The Prestige. You want to talk about Nolan casting someone of the 'wrong' race for a historical role? Let's talk about that, because holy shit how do you miss an opportunity to tell THAT story?
PseudoPod 1040: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIX (79): Ubi amor, ibi dolor • A Table Set and Waiting, by Jordan Shiveley • Third Date, by Divya Kernan • You’re Still Here, by Thea Liu • 9 Steps to Dissecting a Ghost, by Jeanna Cammarano Multiple content warnings: see website for details
PseudoPod 1040: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIX (79): Ubi amor, ibi dolorUbi amor, ibi dolor – where there is love, there is pain “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.” – C. S. Lewis No one knows who found the Dark Room first. Maybe it found us?pseudopod.org
Hannah Spencer was right www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in WestminsterAlcohol is embedded in profession where long hours, loneliness and lobbying are the norm, report findswww.theguardian.com
Finally, I can dislike Hank Green for clear and specific reasons instead of vague and nonspecific reasons.
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media CoverageCiting backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."www.404media.coThe portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).