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Freelance line/copy editor specializing in queer genre fiction. She/her. aliciazramos.com
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If you breathe, wear a respirator.

If you’re not reading this series, you’re missing out!

It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)

This is a one-night event but is viewable on a livestream (or for two weeks after the performance) and is a fundraiser for a UK trans charity.

I spent 72 hours checking the posting times of every Gazan account I saw fundraising. More than 2/3 of them were inconsistent with Gaza but consistent with Myanmar or Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into doing scam work under threat of violence or death.

Every “it’s the overreach of the left that has led to the right’s embrace of fascism” op-ed is another retread of “the decadence of Weimar Germany (ie, the public presence of queer people) is why we got the Nazis,” which is and always has been victim blaming bullshit

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

This is the sort of procedural hardball I've been wanting to see, and that Senate Democrats in particular should be doing way more of.

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Knowledge is knowing that ~60% of LLM output is inaccurate. Education is learning *which* 60% of LLM output is inaccurate. Wisdom is understanding there’s no use for a tool that’s 60% inaccurate.

While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

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...

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Elle writes Washington in a way I adore. Check her out if you’re not already a fan!

Best 1:49 of my day.

cool. my life is not empty and i am not made of money so i’d like to be free to be wildly alienated from my dairy supplier and tap water facility and cracker factory and still be able to swing by a store for one of their products while knowing that product is not going to kill me.

Never has a shot been missed so completely in the history of ever.

Mark Zuckerberg saying “actually no one has friends” is at “the female orgasm doesn’t exist” levels of telling on yourself

did you know it's actually possible for an old rich white guy to NOT be a piece of shit

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A+, can recommend!

For your mental health I present: Plum’s paws

BALTIMORE, MD!!

Asking Martha Wells and the Murderbot folks very politely to turn Sanctuary Moon into a round robin spinoff where a whole bunch of unlikely writers/actors/directors get to each do a wild and bonkers episode.

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

Absolutely loving that this is the second press *this week* about which authors are posting this stuff. This week. Unbound, now operating as Boundless, and Dreamspinner Press haven't paid back the royalties they owe. Feel free to drop other still-publishing presses who spent authors' money!

… for now.

This is an excellent thread

Again: Monsieur Choppity Chop knows no party affiliation.

Chuck Schumer is a call to action not a name

I know the authors I work with have good, human cover designers. Recs?

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

I support and am happy the party came together to stop this. However, this is what they should be doing on EVERYTHING. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it - we are in an existential crisis as a country. We’re either going to emerge as Americans, or as something else.

@jayapal.house.gov @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

“It was a meeting between a man without a suit and a suit without a man." Anonymous post