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Bespoke nonsense. Author of DE SCRYPTURIST and EEN RIVIER VAN GODEN (Meulenhoff Boekerij).
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Rest in Power: percussionist, free improviser and artist, Jamie Muir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf5S...

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

Roses are red, Violets, wine-dark; Let chromodynamics Paint anti-green quark.

I’d like to spread some love, so maybe I could help share some artists webshops? Mind sharing your favourite gift in your art webshop or that of a fellow artist? Please share it! I’ll try and repost as many as possible. Get some valentines gift from independent creators!

Also, a good thing that the stuff is actually called ‘Goudse kaas’ overhere, not that anyone cares.

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

This, plus the fact that a novel-writing machine maims one of the main characters.

Saw this in 2022 when it was on display at the Drents Museum (yes, *that* museum). Remarkable artifact.

I make $20 every six monthsish on the combined streams of all four of my albums on all streaming sites. At Bandcamp I make about $10 every time I sell an album, physical or download. Use Spotify if you want, but if you like living artists making a living, buy something from them where they get paid.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Join @leemandelo.bsky.social & 22 incredible writers, as they explore the future of queer & trans stories! Across worlds of sci-fi & the fantastic, joyful, bittersweet, everyday, and extraordinary, support queer and trans art with this compelling anthology! #EWGC www.edelweiss.plus?sku=16456608...

It’s that time again: the B&N pre-order sale! No better time to place an order for “Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity,” out May 27th from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social, and get 25% off in the process while supporting a diverse and resistant collection of queer/trans artists.

If YOU are an author of ANY KIND OF BOOK--ANY KIND!, even unpublished!--or an illustrator, if you are in comics, cookbooks, nonfiction, tentacle romance, WHATEVER, JOIN AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS RIGHT NOW. CLICK THIS LINK! www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

To die from Rising of the Lights was probably a horrible way to go, but the obituaries must have been glorious.

Referring to periods of time by decades fosters togetherness, but referring to time by generations alienate us from each other. Watch the full video on YouTube: What Happened to Decades? youtu.be/qo_EHY5jEX4

no cheating. your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist. what therapy though?

Somewhere between 5,000 - 15,000 homosexual men were sent to the concentration camps. The death rate for these men may have been as high as 60%. The liberation of the concentration camps did not grant liberty to these men, many of them were reimprisoned under buggery laws. #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Let’s boost trans artists and creators! Trans artists, respond with your shop links and portfolio links in this thread, art directors HIRE THEM!! 🏳️‍⚧️

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by stroopwafels and anxiety.

Somewhere, behind the blackest clouds, beyond the darkest storm, high above the coldest ice sheets, the sun is still shining.

I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this anthology and I loved it. You should go pre-order it now! This is the anthology you'll want with you in the coming years, as a reminder of everything we have to fight for and all the wonderful queer possibilities that await us.

Just finished AMPLITUDES, and the diversity of fiction here is beautiful. Chuffed to bits to have a story in this. (Probably categorised as Entartete Kunst soon, and/or banned from (American) libraries, so pre-order early, before the book burnings start.) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770919...

Eats, Shoots & Leaves, the sequel: Keats, Yeats & Sweats

Time to be blunt. With the disintegration of trad social media, AI BS, & the constant stream of distracting bad news, it is harder than ever to get readers for SFF magazines. If what we do is important to you, please boost our posts wherever you see them. ❤️🦄

ICYMI

Drop something black and white.

United we stand, divided we fall.

"Separate the artist from the art." No. Until my last breath, I'll refuse to fund, promote or otherwise support living artists who see us as less than human, wish us fewer rights than they enjoy themselves and/or continue to work to exclude us. Thank you.

2025 will be the year when print comes back. Saddle-stitched fanzines, non-plastic bookmarks, $30 periodicals the size of phonebooks, phonebooks, audiobooks with print delivery whether you like it or not, menus slid under doorways, cash money! Print.

Vreugdevuur. Are you kidding me.

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

Multiple companies are discontinuing their blu ray and 4K players. In addition to the obvious, devastating implications for film preservation, it illustrates once again that the ultra-rich will not be happy until everything in our lives is subscription-based. A landlord for every need.

I keep warning you that generative "AI" is a threat to the processes of making & certifying knowledge & consensus reality, thus leading us to the verge of an epistemic & heuristic collapse of just catastrophic proportions but y'all keep slathering it on yourselves like it's butter & you're corncobs