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ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas
MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag
Screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace announcement: Crawford Award-winning author Jared Pechacek's WHERE FIRE REIGNS, pitched as Firefly with firebenders, in which a crew of fugitives must keep a feral goddess safe from the church who believes her death will bring water back to their dry world, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor, for publication in winter 2027, by Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency (NA). Translation: alba@mushens-entertainment.com Film/TV: film@azantianlitagency.com
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Please help Ahmed's family survive Israel's genocide. He's just 17, and has to support his starving, sick family with no income:
Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to starvation, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again.
I think people pointed out years ago that genAI would be weaponized by governments and used to justify war crimes, because once you outsource mass civilian death to a machine, you can just say the machine made a mistake. Israel & the US have been bombing children non-stop for 2+ years.
Jamal's parents are desperate for help, & donations are v slow. Jamal has asthma and diabetes, & is in critical condition. He desperately needs treatment, & his family can't afford it. They need your help, & are being blocked by both the admin & users of the site. Please help them survive genocide:
'Urgent Appeal:
I am a father of 5 kids,& my wife suffers from heart valve prolapse. I urgently need $300 for surgery to remove shrapnel from my back & hand after being injured by a quadcopter drone in Gaza.
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AZEALIA BANKS V @iiwasinthee212 X.com I got paid lol. Its not 7k a post but i def get paid for every Israel mention. Even the troll posts are paid.... * The General • @GeneralMCNews • 22h BREAKING: Israeli officials allegedly hired social media influencers for $7,000 per post, failed to pay them, and are now facing lawsuits totaling millions of dollars over unpaid invoices. 8:40 PM • 04.03.26 • 2,5M Views
I gotta say if you hire Azealia Banks to do something for you and not know she’s also gonna do this… well…
My favorite Critical Friends in a minute - I'm constantly banging the drum that style, the actual words on the page, is something we need to be talking about much more in speculative criticism.
Nothing makes me want to tear my hair out like reviews/criticism that boil down to plot discussion and nothing else.
also I truly have no patience with "this war is illegal" discourse but I didn't actually qt to dunk so
it's never a good sign when we make the international news
sri lanka mentioned <sad party horn noise>
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +
The millions killed by US/European sanctions alone in recent decades—I mean not even counting the wars and the bombings—aren't usually counted as the death toll of a great war. In fact, they don't even rise to the level of "distraction." Mass death is just the background noise of late capitalism.
That argument exists because the lives of non-white people are cheap in imperial discourse. Mass death on the other side of the world has no reality outside of what space it takes up on the american tv news cycle. If it were otherwise, the old normal would have been as insupportable as the new
there really is something immensely clarifying about realizing that "death cult" is not an ironic or jokey term
on top of everything else I have to hear about Max Landis again
lmaooo where is this from?
congrats!!
If you want horror with genuine bite that doesn't shy away from making you uncomfortable, boy, have I got a book for you!
Snag a review copy of GORE POETICS, a collection that jumps between being sexy, ugly, and incredibly weird, often within the same story.
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was thinking about SONG OF KALI and FLASHBACK and the recurrent Zionism and all, and nearly forgot the infamous "a time traveller comes to Dan Simmons to monologue at great length about how Islam has destroyed Western Civilization" story
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read it too early, practically put me off writing fantasy in the first place
if you mean song of kali I regret to say it's like 23% worse than you're imagining
dan simmons, author of multiple, deeply contemptible works of racism fiction, has died. congratulations, and no, hyperion was not as good as the obituaries will say it was
I went through the mortifying ordeal of being known by video to show off finished copies of SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON! Pre-order it wherever you get your books! Here are some places you can do that, though I’ll always recommend your local indie first. torpublishinggroup.com/seasons-of-g...
Happy (belated) publication day to Les Soeurs Dementes d'Esi, the French translation of Mad Sisters of Esi done by the wonderful Mathilde Montier 🐋✨
