Lots of great starter packs out there of writerly types, this is a handy list of those seeking an agent. Thanks @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Would love to get an add on here 🙏
#poets #writers #starterpack
Great thread, very enlightening thank you. You’re no doubt already aware of this, but is it worth adding uk.bookshop.org to this thread as the independent-cooperative Amazon alternative?
Sold. Will have to see if your unit of time is accurate, but I’m inclined to agree.
Anyone know any good solar punk stories, or lists of? Particularly any in French, or set in France?
#writing #stories #solarpunk
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This is great, thank you!
No. 14. Like the cut of the Marquis de Halifax’s jib.
Hard agree
They’re really beautiful. Thanks for sharing
Timeslap
Blue interactive touchscreen with text reading 'Do you, by any chance, keep 20-30 stolen penises in a bird's nest or box?'. Yes / no options underneath. Picture of a colourful decorated plate with the figure of a woman in the centre at the bottom right corner.
Out of context #museum images
From 'Medieval women' exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
Well this is grim
