Notices by Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com), page 3

"He should be impeached for each of his impeachable crimes, which number nearly a thousand in this term alone."
https://www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-is-a-duty/

“The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s.”
https://gizmodo.com/wall-streets-ai-bubble-is-worse-than-the-1999-dot-com-bubble-warns-a-top-economist-2000630487

"In later life, she was physically frail and emotionally exhausted but visited the King each day, even though he no longer recognised her, was blind due to cataracts and was often delusional. She maintained the fiction of companionship even though their life together had effectively ended."
https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2025/07/19/the-soft-power-of-queen-charlotte-a-guest-post-by-sam-mee/

"Human exceptionalism drives us to avenge ourselves on predators that attack us. But we cannot avenge ourselves against every species that might feed on our bodies without implicating the entire biosphere in which we are enmeshed."
https://aeon.co/essays/nietzsches-startling-provocation-youre-edible-and-delicious

I had some humor novellas/stories listed at Itch, to support the platform and for reader convenience. I've taken them down from there.

I realise the root problem is the payment processors, but Itch's behaviour is also deeply unsavoury.

(Specifically, making the changes quietly, with no real notification to affected artists/creators. This is unacceptable behaviour, as is their wishy-washy "blog post" attempting to elide responsibility.)

And before you shit on me for still listing books on Amazon etc., just realize that's going to catch you an instant block. I have bills to pay, and I refuse to feel bad about making what decisions I can to that end.

A monthly or weekly fiction fix, weekly serial chapters, votes on upcoming serials or short stories, plus access to my private Discord server. Plus, every bit of support helps bring new books into the world. https://www.patreon.com/c/lilithsaintcrow

A monthly or weekly fiction fix, weekly serial chapters, votes on upcoming serials or short stories, plus access to my private Discord server. Plus, every bit of support helps bring new books into the world. https://www.patreon.com/c/lilithsaintcrow

"In recent decades, centuries after Godwin conceived of linguistic aliens and Gauss made moves to communicate with them, xenolinguistics has finally begun to gain its footing as a legitimate scientific discipline."
https://aeon.co/essays/is-it-time-to-chart-a-new-path-for-xenolinguistics-through-sci-fi

It is lovely to spend an afternoon achieving wordcount while His Majesty Boxnoggin sleeps nearby, occasionally waking to take a few steps, receive a head-pat, be told he's a good boy, wanders back to bed, turns in a circle, and collapses for another round of napping as I go back to typing.

"...it became clear that this simple plant alkaloid had been—and indeed still was—of central importance as a tool for making visible and communicating with the hidden discarnate intelligences of the forest long before it found its way into the clinics of the U.S. and Europe..."
https://lithub.com/natures-strangest-psychedelic-is-everywhere-the-ever-surprising-history-of-dmt/

Morning Walk Report: Late prying myself out of the inbox, heat already collecting on sidewalks. Boxnoggin following scent-trails through park, tail stiff. Roses nearly done, alyssum and lavender crowded with bees. Banks of ivy shining-glossy. A few late sprinklers chugging.

Today's run felt heavy-slow because I was clocking along a little more quickly than usual. Favourite running shirt just a bare step above rags now. Park full of pedestrians, children shrieking with joy on swings. More alyssum, spreading.

" The crab is both the Other that endangers us and the means by which we redefine the human as an adaptation to that danger."
https://aeon.co/essays/are-humans-destined-to-evolve-into-crabs

🎶🎵 Hello ibuprofen, my old friend, I’ve come to beg for intercession again… 🎵🎶

Robin Hood... IN SPACE! Season One of HOOD is $.99USD in ebook until July 8.

https://books2read.com/hoodseason1

Pupdate: Yes, Boxnoggin has forgotten all about the existence of the Leg Monster, mostly because he *also* was afflicted with a bath yesterday while I was out for a run. His canine brain has room for only one horror at a time.

I rather envy that.

He will spend noon onward today medicated to ameliorate the stress from terrible, nasty humans setting off illegal (inside the city limits, since 2015) fireworks. Many treats and gentle pats will he receive.

So, Microsoft slapped a paywall on Notepad, most likely because so many people were using it to escape “AI”-bloated Word.

…I do not think this will end the way the greedy C-suite hopes.