Notices by Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social), page 3

BE FESTIVE

Happy Winter Solstice, you nerds, unless you are on the other side of the equator from me, in which case, happy Summer Solstice, you nerds

Today's assignment: Eat everything in that one package of perishable food I was sent as a gift, because all the stickers say it has to be eaten before tomorrow. I set myself to this task with a will.

It's beginning to look a lot like isthmus

@EvilGinger013 My time on Bluesky has been congenial, but then I have a "don't engage, just block" policy there for people who want to pick fights, and I also have decided not to pick any fights there myself (not to suggest you're picking fights, just remarking on what I'm doing). I use Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads for different but occasionally overlapping purposes, and it mostly seems to be working for me.

There's the saying "You can be a good example, or you can be a cautionary tale," and this is not the story of a good example

https://www.themarysue.com/cait-corrain-goodreads-controversy-explained/

Congratulations, Mastodon, you've made it through another work week, have a cat picture, as a treat

Yuuuuup

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-08-31/wga-sag-aftra-strike-studios-amptp-surrender

Musk has to know (and if he doesn't then Linda Yaccarino surely does) that advertisers have no interest in "blackmailing" him to do anything with the former Twitter. The platform is an afterthought for ad dollars in the first place and won't be missed when the money moves to more effective platforms. He's perfectly within his rights as an owner to make the former Twitter scorched earth for major advertisers. They'll just... stop advertising there. Zuck says thanks!

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/29/elon-musk-to-advertisers-who-are-trying-to-blackmail-him-go-f----yourself.html

Smudge, getting into the holiday spirit.

This just went live: The John Scalzi Humble Bundle! Get a whole bunch of my books really cheap - and support the literacy charity First Book, which provides books and literary resources to kids in need. A perfect way to stock up on my eBooks. Please feel free to share around!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/john-scalzis-interdependency-old-mans-war-and-more-tor-books

This is the "So few people find a festering rat's anus in their can of SpaghettiOs that finding one shouldn't be considered an actual problem" argument, eliding the fact that the number of rat anuses in ANY SpaghettiOs can should be "zero"

https://deadline.com/2023/11/x-twitter-ceo-linda-yaccarino-truth-antisemitic-ads-platform-media-fallout-1235630515/

Over on my personal site I'm updating folks on my publishing schedule for the next two years. The short version: No novel in 2024, but two in 2025. Why is '24 being skipped and what else am I doing that year? The answers are at the link.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/11/21/why-theres-no-new-scalzi-novel-next-year-why-youll-get-two-new-scalzi-novels-in-2025-and-what-ill-be-up-to-in-2024/

Watched the first episode of a highly regarded television show that people I know and like thought was great and I was absolutely fucking bored with it, which goes to show that either individual tastes are ultimately idiosyncratic, or that all my friends and at least some television critic have shit taste in TV, honestly it's a coin flip which it is

I had gotten to the point where I was posting only career news and updates on the former Twitter, but there's a point where not even that is tenable, and that point is today.

Lol, no

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/08/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-like-16-gb-pc/

Hello, Mastodonians of the United States. Today is election day in this country, so if you have not already done so, please go and vote. There will be people and things you will want to vote for, and possibly, people and things you will want to vote against. Don't let the polls close without you having been in them. Thank you.

A dog with her ball in the golden hour.

This feels a little like "On the Beach" being credited with making lots of people aware there was no winning a nuclear war

https://gizmodo.com/president-biden-ai-alarm-mission-impossible-tom-cruise-1850980716

Oh, hello, Mastodon. Please enjoy this sunset, from today.