I love everything about spring except the endless drone of lawnmowers and weed whackers (in fall, it's leaf blowers). Worse is knowing these are almost all fossil-fuel powered.
US carmakers, backing away from EVs and basically only making SUVs + MASSIVE trucks, so they can force Americans to pay outrageous amounts for new cars, are going to destroy their industry (and the planet).
IDK what's going on with the post office, but it's lost two important letters/packages of mine in the last month and last time I was in the office a woman was patiently trying to figure out what happened to her lost package.
For clarity: I will block people who use AI. I will block people who think AI "thinks" anything. I will block people who prompt AI for the LOLs. I will block people who report back "AI said this".
My friends in the Hell Times, do not use the theftbot for any purpose, for your sake and everyone's.
@gemlog Hans Rosling is 19years out of date (the date of that video to be precise) and I don't know what you think is so wildly off about the fertility numbers. He's talking about his cohort, the cohort my kids are in btw and I can tell you that in America, he's absolutely right about that cohort more determined to not have kids than any I've ever seen (and I've seen a few, I'm 60)
Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.
I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links
My kid (who is not a big reader) informs me that they've started a weekly reading club with their friend where they go to a coffee shop that looks like a library and they sit together and read silently. ๐ ๐
I hear stuff like this and I think about how people are actively choosing to live differently, in ways that build connection and fill their souls, and I think "this is how it happens, one small change at a time."
I'm gonna move up my priority to get all my ebooks on Bookshop and make sure my readers know that Amazon is fucking around with shadow banning spicy books and they might want to explore options for getting out of the Amazon ecosystem.
(I have a spicy penname in addition to writing solarpunk and SFF)
Speculative Fiction author, PhD Environmental EngineeringโจI write hopeful climate fiction & solarpunk.โจ๐ณ๏ธ๐๐ณ๏ธโง๏ธ| SFWAโจBeing gentle/healing is radical & disruptive. โจHost: Bright Green Futures podcast, stories to build a better world#writing #hopepunk #ClimateFiction #solarpunk #ScienceFiction #ClimateChangeโฉ"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes."๐จโฉIf you think piracy is great, unfollow me.Writing a novel about families and plants.