Jenni Milward

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Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

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I keep thinking of A Bugs Life: "You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life!" They see us as ants to trample. But we outnumber them. So, let's get this shit done.

Fascists want--need--you to surrender your agency. They don't win unless you do so. They know that, and you should too.

Excellent read about the reality of AI software and its disastrous implementation 👍 (And we always love a good bit of scathing wit). ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

Going from a first draft to revised draft is wild. It's the difference between marking out a safe route up a mountain and *following* the safe route. It's great how being allowed to look up from your crampons really lets you enjoy the scenery. #Writing #WritingCommunity

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Pro tip: call the Project 2025 1-800 number and complain about it to them. The people answering the phones don’t seem to know what the plan even is.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Black trans folks, if you need some short-term therapy to take care of some things, The Okra Project may be a resource for you. They provide 3 months of free therapy to Black trans folks in the US. Check it out. www.theokraproject.com

The Okra Projectwww.theokraproject.com

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👌 Read this if you are part of the (any) Tomb Raider community:

To echo the wise words of Raidercast… Tomb Raider has been a big part of my life for a quarter of a century. The community has been a lifeline and a blessing to me, giving me endless opportunities to share my passion for Lara Croft with other like-minded fans. 1/

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Things we'll need in the upcoming Trump dictatorship: dumbphones, certainly, and burner phones. Hiding places for self and others. Ham radios. Codes and signals, verbal and nonverbal. Non-electronic forms of communication: letters by trusted couriers. What else?

Happy birthday Tomb Raider: Path of the Black Alchemist! 🎉🥳 Can you believe PotBA is a year old today? (I certainly can't 😂). The third and final book is currently being edited and will hopefully release later this year. 👉 Download for free: jrmilward.com 🎧 Raidercast Episode 48: shorturl.at/037hO

Not sure what's more depressing: our current hellscape of rolling back women's rights (esp' reproductive healthcare) and racism/anti-LGBTQ+, or the fact this discourse is well over a century old and so many can't or won't learn from history. I need a hug.

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Bonus comrade card for today. (Words by @prisonculture.bsky.social, of course)

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Lara doodle #sketch #tombraider

Read EVERYTHING. Read masterpieces and garbage. Read about how to write. Read stuff outside your comfort zone. Be omnivorous. Be voracious. BONUS: Give yourself permission to daydream. Stories don't happen just from relentlessly hammering at a keyboard; let them rest and ferment, too.

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

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You’re forgiven for the Mad Max images this brings to mind, because movie tropes are what all of this is the IDF. It’s not a war; it’s the culmination of a lifetime of propaganda and playing soldier. It’s not self-defense; It’s dehumanization on a cinematic scale. It’s comic book grotesquerie.

“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”

Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeepapple.news Verified video shows Jenin resident Mujahed Azmi on vehicle that passes two ambulances during raid

I'm a 39-y/o with a BSc (Hons) and proofreader accreditation, and have written two novels with a third on the way... HOW HAVE I ONLY JUST DISCOVERED YOU CAN ORGANISE GOOGLE CHROME BOOKMARKS INTO FOLDERS???? 😱

Rowling can type. Pratchett can write. (Also, he wasn't a nasty, hate-filled human being who gets off on harassing minorities whilst pretending they're the victim.)

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AI tech bros once again proving why they can't be trusted to run a bath, let alone take steps to preserve our environmental resources and, you know, not steal from real artists.

Oh hey tech firms what’s up, I found the miracle solution: throw this unwanted AI shit into the fucking trash where it belongs

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even the great Le Guin says no rules lithub.com/ursula-k-le-...

Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writerlithub.com This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. How do you become a writer? Answer: you write. It’s amazing how much resentment and disgust and evasion this answer can ar…

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Sunflower Witch 🌻🌻🌻 Hello friends! I've been not very active here since I had a lot of preps to do for the convention and I also took commissions for this summer. But I still managed to complete a new personal painting for my witch series! ☀️ Hope you like her! #artwork #painting #sunflower #witch

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Dead is the only age that's too late to start being an author.

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A horrifying 8 million people are not registered to vote. Pass this on: A General Election has been called for 4 July 2024. Register to vote by 11:59pm on 18 June 2024. www.gov.uk/register-to-...

Register to votewww.gov.uk Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

Joining BlueSky (and lately Cara) has made me realise how withdrawn I've become these last few years. Social interactions drain my batteries SO much faster than they used to, even discounting my natural introvertedness and worsening health. Maybe it's also because I made a conscious decision... 1/

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ℍ𝔼𝕐! ℍ𝔼𝔸𝔻𝕊 𝕌ℙ 𝔸𝔻𝕆𝔹𝔼 𝕌𝕊𝔼ℝ𝕊! ℂ𝔸ℕℂ𝔼𝕃 𝔽𝕆ℝ 𝔽ℝ𝔼𝔼! Alt text for a link to the article, in case it goes away... ui.dev/rwd/articles...

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New #TombRaider fan art by Peo Raider. 🖼️ More fan arts: core-design.com/community_fa... 🔗

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So, actually, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com I pulled this one about the Balrog after posting because I wasn't happy with it. I've tweaked it a little, and I think it's okay, now...

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Today's piece of Tolkien silliness is dedicated to Trolls and to literature that's easy to digest. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

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Behold: the most “so you hate waffles” post imaginable

I've actually managed to upgrade two chapters from "first draft" to "revised draft" in the space of a week. Progress is still progress, even when it feels slower than a penny dropping through wet cement 😂 #Writing #TombRaider #Fanfiction