Lisa Tirreno

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Australian author: PRINCE OF FORTUNE out with Atheneum (S&S) in 2024. Also art, history, chickens. Represented by Jim McCarthy at DGB 🌈 she/her. https://linktr.ee/lisatirrenoauthor

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Every space is a liminal space if you can never remember what you came into a room for.

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Wow: “If you grow an acre of corn, it will produce 900 gallons of ethanol, which will get you about 25,000 miles for a Ford F-150...which is, not bad I guess. But let’s say we put solar on that same acre. It will produce enough electricity every year to drive my Lightning 550,000 miles.”

Forty Acres and a Sense of Hopesubstack.com Sunshine on a Cloudy Week

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Instead of supporting trans people by harassing strangers, support trans people by supporting trans people. For instance, buying their books and reading their stories. Hey look, a thread!

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Looks so intriguing!!

Time for a cover reveal! Here is Eva Redamonti's sumptuous cover for my upcoming Reactor story, "I'll Miss Myself." The story is about an app that promises to show you every parallel universe version of yourself, all in the feed. But the app might be hiding a few secrets...

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New story day! "This Mentor Lives" is about a wizard working himself to death raising chosen ones--but his kids are worried for him. It's time for an intervention. You can read it free at @havenspec.bsky.social right here: www.havenspec.com/this-mentor-...

This Mentor Lives by J.R. Dawson & John Wiswell, Haven Spec Magazinewww.havenspec.com a magazine of science fiction and fantasy

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I get it. you're looking for a reason to give up fuck that leave your teethmarks on their bones

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

WELL DONE JOHN!!

I just started settling in for my vacation when this news arrived: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year So Far! This is simply the stuff of dreams. Thank you to everyone who has loved and supported my monster.

This was me today and I’m so sad

#writing #writers

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Ok so for some reason my debut is climbing up the ranks and is currently sitting at 45 😍 So… help a debut author get his first orange banner by preordering the book below 🙏🏾 #YA #Fantasy #Books 📚 a.co/d/i2Urt0T

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i love that human culture will be making little guys until the ocean evaporates

Ceramic dancers, China, 206 BCE-220 CE

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Remember y'all, during these times of pride and strife: BE CROW DO GAY! KAPOOOOOOW!!

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This was excellent. Something maddening about AI, a technology with only marginally useful applications that is severely damaging the environment, is that all the "scholarship" about its value is somewhere between "seems a little threadbare" and "nakedly corrupt and fraudulent." Really rotten times.

TODAY: @mariabustillos.bsky.social on the fun little paper that asks, aren’t human writers more environmentally taxing than AI? “ A question worth asking for sure, if you didn’t already know the premise is predicated on total garbage.” flaminghydra.com/r/14802716?m...

Carbon omissions / Public figuresflaminghydra.com Today: Editor and journalist Maria Bustillos; and Jim Cooke, art director, illustrator, and designer for digital journalism and print media, currently at Los Angeles Times. Issue No. 93 Can a Machi...

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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I no longer think they believed this or cared about cost. It was about control. Conservatives got to exert power by denying necessary change. There is nothing more important to them than this.

But the conservatives told us, again and again, that real action on the climate would cost too much

Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – reportwww.theguardian.com A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found

Fished this out for absolutely no reason. Everyone have a nice day.

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I saw this posted on twitter but I don't think that user is on BlueSky and I wanted to share it here... This interview with Ethan Hawke perfectly describes the importance of art.

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I saw this posted on twitter but I don't think that user is on BlueSky and I wanted to share it here... This interview with Ethan Hawke perfectly describes the importance of art.

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Increasingly sophisticated fossil fuel PR campaigns are making climate disinfo more difficult for journalists and the public to spot. This explainer looks at 5 of the industry’s go-to disinfo tactics. By @amywestervelt.bsky.social and Kyle Pope for the Guardian...

How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tacticswww.theguardian.com Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope have covered climate disinformation for a combined 20-plus years – here’s their guide on how to decode it

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Little, Brown Spark is hosting a sweepstakes on Instagram to give away two advance reading copies of "The Conscious Style Guide" and red editing pens. How to enter: www.instagram.com/p/C6EfwhpLaLz/ Available for preorder everywhere books are sold. #Author #AmEditing #WritingCommunity 📚

Little, Brown Spark on Instagram: "April is #celebratediversitymonth! In honor, we’re hosting a SWEEPSTAKES to win two advance reading copies of THE CONSCIOUS STYLE GUIDE and red editing pens. ✍️ H...www.instagram.com 97 likes, 32 comments - littlebrownsparkApril 22, 2024 on : "April is #celebratediversitymonth! In honor, we’re hosting a SWEEPSTAKES to win two advance reading copies of THE CONSCIOUS STYLE GUIDE......

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I’m concerned about the fact that most of the people obsessed with creating computers that behave like humans don’t seem to understand what makes a good human being.

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If you don't know why you should cancel your Adobe subscription, here are just 4 artists that found out their style is being sold on Adobe Stock scrapped by AI without their permission.

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Ah! 19 April — the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley down some stairs as they fought for control of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Odd this daymulberryhall.medium.com Ah! 19 April — 123rd anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley down some stairs as they fought for control of…

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Good morning! A reminder that generative AI is a tool of the oppressor and should not be used for amusement, information, or income! Or for anything! Eat shit, robots! Have a great day, humans!

I’m too scared

Happy Friday everyone! Go to your inbox. Select all unread. Hit archive. Throw up that away message. Head out and never look back. Have a great weekend.

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Together, Instagram, Facebook and Google make ~$300bn in revenue a year, but have abdicated any duty to their users, offering not a "service" but as many ways as possible to interrupt the user to push them into doing things that make the company money. www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-lo...

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Measuring and setting very high standards for school attendance is every bit as much Protestant work ethic as defining value and purpose from hard work

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"Bluey" succeeds because it's for kids & parents. Studios & execs want to remove every joke or any reference they think kids won't understand. It creates bland soulless programs parents hate to co-watch. Don't talk down to kids. Challenge them! They'll rise to the occasion.

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Embrace joy. Embrace living your best life.

Man turns mammoth 400kg prize-winning pumpkin into a canoe, paddles it down riverwww.abc.net.au A fan of shenanigans and the unnecessary, the former commodore of the Tumut Canoe Club donned a captain's hat and pipe to paddle the biggest pumpkin grown in Australia this year down a river, Popeye s...