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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 7h

lol Ive been doing this too! I have no engagement on this app anyway and have suffered no consequences and frankly want to read more inane posts!! And also if you find out which tea has the animals lmk…

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 13h

I've wanted to open a bookstore ever since I was a bookseller, in spite of clearly knowing better. More recently I've caught myself dreaming of somehow becoming a distributor? And honestly what in the hell is wrong with me, I can't do that, but somebody should

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 17h

I totally agree with this take! And also as an acute under-sharer I have the opposite problem in fiction where I’d start w the smallest seed of lived experience and the whole workshop would accuse the whole piece of being autobiographical and I’d sit there like, “what do y’all think my life is??”

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 17h

A random lady we sold my grandmother's sewing machine to in 2022 just (clearly accidentally) texted me a link to a reel about the LEGO factory. I hadn't saved her number. I've long regretted selling the sewing machine (though we had to at the time). Can I...reply and ask if she'll sell it back?

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 1d

I loved this! Matt's newsletter is my favorite, I love Amber's work, and as a kitchen-sink writer myself who thinks all novels should be as big + weird as we can make them, I super loved this very tactical take on how, exactly, one might wrangle all the tidbits into something legible and lovely

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to Matt for letting me answer my most-asked craft question in his craft newsletter! (If you don’t subscribe to No Failure, Only Practice, you should probably remedy that btw.)

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to @ambersparks.bsky.social and her excellent novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE! Thanks to Amber for guest-posting at No Failure, Only Practice with a craft essay on "How to Write a Novel with the Kitchen Sink Thrown In," a fun look at what to do with your many/too-many obsessions.

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 1d

The best argument against ledes or headlines in the form of a question, imho, is that lots of people are going to just say "no," and you've lost them immediately. I think it goes without saying, but no, I absolutely do NOT want to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones. Why would I? Why would anyone?

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 6d

Accidentally bought grape juice instead of apple at the corner store, and I'm thinking of my grandma, who loved grape juice mostly because it was purple, iirc, and she loved everything purple. She always had cinnamon rolls when we visited, always wore earrings. She was kind. Her name was Irene.

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 6d

[the opening bars of "Forgot About Dre" start playing ominously]

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 7d

As an editor, I always always wanna back writers and help you find the best wildest weirdest versions of your voices and stories, but I will also always real talk you, bc as a reader of many things, I have too often caught myself whispering over a page, “who let them do this to themselves and why?”

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 7d

hahaha ok fair I’ve actually heard someone add the extra syllable

Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 7d

The confluence! I’m from Kentucky, and we have our own Kay-row in Henderson County, too, but I know the one of which you speak

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 7d

I can't even think of another way to say "Minneapolis" ??

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 7d

haha, wait, how do you say it where you're from? (Is this how I learn you're from Egypt?!) Where I'm from, that's Kay-row, so this example is hilarious.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 8d

Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

necessaryfiction.submittable.com

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 9d

Oh it’s so pretty, and so fitting for the book! How exciting for new readers to get to discover it for the first time—sorta jealous of them actually. Congrats on this beauty.

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 9d

so short! and like, i get it, but also... i forget, i have other things. i suppose i must simply accept that those windows are not for me.

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 9d

I read this as “nonfictions” and could totally see how all absence of fact could go both ways

Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 12d

the world is bad and I had a migraine for 8 days, but I felt better today and took my partner out for omakase for his birthday and the nice and super talented chef let me sear some tuna with a blowtorch!!

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 12d

yay Kentucky, my homeland, my heart

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 12d

this is incredible! and also I feel they owe you a few pieces, like .25 lbs at least, for rent

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 12d

how many lbs do you intend to personally eat? (400 feels appropriate but I’d still respect less, you do you)

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 12d

what a DAY!

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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social · 12d

ahaha yes got ‘em

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