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The Long List Anthology Volume 9: More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
The Long List Anthology Volume 9: More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series) [Steffen, David, Kowal, Mary Robinette, Wiswell, John, Palmer, Suzanne, Triantafyllou, Eugenia, Jiang, Ai, Polk, C.L., Lee, Yoon Ha, Parker, Chelle, Zhang, Hal Y.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Long List Anthology Volume 9: More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
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The Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in print!
(Unfortunately the print version is Amazon only at this time)
(Unfortunately the print version is Amazon only at this time)
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.
Apparently she offered to cover other people's shifts so they could go home to their families for the holiday.
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Two National Guard members were tasked with serving the nation. One is dead as the other fights for his life after shooting | CNN
On a day when many families gather across the country to give thanks, a National Guard member’s family is mourning her death after an ambush-style shooting in Washington, DC, as her colleague fights f...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.
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If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Heyyy, still playing around with story cards/filtering.
Entered some more metadata for my own stories, so you can see what it looks like with multiple publications. This would work for other kinds of filters too not just writer name.
beta.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Stori...
Entered some more metadata for my own stories, so you can see what it looks like with multiple publications. This would work for other kinds of filters too not just writer name.
beta.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Stori...
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Heyyy, still playing around with story cards/filtering.
Entered some more metadata for my own stories, so you can see what it looks like with multiple publications. This would work for other kinds of filters too not just writer name.
beta.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Stori...
Entered some more metadata for my own stories, so you can see what it looks like with multiple publications. This would work for other kinds of filters too not just writer name.
beta.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Stori...
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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We need to be really aware of the danger of this. GenAI is a tool of oppression & conformity. When all art looks & sounds the same, it has no impact to change the world.
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We need to be really aware of the danger of this. GenAI is a tool of oppression & conformity. When all art looks & sounds the same, it has no impact to change the world.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Hey everyone, Todd with Air and Nothingness Press has had a rough 2025, and he's looking for a little financial help for his mother during her move to LTC.
The goal is modest, and I know even $5 can help a lot.
The goal is modest, and I know even $5 can help a lot.
My family is looking to raise money to cover a funding gap until long-term health insurance begins for my mother who is in an assisted living facility. Thank you for considering helping us out. We appreciate it. As with many in our situation I've launched a GoFundMe page - gofund.me/ace67ba35
Donate to Help Bridge the Gap For Our Mother's Assisted Living Needs, organized by Todd Sanders
My family is looking to raise money to cover a funding gap unt… Todd Sanders needs your support for Help Bridge the Gap For Our Mother's Assisted Living Needs
gofund.me
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Hey everyone, Todd with Air and Nothingness Press has had a rough 2025, and he's looking for a little financial help for his mother during her move to LTC.
The goal is modest, and I know even $5 can help a lot.
The goal is modest, and I know even $5 can help a lot.
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I’m dying lol
I dunno. With some careful application of frosting and piping, you could still present it as a...
...crabcake.
...crabcake.
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I’m dying lol
DIY thread! Fixing incandescent christmas light string. In this case the lights are strung inside tinsel animals but theyre lit but apart from one non electrical detail they are the same as any incandescent christmas light string
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
DIY thread! Fixing incandescent christmas light string. In this case the lights are strung inside tinsel animals but theyre lit but apart from one non electrical detail they are the same as any incandescent christmas light string
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What is best in life? To connect with as much joy as needed to be able to share it with others; to gladly be the beacon for Gondor's aid; and to seek and destroy the reasons for lamentations caused by the cruel.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What is best in life? To connect with as much joy as needed to be able to share it with others; to gladly be the beacon for Gondor's aid; and to seek and destroy the reasons for lamentations caused by the cruel.
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They swapped scarves on the way home from the Christmas market because they like being surrounded by each other's perfume 🥰
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
They swapped scarves on the way home from the Christmas market because they like being surrounded by each other's perfume 🥰
Ugh, just got woken intentionally for no good reason from the first nap I have taken in months (because whenever I take a nap someone wakes me intentionally for no good reason and it makes me furious).
May your day have exactly the amount of napping you desire.
May your day have exactly the amount of napping you desire.
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ugh, just got woken intentionally for no good reason from the first nap I have taken in months (because whenever I take a nap someone wakes me intentionally for no good reason and it makes me furious).
May your day have exactly the amount of napping you desire.
May your day have exactly the amount of napping you desire.
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
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Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
Would-be/struggling writers can feel like losers or wannabes when they read about other writers writing "full time" or promo'ing their book in various exotic cities. And it's good to recognize that, yeah, sometimes there's another income (or a spouse is helping to pay the bills).
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
Ooh, have upgraded the story cards to be able to show multiple contributor types including people who are more than one type for this same story.
(PS the story and authors are real, the other names are attached for testing only)
(PS forgive the space overrun, on my todo list)
(PS the story and authors are real, the other names are attached for testing only)
(PS forgive the space overrun, on my todo list)
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Ooh, have upgraded the story cards to be able to show multiple contributor types including people who are more than one type for this same story.
(PS the story and authors are real, the other names are attached for testing only)
(PS forgive the space overrun, on my todo list)
(PS the story and authors are real, the other names are attached for testing only)
(PS forgive the space overrun, on my todo list)
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The big money floor routine required to make it all look like an actual business with uses is a real self-sucking dick and the sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can let it dehydrate and die.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The big money floor routine required to make it all look like an actual business with uses is a real self-sucking dick and the sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can let it dehydrate and die.
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think of how literally everything has AI shoved into it now. The reason isn't because there's any demand for it, it's to get a quick investment payout for it. All those things will collapse.
legislation could kill AI overnight. It's a very weak and defeatable monster, have faith in that at least
legislation could kill AI overnight. It's a very weak and defeatable monster, have faith in that at least
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
think of how literally everything has AI shoved into it now. The reason isn't because there's any demand for it, it's to get a quick investment payout for it. All those things will collapse.
legislation could kill AI overnight. It's a very weak and defeatable monster, have faith in that at least
legislation could kill AI overnight. It's a very weak and defeatable monster, have faith in that at least
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this is why, as much as I fucking despise AI, I'm not really too worried about it lasting forever
it's floated entirely on venture capital investments made for manufactured demand. Delete/restrict access to datasets/trained data full of illegal material, and monitor massive energy usage. easy
it's floated entirely on venture capital investments made for manufactured demand. Delete/restrict access to datasets/trained data full of illegal material, and monitor massive energy usage. easy
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
this is why, as much as I fucking despise AI, I'm not really too worried about it lasting forever
it's floated entirely on venture capital investments made for manufactured demand. Delete/restrict access to datasets/trained data full of illegal material, and monitor massive energy usage. easy
it's floated entirely on venture capital investments made for manufactured demand. Delete/restrict access to datasets/trained data full of illegal material, and monitor massive energy usage. easy
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You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
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If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
In addition, if you then brag to the creators of that book that you pirated their book that is another level of crapweaseling
I do not even want to know why this is Discourse again, but book pirates are crapweasels and if you steal books you've done a bad thing and should feel bad about yourself.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In addition, if you then brag to the creators of that book that you pirated their book that is another level of crapweaseling