minerva
@minervas-hand.bsky.social
Writer. GOmens hyperfixator. Paint dabbler. Book fiend.
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Authors, you might want to look at this, www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
My sole published effort isn't here, one advantage to horrible sales, but I looked up Sir Terry Pratchett and they stole so much of his work. This is absolutely disgusting. Do not support AI in way shape or form, please.
My sole published effort isn't here, one advantage to horrible sales, but I looked up Sir Terry Pratchett and they stole so much of his work. This is absolutely disgusting. Do not support AI in way shape or form, please.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Authors, you might want to look at this, www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
My sole published effort isn't here, one advantage to horrible sales, but I looked up Sir Terry Pratchett and they stole so much of his work. This is absolutely disgusting. Do not support AI in way shape or form, please.
My sole published effort isn't here, one advantage to horrible sales, but I looked up Sir Terry Pratchett and they stole so much of his work. This is absolutely disgusting. Do not support AI in way shape or form, please.
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There is, of course, a relevant Terry Pratchett quote.
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is, of course, a relevant Terry Pratchett quote.
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Timeline cleanse: *commence #Canada National Anthem*
Massive moose made in snow with meticulous footprints 'very Canadian,' says artist
Graphic artist Eric Goggin of Salisbury, near Moncton, spent three hours outside his cottage designing a moose, using only his footprints and some fishing twine.
www.cbc.ca
February 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Timeline cleanse: *commence #Canada National Anthem*
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when the star on the tree is an actual star lol
A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄
A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 7:08 PM
when the star on the tree is an actual star lol
A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄
A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄
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A cis Black woman was chased out of the women’s bathroom of the RUSD meeting in Riverside last Thursday for being a “transgender in the wrong bathroom” in case you hadn’t heard.
In case it was unclear where this was going all along.
In case it was unclear where this was going all along.
December 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM
A cis Black woman was chased out of the women’s bathroom of the RUSD meeting in Riverside last Thursday for being a “transgender in the wrong bathroom” in case you hadn’t heard.
In case it was unclear where this was going all along.
In case it was unclear where this was going all along.
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I wanted to write a little something special for Christmas this year, and this is what I came up with.
Happy holidays, y’all. Thank you so much for letting me spend time with you every week
archiveofourown.org/works/61148842
Happy holidays, y’all. Thank you so much for letting me spend time with you every week
archiveofourown.org/works/61148842
Holy Infant, So Tender and Mild - Caedmon - Good Omens (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 25, 2024 at 1:09 AM
I wanted to write a little something special for Christmas this year, and this is what I came up with.
Happy holidays, y’all. Thank you so much for letting me spend time with you every week
archiveofourown.org/works/61148842
Happy holidays, y’all. Thank you so much for letting me spend time with you every week
archiveofourown.org/works/61148842
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I was struggling with a story recently so I used the “phone a friend” hack. I started an email to a writer pal, describing the problem I was facing. And just writing out the problem like that helped me see a solution. Never even needed to send the email. It's all about changing your perspective.
December 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
I was struggling with a story recently so I used the “phone a friend” hack. I started an email to a writer pal, describing the problem I was facing. And just writing out the problem like that helped me see a solution. Never even needed to send the email. It's all about changing your perspective.
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They have trifle!
I always liked it when they took a long established evil villain and made them more relatable and sympathetic.
Which is why my favourite movie is still, Friday the 13th Part XXVI: Jason Enjoys Afternoon Tea at Betty’s in Harrogate.
Which is why my favourite movie is still, Friday the 13th Part XXVI: Jason Enjoys Afternoon Tea at Betty’s in Harrogate.
December 21, 2024 at 2:22 PM
They have trifle!
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December 21, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]
Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
December 21, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]
Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]
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📚 Library patrons! Please check out a book you plan to read someday, but not right now. We won’t be able to tell you haven’t read it, it’s good for our metrics, and it prevents good books from getting weeded when they still have a kindred spirit out there.
December 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
📚 Library patrons! Please check out a book you plan to read someday, but not right now. We won’t be able to tell you haven’t read it, it’s good for our metrics, and it prevents good books from getting weeded when they still have a kindred spirit out there.
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Just started THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by @vajra.me on a plane. People ask me all the time how to hook an agent on a first page and this is a masterclass. Look at the first two lines… We are given tone, magic, world build, questions. The use of ‘therapy’ grounds us after a first line of magic.
June 14, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Just started THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by @vajra.me on a plane. People ask me all the time how to hook an agent on a first page and this is a masterclass. Look at the first two lines… We are given tone, magic, world build, questions. The use of ‘therapy’ grounds us after a first line of magic.
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I really think doomers should look to Ireland, which was a desperately poor wholly owned franchise of the Catholic Church with some of the most repressive laws in Western Europe until very recently, as proof that decline isn’t inevitable or irreversible
November 29, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I really think doomers should look to Ireland, which was a desperately poor wholly owned franchise of the Catholic Church with some of the most repressive laws in Western Europe until very recently, as proof that decline isn’t inevitable or irreversible
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Imposter Syndrome needs a friend like this to kick it in its head! Follow The Rage Desk if you TikTokky www.tiktok.com/@corrbette?_...
November 29, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Imposter Syndrome needs a friend like this to kick it in its head! Follow The Rage Desk if you TikTokky www.tiktok.com/@corrbette?_...
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Rereading this piece from @catvalente.bsky.social and ugly crying about how the effect of "stop talking to each other and start buying things" has infiltrated so much of what I've loved on the web.
talk and share more. make little things.
catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talki...
talk and share more. make little things.
catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talki...
November 28, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Rereading this piece from @catvalente.bsky.social and ugly crying about how the effect of "stop talking to each other and start buying things" has infiltrated so much of what I've loved on the web.
talk and share more. make little things.
catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talki...
talk and share more. make little things.
catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talki...
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You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry?
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
November 27, 2024 at 2:04 PM
You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry?
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
Oh that would be too delicious
Not saying #DavidTennant and #MichaelSheen would be great in a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead but...
No, actually, that is exactly what I'm saying.
No, actually, that is exactly what I'm saying.
November 25, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Oh that would be too delicious
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I am finally making progress on an overdue project that's been hard for me to feel optimistic enough to work on.
How? By reminding myself that my measure of success is to complete it to the best of my ability, as close as possible to the vision in my head. All other markers are out of my control.
How? By reminding myself that my measure of success is to complete it to the best of my ability, as close as possible to the vision in my head. All other markers are out of my control.
November 24, 2024 at 8:47 PM
I am finally making progress on an overdue project that's been hard for me to feel optimistic enough to work on.
How? By reminding myself that my measure of success is to complete it to the best of my ability, as close as possible to the vision in my head. All other markers are out of my control.
How? By reminding myself that my measure of success is to complete it to the best of my ability, as close as possible to the vision in my head. All other markers are out of my control.
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Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
November 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
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You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
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This is Crowley’s Garden of Eden/South Downs outfit.
I will accept no arguments.
I will accept no arguments.
November 23, 2024 at 9:04 PM
This is Crowley’s Garden of Eden/South Downs outfit.
I will accept no arguments.
I will accept no arguments.
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I have been there. And trust me, anyone who needs to be convinced that you’re a human being will be unconvinced the moment it fits their narrative.
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 AM
I have been there. And trust me, anyone who needs to be convinced that you’re a human being will be unconvinced the moment it fits their narrative.