Extremely excited that Spouseperson @rblemberg is a Le Guin prize finalist!!

https://electricliterature.com/announcing-the-2023-shortlist-for-the-ursula-k-le-guin-prize-for-fiction/?fbclid=IwAR2t6FwOtgdnJPa5wpwM8BY7SUFb8It-OrVrogzPsaHcoeOJhGKXNNTtdNw

Doubly so that it is the Birdverse short story collection from Fairwood, I feel like this book has gone a bit underappreciated with RB's other books being out this year, BUT IT IS SO GOOD and I am so happy.

#Fantasy #SFF #SpeculativeFiction #LeGuin #LeGuinPrize #RBLemberg #Birdverse #ShortStories #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff #ShortSFF #Fairwood #Mazeldon #JewishAuthors #TransLit

"Some of them tried Mastodon early and gave up quickly."

A perception is that #Mastodon is more fractured ... that communities haven't matured to the extent that enables a less intentional user to sense their 'connectedness.'

Example: Here, my feed is much more filtered here than it was in the #birdverse.

That's either a good thing or leaves one with a sense of isolation.

Not seeing the yuck, affects some folk's confidence - "What am I missing." So they wander back to peek, and stay.

$.02

Genuinely hope that #NPR will join us here on #Mastodon

More #News agencies need to abandon the economic feudalism that is corporate social media - stop billionaires from profiting by freeing their intellectual products from the #birdverse.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/npr-quits-twitter-says-platform-undermining-credibility-rcna79322

@oliphant

Yeah, I know. My #facebutt departure was in 2020, for all of the usual reasons and then some. Of 650 'friends' *just one* bothered to look me up and ask WTFF?

*true story.

Rats. But I don't miss that mess at all. Nor do I miss the #birdverse either.

@spearmintwarlock @CardboardRobot @peterbutler @atomicpoet

The issue is pandering to the lowest common denominator. The UX is designed for #doomscrolling entertainment and paid intercept conversion.

#Birdverse monetized it. Cynicism weaponized it. Then ChatGPT came along and camouflaged originality.

Discourse on centralized platforms? Ended in '22. Creators will abandon / be free of the economic feudalism that is commercial social media.

#mastodon doesn't pander to the LCD. (...yet.)

I am so happy that my novel THE UNBALANCING is nominated for Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards!

This is a great list, and a jury of awesome book reviewers/bloggers Adri Joy @themiddleshelf @Imyril @gautambhatia Kris Vyas-Myall L.A. Young @RunalongWomble Robin of The Book Wormhole, @chloroform_tea , Sara of @fictionfanspod and @suncani - THANK YOU!!

https://subjectivechaoskindofawards.wordpress.com/2023-2/

@SCKA

#bookstodon #subjectivechaos #sff #fantasy #birdverse #lgbtqia #lgbtq #nonbinary #ActuallyAutistic

I'm in this awesome Autostraddle list of books with #queer #autistic representation: https://www.autostraddle.com/eight-books-across-genres-on-queer-autistic-experiences/

One of my MCs is autistic (the word is not used in-world, it's secondary world fantasy, but this is very clear). The MC is also nonbinary and queer :)

#bookstodon #sff #fantasy #birdverse #lgbtqia #lgbtq #nonbinary #ActuallyAutistic

@cwebber

"I love how terrible Twitter is nowadays"

Yup, it's disgusting:

I hadn't been in my #birdverse account in a while. I don't have notifications going (turned 'em off long ago.)

Popped in today. Surprised that trolls were engaging with tweets I sent, well... let's just say not recently. Like, a while ago.

What's up with that? are folks #twitter has re-admitted busy searching hashtags to look for confrontation? Doom scrolling old threads?

Blocking them seems futile.