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[lilithsaintcrow]

"Even so, the matter probably would not have been pursued any further if not for the fact that, after enduring a whole four months of lonely widowerhood, Harold married one Gladys Jones, the daughter of an old friend."

#the kidwelly mystery #victorian murder #or patent medicine perhaps

[lilithsaintcrow]

"I worked in different facets of the service industry from the age of sixteen until twenty-nine, and I was really fucking good at it. I was a smiling wind-up doll with an impressive beer knowledge."

#service industry #writing

[lilithsaintcrow]

"It’s even possible to lose money generating your low-quality ebook to sell on Kindle for $0.99. The way people make money these days is by teaching students the process of making a garbage ebook. It’s grift and garbage all the way down…"

#the grift is in the guru #ai is bad

[lilithsaintcrow]

"Between 1550 and 1559 alone, there were more than four hundred broadsheets and tracts published that recorded these prognostic events."

#signs and wonders #medieval ufos

[lilithsaintcrow]

"It’s certainly possible that part of the class replication strategy for upper- and upper-middle-class literati involves suppressing mention of money in literature. If so, I can only lament the harm this suppression does to the work in question."

#follow the money baby #publishing is cray

[lilithsaintcrow]

Door Watcher

You wouldn’t know it to look at him, but this guy’s a candle. He really didn’t like the idea of being set on fire, so I said fine, how about you guard the foyer for us and he was thrilled. With some of the summers we’ve had I’m surprised he’s not looking ragged, but he’s surprisingly tough. I do anthropomorphise a lot of stuff; my preference is always for a conscious, animate universe. If it…

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#chez sweet chez #slight pause for station identification #what we know is true

[lilithsaintcrow]

Théophile Steinlen - The Laundresses (1899)

#théophile steinlen #art

[lilithsaintcrow]

"Understandably then, the gorge is awash with ghosts."

#history #benthall edge #ghosts

[lilithsaintcrow]

"Darius is universally remembered as a brilliant ruler who engineered the organization of the empire. In contrast to his acclaim as an administrator, Darius’ great skill as a military commander is a less explored topic."

#darius the great #persia #history

[lilithsaintcrow]

"On August 7, 1994, the Oakville Blobs first arrived."

#oakville blobs #weird stuff

[lilithsaintcrow]

Stairway to the Sea  - Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta , 2021.

Spanish, b. 1970 -

Oil on panel , 97 x 97 cm.

#joseba sánchez zabaleta #art

[lilithsaintcrow]

Dilly of a Month

The last cold snap has arrived, and it’s relatively mild. I needn’t have worried about that early-blooming lilac, though I’m sure if I hadn’t things would have gone quite differently. It’s not a question of individual power but of Murphy’s Law; the older I get the more I begin to think ol’ Murph was a sage who knew a thing or two. There’s a tradescantia needing repotting, and I have to turn the…

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#editing makes one cranky #not worth chewing through the leather straps #revision hell #slight pause for station identification

[lilithsaintcrow]

"Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within."

#rewilding #internet #internet history #enshittification

[lilithsaintcrow]

Gustave Dore (French, 1832-1883) - Two Owls

#gustave dore #art

[lilithsaintcrow]

"…the sensors not only did not become more accurate, they became worse in the ways that borked AI stuff tends to compound its borkage over time; in the pilot's final month, the false-positive rate was 95 percent."

#ai is bad #grifters gonna grift

[lilithsaintcrow]

Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

#artists on tumblr #good luck

[lilithsaintcrow]

"I asked five different well-known presses of various sizes questions involving distribution, publicity, print runs, and what publishing on an independent press means for both author and publisher. The answers I got were illuminating."

#writing #publishing