@simon_jf@mastodon.scot2025-12-07 14:04:28
Finished our first room renovation! Tore out the old builtin wardrobe and minging carpet, replaced skirting board and coving, plastered where the old wardrobe was, laid new flooring, painted. Took ages but happy with it on the whole!
Learnt a lot! Surface on the teal wall is pretty poor due to bad surface prep and thinking paint was more forgiving than it actually is, so will redo that in the new year, and flooring could be laid a bit better with practice. But very happy on the whole!<…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-05 21:31:06
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is "financially sound" (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/me…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-02-07 15:38:12
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 7: Share a pair of consecutive lines of a current or recent project.
A recent commission:
The sensation of his harsh thrusts blended with another stimulation, something more unusual. He felt a grip on his hips with no one standing behind him, he felt drops of sweat fall on his back even though there was nobody above him, and finally, he realised it wa…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-02-05 02:00:08
dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-08 16:34:52
Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-12-03 15:30:03
@eglassman@hci.social2025-12-08 20:38:59
We're admitting PhD students! (Possible co-PIs include @… @… if interests align.) Here's what we're excited about pursuing with new students:
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2025-12-07 18:32:47
RE: https://mastodon.social/@joeycastillo/115679311941728952
"The burden of communication is on the speaker/writer" is something that I absorbed from a friend and have taught for years. I have felt the asymmetry in communications with LLMs as an inter…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-05 14:02:19
The fall of the Las Vegas Raiders’ beat writers https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/05/the-fall-of-the-las-vegas-raiders-beat-writers/
@stargazer@woof.tech2025-12-08 06:27:51
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
3. Do genre conventions provide an essential framework, or stifle original storytelling?
4. What would you like to see explored in prompts for this hashtag game?
5. What’s a no-longer popular trend in writing you’d like to see make a comeback?
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3. Both. And neither. A convention is a tool. With enough experience you begin to see when breakin…
