Huge personal milestone unlocked in 2024: I've managed to qualify to join the SFWA, and will be able to attend the Nebula conference and speak on a couple of panels.
I so seldom get to participate in the writing community in this deep a manner, and wow am I PUMPED.
I see the blue sky behind the maple leaves, but when I showed the finished painting to my hubby, he said he sees the leaves floating on aqua blue water in a pond or pool.
What do you see?
@therobburgessshow "First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South"...
@wendypalmer@negative12dollarbill Out of curiosity, I checked JSTOR and they have a policy to support name changes (due to transitioning or any other reason). This is likely similar across academia.
...but there's a catch. This only works smoothly so long as the actual publisher agrees and for work hosted there but not directly published by platforms like Sage or JSTOR, there isn't a guarantee all of them (i.e. certain entities with religious affiliations) would all be on the same page.
I reckon Sam Ratnam can win Wills and good luck to her. This is some very sloppy journalism from the Guardian though, quoting Colin Jacobs without disclosing that he is married to her
@luciedigitalni At least The Guardian did manage to note he is a former Greens staffer, so whilst the full context isn't reported, at least there's something to suggest he isn't a disinterested commentator.
Doesn't excuse the sloppiness but at least it is something.
Wills is a seat where the Greens have already been very well positioned to make a potential gain even before the circumstances noted by this article, so Sam has a strong chance of having this move pay off for her.
Now that Substack has pissed everyone off...again...what are my options for a blogging platform that offers relatively easy newsletter production (free for now, paid in the future)?
I'm tired of arguing with my old WP install, but want to be sure I own my words.
Oh, and I'm far from tech-literate these days, so ease of use is high on the priority list, as well.
@therobburgessshow More broadly I would expect them to disregard the idea of term limits, probably with a fig leaf of an originalist argument from the pseudointellectual wing and the more hardcore MAGA crowd pointing to FDR and saying a 'war on woke' is justification enough.
More specifically, if they truly believe the Big Lie this isn't an issue as they would believe Trump is the rightful President but was denied office, so he isn't running for a third consecutive term.
@golgaloth Then you might be interested in something I'm closing in on getting ready.
Basically it is something that stops text scraping without readers needing to do anything work (only the writer/publisher has to set it up) and it has been successfully tested to work with the NVDA screenreader.
I had been wondering for months why such a thing hadn't been made as I could see how it could be done, so in the end I've just been making it myself.
@sfwrtr BTW, for anyone with Windows 11, Winaero Tweaker will let you override Microsoft and disable the use of Copilot by the operating system.
For any WIndows 10 or Windows 11 user, it is also highly recommended as it lets you disable Microsoft's intrusive data collection if desired, amongst the other options for greater customisation and control of OS features, all for free.
I'm looking to pay an #embroidery#artist to convert a graphic into a layered #digital embroidery file. This is for baseball hats I'm going to gift to my grad school classmates & teachers at graduation this year. I'll need the file BY MARCH so I can send off to my local embroidery shop.
I know translating an image into embroidery is a true artform. I really need your creative expertise & skills.
@Bender If you're looking for other options, there's also a commission section on the Artisan's Cooperative Discord. There are quite a number of fibre artists there.
I kinda want to learn some typography. What are good resources to check out for that?
I usually just slap "Source Code Pro" and "Crimson Text" into everything that I do, but I think my stuff would feel more "polished" if I had a personal typeface (or multiple different ones), that I can use instead.