Author Romie Stott, who is the same person as filmmaker and musician Romie Faienza. Poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Texan in Massachusetts. Capisco italiano un po. β₯ Sign up for my mailing list at romiesays.kit.com.
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Boosting this again. Yes, it is the month in which I will be insufferable (mostly on Wednesdays through Fridays)
sign of the times that I now have two mental categories for what used to be one category: villain, and villain but not actively trying to trigger an apocalypse
grading on a curve these days
how can I possibly make it to knowledge work during pollen monsoon
his caretaker describing Thomas as βpretty high maintenanceβ is killing me
βheβs a queer icon, and also a bit muchβ
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How bad was the Kickstarter AI? AI doesn't have memory or context. Instead of approving our project quickly, like in past years (we're known), the AI demanded proof we shipped things from three years ago, using documents that don't exist, that were not requirements of Kickstarter.
heard a radio news story about a UK politician who's an emu-friendly incumbent; was extremely interested until I worked out it was EU
Poets, you have done it again.
Moving/retooling/rescheduling is a hassle; we need these funds to keep the magazine going! So (1) I'm warning you, the other members of the publishing community, about the Kickstarter of now (2) I'd appreciate your support in boosting/following the backerkit link: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Strange Horizons is moving off kickstarter and onto BackerKit. This has delayed our fundraiser launch by about a week. Won't you join us? Here's our prelaunch page:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Why did we move our @strangehorizons.bsky.social annual fund drive at the last-minute?
(1) BackerKit is cool; the cool people are there; come be cool with us
(2) Kickstarter randomly started dicking us around. By randomly I mean with AI. They replaced their humans with AI, and the AI was bad.
π Romie glows in the dark π½
π Romie glows in the dark π½
Strange Horizons is moving off kickstarter and onto BackerKit. This has delayed our fundraiser launch by about a week. Won't you join us? Here's our prelaunch page:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...