Self-Publishing News: Lawsuits – Amazon Takes on Scammers and Mixed Success in Artist Lawsuit Against Stability AI
Amazon is taking on a group of people and companies exploiting Amazon’s name. And artists against Stability AI lawsuit has hit the rocks. After reporting several times about Amazon’s experience on the receiving end of legal proceedings, it’s good to... https://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-amazon-takes-on-scammers/
Hurrah... good sense breaks out in the #NorthWest as the 'Waitrose of the North', Booths begins to get rid of self-service check-outs.
Given the price premium at Booths, we (the customers) want the social interaction with staff at the checkouts, not be told to 'scan & bag'!
More importantly, not only do checkouts provide regular local employment, they are also for many semi-isolated shoppers a key bit of rare social interaction... so a welcome reverse!
@RolloTreadway@cvwillegen@dweebish@ChrisMayLA6@Greenseer@actuallyautistic
I have found a really great solution: I'm in a Co-op. That's a little community store that orders bulk for you and has basic items and produce right there. I pay a little monthly fee and get to shop in this friendly DIY environment. I can chat, I can hang out, or I can just collect my stuff and leave. I feel totally relaxed there. No annoying ads, lights, sounds or music. Just the things everyone needs in a tiny store, and my boxes on a shelf with my name on it, if I ordered bulk. And the atmo is so incredibly nice, that I often start a convo just for the fun of it.
Who's excited for tonight's shudder TV double feature (9PM Eastern, 6PM Pacific): birth/rebirth and The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster? I'm pretty sure @stina_marie is in.
I'm gonna try to watch both movies but it depends on how I feel. It was a busy day.
Hope to watch at least the first one but if not, I'll watch them soon.
For the hashtag, how about #SHWA for Shudder Watch Along? Then we can reuse it for the other ones this month, too.
Or someone think up another one- I thought up the first one & happily demure to anyone else who wants to give it a go. 🤘🏼
In celebration of the birthday of @neilhimself here is the first page of the first of four one-issue short stories he penned as part of the Tharg's Future-Shocks series. This one is from Prog 488 of 2000AD, published on the 20th of September, 1986: "You're Never Alone With A Phone!" Script by Neil Gaiman with artwork by the late John Hicklenton and lettering by Tom Frame. #NeilGaiman#2000AD
Der neue Band der Ministerratsprotokolle ist erschienen:
Die Protokolle des cisleithanischen Ministerrates 1867–1918 Bd. VIII: 1914–1918, Teilband 1:
23. Juli 1914 – 22. November 1916,
bearb. von Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier,
mit einer Einleitung von Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier – Anatol Schmied-Kowarzik (Wien 2023).
Mit dabei: Bd. VIII: 1914–1918, Teilband 1: 23. Juli 1914 – 22. November 1916, bearb. von Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier,
mit einer Einleitung von Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier – Anatol Schmied-Kowarzik (Wien 2023).
It is a hand held device used to get water from the bucket, a tub, or a bigger tank to poor it on oneself. It could look like a bug mug or a pan, maybe without a handle.
Another word is ladle, but that’s usually cooking, like to serve out soup. Most places in Europe have enough clean hot running water that people shower, or climb into the tub and wash there.
Really excellent dual-author piece in the Nation on why separating 'types' of autism into different diagnoses is harmful to all autistic people. #actuallyautistic
Gifted autistic here. I have a very spikey profile. Spatial thinking and word association are off the charts (literally broke the test) and two others are medium. Worst is memory at „normal“ + debilitating trauma puts me at 90% disabled.
"Convergence of low points on a spiky profile" is a good theory; comorbidity is also a good theory. I don't think we have enough data to even guess which, yet. But ultimately I don't think it matters ... the solutions are the same regardless.