many of you weren't on the internet in the days before voice chat, before youtube, and don't know what it was like to hear someone roll the dice on pronouncing 'meme' out loud in real life. I heard mem. I heard mee-mee. I heard maim. I heard may-may. you weren't there you don't understand.
PREHISTORIC PROTO-MONKEY: I don't need ascorbic acid. From my cells. I eat fruit all the time dude. I'm better than that OTHER PREHISTORIC PROTO-MONKEY: I agree with your lifestyle and will fuck you raw to prove it GUY LOOKING FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 36,530,125 YEARS LATER: ow oof my shitty british teeth
never ask a master origami artist to roll the joint. just watched two and a half grams of 31% indica dominant hybrid get turned into a beautiful hummingbird and fly away into the sunset
from Wayne Brady's tiktok
"As someone who gets to bring joy to others daily on tv, it's been ironic that I don't experience it as much as I'd like. I advocate mental health for all and a part of that is self transparency. In doing my work, I've come to see a few truths, one of them being that I want to be free to love whomever I want. This truth makes me Pan and part of the lgbtq+ family. It's scary as hell to say out loud but here it is. The people I admire the most are the ones brave enough to be themselves unapologetically. This shouldn't shake anyone's world, but if it bothers you at all, that's your business:) I was so afraid of having my manhood questioned, but screw that. A "real man" in my eyes, isn't afraid to be honest and happy. From now on, I'll be over here living my best life! I love you"
Super disappointed to find out this is talking about a particularly warm current and not a powerful Weather Ape
good news!
Friedman suspects [the removal of the books] is due to her speaking out about the issue on social media.
just another reminder that speaking out WORKS
It should also be a reminder just how little Amazon cares about anything. They refused to remove the books because they expected Friedman not to put up a big public fight. They refused to remove the books because they thought they could get away with it. They’ve decided letting very shitty AI books overrun their platform is profitable and they’re going to keep letting it happen.
It was never a good idea to shop at Amazon, but they’re now on a track that’s going to make their website absolutely unusable for finding actual books written by real people who know how to write enjoyable books.
What a new FUCK is this 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Amazon is the one place I specifically refuse to sell my books. Most authors have no choice; their monetisation methods mean that they need to sell on Amazon (and put up with whatever bullshit Amazon wants) to make a living wage, because most readers have Amazon accounts and can't be bothered buying their books from a less horrible distributor. And the buyers don't bother to look elsewhere because everyone sells through Amazon, because most of them have to, because the buyers... yeah.
Anyway you won't find Derin Edala books on Amazon because I can afford to choose not to sell there. And I constantly get annoyed messages from people who don't want to have to take thirty seconds to make an account with another retailer. I encourage other authors who don't make their primary income through sales to do the same thing (because those who make their primary income through sales can't afford to), and readers to support your authors by buying their books somewhere fucking else.
What alternatives are there? I'd love to know of alternatives to Amazon but I haven't even heard of any.
Here's a link to everywhere I sell, to start with. Other authors might have others to add.
For authors who don't know how to access other distributors, draft2digital.com is a retail distributor that gives you access to a global market, including places like Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and many other international retailers. If you do opt to use Amazon, you're better off uploading directly through KDP because you'll get more royalties. (It's like a 5-10% difference iirc, which for me is about 20 cents. Which isn't much, but when some of your royalty checks are literally a penny, that 20 cents matters.)
They recently acquired Smashwords as well and are constantly expanding their global market and library distributors.
(If you want to see how many retailers you can reach with them, this is where you can get my books. I'm in over 20 global stores and need to actually update the listings to include more. Unfortunately, I can't afford to avoid Amazon because, as @derinthescarletpescatarian pointed out, it's really hard to get people to change their buying habits, and I like being able to afford food.)
It used to just be for ebooks, but they now do their own paperbacks that give you the same access as the Ingram Spark market and, unlike Ingram Spark, haven't completely trashed their customer service.
The only downside to avoiding Ingram is that it limits your market for hardbacks unless you're willing to use Amazon, though hopefully, D2D will start doing hardbacks soon. (There are a few other places, but they don't have the same market reach as Ingram, sadly. Yay... monopolies...)
They also partner with FindAwayVoices for audiobooks, which gives you access to a wide global market as well. Like D2D you can access Audible through Findaway, but like Kindle, you'll earn more if you upload directly to Audible.
So, yeah, you want and can afford to avoid Amazon as an author? Draft2digital is the place to go.
As a reader, check the links authors post.
Usually, you'll see Amazon listed, but a lot of us are really doing all we can to be available in as many stores as possible and would LOVE for you to use them.
Please. We're begging at this point.
What Trump dying would NOT do: take white supremacy with him, end the issues that are so deeply imbedded in this county’s foundation, end fascism
What Trump dying WOULD do: make me laugh very hard very much and very forcefully, perhaps even shed tears
What Trump going to jail would NOT do: take white supremacy with him, end the issues that are so deeply imbedded in this county’s foundation, end fascism
What Trump going to jail WOULD do: make me laugh very hard very much and very forcefully, perhaps even shed tears, oh my god he self reported that he’s a strawberry blond
check out this periodic table
captain-boomerang
I have made a lot of bad jokes but this is still probably my greatest hit
h8saltrat
Forever a favorite
World Heritage Post
i saw a really cool butterfly expert man on PBS and was so in awe of him and his butterfly knowledge i tracked down the episode online to see how to spell his name and found his twitter and followed him, only for the next day to awaken to him having read not only my webcomic, but also my livetweets saying how i wanted to marry the butterfly man. he said he was flattered. anyway the moral of the story is please don’t underestimate how far down your twitter a bored entomologist will scroll, and also the internet was a mistake.
I feel like this is the moment a young mutant just found out that his power is manifesting sliced bread
sunshien
i’m about to make tumblr user runcibility’s goddamn day
Rewatched The Good Place for the first time since s4 dropped and. Oh my god. The Good Place said "people are a result of their environment but we always have a moral responsibility to be better" and The Good Place said "every day the world gets a little more complicated and it gets a little harder to be good" and The Good Place said "even in the face of total nihilism, when nothing you do will matter, you still have to at least try. Because trying is better than the alternative" and The Good Place said "if you have bills to pay and shit to deal with you don't have time or energy to become a better person" and then The Good Place really said "people get better when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't " and THEN The Good Place really said "no one is irredeemable. Everyone can try to be better today than they were yesterday" AND THEN! The Good Place said "Heaven is just enough time with the people that you love" OH MY FUCKING GOD.
"I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" I would. Pussy
"Im not gonna sink to their level" I will. Coward
"Im the bigger person" I'm 150cm tall. Give me the gun bitch
