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@ergative@wandering.shop · 2d ago

RE: @Edent@mastodon.social

#shareGoodNewsToo

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@ergative@wandering.shop · 2d ago

I just subscribe to @404mediaco@mastodon.social , because they keep linking interesting articles, the ones that aren't paywalled are worth reading, and many others that look just as interesting are paywalled.

And they promise never to use AI to write anything.

I gotta say, that last promise is a big part of why I'm giving them my money.

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@ergative@wandering.shop · 6d ago

It actually happened! There was a roll of thunder followed a second later by the sound of rain coming down! I thought it only happened in the movies! But it actually happened in real life!

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@ergative@wandering.shop · Mar 09, 2026

Yes, academic publishing is broken. But these heroes have a plan to fix it...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

#academicChatter

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@ergative@wandering.shop · Mar 05, 2026

Praise me everyone. I saw a bad take came across my feed. (NB: it was a harmless bad take.)

I thought about responding, 'well, actually...'.

I did not.

I thought about vagueposting a response with no link.

I did not.

Instead of directly engaging and adding toxicity, or indirectly engaging and adding unnecessary snark to the zeitgeist, I am instead meta-engaging as an object lesson about how to be a nicer person on the internet.

Also I'm fishing for praise. I'm not perfect.

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@ergative@wandering.shop · Mar 04, 2026

RE: @NerdsofaFeather@wandering.shop

Hi, friends! The penultimate in my Realm of the Elderlings reread project on Nerds of a Feather is now up!

#bookReview

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@ergative@wandering.shop · Mar 03, 2026

Ok, Down Cemetary Road is lots of fun, but the bit that has me scratching my head is when they catch a train from King's Cross that announces it's 'non-stop to Glasgow'.

EXCUSE ME? I would VERY MUCH Like a non-stop train to Glasgow. Please may I have such a train? Please may it exist?

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@ergative@wandering.shop · Mar 02, 2026

During the family zoom last night, I was going off on my nonsense about how an author of a book I was reading made a choice i didn't agree with.

And, like clockwork, my family suggested, as they always do, 'you should write to them and tell them what you think!'

NO! I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT!

Who wants Reviewer 2 to follow you home? The book is PUBLISHED. It's DONE!

Beloved authors, if you ever get an email from me about your work, it's only ever going to be gushing praise.

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@ergative@wandering.shop · Feb 27, 2026

Any linguists who teach the role of prosody and intonation in conveying meaning, you might find this a useful demonstration. I think the use of contrastive focus at about 0:48 particularly striking.

#linguistics #phonetics #prosody #academicChatter

https://youtube.com/shorts/okV-IlqMOMM?si=DNZbcwC4oZpy-hoY

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#WritersCoffeeClub 25 Nov What are some tips you can share to avoid 'clunky' phrasing? Everybody's suggesting reading your work aloud, but I disagree: prose fiction should not focus on replicating spe

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@cstross@wandering.shop As against that, a lot of people now "read" by listening to audio books. Do you adapt for this at all?

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@wendyg@mastodon.xyz No—although I probably should consider it. (I can't absorb information from audio books *at all* so it's a non-consideration on my part, although the market has exploded in recent

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@ergative@wandering.shop · Nov 25, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @wendyg@mastodon.xyz I've consumed a lot of your books through audio, and they're fine in that medium already. No need to change anything for that market.

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