Do you like urban paranormal? Do you like queer representation? Ghosts, vampires, intrigue and a sprinkle of unethical journalism? Well, I have the perfect podcast for you!

Today the first episode of The Aberrant Report has just aired! It follows the story of Junie Bahisa, a student journalist looking into the disappearance of a cop, which reveals more than she bargained for. It stars a diverse cast of characters, including Miguel, played by yours truly!

You can find it on Spotify, Acast and Apple podcast! More platforms to come. I do hope you enjoy it <3

Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers’ libraries

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Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money, so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1.

Customers will receive refunds.

This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years, thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own those books.

When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash refund for the price you paid.

People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary works, they could not have done a better job.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

If you’ve got an ereader and want to actually own your books, I heartily recommend using cailbre to scrape the DRM off and so you can backup the files.

Cailbre d/l:

https://calibre-ebook.com/download

How to use cailbre to remove DRM:

http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books

winneganfake

Seconding calibre as a brilliant tool for ebook management in general. 

Remember: you are not renting your life, especially not from a corporation!!

Some more tutorials and tools:

removing DRM from your kindle purchases

Removing DRM from epubs

Removing DRM for cross device use and archiving

in every workplace there should be a secret button you can press and if everyone presses it the workweek immediately ends and you can go outside and play instead of sending email

ok i made this post and this afternoon our server locked us out and i spent the rest of the day shooting the shit with my coworkers outside in perfect spring weather. i do believe in magic but mostly i believe in the secret button

people NEED to look into what diagnoses can affect their legal rights please ableism isnt just individual it is in the system!!! do your research!!! lie to the government!!!

I consider myself a microinfluencer in the way I can get ten to fifteen people to consume a piece of media if I’m annoying enough about it

Casting Call!

Paid casting call! We are casting four main characters and a handful of minor characters for season five of Inn Between, a fantasy-adventure audio drama podcast about found family and character development.

No experience required. We are especially interested in disabled actors to play the part of a disabled tinkerer and in folks with non-standard accents to play everyone! Follow the link for instructions and details.

@audioauditions

resisting the urge to ask the people around me to describe how they view me in full excruciating detail and then also explain why they view me like that in full excruciating detail

This is what job interviewers think everyone spends their time doing

which of your features would people romanticize if u were famous… for me i think it would be my bunny teeth or the little scar i have on my forehead from hitting it as a toddler

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Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)

Neil Gaiman: Hi, I'm Neil Gaiman. I'm wearing the first red T-shirt I've worn since 1987. Because I'm a member of the WGA. I'm on strike. I care so much for the things that I've written but I'm out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.

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was anybody gonna tell me that wikipedia has its own catgirlsona or was i just supposed to stumble upon her myself

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... the nyaledge was the deciding point for my reblog

Excellent, meow more people can learn

The big discourse on twitter right now is that writers going on strike or cancelling their own series are breaking an invisible “contract” they made with their fans and all creators owe their fans a satisfying conclusion to their stories.

Actually all fans owe all creators for entertaining them and if a creator says “I don’t want to perform this labor anymore,” then regardless of the cliffhanger that leaves you with, your only response should be “take care! Thank you for all your hard work!!!” :)

Like it or not… this.

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