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I only count runs. Less than 300 miles to go.

#i don't know why I'm so focused on this other than it feels in my control #if i bust my foot it will no longer be in my control #control is an illusion etc.

Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved the landmark settlement in the class action copyright lawsuit on Monday. Authors and publishers are e

Is it enough? No. Is it something? Yes.

For most traditionally published authors whose works are still in print, 50% of the $3k per work will go to your publisher. There's also paying the lawyers.

So for my works that fall under the period in question (my latest was still stolen to train on, but not included in the time period of this lawsuit), what sounds like it should be $6k is at MOST $3k and will likely be far less due to legal fees. If I seek $2k I'll be surprised.

But I don't have the money to *not* settle and sue on my own.

Bear in mind this is decades of work. And yes, it's alllllll swiped. This is what priacy led to: The Brain Melting Machine.

#it's very hard to make art these days #because you're bombarded from all sides by people telling you it's worthless #or that it should be free because AAAARRRT but we live in societies that actually do require that people have money to live #and yes. art and music and literature all of it IS A CAREER AND ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE

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This book I've been asked to blurb is a 150,000-word space opera and I'm reading it as a word doc and that is NOT IDEAL.

My brain is jelly right now and my eyeballs hurt.

ladyofthehouse

Update:

I got through 100 pages of it yesterday and YES I went to bed with a headache last night.

I'll note that the book is solid; were it not, I would have abandoned it by now.

Ok. Back to the reading mines.

#this is the unpaid labor part of my job

This book I've been asked to blurb is a 150,000-word space opera and I'm reading it as a word doc and that is NOT IDEAL.

My brain is jelly right now and my eyeballs hurt.

The husband-like appendage is watching Forged in Fire and the host just said, "It looks like he's gonna peen everything down."

Pfffffffffffffffft

#I'm 12 #cannot stop the giggle snort #yes. i know. ball peen hammer and whatnot.#but c'monnnn

It's the Boomers who are ~all in~ on ChatGPT, btw. Not that a bunch of them tried to tell me how great it is when I was at the museum today. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened.

It's a testament to my theater training that I can get through that without saying, "Thanks for torching the planet, Grammie. I hope you and Pop-Pop don't speed up dementia by using it too much!"

If your main consumers and boosters of your tech are at the end of their time on earth, uh, that's not a solid business plan. The public facing aspects of this tech are not in a good way.

Anyway. I put in extra volunteering time today because the air conditioner flooded the bathrooms and a whole floor in the main building. So some folks got the gallery tour of a lifetime because I felt bad that so much was off limits.

Anyway. Donate to your local museums so they have cash to actually update their HVAC more than once in 50+ years.

#we're literally held together by bubblegum and $5 donations

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New cryptid

#he is perfect and i love him

Just told the husband-like appendage about Jimothy.

I get a shiny gold sticker star for spreading the joy.

Heading into NYC for a biz lunch and a reading. During heat hell and smoke hell. I hope everyone appreciates that I normally look cute as fuck and the hell beast that appears today is an outlier.

Lookit this wild bb i spotted at my sister-in-law's place. Mom was nearby.

Just a wee lil fluffum.

#bunnies make the world go round

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the thing is depression was never destigmatized the narrative just switched from “no one has depression you’re just using it as an excuse” to “everyone has depression you’re just using it as an excuse”

ladyofthehouse

Always left out of the narrative is how often depression is fatal.

#it also presents differently across genders races cultures and classes #and has societal roots as well as biological roots #it's a beast but the stigma has changed to “that's the *good* mood disorder to have