On Monday @YouTube @YouTubeCreators demonetized author & stage combat aficionado @JillBearup's YouTube channel. She's taught me a LOT about historical & fantasy swordfighting so hoping #YouTube fixes this! youtube.com/shorts/r4UTliDzn…

Gene Ha's critically acclaimed fantasy series Mae is finally returning to print in a new Definitive Edition graphic novel, and we've got an exclusive preview. bit.ly/4hskpcK

Hey everyone, come see me, @GeneHa and Dan Dougherty at the Indian Prairie Public Library next Saturday, February 1st! We'll be doing a presentation in the afternoon, but we'll also be there tabling from 10am-4pm. Come say hi :D

This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at georgemonbiot.bsky.social. Since Elon Musk bought this site, he has transformed it from one on which millions could converse as equals into his personal megaphone. Now the world’s richest man uses it to wage his class war, transferring blame for the ills of capitalism onto vulnerable minorities, boosting the grimmest and most antisocial accounts while suppressing the humane voices with whom he disagrees. He has used X not only to subvert the election for the US presidency, but to create a role for himself in US politics which, though he has never stood for election and would not be eligible, grants him immense power over the citizens of that nation. This site has been used as a tool to help replace democracy with oligarchy. Musk claimed, on purchasing the platform, to be a “free speech absolutist”. He is in fact a prolific censor, suspending dissenting accounts and using lawsuits to shut down free speech, while employing an algorithm to increase the reach of his own posts 1,000-fold. He cannot abide a level playing field. He has permitted or encouraged the growth of a ghost army of bots and trolls to degrade the experience of all who disagree with him. Their task is not just to abuse opponents but, perhaps more importantly, to drown intelligent conversation with a tsunami of stupidity. They respond to data with denial, expertise with execration, insight with insult, humour with hatred and thinking with thuggery. They suck the meaning out of everything. The stupidity trends in one direction: in the service of economic power. It is a weapon used to suppress the possibility of a better world. Many years ago, when I lived in Brazil, I learnt that the military dictatorship had actively sought to suppress educational levels in schools, as it saw a well-informed population as a political threat. A confused, distracted and ignorant population is easy to manipulate. Now this counter-educational model is being rolled out worldwide, and Elon Musk is its primary sponsor. I stayed here long after I first considered leaving, as I believed it was wrong to cede the ground to an oligarch and his minions. But I came to see that those of us who do not subscribe to Musk’s grim project are being used as groundbait: stimulating the feeding frenzy of 15-minute, 24-hour hate that now powers this platform. We can no longer build anything of value here. Brute force – the unmediated power of money – has beaten humanity, intelligence, humour and democracy. On Bluesky I can be the person I want to be, a better person than I am on X, where it is almost impossible not to get dragged into the mud. I feel I can be understood because I am not confronting a deliberate effort to misunderstand me. So I can speak more quietly. There is no guarantee that Bluesky will not also one day be monetised by its owners or captured by self-serving billionaires. But for now it remains a place in which interesting and enjoyable conversations can be had, kindness can be shown to strangers and a better world can be imagined. I hope to see you there.

To clarify if you're watching at home, I've been in touch with @TeamYouTube Creator Support via email for six days now. They have been unable to help beyond telling me to fill in a broken form/try a different form/wait a few days and try that first form again (still broken).

A bright good morning to all for Day 7 of the Demonetisation Saga! My Creator Support person told me on Thursday to 'wait a few days' before trying the non-functional appeal form again. It is now Monday, so I tried again. The form is still non-functional. Shock. @YouTubeCreators

You'll never guess what Artist Alley table I got at #C2E22024... #007 See you at Chicago's great big geeky Nerd Prom, last weekend this month! c2e2.com/en-us/explore/artis…

The official poster for @dutchcomiccon 2023 Winter Edition is here! Created by the amazing @GeneHa!! And this show's edition will be ALL about inclusion and female empowerment! Let's do this! :) PS: There's something familiar on that character, but I can't put my finger on it.

Artist Alley, Table E-42, Thu-Sun! @NY_Comic_Con 2023, I'll be in the @ComicSketchArt.com block. And I'll be streaming my first ever #whatnot from #NYCC2023, so wish me luck! #NYCC #NewYorkComicCon

TWO days out, THIS weekend, Hero will be @RoseCityCC Sep. 22-23-24 with the mighty @GeneHa as our special guest! Swing by and see us! Tix and info: rosecitycomiccon.com

Excited/nervous/pre-exhausted for this weekend's trip to @RoseCityCC We're looking forward to meeting @GeneHa, @kellysue, @NicolaScottArt, @Philjimeneznyc and the rest of the Wonder Woman Historia (book of the year) team.

In just 11 days! Hero will be @RoseCityCC Sep. 22-23-24 with the mighty @GeneHa as our special guest! Swing by and see us! Tix and info: rosecitycomiccon.com

In ONE MONTH! Hero will be @RoseCityCC Sep. 22-23-24 with the mighty @GeneHa as our special guest! Swing by and see us! Tix and info: rosecitycomiccon.com

Trois dessinatrices/eurs de talent : @Philjimeneznyc @GeneHa @NicolaScottArt, accompagnent l'autrice dans cette épopée, nous livrant des dessins extraordinaires, ces planches sont de véritables œuvres d'art Le tout, conclu par une fab fantastique réalisée par @UrbanComics 2/2

J. Smith-Cameron is the stage and screen goddess who played Gerri!

Thank you, James! And wow. "Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards." J.R.R. Tolkien

Join us this Tues., Aug. 15th at 8pm ET on our Discord, to discuss WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA: THE AMAZONS created by @kellysue, @Philjimeneznyc, @GeneHa, & @NicolaScottArt. With a special guest: @kellysue! From violence and oppression, the goddesses forged a new race: the Amazons

John @Scalzi on BlueSky: “So you're saying we should query it constantly with absolute bullshit to drive the costs higher” Apparent source of the screenshot is from prominenet Indian online news source Firstpost, no idea how reliable? firstpost.com/tech/news-anal…

For @HopeSeck, for your comeback from a rough day.

The Fault in Our Stars has been removed from the YA section in the suburbs of Indianapolis and is now considered a "book for adults." This is ludicrous. It is about teenagers and I wrote it for teenagers. Teenagers are not harmed by reading TFIOS. This is such an embarrassment to the city of @FishersIN.