if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Thank you for the lovely words, @genderqueerwolf.bsky.social. Snail mail poetry is such a fun thing to find in the mailbox. 💜

We're told over and over again that we need things like facial recognition and license plate scanners and encryption backdoors and cities blanketed in surveillance cameras to "catch the bad guys" in these exact scenarios and yet... Security theater kills exponentially more people than it protects.

I saw an AI enabled printer at Costco and I almost pre-emptively office spaced it... Printers are already intelligent and malevolent (they understand your deadlines and hate you.) no need for additional artificial intelligence.

procrastinating on being like, a person

Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.

Some days, whimsy through gritted teeth is the only whimsy there is.

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

Remember that the predominant form of age verification for porn sites — the new mandates passed in nearly every red state in the past few years — is a facial scan coupled with government ID.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Stop telling people to grind harder. Start asking why billionaires are hoarding more than they’ll ever need.

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

I love watching the seasons change. The leaves are starting to turn and it's been cool in the mornings again.

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories. EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS. Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

I am far behind the people at the front of the class. But at least I am *in* the class. And the lesson is--and I guess always has been--that you gotta have solidarity with everyone. Because once you agree with the principle that some people are disposable, then you're just quibbling over who.

Bisexuality: Coming your your mom *and* your dad since 1995. Or something.

at this rate don’t be surprised if the narrative becomes “stonewall was where brave nypd officers protected the city from rioting queers” before the year is out

I love learning about other cultures like yes show me your dumplings

Some words from me for us all on this Monday amidst the ongoing fascist takeover attempt... open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

I just found out that Public Display posted my piece online! "We hold fast to the future to fight for each other and all life, but also to fight for the way we celebrate each other and life...expressing ourselves in truth, joy, and connectivity." publicdisplay.art/article/Quee...

I'm also someone who learned how to sew with the Big 4. Between this and JoAnn closing, this feels like the end of an era in the worst way.

These are so beautiful

Every time you comment “who is here from Booktok” or “you summoned Booktok” or “where my Booktok girlies at” under a mediocre white man’s thirst trap you have to buy a book by a living marginalized author published in the last 3 years. These are the new rules.

I've been struggling to find words lately, but this essay is phenomenal.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

I spent ten minutes on Windows 11 last night, and my god. If I wasn't already planning to replace it with Linux, that experience alone would have been enough for me to bail.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

There is no literary world. There is, however, this interconnected mass of people who made similarly poor choices to pursue their dreams and are now pitching the emotional damage as art

applying for jobs again

Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?

A pot of mint tea with honey to go in it, a platter of arrowroot and almond biscuits, and honey bread lightly spread with plum and damson preserves.

So AI systems will always "hallucinate." There will never be a way to prevent them from making things up. And we're supposed to believe that this is the future of technology? (My issues with the NYT aside, this was an interesting article.)

Use signal

I took the train from Boston to Manhattan. My life has changed. I'm a car hater but now also a plane hater. Read a book, knit a sock, avoid kidnapping by the TSA, travel at 100 mph. Trains.

Save the things you love!

Float like a butterfly Sting like a bee Scream your heart out like a locust Ruin somebody’s whole summer like a mosquito Be inspired

The secret is it's not real and no one cares and once you embrace the pointlessness you are free

they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" well i don't want to be strong, i’m tired i just want to drink iced coffee, read books and eat snacks.

It's the billionaires and millionaires, y'all. Stop going after the wrong 1%. #transmothafuckinrights