Thiiiisssss. (Related point, if you read a hot take article and it pisses you off, that was the intention. They know it’s bullshit. Rage bait gets more interaction than anything else, and all of these articles have been created/ run with at least one eye on driving engagement)

I don't know why AI grifters expend so much energy trying to convince us that it's okay to write with the plagiarism machine. Send your slurry of shit into the world. Let the readers decide. Why do you act like you need our approval? Why do you give a shit if we don't consider you legitimate?

I’m increasingly perplexed by the whole discussion. Show me a non-planet eating, non-harmful AI that does useful or beautiful things and I’m so very there for it. Show me an actual living machine and I’ll advocate for it. But this stuff… meh. No.

Cheers, son’s crying. (It’s me, I’m son’s)

🏳️‍⚧️Fix your hearts or die🏳️‍⚧️

I didn’t need to discover what happens when you google a Pokémon. That’s my day gone.

YOU - “So I should just... just... get a hat and FUCK it, right?!” (Point at your head, where the hat should be.) “Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat right here in front of you, because you told me so? On the SEA ICE?!”

no it’s a fantastic time to be writing a book; books are almost singlehandedly getting me through this hellscape and I am more grateful than ever to my fellow authors for persisting through *gestures* all this

Who fucking cares? The quality argument was always a fallacy, because it doesn’t matter if an LLM is slopping out the ‘greatest novel ever’. It’s still bullshit involving no human talent or insight and I want nothing to do with it. Label AI work. Let me discern accordingly.

(Good vibes case in point)

Honestly if the cover slaps and/or (mainly) your vibes are good, I’m not even looking at the pitch - i’m just diving in. (…but I also have to see the thing about 5 times before it sticks in my head and I actually take action…)

Hey authors, I know y’all hate self-promotion, but when I see book promos in my feed being retweeted by friends I trust, I almost always click through to check it out, and if it’s on sale you have *really* good odds of me taking a chance on it, so, you know, you should do that more.

🦾 Announcing KILLSWITCH PROTOCOL, the sci-fi debut from our very own @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social!!! 🦾 Enter a neon-drenched cyberpunk world of black market cybernetics, corporate overreach, and high-stakes action. Launching JULY 7, 2026 in paperback, hardcover and eBook! (Audiobook TBD)

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

TWO MORE DAYS!!! @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social 👀👀👀

The @clarkeaward.bsky.social judges said this would be a future classic of the genre. FT said it was one of their SF books of the year. Interzone said all kinds of nice shit. It is now cheap. Buy it, think about direct action and punk and the climate and hope wrapped round a brick

Another favourite genre of ours at Ghost Orchid Press is climate fiction, or cli-fi. What other titles would you add to this list?

THREE DAYS! Some VERY EXCITING news coming from @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social 🦾

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Well, 36 is going better for me so far than it did for Joel in TLOU. (Which, is decent news for us all, frankly) Nice little book haul too:

Me, when someone asks what type of music I listen to whilst writing

Guillotines are the moderate solution

OHHHH. HELL. YES. Bitter Karella’s got the best covers in the business. Can’t wait to have this in my hands 💚🖤🔥 (Also the blurb sounds sick and I’m here for it)

As promised, I'm officially open to submissions again - for 1 week or 500 queries, whichever comes first. Because last time when I tried 2 weeks or until 750 queries, I received more than 750 in the first week and had to shut down early. No guarantees it won't happen again.

I ain’t reading this because frankly, now and forever, FUCK ‘AI’. But regardless. REGULATION. NOW. I want this shit labelled. I want to have a choice as a consumer. IDGAF about any ‘quality’ argument. Irrelevant. Make it paramount that a work is labelled as AI. Let me discern accordingly.

Extremophile by @ianthegreen.bsky.social is properly exceptional. Like, imposter syndrome inducingly exceptional. It’s making me depressed about what I’ve written and inspired to write better shit all at once. Read it. As a matter of fucking urgency. Superb.

I’m on the SFF Addicts patreon so I get early access to this and, yeah invaluable listen if you’re authorily inclined. (As is every ep of the pod - Adrian, Greta and MJ are badass and the guests are generally delightful and questions hella useful)

By now, it's no longer surprising to think every aspect of our dystopia was purposely engineered by a cabal of pedophile rapists, but it's still hard to believe that they're also the sort of people who use words like "pum pum" in their business correspondence and never think "do i sound like a baby"

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

1) It looks like absolute shite 2) Who are the SAG scabs taking these jobs?

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

Any chance to sit with and reflect on Ursula K. Le Guin’s words is time worth taking. (Particularly when guided beautifully as we are here)

can I just get clarification on who "we" is in this sentence, because it seems to me that the person who invented the resource-guzzling shit extruder and profits from the resource-guzzling shit extruder is surely the one who needs to come up with a purpose for the resource-guzzling shit extruder.

to fucken vanquish someone wearing scissor shoe

I thought when ETID broke up I was done with discovering new bands in the hardcore punk scene… My GODS, The Barbarians of California fucking slaaaaapppp 🔥

Just closing in on the end of this, and spellbinding is the word. RJ writes battles with an unmatched level of clarity and dread, and his worldbuilding slowly envelops you until you feel fluent in a language you didn’t think possible. The Tide Child trilogy was similarly superb. Read his work!

Can't believe they didn't give the peace prize to the guy who says, "If I don't get a peace prize, than I'm going to start a bunch of wars!"

It’s true, this is an absolute bangerrrr

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

Good morning

Alternative headline: humiliating and abusing women on X by digitally undressing them is now a privilege reserved to paying users.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

As a straight, white, cis male who went to his first WFC this year and is also ‘hoping to break into the field of fantasy fiction’ (except no lol, coz wtf does that even mean?) I can anec-totally say this is complete bollocks.

Got a copy of 20th Century Ghosts for Christmas. First time reading any of @joe-hill.bsky.social ‘s work. (Horror’s a relatively recent foray) Just one story in and I am stressed. Heart hammering, head light, definitely forgot to breathe for a minute. This is good shit.

‘You have great comic timing’ my comic timing has been fucked ever since