such a lovely thing to think about

We're not anti-tech, we're anti-theft. If the future of “innovation” depends on stealing creators’ work without asking or paying, that’s not progress - it's stealing, and we shouldn’t accept it. #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com/

Some fun practice work from last year.

This, this, this. And as Carolina also adds, to say that generative AI is "inevitable" is to ignore the failure of many other technologies that we were assured were here to stay.

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.

Talk about your books, and talk about the books you love. Almost all of the books I read now are from people posting about them on Bluesky. I'll also often pick something up after seeing it discussed on Reddit, and on rare occasions someone I know will rec a book to me privately.

In other words, everything I read is because someone talked/wrote about it. Even just "I loved this one!" might get me to check it out. Be shameless! Be effusive! Spread the bookish love.

Ametista (Three of Swords) #art #oc #ocsky

I'll often see people express displeasure with books having AI-generated covers because they can't trust AI wasn't involved in the text. Sure, but even if it wasn't, a gen AI cover is a problem on its own. It's a betrayal of real artists, and the harms caused by "AI" persist no matter the output.

white pillow available corner of se 36th and salmon

Never let anybody tell you that daydreaming about your WIP is "avoiding working on your WIP" because I just came up with such a good plot point while driving and listening to the playlist Sometimes, thinking about the book IS working on it! We have to think of ideas before we can write them down!

((sobbing hysterically into the WIP that never ends)) LET'S DO THIS THANG. GO TEAM!!

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look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think

Everyone has their haters. You don't need to be one of them, bro. Give yourself a damn break. You're doing what you can.

watching a webinar about using an #AI "assistant" to assess your book's market positioning and my takeaway is updating my AI policy page from "I do not use any generative AI tools or programs in my editing process" to "...in my editing process or my business (or personal life!)." #amediting

A lot of #editors who use AI in their #editing or business say that editors who AREN'T using AI are just scared or don't know enough about AI. Nah fam. I'm in the webinars seeing how people are suggesting to use AI in editing and writing. I'm just not buying it. 🙃 #amediting #freelanceediting

Tea and Books 🫖📚 #art

Princess Mononoke 🐺🌳

My #ArtAdventCalendar door for day 19 matches the rainy december we have had so far 🪱🌧 #artyear #art #cuteart #mammals #rain

Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.

Character development doesn’t mean the character has to grow into a better person. They can become worse

I like how they say "ai helps speed up the creative process." My brother in christ, you're not even on the same track. You've completely derailed from the creative process on a generated glossy piss coloured train blowing past and missing everything that feels rewarding about the process.

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

Reminder to be gentle with yourself and each other this holiday season. Everyone's under a lot of stress. I hope you can carve out a pocket of quiet some time over the next week, by yourself or with someone who's a safe person for you. 🌱

Also, note that after hearing feedback from writers, SFWA changed the Nebula Award rules to NOT allow any work that used generative AI: bsky.app/profile/sfwa...

You don’t get to pick and choose what parts of genAI are ethical. It was all built on theft. Think it’s ok for research? For expanding your ideas? For summarising? Theft theft theft. Plus it doesn’t know anything, it gives you the most plausible sounding answer. Plus it’s terrible for the planet.

I've also hear anti-AI editors like myself called Luddites or scared of change. That is also dismissive and condescending.

Feral Hearts Two odd beings find tenderness, or a quiet kind of love that doesn’t need naming. What they find together may be love, or safety, or simply the relief of being seen. The world around them mirrors this truth: bones feed roots, insects thrive, and so-called unwanted beings persist. -

www.linkedin.com/pulse/gettin... I finally did it! Here's my article on the massive style sheet I made for Blue Planet: Recontact, created by @biohazardjeff.bsky.social. Thank you to @nadiageageapupa.bsky.social for encouraging me and @ninjafingers.bsky.social for editing this. 1/2

I struggle to understand why some editors are totally cool with using #AI in #editing when a good portion of the #writingcommunity is staunchly against any use of generative AI in writing/editing. Exhibit A: These replies to SFWA allowing partially generated text to be eligible for Nebula Awards:

Reviews are great! Also, tell everyone you know about books you have enjoyed. People are more likely to buy a book vouched for by someone they know, so tell your friends and family and social media followers!

The cliche that ‘having an idea’ is the hard part of writing is persistent and pernicious. Realising the idea is the craft of it. That FAQ of…

‘Where do you get your ideas from’ that authors often dread focuses on this misunderstanding. Ideas are easy. Ideas spring from ideas. Ideas create a more complex ecosystem that prompts the evolution of…

More ideas. We’re not going to run out of ideas but generative AI is a tool for people who don’t want to be involved in the step between idea and art. People whose own ideas will never evolve or become more complex because they don’t actually want to interact with or examine them.

We're socialized to constantly apologize for being too outwardly excited about things, but this world is so full of terror and misery that I'd rather see those bursts of light and passion shine through the cracks wherever you can find them.

"Inspirations sleet through the universe continuously. Their destination, as if they cared, is the right mind in the right place at the right time."-- Terry Pratchett

the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.

Happy Thursday! Your MC just discovered a family heirloom. What is it? And how do they react? #FiFRevPit #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersky

Getting tired of AI boosters who say they are worried about the ethics of using generative AI, but who still use it to make slop. It's like a smoker bemoaning what cigarettes did to their lungs as they light up. Just like Big Tobacco, the AI companies don't care about our health or well-being.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Time to get started! ⏳️✏️ Would love to see your updates for our last Wednesday #RevPitFiF sprint!

Relationships shape us, and the same is true for your characters. What are some of the most important relationships in your book? #FiFRevPit #amwriting #writersky #writingcommunity

Print dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25

30 minutes till tonight's sprint starts! It's the last Wednesday #FiFRevPit sprint, let's finish strong! ✍️📚 #WritingCommunity #Writersky