Will side-eye any queer person lipsyncing or burlesquing to "I will Survive" going forward, because hard not to know all this now. Gay anthem shot to hell.

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

The remaining Victorian ghosts admitted defeat today. “The world in 2025 is so much spookier than anything we could come up with, so we’re taking retirement. Here, have our shoes as a parting gift.” Victorian ghosts—creepy to the last.

None. I keep MYRIAD in a separate world because it's quasi-autobiographical and I'm private that way. (Obligatory PSA so as not to mislead smut-buyers: The series isn't really smut, but 🔥🔥🔥 exists here and there, esp in book 2)

I've said it before, but those "naked xrays" installed in airports in the west was a test-run of citizens' complacency and toletance for invasive authoritarian surveillance. Our lack of pushback revealed everything they needed to know.

So many of these fools saying AI art is the future and AI will soon be indistinguishable from humans in every way, their arguments boil down to “the human experience means nothing” and honestly i don’t think people who believe that are capable of understanding art in the first place

I'm not in marketing but an angry guy shrieking "Guess what asshole...AI isn't going away so you might as well accept it!" doesn't strike me as the way you'd pitch an ostensibly useful product

Whenever I see a post by an author deriding lush, inventive prose, I immediately know I will bounce off their bland-ass work. MYRIAD isn't densely written or flowery (that flair is under another pen-name), but Simon has a vocab and gets aroused by words like I do.

As a perennial “Read Caleb Williams and Political Justice!” broken record, this trending—regardless of target—pleases me. (I love Godwin’s work so much that he figures in MYRIAD. Of course.)

I see a lot of "please be respectful of other people's decisions" around AI in indie author spaces and I don't understand it. If you plagiarise that makes you a plagiarist. If you steal someone else's work and lie that it's your own, that makes you a liar and thief. I'm supposed to respect that?

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

Aaaaand they changed it. Good work team!

I feel sick, @sfwa.org. What are we even doing?

I'm tired of queer blockbusters. I'm happy for those authors, but we don't need more bank-breaking releases. We need all kinds of little stories, books that challenge the meaning of "book," short fiction that ensnares us, poetry that makes our heads float away--stories that are allowed to grow.

Like a lot of fields (e.g. academia), it’s not just about talent and hard work. Lord fkn knows! If you aren’t On Trend or Playing the Right Politics, there’s little chance. Again: MERITOCRACY DOES NOT AND NEVER HAS EXISTED. And yeah, it seems even worse nowadays, in late-stage capitalism, innit?

If I broke into a bakery, kicked out the owner, fired the staff, and started using their recipes and equipment to sell bread, would that be ethical? If I bought my own ingredients after theirs ran out, would that be ethical? Because that's what all the 'ethical GenAI' people sound like.

People should talk more about shit they love, it's a great way to make friends

Escapism reading is nice, don’t get me wrong…but I prefer reading stories where the bad shit still exists, but the characters get to do something about it.

Creative people are complex, enigmatic creatures of many multitudes and onion-like layers. But also, someone can say "So cool" on something we created, and the hazy horrors simply dissipate. We grow dragon wings. And shoot magic beams out of our bodies.

And my family doctor keeps wanting to turn on AI assist to record our convos during visits, or get me to video conference appointments. So far I’ve eluded all that through sheer dumb stubbornness, but not sure how much longer patients will have any power.

Lest anyone doubt the roman a clef credentials of MYRIAD, I was definitely working in a bookstore c. 1990 because I vividly recall that Life in Hell comic strip dude getting a new show called The Simpsons, and being threatened with violence for carrying The Satanic Verses. myriadofsimonhansen.com

In studies on misinformation, this is one of its hallmark forms: an expert in one area asserting expertise in another area they aren't schooled in (eg psych prof Jor Ped and his sudden wisdom about marine biology and lobsters).

I had no idea so many people were still using big-name browsers that are just skins overtop Google’s shit search engine. I overestimated the size of the "Fuck All Things Google" crowd these past couple of years. Hopefully it’ll be a tsunami now, thanks to this dumbass move by Mozilla.

Yup. I've visited 13 or so countries in Europe so far, and I'm not even made of money.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Tbf I plan to say horrible things about Trump when he kicks the damn bucket. 🤷‍♂️ In Trump’s case, however, it will be richly deserved.

Seems like one step forward, 10,000 steps back these days.

Good Christ when will the makers of savory plant-based dairy substitutes stop using coconut oil? I love coconut, but I don’t need my fake chive and garlic “cheese” spread tasting like it. Do they not have palate receptors? Year 25 of sampling dairy subs and throwing 99% of them out. 🤢

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…

Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong. Wherever in the world it happens. You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.

It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do

Yup. Be detached. Even bestsellers and awardwinners have endless detractors. It's just too subjective, so other readers' views on a book mean little to this reader. (Which is why I say reviews aren't for the reader *or* the author. They're really mainly for the reviewer.)

Good-news thread re. possibilities if people care enough to care.

man, the collective grief from older trans people at the violent death of the world we briefly hoped was coming, a world in which trans children would be recognised, loved, and helped... yeah.

The smell. THE SMELL due to all those rugs and ceiling fabrics. 🥺

Good merciful catnip.

I feel like he's going to judge my taste in music...

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

Not horrendous at all.

This is a very good take on capitalism, neoliberalism, and monopolies. Worth 2 mins of your time. @mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social @ndp.ca #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #capitalism #neoliberalism #monopolies

Notre Dame and all its recovery efforts is now as much of a modern architectural miracle, as it was in the 19th century, and the 17th century, and the 12th century. These building live in times.

The first company to bring back non-cloud/non-internet connected electronic appliances is gonna make trillions.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Re: gen- #AI, I don't actually know if I've ever seen an accurate archaeological image made this way that wasn't the work of many hours to remove all the errors/misrepresentations, or so impressionistic that it doesn't communicate anything except 'vibes'.

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

I will defend Kubrick's adaptation to my dying breath (in part because of the two performers pictured) but I lol'd in wild delight at this.

I dare say I agree. When I hear these tech bros talk about their technologies' effect on society, it sounds like some kind of medieval king talking to their subjects. People this much out of touch with everyday peopes' lives shouldn't have so much power over them.

Woke up 3 times last night thinking of Venezuela, but it's not even trending here. Utter nightmare. Again.