gen AI is not inevitable if we decide it isn't and I'll keep saying it #authorsky #antiai

Happy Book Birthday to THE BLOODY AND THE DAMNED by @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social! An assassin with outlawed, magical abilities will do anything to get their kidnapped sisters back in this fantasy standalone, perfect for fans of Arcane and Iron Widow. It has 1 starred review! tinyurl.com/3sybst2w

omg its the @chucktingle.bsky.social book but real

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

Using a forklift to lift weights at the gym and getting pissy about it when people say I can't claim a new PR

“Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president” electionlawblog.org?p=155426

Authors Against Book Bans has joined dozens of other organizations, nonprofits, publishers, & stores to issue this joint statement opposing HR7661

tonight we’re gonna post like it’s 1889

For anyone who missed my exciting OwlCrate news, I've written a blog post now: www.stephanieburgis.com/2026/04/ench... #romancelandia

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

We’ve updated SaveUSFS.org with all 80+ brands that have spoken out and today, you’re seeing what momentum looks like. Once the first few step up, more follow fast. Your voice made this happen. Thank you! We’ve also added Backcountry and Sitka Gear to our pressure campaign.

Look it’s either this or a cruel unfair system of taxation where Jeff Bezos goes from having 419 billion dollars to 417 billion dollars

Pair this with the rise in older YA being marketed as "mature YA" and, well there's a reason a lot of us are gravely concerned about the future of the age category.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Indivisible is mobilizing a nationwide protest tonight at 6 pm Please check your area.

Thank you, @mackidssl.bsky.social!!!

It's a starred review for THE BLOODY AND THE DAMNED by Becca Coffindaffer! 🔥⭐ Read the full reviews from School Library Journal. In stores and libraries everywhere tomorrow, April 7! 💫 @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

we don't need chatbots doing our creating for us kthx #antiai #fuckgenai

book banners fire an experienced librarian and our kids pay the price. first amendment includes the right to read. #booksky #bookbans #bookbansarereal #fuckcensorship

Jeezus.... that is beyond anything I could imagine in one go. That's like... a small town worth of people. thenextweb.com/news/oracle-...

This would explain why I keep getting emails urging me to file a claim after filing it.

A little gobsmacked at being listed alongside authors I admire so much

H.R. 7661 isn't on the legislative calendar yet, but could be as early as April 13. Let's use this time to prepare for the next stage in the fight. Bring some folks in your community together. Make some posters. Work on a letter to the editor. Find your voice & use it.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

As the parent of transgender child, I can testify that the standard of care was EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE even before the recent moral panic. I cannot stress this enough. EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE. Anyone who says otherwise is completely uninformed or blatantly lying. Period.

THREAD Also, since the point of protests is a combination of visibility, messaging, and building infrastructure, anyone who says "these don't accomplish anything" ignore the speed groups can mobilize now or the avg +13 overperformance in elections. Neither would exist w/o massive protest

No Kings (Philadelphia)

Be sure to share your Right to Read signs & pics (with alt-text if course!) from today's #NoKings with us!

Really bleak stuff here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

Happy Friday! Your assignment for the weekend: Tell a favorite author how much they mean to you. Find 'em on socials, hit up the contact form on their website, email their agent. It's rough out there & these little moments of connection & validation help us keep our heads up. Thank you!

the aggrieved "yes I remember you" after I introduce myself feeds my soul #callyourreps

I've retreated to only listening to the same half a dozen YT commentary videos in a repeated cycle, which is...never a good sign for my mental health yay

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

An interesting thing about this isn't just that CJA is correct here, but I also think it's where later versions of the franchises have misstepped: the ideal of the scruffy frontier underdog has curdled from being left in the Manifest Destiny fable for too long and postwar optimism about American...

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

(actually, now that I'm thinking about it more, maybe I just wanted him to be a companion. between Cullen, Varric, and Cassandra's discovery about Tranquility, he would have had A LOT to manage)

“Never give up. Making our nation and world fit for our children and grandchildren is a task for marathoners — not sprinters. It is a complex and long-term struggle that must be pursued with both urgency and persistence” — Marian Wright Edelman

Zach Mendez on Lucanis and Illario's relationship #dragonage #dragonageveilguard #veilguard #datv #lucanis #lucanisdellamorte #illario

[late night thoughts I had] If you sided with the mage rebellion, you should've had the option of recruiting Anders to be a healer at Skyhold. Just cuz I think it would've been interesting. #DragonAgeInquisition

Hello Friends! There is a nationwide book banning bill in US House of Representatives. If you love queer people, books, librarians, teachers, or good ole fashioned freedom of speech, please CALL your rep today. More info in the pics, and you can read from this script: 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Kansas abortion bills streamline process to sue providers and require consent form before procedure | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

AI does not write. To write is to enter another mind, to reach beyond ourselves, to fall into other worlds. Writing is transcendence, not pattern recognition. So long as we are human, we write.

Thank you to @lucymcbath.com @repmarktakano.bsky.social @repbonamici.bsky.social @bobbyscott.house.gov for speaking out against HR 7661 today and for Bonamici reading the ALA's statement. The committee did vote to take it to the full House, so start calling your reps. Vote NO to HR 7661.

tumblr update:

I drew fanart for @velahenbane.bsky.social based off a screenshot from #LADS and it took months, but I kinda like how it turned out.

Theo(Wyll’s VA) is streaming dragon age origin rn! Twitch.tv/theosolomon1

(i'm gonna get so much use out of this reaction)