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I hope openai gets sued into oblivion, and when they get to oblivion, the void lords banish them to the shadow realm, and then when they get to the shadow realm, they get annihilated by a blue eyes white dragon

Wow, who knew we were gonna *need* to colonize another Earthlike planet just to raise enough popcorn...! 😏

“LOL look at this—“ “I wanted to try out Chat GPT to—“ “Look at how realistic this creepy thing—“ “Its just a funny video—“ “I know its AI but—“ No. Many of us have said/done this innocently before or without thinking so I issue no judgement here. But the ones that know it & do it on purpose tho…

THIS THREAD. At my monthly writing group the lady sitting next to me waxed rhapsodic over using AI to 'improve' her writing (turns out it didn't, natch), while the rest of us made faces/shook our heads. Despite our reaction she kept trying to rationalize it & get someone to say it was ok to use. 😠

Literally #Grammarly right now. 🤨 #NoAI #Writing #Writers

Done for our #Chickam channel! #NoAI

They made... an AI tool... to make AI... which is already built on actual writing... seem less like slop... JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Neat! This is what I yell at Grammarly every week as it suggests editing my voice out of my writing.

Not sure if I'm just the last to know or not, but I just got an email about how Grammarly is now under another company as a part of a "suite of AI tools." I haven't been using it for a while now, but I also went and deleted everything I had ever used it for and the account. Better safe than sorry.

HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES! If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒 I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI www.grammarly.com/blog/company...

Low bar but I miss when CEOs usually weren't public figures, did shitty things quietly and were secure enough in their shittiness to not lash out daily because people didn't like them enough. The money not being enough anymore was a real turning point in the history of corporate supervillainy.

I suppose that the magic of writing is all of those words flitting carefree from head to page. The craft of writing seems to be deleting all the ones that don't fit. The horror of writing must be never knowing if what is left is pure garbage. 😀 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #sff #Sci-FiWriters

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Also: why you should let writers be part of production, not a separate little wafty creative island. Solutions will present themselves. Imaginative ones. And ones that enable budgeting to be done properly.

MY BOOK'S FINALLY OUT! books2read.com/MatthewKing Four killers meet for dinner, but what do they find? Friends? Murder?! LOVE?! This Horrormance reveals relatable killers whose amusing banter is playful and thought-provoking, tackling issues like gender identity, discrimination, and feminism.🖤🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💀

Just now realizing “One day you’ll understand” was a dire warning

good first step. You have to do more and do better, @jukeboxprint.bsky.social. show solidarity with the community that is a huge chunk of your userbase; maybe hire some feature artists to do a monthly sticker design? Give discounts to art professionals? and get rid of your AI autoresponder.

My writing process

JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...

With COVID-related visits to the ER already soaring to the high point of last winter, RFK Jr. (71) and Trump (79) are restricting eligibility for new, effective COVID vaccines mostly to those 65-and-older. It's almost as if they're evil, corrupt, self-interested Republicans.

I want to see those responsible sued into the next universe. As in, still paying out when the Big Crunch/Bang occurs and the universe reforms itself. 😒

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Finally, a goal I can get behind. Who says there's no good news anymore?

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The grunting... 😁

Want to see the cover of my novella OBSTETRIX, which will be coming out next June? Design by Katie Klimowicz Retouching by Travis Commeau

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

please lord

I'm open again to take on more work! Let me know if you have any questions - and please share around to those you think would be interested in working with me! 💜

--Weave--

Quote posting in empathy.

The poison green of the sprayed edges--! Love the cover, too. 😍

Happy Ogden Nash's birthday! He knew. And he wrote this in 1935. I think he'd say the same - or worse - today:

It is the birthday of the poet who wrote, “To keep love brimming in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it. And when you’re right, shut up.” The American wit and writer of light verse, Ogden Nash was born on this day in 1902. #BookSky #Poet #Poetry #WriterSky #BOTD

Final draft reviewed. It’s no longer just a collection of whimsical ramblings, questionable metaphors, and characters who argue with their own narrative arcs. It’s a book. Or at least, it’s wearing a book-shaped disguise and hoping no one asks too many questions. thomlinjupp.com #booksky

And a gorgeous cover it is!

Grab up a Discworld book and reread it.

Someone is offering my first book, the acclaimed Our Child of the Stars, hardback for £20, scuffed. I can sell you both hardbacks post free for that. Plus you can order my new book from me. #SelfPromotion #AuthorWithBills #books #indiebooks #SFFH #booksky stephencox.co.uk/buy-the-books/

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Gah, what NOW. If this place goes the way of the Evil Bird Site, I'm outta here.😒 #BlueSkyUpdate

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

are you sure there isn’t another way, richest man alive?

Ah, the schoolyard songs* of my childhood... 😁 *sing repeatedly until spanked

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Geez, this is really egregious. Reported and blocked that channel. 😒

#SummerOfStory #WritingCommunity #Writer #SciFan #TimeTravel Day 9 I love first pages. Opening lines that are grabbers are a lot of fun (if difficult to bash out!), but the first page that sets the scene for what the reader can expect is even better. 😁

#SummerOfStory #WritingCommunity #Writer #SciFan #TimeTravel Day 8 Some symbols in my WIP--a dagger that's more than it seems, magical earrings that assist the wearer--were fun, & developed while writing. Several motifs--an oppressive government, a cultural divide between two cultures--were planned.

Tropes I wish would just DIE, already: Pre-teens/teens who openly despise perfectly good parents, avoid ANY physical contact, & verbally abuse them to their face. And too-busy/indifferent parents that ignore kids/are never around, so the kids run wild/suffer from neglect/wish for different parents.