2026 will be remembered as the year when the human resistance got organized. 🧵👇

Looked into Ellipsus at long last and now I regret not doing so sooner - the possibilities 👀

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... Sure, AI can mimic us (sometimes to a scary degree)—but mimicry does not valuable writing make. 🧵👇

‘Tis the season for avoiding your relatives while furiously typing your yuletide fic on your phone, using family drama as real-time reference material, and decking your doc’s halls with so many festive em dashes...

Because we all have Wrapped fatigue (… and because we don’t track your every move, unlike some tools 👀), we've put together some predictions for 2026. (Or at least, a few New Years wishes we'd love to see come true)

Disney is renowned for aggressively punishing IP infringements—now it happily sells licenses to Open AI. What gives? 🧵

In her time of need, will you answer? #defendtheemdash

"human editors" 💀

As an editor, it's actually been really disquieting to see people decide that polished writing and grammar are "AI tells." I saw a whole discussion about how humans don't actually use em dashes because "no one knows how to type them" (alt+0151).

As someone who was already accused of using AI on my fic writings and edits... THIS! I can attest that it IS damaging to people and creatives to just toss out accusations willy-nilly with "evidence" (some possibly outdated or non-existent) to back them up.

In case you missed it, our November product roundup is out 🎉 (spoiler: we've added lot of cool new features👇) [1/6]

I'm not going to stop using the em dash, if you try to use that as your "tell" for AI writing, that's on you and not me.

www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion... The thing is, short of consulting the metadata, there's really no way to tell what's gen-AI and what's not. Trying to 'sniff out' gen-AI like this is problematic at best; at worst, it does harm to writers 🧵👇 [1/10]

Did you defend the em dash today?

Let’s set the record straight: the em dash doesn’t belong to ChatGPT. Gen AI has been around for two years—the em dash has been around for centuries. History time! 🧵👇 [1/11]

Day 5. #defendtheemdash

‼️ Attention US writers/creators—Section 203 is under attack (again) and needs your help.

Every time I think about opening up Google Docs again, I'm reminded that Ellipsus is literally right there. (waves to Ellipsus) Hey girl! We got stuff to write! #lorewrites

Most of the time I write on Google Docs, but I stumbled over Ellipsus today, yeeted my draft over and...

Using the winter months efficiently by making the swap from Google Docs to @ellipsus.com It'll take time to get manuscripts and documents transferred, but I really prefer supporting a service vehemently opposed to scrapping my work for cheap tricks.

my dad laughed soooo hard at the FCK GPT sticker on my car, so ellipsus you’re already 1 for 1

fixed it. #defendtheemdash

I need this as a sticker

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately… 🧵👇

Ho ho ho! We’ve left a few gifts under the Ellipsus tree... 🌌 Aura: An aurora borealis gradient to light up the long dark night. 🥂 Fête: A sparkly fizzy champagne gradient. 🎄 Jolly: Classic ugly sweater red-and-green. ❄️ Icicle: Brrr! Frosted winter wonderland blues. Haaaappy #ThemeThursday! 🎁

I'm in Hell(vetica)

Words of wisdom, courtesy of the Ellipsus blog. If you're more of a short-form writer like I am, this is where having a few different projects to rotate through can be a boon (or a curse, if you are also prone to decision paralysis). ellipsus.com/blog/how-to-...

Shadow-banned on X for talking about the broligarchs. Just another Tuesday 🥱

🙄 Tech billionaires again trying to “bootstrap community” using the only tools they know: exorbitant, society-destroying wealth. 👇 1/

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 209: Not all writing needs to “lead somewhere.” Joy is a valid end in itself. So is practice: everything you write makes you better writer.

Thanks to new "A Way with Words" sponsor Ellipsus! ellipsus.app/WORDS Ellipsus makes it easy for anyone to write together. Focus on creativity, collaboration, and community. Proudly pro-human. (No AI, ever.) And it's free for everyone!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d... "Spotify Wrapped now feels like just another example of something personal and precious that is being automated away from us; another example of a supposedly unbearable task of thinking and writing being 'offloaded' in order to make life more frictionless." ⬇️🧵

Oh damn, Pantone can paint a room but can’t read one

And we're back! All of our servers are up and running as normal ✨

Hey team, the internet is broken again: @Cloudflare is down and took one of our providers with it. The team is actively monitoring (fuming) and will give you updates as soon as the situation develops. Your work is safe — we’ll check in with you again when services are back up and running.

ellipsus.com/blog/the-end... In our latest blog post, we look back to last September… when #NaNoWriMo (at least, the org) spontaneously imploded following its endorsement of generative AI. #anti-ai #writers

Wrapping up a few presents for next week's #ThemeThursday... 🌠❄️🎄🥂

japantoday.com/category/fea... "If you set aside the apocalyptic scenarios … it’s quite possible that thoughtful, original, human-generated writing will become even more valuable… [A]nd [it] may play a crucial role in training the next generations of models." 🧵 [1/9] #anti-ai #genai #writers

#manifesto #anti-ai #writer

It's true: AI is facing a profitability crisis. It's become so bad that companies are turning to shady business practices to bolster their risky debt piles and inflated stock capitalizations.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

❄️🎁🎄🌠

We've been super busy this week, annnnd here's some new things you'll find in Ellipsus: 👾 GIF support in comments 📱Mobile comment redesign 📀 New themes ⌨️ Granular styling Let's go!

It’s coming... ThemeThursday! Four versions of the future we were promised (+ the one we’re writing ourselves). ⛓️‍💥 Wasteland - the poetry of ruin. 🫧 Aero - a shiny glint of optimism. 💾 Retrograde - the computer room, and one overly helpful paperclip. ❤️ Kudos - iykyk. Check em out next week!

Hey team, a routine upgrade broke the Ellipsus client for a short period. Things should be up and running again after a refresh. Please reach out in the support form if things are amiss. Apologies for interrupting the flow!

Just a reminder that @ellipsus.com exists and is absolutely anti-AI 🥰

We're fully online! Thank you for your patience and apologies for interrupting the flow! (Looking at the third-party using AWS US-East-1 🙄). status.ellipsus.com

Early signs of life—our team is able to log into the app. Can you all check yours?