*taps the sign*

Just filled out (at length!) this excellent survey about how SFWA should handle LLM/GenAI use in award eligibility. It’s open to readers as well as writers so if you have serious & considered opinions plz fill it out, especially if you have edge cases to share that others may not have thought of.

The battlefield 🗡

This is a super-fun book - thanks @sharangbiswas.bsky.social for writing it and @neonhemlock.bsky.social for the Black Friday sale!

absolute genius maneuver from bari weiss spiking this story now an exponentially higher amount of people will care about this and watch it anyways

Yes, this is exactly what happened to me. I lost more time checking and verifying than doing it myself, so I quit

contacting apartments and getting personalized responses from bots that management has given a whole-ass name to and instructions to pretend to be a real person is one of the most singularly frustrating experiences of this home search.

"Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative." www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...

THIS. *They stole your fellow writers' FUCKING HEARTS' BLOOD to power their fancy-ass text-based writer-imitation machine.* You wanna get all NUANCED about that? Your easygoing take on that issue will sooner or later (most likely sooner) be used to steal *your* stuff. Let's see how *you* like it. 🫤

Reminder to self; you can't access your DMs because you aren't verifying your age, so there's no point asking anyone to DM you 🙃 So writers and authors seeking community (especially diverse ones!), send me an email if you'd like a discord invite and I'll email it to you!

I am an author of fantasy, romance, and erotic fiction, as well as essays! My most recent project is none of the above, though: it's a survey about kink in fiction with attached live-updating charts of results johannestevans.co.uk/2025/12/10/k...

I released 2 trans books this year. The 1st is a romcom where a guy falls in love with sexy Totoro at a drag show The 2nd is a soulmate romantasy where a guy cursed with immortality has to make amends for his past by healing other people's soulmate bonds ko-fi.com/emerylee/shop

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

To be 100% clear: there is no acceptable use-case for genAI. As OP notes, the question “is this ethical?” is binary and the answer, resoundingly, unequivocally, no matter what stage of the process you’re talking about, even just this one time, even with mitigating circumstances, is “no.”

This will be, perhaps, the weirdest writing-related ask I'll ever have, but has anyone on here ever worked in the administrative branch of bandaid manufacture and if so, would you be willing to talk? 🤣

I'm reposting this not for doomerism purposes but because she talks about some ways that you can identify AI images, which people who follow me may or may not already know about

Absolutely summarises my approach to forcibly "licensing" my copyright to LLMs.

the more i try to get out of my parents' house the more obsessive and controlling they get. i have had a nonstop stress headache for three days now and i did finally give in and let them continue to hold me here. the mindfuckery will continue until the patient dies (wait that's not how that--)

I am 48, fat, and cannot be arsed to do makeup. I do not want to record videos promoting my books. I have explained this to publishers in exactly these words, but it’s a 50/50 on whether it takes.

Universal Basic Income ✨

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

I've got two denim jackets to fill up with patches and Etsy is full of AI and stolen art so... ✨pls share your favourite small businesses that make patches and pins pls✨ especially hoping for queer & trans makers but all are welcome! ♥️

Sorry, let me be more constructive, here's a comprehensive guide on why age verification not only _does not_ work, but cannot work — and harms everyone, of all ages, on the internet: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Burned out.

"do it for your oc" legit rewired my brain chemistry dawg

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

Illustrations for each of the months in Ulla Thynell's 2026 calendar. (From Ulla: "In addition to these, there's one more full page illustration with some extra space for your notes! 🦄") Available only while stock lasts! www.atthisarts.com/product/cale...

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you. Defend the em dash.

Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st! More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions

I implore all of you, stop giving money to fucking Disney, cancel your fucking subscriptions. Stop paying to see their shit.

refuse to RT that garbage Time cover, but it feels genuinely offensive to the steelworkers (largely immigrant & Haudenosaunee men, no less!) of the original photograph. anyway, a book on the topic: bookshop.org/p/books/to-w...

The giant billionaire corporate studios were basically the only thing standing in the way of A.I. (due to the myriad of copyright issues) and their capitulation means the American media ecosystem is cooked.

They could’ve bankrupted OpenAI in lawsuits. Instead, they’re adopting OpenAI APIs and giving them a billion dollars.

my editor says there is not enough plot in my porn.

Oh my gosh, I love this story so much, congratulations on getting a print edition!!!

I'm sure no one remembers this shitpost but me, but I need y'all to know I actually did this, every time I didn't have a fic title picked out ahead of time. (There are, incidentally, more versions and editions of this label than you could ever imagine.)

Hey #WritingCommunity, who is on scribblehub? What do you think of it? Also, please share your scribblehub page so i can reshare it!

December has come around fast! As promised, I'm going to try and post a daily advent thread of my top science fiction, fantasy, horror and spec fic books published in 2025 🤞 The bookshop gets a bit mad this month, but I'll try my best to keep up 🎄📚🪐 #SFF #Booksky

My fave new books of 2025 pick for 9th is Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social: A cozy scifi novella featuring a crew of abandoned food service bots who decide to open their own noodle shop ❤️ Found family, capitalism, post-war San Francisco & food that'll make you feel hungry reading it! 💙📚🪐

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Sketch vs. Final

Baldur Bjarnason makes a very clear and persuasive argument for how LLM users fall for the illusion of intelligence. even more relevant now than when he wrote it two years ago: softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

repost with your model of positive masculinity:

i want people to have access to the things they need to survive and make their own decisions about their lives. i just want humanity to be the weird, creative, boring, dumb, brilliant, flourishing animals we deserve to be.

Pantone picking the wrong colour of the year and being rejected by everyone and their mothers is the real recession indicator.

It's time to talk to you about my cat.