#WIPSnips April 26: "work" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #FirstDraft #PrairieSFF

well then Semantle #1548 ✅ 62 Guesses 🔝 Guess #60 🥈 999/1000 💡 0 Hints semantle.com

hey @support.bsky.team and anyone else who might know: Why am I suddenly getting a 403 Forbidden error when I try to get to bsky.app ? How can I fix it? It's not my IP address -- I'm writing this in a Firefox private window. It's not my account -- clearly I can still log in.

I keep coming back to the original first draft Alien facehugger sketch. If you can start with that and end up with one of the most iconic designs in horror movie history, then there's no excuse for AI.

Both *Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle* games over on Steam now have new banners on their store pages. Support human creators.

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

…cool. Vibe coding seems to be going well.

Tom Waits' tale of Christmas Past from The Old Man and the Gun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ann_...

Oscar the Grouch

Fury Road www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJn... (also Wrath of Khan)

"Woodpecker from Mars", Faith No More www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMv...

I will be using this template a lot: "LLMs cannot do X because that is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none.” Used it here too: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

#WIPSnips April 24: "hungry" (It's a scene in a café, with fries on the side) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Calvin knows what's up

This will affect all history. The very concept of "primary documents" is being obliterated. Nothing run through "A.i." is "primary."

jeepers humdinger cripes

"Tommy the Cat" by Primus. (with Tom Waits as Tommy's voice) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Oh...

i'll never stop being annoyed about this. there is no such thing as AI. there is no definition of AI. Claude, the Spotify recommendation algorithm, Nvidia DLSS, Agent Smith, bots in Counterstrike, HAL-9000, and Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde are all things called AI

I am comfortably into my 50s and let me tell you, if I ever end up on Jeopardy!, I will get my septum re-pierced just for the show

this seems like something @weekend-warrior.bsky.social would be interested in

I got time today, so let's dig into why this article is a crock of shit. There is no ethical use of genAI and any librarian arguing otherwise is lying to you, so ignorant they should be ignored, or drifting. 1/ www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...

Giraffes, not whales

This, but for education, too!

Really? Quit vibe-coding with the slop machine, then, so we can have proper uptime. Oh—get post autodelete functionality and an edit button working, too. That would go a long way.

I'm making stickers of the venn diagram I used in my talk about AI vibe coding. What do people think of this design? Any suggestions for changes?

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

Green, purple, blue, white, ...

celebs i’d cast in a lotr reboot: thread

Roast chicken sub from Pizza Express on 10th Street

I got the same feeling, reading this, as I get from the stories Jorge Luis Borges wrote about infinity. Endless wealth, it seems, is no better for a psyche than endless days are.

Last chance! Applications for National Indigenous Peoples Day Program Grants close today. These ten $200 grants help support members wishing to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day through library programming in their communities on or around June 21, 2026. Learn more: buff.ly/ZHhvc2I

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist. Embarassing.

If this popped up in a William @greatdismal.bsky.social Gibson story, I'd have been all, No, that's a little *too* ridiculous. www.pcworld.com/article/2767...

I had Why blocked first, for the record

(1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address: [email protected].

A robin on the lawn, earlier today. patrickjohanneson.com/2026/04/21/i...

I write cinematically—people have told me they can easily see what I'm describing. Also my dialogue is pretty good.

the best pizza is the pizza you have with you

this is the only viable solution to duds wearing "ai"-enabled "smart" glasses

If AI was the wave of the future, sites wouldn't put the icon for it where you're most likely to accidentally click on it without meaning to.

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

This one was actually fine but this should be Bluesky’s motto

Thrills, the gum whose slogan (at least last year) was "It still tastes like soap!"

Journalists and media need to stop repeating tech companies’ marketing pitches, and policymakers must stop prioritizing the imagined urgency over safety and human rights. #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/04/16/t...

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]