tiny girl: fuck it we small

This is a very reputable publisher, and look at the challenges they’re facing when it comes authors to trying to sneak Gen-AI stories past the goalie. When Talia and I last were anthology editors, there were no AI subs to worry about. I feel how stressful this must be.

Everybody goes on about Total Eclipse of the Heart, but this is far and away my favorite Bonnie Tyler song. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcA...

RIP bonnie tyler. lotta folks tonight are gonna learn the extent to which 'total eclipse of the heart' is outside their karaoke range

Folks in the Philly burbs: solidarity vigil in Norristown this Saturday 11am-1pm

ICE agents have shot and killed at least 10 people during this admin. So why aren't ICE agents wearing body-cams? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

In southern China, authorities say flooding has killed at least 39 people after days of record rainfall. A massive rescue and relief operation is underway as entire communities are underwater in the Guangxi region.

Right: Let's do genocide. Left: Let's not. *Right runs out of room and comes back with a bad false mustache* "Center": Let's do ALL the genocide! Wait, shit, I think I messed it up. Anyway, the left are the real extremists. Left: *eating a burrito* Wha....?

Please, for the love of all that's unholy, become AI literate. Read some genAI writing. Realize that if you write with any sort of care and thought, you're not writing *that*. Yes, some of it's indistinguishable at the paragraph level, but the patterns are pretty dang clear on a macro level.

I'm going to keep redirecting folks to the actual documentation Bona Books put together because it's *solid*, because it should alleviate fear that your writing, if not genAI created, would even hit those initial warning bells, and because I want other publishers to see this process and use it.

Trailblazing aviator Mary Wallace, or "Wally" Funk, has died. In the early 1960s, she was among the "Mercury 13," a privately funded effort intended to train women to fly in space.

Sadly so

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Say his name: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

Absolutely essential read for all — and further affirmation that if you haven’t switched from Google to DuckDuckGo you should without a second’s further delay.

I see people are freaking out how to "prove" they are a real writer and not using AI. First, chances are your word processor and/or cloud service keeps a history of your saves. Second, come on. Your files all look like this. Stop lying to us.

Every time you post about your WIP, that is proof. Every time you discuss your WIP with friends/beta readers, that is proof. Notes are more compelling if documented, but witness statements are evidence, too. As is email. Don't sweat it. Writers can't help leaving crumbs behind them.

WHAT IS MORE Most writers are such whiny ass precious little uwu smolbeans that they will spend two weeks arguing over a fucking semi-colon vs an emdash. AI writers not only don't give a shit, they don't know how to answer when asked, "What word did you mean here?" b/c they don't know.

I'm telling you! YOU ALREADY HAVE SO MUCH PROOF THAT YOU WROTE THE THING. ffs sometimes I plot my books on a wall and take a photo of it (this is me showing someone who was stuck how to unstuck herself) YOU HAVE SO MUCH PROOF AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT

Exhibit N°128482016492 that UBI works and _makes money back_ For those in the back: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME HAS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BETTER RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAN ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE

“His most recent piece for the student paper, which was published last month, criticized what he described as discriminatory hiring practices in academia biased against white men” well knock me over with a feather

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

They always say this! Every time! It's a lie every time!

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

The line in the Star Wars prequels I think about all the time is Palpatine menacingly hissing "I will make it legal" which everybody thought was a bad and campy line at the time, but is just how American dictatorship has always worked.

I went to bed at 11:00 last night and slept until 7:30. Then I slept in my comfy chair today from noon-4pm. I have got to do better managing my energy when on vacation. I can't afford a long CFS crash. (But FOMO!)

When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".

Me: Okay we got these ones a good home but maybe stop just randomly picking up strays Athena: NEVER

You go to the police and you give a traumatizing account and he interrogates you like you did something wrong and then he asks you if you really want to ruin this nice white boy's life. That's why the fuck people don't do police reports.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jul 9th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

"why didn't she come forward about the rape earlier" Because police don't do anything about rape most of the time, they try women for "false accusations" some additional percentage, and what was she supposed to do, upturn her mental health only for some judge to give him a suspended sentence?

I’m not a short story writer anymore, but in a normal year, I routinely write between two and three novels, and I’ve been doing that since long before AI existed. Base load is 200,000 to 275,000 publishable words a year.

tax the rich but also make each of them walk down a runway where they get an extra tax if i think their outfit is ugly

did you know that the English words druid, trust, truth, betroth, and truce all share a root word with “tree”? this reflects the longstanding spiritual and symbolic significance of trees in many European cultures

Hey artists and meme creators in the Dungeon Crawler Carl fandom - be sure to block this person. They are stealing art and reposting it WITHOUT CREDIT to the artist/creator. Fuck that shit. bsky.app/profile/dung...

This is a systemic issue. When cops were called on Gabby Petito's bf for assaulting her, they treated her like the danger. Same with Rosie Cooney, despite her bf's 2 prior restraining orders. Same with multiple women featured in "Worst Ex Ever". Cops are the last people we should trust with this.

Thread. Watch out for genAI scammers, gang.

ICYMI: my first book made its way into the world yesterday! You can buy it at any major retailer. Please let me know if you see it in the wild and/or if you request it of your library!

I genuinely think the world would be a much better place if everyone spent time living abroad. Being immersed in a new culture for a while is a great way to learn what could be better and what could be worse

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

I've had the opposite happen, where someone suggested that the reason "AI" writing sucks so bad is because it was trained on my work, but it should be noted the person who said this is generally deeply resentful that I have a viable writing career and they largely do not, so it's mostly just bile

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has denied the Department of Homeland Security’s request to pause her order shutting down use of its modified SAVE system to certify registered voters’ citizenship status. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Male brains and female brains are all just human brains.

Never use them on beach either. They make the sand so hot that it can cause serious burns hours later.

QRP your bird art.

Incredibly entertaining (and affirming) convo on the need for younger leaders in the NYT's focus group with Black voters. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Strands #858 “On the lips” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

Connections Puzzle #1124 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Wordle 1,846 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Meanwhile, the federal government has cut funding for the lawyers who are contracted to help these kids file for asylum or other humanitarian protections – at the same time that they’ve accelerated the court docket aggressively.