It’s not Minnesota Nice anymore, it’s Minnesota NoICE! Art by me, please share, thx <3

Finished the crafty project I was working on, packed it up... and totally failed to take any pictures of it. Welp. Go me.

And if you don't believe me? Here's a trick: Tell it it's incorrect about something it was actually *right about* and watch it attempt to backtrack, and spin up some other bullshit. Again, two or three "You're wrong/incorrect" will prove these are (technically and philosophically) bullshit machines

NB: I *think* @wolvendamien.bsky.social is the one I heard first refer to them as Bullshit Engines way back. This video/talk is from 2023 and is essentially a wonderful primer on the massive issues with LLMs-as-Bullshitters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpM...

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

It's both a thrill & an honor that my short story "Mail-Order Magic" was selected to be part of the @morningtransport.bsky.social Holiday Storyflod this year! Find it linked here along with the other amazing chosen stories: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/smt-2025-h...

Christmas in (a very ancient) Dorset

hey hey you hey you with the headache drink some water

fuck it we ball

This is helpful to understand: bsky.app/profile/adam...

An independent scholar emailed me this morning to ask about copyright in a specific case. ChatGPT told him that unpublished letters are literary works and ‘therefore’ in the public domain after 70 years. It’s enough to make a stone weep.

Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...

1) Google Scholar is not inventing fake citations, but it transfers these hallucinations into a temporary catalog page on the library site via standard API tools. This not good, here the story continues:

As many people are pointing out, a good analogy for genAI is asbestos. It's being jammed in everywhere and we're going to spend decades removing it.

A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books. The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Put @kumail.bsky.social in more things www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieR3...

This is an incredible review of SPREAD ME, both in that it is very kind to the book ("All in all, a deeply unwholesome way to spend an afternoon") and in that it is a STELLAR piece of writing - I will be repeating the phrase "four eyed, fork-tongued viral desert people-eater" to myself all day 😈

any time now

I had totally forgotten about the bathroom in my grandmother’s house that could potentially get toilet rats (she lived at the top of a steep hill and when the water level was high they’d climb up the pipes to avoid drowning) I always treated that bathroom like it was haunted due to this.

Help a great writer who is in a pinch, would you?

Ah yes I don’t felt around other people because it involves a lot of therapeutic stabbing with the occasional “OW!” followed by swearing when I poke into my finger

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

You’d better take a Tanooki suit, Mario. It gets quite nippy in World 6 this time of year.

Well, I totally forgot to take pictures of the first two steps of this project so… might as well not do any in process ones at all. That’s how it works right?

Longtime Fantasy author Alma needs our help!

you need as many emergency buns as possible.

Me: *gets online after doing things all day* “JFC WTF Are you serious? What? FFS!”

real talk though if you follow me you probably know SOMEONE who will say "this book was written for me?!" And that's an awesome feeling to give someone ☺️

Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.

I just gave my 20yo a rundown of the day's news, and he said, "It's all so dumb, it's hard to take seriously and so it's hard to fight. We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians!" "We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.

Cock pocket

Why the everyloving fuck would they keep choosing cruelty as the best policy!!!!

Okay what the actual fuck this actually looks hilarious youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

Oh hey do you like physical media? Do you like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Do you like badass roguelike video games? Then check out the Pipin’ Hot Collector’s Edition of TMNT: Splintered Fate! It comes in a pizza box! Fun fact: the cards in this are the first piece of canon TMNT I ever wrote!

Every day, and especially today (and yesterday and tomorrow, and so on), trans rights are human rights.

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

Oh my god…

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

Dang it I thought about food too much *gets up to get some night cheese*

you know how when you were a little kid you could go up to people and be like, “you, girl with the pink ponytail, do you want to be friends?” and then you were friends? you can also do that as a grownup; they don’t want you to know this, but people hardly ever say no

As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help. The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.

Become ungovernable

I am an old man, @mozilla.org, and I was happy to sit in my rocking chair and use Firefox until sunset. But if you insist on choking this browser with GenAI bloat, I will face God and walk backwards into Linux.

Well I submitted a grant request today and felt relieved for… about 4 hours. Now I’m worrying about every little thing now that I can’t change anything. Brains… who thought those were a good idea?

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

I literally used to make videos as a job— so I know exactly how much that should cost to make— and writing doesn’t pay that much without the added time and effort to make a video.

Help me, Hive Mind! I've got multiple students interested in deep time vertebrate paleontology -- everything from early tetrapod evolution to dinosaurs. This is not my field, and we don't have any paleontologists at UMaine (vertebrate or invertebrate). Do you know of any good internships or REUs?