Honest to god, they’re the bloody best! Mr Tawny and the kids were the ones enjoying a bike ride today.😀

For aaages Microsoft has been shoving huge popups in my face saying I need a whole new computer that will support Windows 11... Which was of course a fucktonne of lies. I just changed my disk partition type and a couple of settings in BIOS and can now upgrade. It took minutes.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Really excited about this class I’ll be hosting in my SE Portland, Oregon studio. It’s a three week crash course into illustrated ceramics that will be overflowing with technique instruction within a fun format. Just 2 spots left! www.erikarier.com/shop/witchy-...

What a stunner she is.

I really REALLY feel like anyone who does anything related to books -- author, publisher, storefront, etc. -- should have a statement about genAI front and centre. And should credit cover artists clearly.

Does anyone know what Chirp's genAI policy is? I've scoured their website but can't find any info... which in this day & age is always disappointing and concerning.

Everyone has a part to play. Even—especially—the person who moderates the subreddit for videos of people patting their cat on the butt really rapidly.

raining somewhat crooked

Another favor to ask on a research project. We're wrapping up a large project on AI music. We need folks to participate in a short 10 min quiz to test your ability to distinguish between AI music & human music. Especially looking for help from musicians! uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

fingers crossed please, they said if i can demonstrate a proficient level of foraging over the next few months they will release me back into the wild

A sneak peek at part of the novel I'm working on, via the table of contents. I think that you will like the character Snodgrass in particular in this first section. With any luck, this novel will be in print before the end of the year. It features a man who turns into a cormorant also. Bonus!

I am obscenely into earl grey tea at the moment. It came over me a few days ago and all I want to do is drink earl grey. These will forever be known as my earl grey days. My earl grey era. Is this art.

You know what? 2026 is the year I'm not playing nice anymore. If copyright means so little to use A / I for playing around, here's one of his book for free: Color and Light James Gurney [English] : Free Download, Internet Archive share.google/qjDjFS6QhhZJ...

Last re-post: James Gurney AND Alison Bechdel going on my shitlist for using genAI fucking SUCKS.

I read an interview today where Alison Bechdel talked about using chatGPT for a panel of her recent comic -- she prompted it and copied the results -- and I still don't know what to do with that. It genuinely feels in moments like this like so many of our art elders are failing us.

Bandcamp has banned AI music 🎧 "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp"

Wow, no. Fuck right off with this shit. I’ve sent feedback via the in-app survey, cancelled my holds and deleted the app 💀💀💀

“We need writers now more than ever, as our media closes up, as our politicians grow daily more cowed by real power, as Australia grows more unjust and unequal.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year buttondown.com/theswordandt...

It is ok to move - Morality above - Non-essential life clutter in your list of priorities. Truly. Yes, this is about genAI.

Tonight we walk around the house asking all the appliances which one is beeping at random...

Intune —> CopilotMalware Windows —> CopilOS Authenticator —> CopiletMeIn Bethesda —> CopilotSkyrim Activision —> Copilot of Duty Task Manager —> CopilotDavePlummerWroteTaksManager Powershell —> CopilotNotBash Hyper-V —> Copilotrash

Signal Man. A cheery new drawing for January.

Krispy Kreme Express. #Toronto #Scarborough #Photography

Bit late to the party, but here are some of my favourite books read in 2025 - all of which are available at proud-geek.co.uk (There’s a list of book titles and authors in the alt text) Have you read any of these? #queerbooks #booksky

A year ago I decided to draw a little picture of the CD I was listening to - then I kept going! 1225 mini-pictures later… Here they all are!

I forgot it was new year for most of yesterday. By the time I remembered I was already caught up in a whole vortex of Things and Stuff and decided not to fight it. Yes, I DO need a crimping tool. Yes, I DO need a soldering iron. Wait -- what I really, really need are vintage hifi buttons.

There's more to say about this open letter, unfortunately, but bear with me, because I think it's important. For example, this response in the File 770 comments by SFWA board member Jonathan Brazee. In essence, Underwood gives cover to SFWA and vice versa. But both their positions are crap. 1/?

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

@support.bsky.team c'mon man, aren't we all tired of this bullshit

Can't believe it took until yesterday to realise that genAI is the embodiment of the saying "do everything with the confidence of a mediocre white man."

yeah we don’t need LLMs for that but also the obsession with the edge case of accidental LLM use via a spell checker is a distraction from the primary uses with LLMs and is a rhetorical wedge designed to make it seem like AI evangelists are reasonable and thoughtful when they’re not

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I don't think you could come up with a list more designed to inflame sentiments than "here is a list of things that publishers MUST use AI to do and remain competitive, but don't worry, this isn't pushing out creative labor"

For better or (mostly) for worse, 2025 is almost over. For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage. Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.

Happy Solstice! From now through the end of the year, all of my digital zines are half off, or get all 50 zines for $25! itch.io/s/176550/202...

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

Since I am working on a new novel, I have decided to issue editions with no instances of "fuck" and another that is 50 percent fucks to serve both constituencies revealed by Absolution.

So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now: 1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.

Pretty sure that when the writing community fights against AI in an award's eligibility, they do NOT mean that scientific models are bad, and they do NOT mean that using spell check will disqualify a work. I'm frankly as baffled by these arguments as I am by the original AI-inclusive award criteria.

Honestly, though, begs the question... why did this even occur? Everyone involved should be fired or quit or whatever the process is. I'm not actually thankful they rescinded it so much as wanting accountability for why it even happened in the first place.

This ain't it, SFWA. By allowing LLM tools "at any point during the writing process" you are allowing verified social, ecological, and individual harms to be part of the Nebula Awards. Shame on you. www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...

Are your strings of lights not working? Check out our step-by-step guide to get them up and running so they don’t end up in a landfill. www.ifixit.com/Guide/Fixing... — #iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld

New book alert! 📚 KILLING EVE - featuring exclusive interviews with Phoebe Waller-Bridge & Sally Woodward Gentle - drops Fall 2026. Part of WSU's TV Milestones series 📺🔪🪓 Share the news!

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Some pics from T.A. Noonan’s THE STORY THAT BEGINS WITH A STORY NAMED DEATH. @ghoststructural.bsky.social www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-sto...

NO FUCKING SYMPATHY. Sloppers be sloppin' through the slop.

A SUPERIOR ITERATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY