Speaking as someone whose "eh, close enough" goal is to pass as a gay white dude... Holy fuck do gay white dudes need to get with the goddamn program

I just dropped favorite mug on my second favorite mug, broke both, and they're both handmade and irreplaceable and I use them for 90% of my drinks so I'm pretty fucking devastated rn

My cats on the cat tower just now: Cat 1: looking out window Cat 1: licks Cat 2's butt twice Cat 1: resumes looking out window

youre asking chatgpt. im asking my discord full of autistic people that i keep in my back pocket. we are not the same.

Happy Friday! In order to continue fighting on behalf of all books, all authors, & all readers Authors Against Book Bans is fundraising. No donation is too small & all are tax deductible!

STOP. PUTTING. AI IN EVERYTHING. Fucking stop it!

It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.

New first draft! Having fun writing an autistic fae who hasn't been to the Surface since about 1920. #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

Zoho Writer spellcheck enshittification part 3000 That's it. I'm finally going to try Ellipsus. I can't handle this shit anymore.

I'm on the last two scenes of the borderline monsterfucking novella I'm revising, and... On one hand I feel really self-conscious about how... out there this feels? It's weird and introspective and mushy as hell and TRANS, and dips its toes into monster-fucking without ever doing body horror

Left a self publishing group on Facebook ostensibly for helping new self pub authors, BC it was all about AI 'how are you using AI'? 'look at this cover I made using AI'. Ppl saying they use AI to "brainstorm", others who say they feed their own drafts into the plagiarism machine for "editing"

It's a bummer having to tell cis people what "flavor" of non-binary I am so that when they misgender me they at least do it in the correct direction.

Two days left!

I fucking refuse to buy any game made with AI. REFUSE.

We've broken $3,000!! Can we make one last push for $3,500? itch.io/b/3352/trans...

I switched to Zoho Writer a couple of years ago when I couldn't trust Docs because at the time Zoho had decent stances on privacy and content. But the enshittification of Zoho's spellcheck is becoming INFURIATING. Case in point: "unclench".

Alright, now that dev edits on Community Witch book 1 are finished, I *should* be switching back to the first draft of book 4 since I have to turn it in to my publisher in slightly less than a year. ...but first I'm making a quick detour into monster-fucking

Three days left to pick up this great bundle of trans fiction for Trans Awareness Month! 32 books for $35 is a great deal! We're currently at 83% of our sales goal, so maybe help us cross the finish line? itch.io/b/3352/trans... #booksky #QueerWriters #romancelandia

We're sooooo close to reaching 100% of our goal in this wonderful bundle! 🤩 Still 4 days left to grab 32 books by trans authors for a really sweet price! 🔥 #BookSky

Just sent finished dev edits for Community Witch to my publisher. Thank GOD. I know dev editing improves the quality of the final product, but it makes my brain itch in a way that's extremely stressful and unpleasant.

There is no such thing as ethical generated AI. There is no such thing as AI 'art.' AI generated media is theft. Enthusiasm for AI is weird and stupid and yes you should feel bad if you've used it for anything. Give up on it, move on and do something worth time and effort.

Heads up for folx playing Arc Raiders: Embark has openly stated (in an interview with GamesRadar+), that the game uses the same AI voice tech as The Finals, and the CEO has talked about using AI to generate 3D models from YouTube rips. If you're anti-AI you should not be playing Arc Raiders!

I don't buy every bundle I enter my books in, but having read the blurbs of these fantasy, romance and other books... I bought this one 😉.

I am fucking DONE with healthcare providers claiming ignorance of trans medicine as an excuse to deny care "Being uneducated" isn't something that just happens. It's a fucking CHOICE. They are CHOOSING not to educate themselves. A choice that has catastrophic & sometimes deadly consequences

One week left to grab this awesome bundle of trans fiction - 32 books for $35!

It is literally maddening trying to get gender affirming care for my teen while also navigating obstructions to getting my OWN trans healthcare - like the shortages of testosterone that happen every goddamn winter in Ontario Just this week, my pharmacy was like, oh yeah we won't have any until Feb

Same as AI voice, get fucked. I'm saying this as a multilingual, long run language teacher, language acquisition specialist, avid reader, indie author... Stupid fakeass machines can't translate. They are shit. And so are you for offering this. Fuck off. Va te faire foutre! Baszodj meg!

Got to take a Rubbermaid of corn snake to the vet this morning, which was a surreal experience (The snake is fine, apparently)

Can verify, just went and turned some of this shit off

Alright, I am officially BEGGING people on AO3 to leave honest-to-god HUMAN comments on chapters of fics. PLEASE. It's been two months since I've gotten anything but AI-generated scam comments like this, which was posted all of a minute after I posted a new chapter #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

don’t you think they look tired?

I want you to feel a glimpse of an ACTUAL healthy, un-sabotaged movement. I’m using this thread to post news articles that either ✅pass or 🚫do not pass the Sabotage Test, so you can start spotting them too. No joke knowing the difference is healing me. Adding more as I see them.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

New York is now transgender

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

Mamdani's win PROVES that every Democrat ceding ground on trans rights as a 'losing issue' is a cowardly piece of shit

Week 3 of dev edits on Community Witch and it will be worth it in the end, but right now I'm in actual, literal hell #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

Really pleased to be part of this Itch bundle of trans fiction for Trans Awareness Month. $35 is a steal for work by some really wonderful authors, so make sure you check it out before it ends. itch.io/b/3352/trans... #booksky #QueerWriters

You know what makes the daylight savings time > standard time drag a whole lot better? Books featuring trans characters making their way in the world. Guess what? There's a specific itchio bundle for that. Check out the Trans People Take on the World bundle until Nov. 15 📚💙 itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Nightmare on Yonge Street

The Toronto sports almost didn't Toronto, but then they did

Was about to be like wtf why do ppl do this to themselves Then I remembered I've done martial arts for 21 years, so I just enjoy a different flavor of sports masochism I guess

crazy how they fit the entire rogers centre in the gom jabbar

The innings will continue until morale improves.

Accidental euphoria while handling out candy last night. Me: Happy Halloween! Kid: Hey are you (husband's name) or Ash? Me: Uh. I'm Ash, yeah Kid: Cool Kid: (turns and leaves) Kid's friend: How do you know that guy? Me: ... 😊😊😊

The last twenty percent of a scarf project is always the worst

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