yet another fantastic program from @saloneurope.bsky.social in #Paris last evening! talented readers from all over Europe shared fiction, CNF & poetry—merci @deborahzafer.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social & @norami.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

#writer skeeps! wondering about #publishing in today’s crazy world 🧐 check out this convo featuring the always talented & thoughtful @jamestatehill.bsky.social with literary agents on the front lines 👇

no words 😳

*we’re* the product we don’t get to be picky 😜

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Paris ne vous oubliera jamais, et toujours, nous nous souviendrons. Vous êtes pour l’éternité dans notre cœur et nos mémoires : ici, dans votre jardin, et dans toute l’âme de Paris. Fluctuat Nec Mergitur.

humans can’t have AI “relationships” any more than they can have one with a piece of furniture

Pope Leo to Adolescents and Youth AI Conference: “Governments and international organizations have a responsibility to design and implement policies that protect the dignity of minors in this era of AI.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

a penny for your thoughts 🧐

No agent? No problem. The 5th Edition of our Indie Press Guide is available to pre-order! With over 750 editors to choose from, there's never been a better time to take control of your writing! mslexia.co.uk/shop/indie-p... #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #writers

okay @economist.com which is it 🧐 #US #future #AI #gloom

speaking of flight issues, check out this sly banger from the always amazing @bsherm36.bsky.social, just in time for your own Thanksgiving drama 😜🦃🍗

lost my PPO & had 2 get ACA in NYS only to discover that not only was it crazy expensive (even then) for an adjunct professor but none of my doctors would take it i guess cuz there were many incredibly rich folks in the area, they didn’t need to! had 2 go cross-county for basic care if lucky to find

wait! is it too late for #ToebeansTuesday😸??! #cats #Paris

presented without comment futurism.com/artificial-i...

@markhertling.bsky.social’s thoughtful, inspiring reflection worth a read on #VeteransDay 🇺🇸

what’s perplexing is why a company would use the word perplexity to name something that supposedly provides clarity oh wait, maybe they asked an AI 🧐

President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.

more #weather drama from #Paris yesterday—love #autumn 😁 🍂🎃

“it may have profound implications for society and what it means to be human”🧐 uh, no a human is a human and a data processor is not human spare us the AI homilies 🙄

‘tis the season to re-read one of my favest spooky collections (edited by @datlow.bsky.social naturellement) just finished scary & satisfying @garthnix.bsky.social’s micro, “Last Drinks at Bondi Beach” & having been to Sydney at Christmas (& dined at Bondi!), this lands super hard 🙀 🎄🩸

Pope Leo XIV encourages participants in a Vatican-organized conference to help ensure that artificial intelligence does not replace interpersonal relationships in the field of healthcare. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Heads up! We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

#sky drama over #Paris this evening #France #photography

quelle surprise 🙀

hey, if anyone knows any #illustrators, can you please pass this along and/or reskeet if this is your community? 🙏 🙏🙏

did AI come up with this 😳

so if i launch into space, slingshot past Jupiter, fall into a wormhole, visit my adult daughter years later then re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by Friday, would my entry still count? i mean, the story not splashdown i think 🧐

“Palantir CEO Alex Karp talks so much that you think that he just likes the sound of his own voice—though you wonder if he actually hears what he’s saying” congrats to @ajdellinger.com for this alternately amusing & terrifying portrait of a very powerful tech exec 😳 gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

two kinds of fabulous in one #CNF/ #memoir #writing event—super talented @sagetyrtle.bsky.social + the great folks who run WritingWorkshops.com check it out, #writer skeeps 👇

already so many things to love about @smokelong.bsky.social & now this 👇

Applications for One Story's 2026 Writing Circle are now open! The Writing Circle is a year-long education and accountability program. Join a small cohort of fiction writers looking to devote a year to improving their craft and process. For details visit: bit.ly/3WELNeL #writing #writingclasses

as a Philly skeep, i am pleased wiz the verdict 😜

plus ça change, skeeps 😜

now the question is what are we going to be able to do about it 🧐

US district court judge Ellis quotes a POEM—reads it IN FULL—as she begins her expected ruling on the feds use of force in Chicago. Something kind of America the beautiful about that 🥹🇺🇸

@aniking.bsky.social @tracieadams.bsky.social thx so much for the reskeets 🙏

also i positively FORBID anyone to call this cyber feline CatGPT i mean it 😼!!! 100footcrow.com/how-to-train...

Today it’s easy to be joyful so how about a little pop-up theme call. Joy is the theme. Whatever gives you joy counts unless it’s hate, that won’t count. Poems flash micro art, everyone welcome even if you’ve already submitted. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

OMG i just saw my lil’ (100 word) SF #cat story posted on fabulous @100footcrow.bsky.social today!!! #WhiskersWednesday, no less! How perfect is that😜🚀😻?! #writing #drabble #SpecFic 100footcrow.com/how-to-train...

got lucky & saw the fleeting beaver #supermoon this morning in #Paris #France #photography #sky

So excited to moderate this totally free event, open to all! Thanks so much to Maggie & Danya & Eric for donating their time & wisdom!

tears already running down my face 🥹 (for real)

check it out #flash #writer fam 👇

yesterday’s gospel Luke 14 12-14 included these remarkable words of Christ “…when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed you will be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” 🥹 🙏 ❤️

so many terrible moments in the destruction of freedom of the press in America but this attempted erasure of a fellow Philly peeps & the important reportage of, yes, Teen Vogue marks a turning point imho 😔

‘tis the season for ecohorror 🎄👻

<<the power of love will prevail over the the love of power>> message of hope spotted on an ordinary wall in #Paris yesterday #France #StreetLife #photography

Flash submission call, open for next half hour to hour.

i dunno but these lil’ minis are so spooky you all might need to change your name to Scary Goose Press 😜 @sillygoosepress.bsky.social sillygoosepress.com/goose-bumps