On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

Feeling very “greatest city in the world” today as I nod to every guy I pass on the street decked out in multiple pieces of Knicks gear

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

There's nothing "radical" about AOC. She's the norm among liberals in much of the world. She's only "radical" in the sense that she's a woman who doesn't pull her punches and a politician who doesn't kow-tow to corporations. Her political stances are quite mainstream among the American citizenry.

I just happened to plan my Montauk writing retreat so the day I head home is the day the entire LIRR shuts down due a strike lol... oops

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

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I stopped drinking three years ago *and* I'm currently pregnant, but if it happened today I would have a swig of champagne

Couldn't remember what NFTs were called so I googled "what were the stupid digital monkeys"

if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.

I’m applying to a bunch of grants rn and treating it as kind of a social experiment to be upfront about the fact that I’m pregnant and the biggest reason I need funding for my writing next year is bc I’ll be learning to balance it with parenthood, on top of paid work… will report back on the results

For reporting, I'm looking to speak to a Black novelist whose screen adaptation has been scrapped or delayed for a long period of time. If that's you or someone you know, please email me at [email protected].

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

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Will Asbestos Make Make Cotton Candy Obsolete?

I suppose I should also say: now that I'm back from leave I'm opening to queries again, and eager to find some great new fiction and nonfiction. Please get in touch! (And also be patient with me, I am still experiencing email reentry.)

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For anyone contemplating posting something really incendiary/edgy re: the White House Correspondence Dinner: Listen to our Muppet comrades.

we used to teach marksmanship in grade school, when we were a real country

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

"Hey, you're being really annoying" I say to my cat in a calm, stern voice as if he A) can understand me and B) would give a shit

hell yeah

the times says that being hot is a millennial trait

idk if I have another round of "yes, really, rape is a bigger deal than some guy's career" discourse in me, you guys

(Yes I know that a maniacal insistence on moving ever-forward/ never stopping to reckon w/ the past is so baked into this country's cultural identity that any real consequences for the architects of our current nightmare are a mere pipe dream, but imagining Nuremberg-style comeuppance helps me cope)

This pestilent fuck needs to be in the first round of Nuremberg II for sure

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

FYI if you use AI to write emails to authors, they'll be indistinguishable from the slop scams we're all getting on a daily basis (and just in general... if you use AI to write me an email I will treat it as I treat all AI—feel a moment of contempt and then ignore it)

MOST EARNED IT Minneapolis MOST SYMBOLICALLY CORRECT Philly MOST DEVASTATING TO TRUMP New York FUNNIEST Miami

the lesson from today’s downtime isn’t that it was caused by vibe coding (bluesky went down all the time before Claude too), it’s that if you use AI you will no longer get the benefit of the doubt and everyone will mock you for laziness regardless of the cause

Worker-run projects are the future of media for sure!!!

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There have always been hacks, there will always be hacks. Doesn't mean the rest of us have to adopt their hacky ways!

lying about it happening on april fool's day: mean-spirited, hurtful, not funny at all it actually happening on april fool's day: possibly the funniest thing of all time

This batch of Dem presidential hopefuls went bad in the crisper drawer, can we toss it and get a new one?

I just did this, it took two minutes!

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Idk man I just think *not watching a show* is maybe the easiest moral action you could possibly ask of someone? If that’s too big an ask for you, please look in the mirror and ask some hard questions about what kind of person you want to be/what’s the point of humanity and society

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

["Bodies" (Drowning Pool, 2001) starts blasting at a painful volume, seemingly from every direction at once]

That’s right. I’m a writer, people who feed prompts into plagiarism machines and then put their names on the garbage that comes out are… not.

Yep that’s about the long and short of it

Proof that if we all just ignore shitty technology that nobody wants, no matter how much money these dinguses throw into it, it will eventually go away. Next up: AI!

Movies are political and it's good to discuss their politics, but if you view a film primarily as an ideology delivery system that is caked in stupid art and entertainment and pleasure that it uses to distract the dumb unwashed and make What It Is Really Saying palatable, you might be the problem.

And I would rather take advice from yogurt

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

I’m utterly uninterested in “debates” about whether AI can do things well. I wouldn’t care if it could. 1. It stole from me. 2. I prefer me having my job to a computer having it. 3. I don’t teach “with” Lockheed or Raytheon; why wld I teach with Anthropic or OpenAI?