meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

I do think AI companies underestimate the degree to which simply being this annoyed can turn most of us into full on supervillains. Like, ask me again if I, a writer, want you, a fuck burger barf box, to help me with this sentence? We will collectively ruin the AI boom out of sheer pettiness watch

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

AI is a direct threat to our livelihoods as well as the future of our professions, not because AI is capable of doing any of the work, but because our industries will use the threat of AI to make us all increasingly precarious. Uncertain futures and worse working conditions.

For the reluctant heir who likes his ace betrothed as a friend but is REALLY INTO the magical lawyer/old flame writing their marriage contract, and WHOOPS there's a ton of murder in the gothic mansion they're all locked in: THE GENTLEMAN AND HIS VOWSMITH by Rebecca Ide @themattlacey.bsky.social

Blows my mind every time someone thinks it’s a productive use of time to say to a total stranger, “Ahem, excuse me, I can’t help but notice you expect compensation for your work. This must be a mistake. Is there a way for me to benefit from the product of your labor without you benefiting from it?”

this is beautifully said and i feel this every year as i admit with a hint of shame that i hate Christmas. that the trauma of it has slowly piled up to where i now avoid people and events as much as possible. and no this isn’t family stuff, my family are lovely. i have a relationship with them all..

this! i love my job. i will get up early and avoid all other possible tasks to write sometimes. BUT ALSO sometimes it’s like pulling teeth. the amount of overdramatic toddler flopping on floor tantrums i throw when there’s a bit i just don’t wanna do! have to trick my brain to get some parts done

real and true

our emotional & practical survival over the next year is going to depend on us developing the emotional depth to say "hahaha fuck yeah, shit has gotten so bad that even [terrible person] is trying to save themselves" without being like "so they're not terrible anymore, maybe?"

You know the drill folks: calm, polite, and plausible enough to waste people's time.

"I saw your legs move." You're not Benoit Blanc, bud. If you want to advocate for us, go yell at the DOJ to restore the damned ADA.

I just listed Wintertide the Mystical Phantom over at my Big Cartel shop. She's the only creature I currently have available. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

It feels like the people who proclaimed themselves our betters all have the ability to have their brains turned off by a sufficiently deferential tone.

handy that when uninstalling from the computer, it prompts you to tell them why you’re doing so! hope they get a lot of pissed off responses!

Behind every bad decision with backlash is a team of artists going "I told you so"

The way to restart the idea machine is PAY CREATIVES FOR THEIR WORK

we are in this constant artistic conversation that is coated in years of fingerprints and patina from being handled by artists and being shaped by our senses and our bodies and our gravity and physics and how sound carries in the air, and that is such a precious, beautiful thing

In light of this commitment, I'm sure The Guardian will be releasing an action plan to deal with its clear, bigoted anti-trans agenda and working to undo its biases aaaaany d-- [checks notes] Oh, that's right. Never. Silly me. For a moment there I thought words still meant things.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

i hate that we seem to have to have a mass shooting every 30 years to remind the country why guns suck and we shouldn’t water down the laws, but if he gets this done i’ll be damn proud of the fact that we’ve responded this way twice 💪 do it, albo. don’t be a smaller man than john howard

Another reason for UBI. Means testing benefits and prosecuting benefit fraud increases the costs massively. Being afraid 1 person will get something they don't deserve means we have 99 people who don't get what they deserve.

Creators must alienate our work from ourselves to send it to market. What helped us think, feel, and survive becomes a commodity from which we're estranged. youtu.be/Cj1rYUsiVRo

is the whole deal that they highlight endangered species on these, or what?

An assassin might have to work with her mark (a fucking necromancer) to stop an even worse necromancer from destroying her people AND the healer is hot?? the Impossible Contract! It's got undead camels 🐪

the supreme weirdness of being followed by my alter egos … which are also me

aight folks, i finally got sick of existing here under some weird conjoined pen name situation. so this is now where you follow me, Matt, the human, along with the collected book updates, but i’ve split off @devinmadson.bsky.social and @rebeccaide.bsky.social for people who just want book updates 😎

aight folks, i finally got sick of existing here under some weird conjoined pen name situation. so this is now where you follow me, Matt, the human, along with the collected book updates, but i’ve split off @devinmadson.bsky.social and @rebeccaide.bsky.social for people who just want book updates 😎

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Get your queer books!

me: *looking at the sales page of an m/m romance* website: here are some other books you might like because you like this! me: oh cool, what other gay— website: have you tried this straight romance? how about this one? oh you like romance, thats M/F, like this one. and this! INCOHERENT SCREAMING

best video about the worst policy. australia’s attempt to be ahead of the shitty rising censorship curve by banning kids from all social media! coming soon to a country near you! yay! 😒

who is this actually FOR who the hell wants to discuss a book with their *ebook management software*. i also don't wanna discuss my tea with my cup or my clothes with my closet.

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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

I don't care what the LA Times said. The LA Times is not your mother, I am, and I said you absolutely do NOT have permission to give terrible people your time or money.

yes next question

This is one thing Australia really excels at: exploiting vulnerable migrant workers, abandoning them to destitution and denying their human rights. The PALM scheme is not much better than slavery www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

this is the moral panic the idea that a story, painting, drawing, video game, or other creative work that depicts uncomfortable topics is the same thing as real life CSAM or violence against women is how we end up having to scan our faces to open Spotify no one is harmed by fiction or art

As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much. This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year. So let's make an effort to support their new projects!🧵

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

Today marks a year since my Burnished City trilogy concluded. Still so proud of my desperate disaster trio and their story of defying the rules--in magic, in politics, and in love! Never too late to join the fun. Start with the "wickedly entertaining" NOTORIOUS SORCERER. viscerate.com?page_id=243

this and all the comments is the shit the internet is meant to be for, not fascist propaganda like come on!

thanks, australian government, for making it impossible for me to implement protective measures on my child’s youtube watching. now the kids just get access to ANYTHING—a huge win for *checks notes* child? safety? #auspol

transition involves learning an awful lot of new stuff, but honestly no moment of confusion has made me feel as foolish as this one so far—WHAT is the purpose of this stitching over the side slit in a button-up shirt?! do you cut it? do you leave it? halp. my femme life experience is failing me

Australian here. that plan whereby we increase the number of working people in the country is called immigration

My crowdfund for The Chosen One Con only has 30 hours left!! This is the gayest book I've written yet! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

bluesky y’all are all such enablers 😂😭😂

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard