Is it semi-believable? Yes. It’s based on real cat behaviour, but it is absolutely AI. This is a super common trope in AI cat videos and also if you look at the “stills” closely you can tell they’re AI generated. Look at the oven, for example—why so many buttons? Why a tiny knob? 🧵(1/?)

THURSDAY ON TGS: we’ve got a fun little collaboration with @amanda.omg.lol and @isabel.kim of Wow If True and the guy in question is less of a ‘who’ and more of a ‘what.’ Anyways, back to scrolling!

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below). also hey, this issue is stacked?? clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

The fact that Canada Post management would rather provide worse service and fire their workers than think about diversifying services is outrageous. Canada Post “costs” tax dollars because that’s what taxes are for. Does anyone rly think using courier services would save individuals money? Come on.

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes. I encourage everyone to read the whole thing #CanadaPost www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

Cannot overstate how egregious it is to decide the postal service should stop delivering mail directly to people’s homes. How is “provide worse service” supposed to help solve the problem here? Esp for rural communities. This service “costs x tax dollars?” Yeah, bro—that’s what taxes are for.

If you’re like most Canadians, you don’t know that all of your parcels get delivered by Canada Post if you live in rural Canada. The big couriers don’t go there. They drop them off at the post office and letter carriers take them the rest of the way. Ending home delivery cuts them off.

Once more for the road! I will be very sincere for a moment and say that this is one of my favorite things I’ve written. It is very wet :)

hello its babys FIRST NOVELETTE (im baby)! this is story about trapping a siren in your bathtub. also other things. but lets start there. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/huma...

one more self promo post for the road 🫡 (just kidding, I’m going to be back tomorrow with More New Items From Isabel)

A team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light-years away. This Wednesday: "Freediver" by @isabel.kim Art by @mojowang.bsky.social Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives. Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks. Latest in The Lint Trap linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

Finally available on bookshop.org, you should ABSOLUTELY preorder Isabel’s very good book!! bookshop.org/p/books/subl...

please preorder sublimation by isabel j kim available wherever books are sold also feel free to steal this graphic made by ME torpublishinggroup.com/sublimation/...

I'm always up for screaming into the void that 'NO: NO WHITE GLOVES!' lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2022/11/whit... but I'd also like to point out that only a tiny % of all archives have yet been digitised, that digitisation is not a preservation medium, that archives are woefully under-resourced....

a settlement, especially one this big, is better than nothing --but don't forget that this payout is for pirating your book, not for feeding it to AI. the judge in this case still ruled that it's legal to train AI on copyrighted books. techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/s...

Photos that weirdly make me miss living in Vancouver. Also, the reason why it’s a bad idea to have a black car if you live in the Tri-Cities.

Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20% & eliminating 32 bus routes, since GOP state legislators failed to agree to fund the agency www.washingtonpost.com/transportati... What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Thank you to @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social for having me on to talk about why AI Slop has no place in our public libraries, and what you can do about it! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

SUBLIMATION is a novel set in a universe where crossing the border means splitting yourself in two. Literally. If you've ever imagined what could have been if you never left, this is a novel for you. Preorder link below. Available everywhere books are sold. torpublishinggroup.com/sublimation/...

my evil plan revealed: give people arcs before they're trapped in metal tubes in the sky, with no recourse except to consume my prose (glad you're enjoying it!!! hope the enjoyment continues!!!)

I know the ppl organising #worldcon change every year but for the love of god please practice pronouncing the Hugo nominees’ names if you’re a presenter.

this is where we're at...... begging elected officials to help ensure that the country's sixth-largest public transportation system can fucking function

my fellow PA-ians, pleaaaase hit up your friends/fam/exes/whomever who live in areas where their senators especially need to be pressured about supporting SEPTA funding— that’s N East Philly, Bucks County, & Montgomery County 🚂 ⬇️

Attn: Librarians who attended ALA annual earlier this summer: Here's a way we can use our collective leverage as conference attendees—who added our tourist dollars to Pennsylvania's economy—to give back to the good folks in Philly! If you used SEPTA at all on your trip (like I did), write a letter

gutting septa is gonna singlehandedly devestate philadelphia and i cannot believe those bastards in harrisburg think its a good idea please write in to tell them how awful this is: savesepta.com

LESS TRANSIT ➡️ MORE TRAFFIC! Think traffic & parking are bad now? Just wait til the PA state senate cuts SEPTA—and 350,000 rail passengers get on the road! Tell your state senator: Fund SEPTA! 📞CALL NOW: Frank Farry (215) 638-1784 Tracy Pennycuick (215) 541-2388 Joe Picozzi (215) 281-2539

atendendo a pedidos, vou fazer mais uma cartela de véio pra gente ter o nosso avô, o nosso pai e o nosso daddy: me mandem memes do KOJIMA !!!

Heading back to Harrisburg to vote AGAIN with House Dems to fund SEPTA. The only thing standing in the way of keeping mass transit running is PA Senate Republicans. Call them NOW and demand they pass these funds!

I wasn’t expecting quite so much spaghetti at the MCR show tonight but I’m not mad about it.

On the plus side, the My Chemical Romance concert is objectively a very funny place to get sunburned

Dating app fatigue is rampant, and at the same time, I'm noticing that more people are still meeting online in places like Facebook meme groups, Tumblr DMs, and subreddits. I have come to the conclusion: the best dating apps aren't even dating apps. @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/t...

Small good things: my nails are incredibly cute rn

OH THANK MITHRAS It's a Murderbot Eve Miracle!!!!!!

SO excited for more ART content!! #Murderbot

Your 🚨final reminder🚨 that we have a new Murderbot short story coming out right here at Reactor, tonight after the season finale! Okay ty enjoy hehe #Murderbot

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

Gritty's a librarian now thx. #ALAAC25

The Sunburst Award is back!! My novel The Ghost Collector won a Sunburst Award in 2020, before the award went on hiatus, and I’m thrilled that other Canadian works will once again be recognised—check out the great candidates below!

Craig LaBan, restaurant critic and columnist at The Inquirer, won the James Beard Foundation’s Craig Claiborne Distinguished Criticism Award for his expert assessments of Philly’s dining scene, from food carts to some of the city’s most exclusive reservations. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/food/craig-l...

Congratulations to our Nebula Award Winners! “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim (short story) clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/ and “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A. W. Prihandita (novelette) clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_1...

Well-deserved and timely award for one of the best writers I know—hell yeah, Isabel!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

look this is just a lie. philly and pittsburgh are the economic engines of pennsylvania, we are where the majority of the state's economic activity happens and we are where the bulk of tax revenues come from. but neither city's economy can survive the kind of transit cuts that are on the table

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In celebration of library workers, especially those in #specialcollections, here is the next installment in PACSCL's I am a Library Worker blog series, featuring Chrissie Perella of The Legacy Center/Drexel University College of Medicine Read more at pacscl.org/i-am-a-libra...

Do you remember those headlines about the global study that said Vancouver was the happiest city in North America? Here’s my story on why that’s a bunch of hooey.