Crying alone in a bar, how are you all doing

Let’s stop calling it “AI assistance” and start calling it “AI dependence,” since that is the stated goal of tech companies pushing LLMs.

Hallmark has not told me which actors they’ve cast in the movie based on my book HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM. I think maybe they don’t trust me not to blab about it before the official announcement. Good call. I can’t keep a secret to save my life #writesky #booksky #romancelandia

Oh I love this! Everyone show me your header!

Fun quiz! This seems about right for me.

Share your thoughts! Mayor Jim Buzan: [email protected] Mayor Pro Tem Kelly Cmerek: [email protected] Council member Greg Redden: [email protected] Other council members: Shelli Cobb, Heather Long. #AI #datacenter #texas

I am getting back into running!* This morning I jogged slowly for .8 miles and I am still alive 👊🏻🏆 #fitness #athlete #exercise *I was into it for most of 2006 and that was it

This is some undergrad fiction workshop bullshit right here 😂

Mr. Donovan just pulled over and removed a big snapping turtle from the middle of the highway over my strenuous objections (though I jumped out and waved down traffic when I couldn’t stop him.) Turtle tried to bite him, of course. But turtle is safe 🐢

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

On Bluesky? All of us

I asked for my $20 donation to Platner back months ago when I found out he had a freaking Nazi tattoo. He’s been an absolute disgrace from the jump.

Oh my gosh! I decided to watch the Ted Lasso “barbecue sauce” darts scene on YouTube before bed, as one does, and learned from the comments that Anthony Head died. I had just quoted a line of his from Buffy early in the evening. This sucks. I liked him so much. Thank you for everything, sir. #TV

(Please repost) If you have a blog and are blogging regularly (without using AI ),PLEASE drop the link. I miss the early internet and I want to follow more blogs. Here’s mine! Sign up at the left www.bryndonovan.com #writingcommunity #bloggerswanted #blogging #antiai

If you find out someone published a book similar to the one you’re writing, IT’S FINE. Unless the other book’s a huge bestseller, no one will notice. If it IS a bestseller, bring out the differences in your draft, and also use the other book to sell your book. 😊 #writingadvice #writesky

Nobody likes quirky, klutzy romcom heroines any more, which is too bad considering I am basically a quirky, klutzy romcom heroine 😂

Writing doesn’t have to be a lonely endeavor. Share a little bit of what you’re working on—in a critique-free zone. The first Wednesday of the month on my blog is always WIP Wednesday! https://loom.ly/WrFT3_0 #writesky #wipwednesday #writingcommunity #blogging

May we all have an excellent day this June the third.

Here’s how crazy I am. We got a new sofa and loveseat, but I felt bad for the old sofa on the curb, so I invited its spirit and all the good vibes it had absorbed to stay with us in the library and inhabit the new sofa. 🩵 I may delete this 😂

I have made a couple hundred dollars on TikTok and I don’t even know how to get it off TikTok and into my bank. I didn’t realize I was going to get a commission. I was just trying to sell my book 🤷‍♀️

New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

My new summer thing is that an hour before sunset, I go out on the back patio and read a book for an hour for pleasure. It’s the cheapest luxury. Golden hour reading ☀️ #booksky

I can’t seem to shake my nightly ASMR habit and I guess there are worse addictions. Nice ladies pretending I’m on a first class flight, pretending to cut my hair, pretending we’re in ancient Rome and at the baths 😂

Happy Pride Month, Chicago 🌈

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

happy pride, everyone

My goal for Labor Day: one complete draft of a fluffy romcom novel, one complete draft of a thriller novel brimming with toxic romance and feminine rage, both involving the entertainment industry. (Both are already started and the first one has a synopsis.) WISH ME LUCK!

When you realize you accidentally downloaded the clean version of the song #music #musicmonday

Happy new week, happy new month, happy summer, and happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🌈 Any month is a great month to read LGBTQ+ books, and so have some recs! 🧵 #June1st #Booksky

They’re aiming at live-streaming media in particular and it’s not tear gas. They’re shooting rubber bullets at press.

And now they’re shooting tear gas at press.

thinking about this a lot today

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

This photo of me is a lie. I had reason to feel discouraged as an author the day I got my new headshots. I almost cancelled them. But I told myself, “Go act like something good will happen.” I threw a sequined top in my purse. I made fake champagne out of LaCroix and a little Diet Coke…

Me and George R.R. Martin, 13 years ago today! Right before the Red Wedding episode aired on HBO. I asked if he was nervous about responses from viewers who hadn’t read the books, and he said he was going to ANTARCTICA to avoid it all! 😂 #throwbackthursday #fantasy #booksky #gameofthrones

ICE is shooting pepper spray and attacking press right now at Delaney Hall.

daily reminder that Bryn is an excellent editor and anti AI if you have the absolute joy of working with her do so with the knowledge your book is safe from the AI overlords

Me declining a book editing job because they say they used AI #writesky

I never saw the movie Train Dreams, which is weird, because I like Denis Johnson, trains, and dreams.

Chicago honors the fallen. Today is Memorial Day.

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying.

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

I just had this olfactory hallucination of my (late) grandparents’ house and I don’t know why! Downy fabric softener, Dove soap (we also have that), coffee, ham, potatoes.

Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell? Where was Gondor when our enemies closed in around us!? Where was Gondor when they invented New Coke? Where was Gondor when they cast Jared Leto in Tron: Ares?

ARC Review: Bodyguard’s Saint-Tropez Temptation by Bryony Rosehurst Bryony Rosehurst’s sun-kissed debut for Harlequin Romance, a sapphic, billionaire, forced proximity, forbidden romance Hired—for passion or protection? Landing in Saint-Tropez, policewoman-turned-bodyguard Dani expects her first…

“A Pizza Hut franchisee claims the chain’s AI-powered delivery system, meant to optimize orders and speed up deliveries, instead backfired and cost it more than $100 million.”

I haven’t loved summer since I was a child and felt that last-day-of-school exhilaration and spent long days reading library books and tromping around in the woods. But I’m making up my mind that I love summer now. Chicago is especially magical in summer, after all ☀️ #memorialdayweekend

Hey Wisconsin bookish types! This looks like so much fun! #booksky

Anyway when we bought this house the bedrooms were different miserable shades of gray-beige and I’m finally painting the guest bedroom yellow today and it’s making me feel more like me #sundayfunday