It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Witchy crows 🐦‍⬛

Giles Corey's stone tablet at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Refusing to plead guilty or not guilty of being a witch in order to pass land to his heirs through a legal loophole, Giles Corey was crushed to death by rocks stacked on top of his body over the course of three days. #31daysofHalloween

If anyone wants a horror series slightly out of the ordinary this Spooky Season, then I wholeheartedly recommend Kingdom on Netflix. Historical Korean zombie series with a solid line in politics and likeable (and some incredibly dislikeable) characters.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Alert: The Stroopwafel Bar is back! Limited batch, first come, first served… if I can manage not to eat them all first 😅

"You can't moderate big sites without AI." lol. We have major clients at work that do just that. It's almost like everybody got by just fine by hiring *gasp* moderators prior to the advent of the false-flagging bullshit machine. Or maybe I just hallucinated the past 20 years I was a moderator? 🤔

Hello again @aaron.bsky.team. Does Bluesky has a special contract with thehive.AI where thehive.AI won’t use Bluesky users posts for their GenAI? Or is Bluesky actually feeding every user post (Art & Writing) to a GenAI system that profits off of copyrighted material not intended for it?

And one last thing, does this AI moderation tool retain data when it evaluates images posted on Bluesky? If so, I think that's a major issue that needs to be addressed asap because artists on here do not consent to our work being used for training machines.

Wordery's site is STILL 'coming soon'...

#wipsnips Bouncing nobles from the palace needs a bit more nuance than just tossing them out the door like they were a rowdy drunk in a tavern. Nuance doesn't have to mean subtle, though. Just enough propriety above the subtext to remain plausibly respectful. Being tossed out might be less scary.

#WIPSnips - Safe Funnily enough, a lot of my "safe" words are in NSFW sections. This one is merely NSFW adjacent. *lights metaphorical cigarette* From the 1st in my MM duology, Davis & Dunn

The thing about "high-value" is that value is very relative in this scenario. That kind of manufacturing might be high-value to the shareholders, maybe even to state and national governments. But if its bringing higher bills to locals with few jobs to offset that, it's got negative value for them.

Please don't shame users for posting AI slop. You'll hurt the slops feelings.

#LGBTQWriteAThon It's a present-day UK setting, at an abandoned and overgrown manor house that's been a lot of things through the years.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

#PlotTober MC1 could call off the stream, citing being dumped (though his viewers don't know he was dating his co-host), but he wants to do it regardless because it's Hallowe'en and he hopes that if he manages to make it big, he can quit his waiter job in a chain pub and do this full-time. 1/2

C'mon my wonderful nonfiction colleagues. Please join us at @authorsabb.bsky.social and stand up for the right of everyone to read. You might say "oh, but I write about science/history/culture! I only write true verified things!" ...you think they're not coming for that?!

I've just realised that I really, really want to get a reference to Kopiko into this story. 😂

#PlotTober MC1 already announced he would be filming the building. Getting ghosted beforehand is unfortunate, but he has a commitment now. Jude had plans to explore, but he got ghosted too. He was curious if there were ghosts and, if so, if he could help any. It's handy they're both there waiting.

Maybe watch a banned show too.

Please be weary of Booky the Banned Book

Book banned? Librarians find a way.

Nothing will change.

Trying to doodle more during October.

Everybody is a skeleton if you just peel thoroughly enough.

Banned Books - Gator Days

Apparently Jude enjoys making beer. Handily, MC1 happens to enjoy drinking it. (Gods, the things characters will randomly tell me.)

#PlotTober Day 6: Main character goals Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

I went to bed last night and I lay awake, and lay awake, and lay awake... Anyway today I think it may be a "oh? what is reality?" kind of day. On the up side, smol dog snuggled up all night. On the down side, she's a major bed hog for something so small.

Y'know when i posted this i was just expecting them to double-down on their stupid porn rules. I admit I wasnt expecting them to behave so badly on every other conceivable avenue that it would lead me to forget about that.

A friendly reminder.

Random notes: The weight mapping on that hoodie needs a good kicking. I lost the will to live after the fifth simulation; the hood is bullied with mesh grabber. I could only simulate the jeans until frame 25, because after that the intersection of his calf and thigh made the simulation explode. 💀

#PlotTober Another one I wiffled over: a main character and a love interest (single POV), or two main characters? I think I'm going for two mains, but we'll see how it works out. My characters name themselves; it doesn't go well if I name them, they end up correcting me, so I let them do it. 1/3

#WIPSnips 5. "Store" Yes, Ashrah, that's exactly what we use vases for. #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage. Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.

"He called me the n-word!" shrieks this kid who called the other kid the n-word first.

For your browsing pleasure, our university library displays for the coming term, featuring banned books, gender issues, neuro-divergence and special editions of some literary classics to celebrate 60 years of the library!🥳📚

I'd close by saying it's weird, to see this kinda childish, contemptuous behavior from orgs like Bluesky or Tangled who you'd think want to attract users to their sites. But Jay doesn't really…seem to want you on this site. She seems to want the queers to go away without her having to make us leave.

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

As a millennial, just let me say “nah, fuck off.”

I forgot it was a bad idea to eat while watching the first episode of Kingdom...

Caeso is an immortal Roman, but he only interacts with a few of them: Mercury is puppyish and enthusiastic. Kita (the Tacita part of the Dea Tacita) is practical and caring (and lethal). Mars is a cheerful, arrogant bastard. (Caeso's words.) Orcus is gentle and makes a mean coffee.

#PlotTober I waffled between setting it in a fantasy world of mine or this one, then decided I wanted the filming / livestreaming bit for Plot Reasons and I couldn't do that in the fantasy world.

#QueerPrompts I've not really talked about him before, but Marcus is the most cinnamon roll-y: a cheery, easily-distracted ljusalfa pop singer who drives his LI, Blake (depressed dokkalfa songwriter), up the wall. Milos is sort of a cinnamon roll, if you found the occasional fragment of glass.

I'm not quite sure how she managed to rearrange the blanket like this, but she's delighted with it now.

and hey on the topic of ID laws do you really trust Bluesky, whose admin and c-suites physically cannot stop themselves from posting-through-it, to be able to hold onto your fucking govt ID and not leak it in a data breach like Discord? these policies suck, they are dangerous, call your reps

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 4: Check in day. How was your week? #writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

PSM cover by Joe Madureira 1998 #ResidentEvil

Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed] Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation