My take on AI is straightforward: the machine learning plagiarism industrial complex is not sentient. But the fish who have lived on earth continuously in one form or another for half a billion years & who are threatened by AI’s water consumption & climate change impacts are. I choose the fish. 🐟

doodles of some manticores

My crowning life achievement is 100%ing Lego lotr with my wife

#JanuaryWorldbuilders Looking through my art of my characters, I suppose Grilled's knives would actually count as ranged since he detaches his hands and flies them at his enemies LOL People of the PD use everything. Knives, swords, axes, polearms, maces...

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

Diving into a new book @authort_lee gave me, very good so far although a world w/ consistent -40F temp is literally my nightmare #bookrecommendations #yafiction #sciencefiction #dystopia #booksky

Polearms dominate battlefields, but swords are common and unorganised levies will use whatever they have. Felids will ditch weapons and favor their claws in close fighting. Mustelids are notorious for running up to larger opponents so they can jump on, grapple, and stab them. #JanuaryWorldbuilders

#JanuaryWorldbuilders There's relatively few melee weapons in the series, and most of what's in there are equipped by mecha. In particular Eva prefers to have spears in her loadout, while another character (spoilers as to who) enjoys war mauls on foot and double-bitted axes when in her mech.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders Acanthus uses their nails, which they can extend at will and are as strong as steel. A lot of people use silver objects against werewolves like silver whips and chains. Most werewolves use their claws and teeth. Azalea, an earth witch, can touch enemies to drain life force.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 20 One really interesting melee weapon is a knife hooked to an electric current, so you get stabbed and then electrocuted - it's very much not standard military equipment

whats the point of forcing me to download an app to use a program, but to login i have to login in browser then get redirected back to the app and half the time the redirect doesnt work either let me work in browser or let me log in on the app PICK ONE

MY AUTHOR COPIES ARRIVED!!! 🤩

I find it bullshit that the bodies response to fever is to tell you you're fucking freezing to death

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 19 Most people use fairly basic ballistic rifles, but the Accord company has invented a rail gun called ARTEM15/Artemis that's powered by the same material that allows for FTL travel but it's still experimental and only the MC has one at this time

Don't forget @smallpitch.org starts today!! Been working hard on my pitch - I feel like I've written 40+ versions in the last month alone lol - good luck to everyone! #writingcommunity #indieauthor smallpitch.org

🚨Today's the day!🚨 Here's the new 5th anniversary #CoverReveal for The Re-Emergence. The same critically acclaimed story you know and love, now much more handsome on your shelf 😁 Check it out: www.alankdell.co.uk/...#CoverRevealI'm really proud of it. Hope you like it too! 📢📚🪐 🤏📚 #SFF #BookSky

all my love to everyone's pitches good luck to everyone!!

Me, suffering post booster shot malaise Yeah maybe I will go to bed early

theres a youtube ad going around about investing & it ends with a young woman asking for "17c on bitcoin" & im like seriously were celebrating getting 17c of a share of something? capitalism is a fucking joke

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 18 I'm still trying to work out the details, but it's somewhere between your standard medieval plate armor and WW1 soldier garb. Though the time period is roughly turn-of-the-century, they don't really do colonial- or American Civil War-era soldier outfits. 1/2

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 18 Can I shout out my emergency system instead? On ships if there's a hull breech energy fields encapsulate crew members to keep them alive, it's those plasma balls that arc towards your finger when you touch them, only it's keeping you safe from open space.

processing all these great ideas & making my to-do list with a lil slide deck for #selfpublishing What am I missing/ what would you add? #writesky #selfpub #publishingjourney #writingcommunity #author #todolist docs.google.com/presentation...

Yup bsky.app/profile/mekk...

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

#dailyencouragement #writingcommunity 💙📚

THE NAMES x MARTYR! 🗺️ East Asian historical inspo. 📚 family legacy vs. individuality 🕯️ consequences of wishes ⚔️ self-destructive MC 💧 lingering trauma ☠️ ghosts of the past 🥀 self-fulfilling prophecy 🙏🏼 mythololzation of death 🔭 endless search for meaning #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #Lit #LF #HF #POC

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 17 I'm going with drop pods, they're my worlds equivalent of Halo ODSTs, the HELIOS division uses them to drop thru pulse fields to get into the center of a battlefield w/o ship maneuvering or docking but they can fail & if they do during the drop you might get fried 🍳

I don’t need everyone to read my books. I just need the right people to find the right one.

We go the ability to "go live" on 🦋 but we still can't edit posts

hey if you're in Washington state here's your chance to tell them how bad AI sucks and should be regulated out of existence

Now this is what i call PUNK cutting lyrics, nasty ass guitar riffs, perfectly rough

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

Keep your eyes on these cases because they're about YOUR rights to access books and a wide range of materials in YOUR libraries.

If you haven't already cancelled your Spotify subscription, there's a new reason to do so! I switched over to Deezer in the fall with zero issue and I don't miss Spotify one bit. It took a bit getting used to the new interface, but that's it

Working on a portrait of my char Ada Cardenas the Echo crew's doctor & chaplain. As a Mourner she believes death & decomposition are a sacred things that shouldn't be interfered with unless that death is unjust/untimely #writingcommunity #booksky #indieauthor #sciencefiction

Idk if people realize this but it's actually really easy to not "correct" Inuit about ourselves because the things we say disagree with a european fable that tells the story of our lives differently.

Don’t use Sticker Mule. I can vouch for both Sticker Guy and Portland’s own Sticker Ninja as fantastic alternatives. All my Magica Riot stickers have come from those two shops and they’re great.

Too many people try to speak for Inuit, to tell us our history, our place, our future; but an Inuk has their own voice and experience. Inuit make up 56,000 of Greenland's 58,000 humans. This is an Inuit story about an Inuit country.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders 16 It's actually a major plot point discovering what the enemy is using as a weapon, the story begins after a bomb turns the MC's field base into crystal, completely immolating everyone there except him (oh wonder why ;3c)

#SFFChat 1 #TheDragonblood: The Land of Souls is the Nemorian afterlife, available to members of the Nemorian religion who die within Nemoria. Those who reach it are judged by Deiuoreks, and the unworthy have their souls devoured by Angosessor. The Land of Souls also serves as a dreamworld. (1/4)

in 2026 I’d love to spread the good word even farther: magicariot.com/fullbloom

#SFFChat Q4: This one's a bit different. It describes a burial place outside the temple of the god of the underworld, as well as his statue

#SFFchat I became an atheist because i found the concept of an afterlife to be hell on earth. Who wants to be alive after they died? You'd be forced to deal with yourself forever.

Sammy (aka Samael) talks about seeing where you're headed after you die #SFFchat

#SFFChat Q4: Another fun fact about this world! If you were born with a second soul and die violently, you will become an undead! Yay!

#SFFChat 4 don't have the best option since what comes after death isn't a big focus of mine more so just the waiting for death but I do like this one little section regarding Mourner funerals

#SFFChat I'm very interested in the Eight Cold Hells not that i want to experience them per say but cold has always been worse to me than heat and the concept of increasingly cold hells just sounds like well hell heat destroys but the cold can preserve (1/2)

#SFFChat 2 The Mourner's Temple of Earth sort of venerates death, they don't have an afterlife but they do believe in the continued cycle of life and death, humans die become soil and grow into plants - the entire life cycle is venerated and Earth is their god (tho some believe it never exited)

#SFFChat Q1 Plenty of ppl believe in an afterlife still but its not a proven truth or falsehood but absolutes are rather unpopular and reincarnations and rebirth is a far more common belief than an eternal afterlife

#SFFChat Intro Hello! I'm PJ the werm and I love science-fiction and horror tough question but I'm gonna go with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round if only because my boy Percival (my namesake) was the only g who found the fucking grail