An old garden gate. One of many I come across on my walks - but this one stopped me in my tracks. I wonder what treasures and adventures lie behind the gate, and beyond those steps? I think I might start paying more attention to old garden gates... #gardens #gates

So I follow that lady on Tiktok that breaks down the ways big companies are cutting corners on their products and still charging the same (one of which has been Reece's cups which now only the trees taste like they used to... and I think at this point it's LITERALLY only the trees because...

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

Well 'The Snake Eater' by T. Kingfisher dropped today, one of my instabuy authors. It's a couple days early but CLOSE ENOUGH. Happy Birthday to me: *grabs the eBook and the audio and coils into a hole to absorb a new read* #T.Kingfisher #UrsulaVernon

And should always be reminded that this shit is only barely a hundred years old, or even just under that. It was not that long ago. It was only a little more than a hundred years ago when the US government dropped Mustard Gas on striking miners in west virginia.

Absolutely wild to run into an ex friend and ex coworker (same person) while out with littlest for some new clothes yesterday. Thankfully we were leaving and he and his family were entering. He exchanged vague pleasantries and stared at me like I might strike like a cobra. Wild given our last talk…

I have not one but TWO books in this bundle That's right - you can get BOTH Moonshadow books, along with 72 other amazing #IndieBooks & games, in this bundle for just $50 - and we make 100% of the sales

For a limited time, you can grab my award-winning novella, TIKKA CHANCE ON ME, for just $0.99! Trucker and Pinky are a cheap date! But, sorry, you'll have to procure your own samosas. Buy links: books2read.com/u/mKKrNv

WELP: Husbeast's plan to buy the pies instead of having me make them did... not go to plan. The pumpkin pie showed up wrecked and they remade it at Nana's house. The PECAN pie was fine but... ...well, it looked fine. I've never been VISERALLY disappointed by a pecan pie before.

Late night @everetttrue.bsky.social, one of the patron saints of Bluesky. It’s a good day to sock fascism.

Artists Meeting Artists

Oh. Well. OK then. *killitwithfireholyshit*

When I was a kid, I had a crappy little keyboard synthesizer, and I remember banging the keys and being so impressed that my random monkey clicking almost sounded like music, despite being nowhere close. This post is about AI bros.

Who among us does not require a keyring featuring everyone's favourite sweary raven?!

More stupid podcast ads: "Say what you want about AI; it's here!" (annoying fake perky voice) Ma'am so is trash. We eject that from our lives as quickly as possible too.

Huh... good... I just didn't expect it.

Seriously this is the stuff of nightmares. No. So much no.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

There is an outside chance I might get a Steamdeck as my Bday/Xmas present combo... cross fingers for me? I'd like to retire my Switch because of my frustration with Nintendo and actually be able to play games without crashing my computer every ten minutes.

To my surprise, the yellow tiger beanie has been the most popular pick this year!

Oh look at these pretty poses! #artrefs #referencepacks

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Find Your Dream Prince 🌈 A strange prince pops up in Stacey's home to ask her hand in marriage, but things don't go as his valet had planned. A comic zine I made in 2017. PDF available on Itch: annikcomics.itch.io/find-your-dr...

I am. So very tired of the news just constantly throwing six new infuriating things at me every time there's a single win. I realize that some of these are acts of the desperation of angry horrible people, but it doesn't make them less infuriating.

WELP just for fun: apparently the website with the LIST OF HOLIDAY CLOSURES for the town transfer station doesn't mean ANYTHING because today isn't on it, but they're still closed and now I have a trunk full of trash I thought I could drop off today because -SILLY ME- I thought they'd be truthful.

Oh, good.

Cursed timeline

Should’ve guessed it. Democrats in the Senate took every bit of hope and momentum gained last week and flushed it all down the toilet - all for a pinky swear and the hope that people will blame Republicans instead of their cowardly asses.

And further, the Senate Dems now own the shutdown. They essentially take responsibility for it and away from the GOP. They gave everything and got nothing and we all get kicked in the teeth.

a broken heart shall live #frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

Please continue to support your local food banks. Remember, you can get a free eBook from these amazing authors if you donate a certain amount! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This goes for every one of you god damn indie authors who has an AI cover I genuinely respect you less for it.

“Losing interest in shipping” is such a fucking weird way to spell “can’t spend money they haven’t got”.

Binging podcasts while I try and work and I keep getting this ad for Malice where they keep referring to the male-nanny as a "Manny" and I'm going to develop a Pavlovian urge to bap someone with a water bottle every time I hear that -absurd term- It is not making me want to watch that show. At all.

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

It needs to be a bigger story that Sam Altman admitted the tech world literally has no risk, because of bailouts, so they have no reason to try to produce an actual viable product that people want. And how much that extends to the entirety of the business world now That is not a functional model

Blodwyn (right) teaching Tarkin honing his magic. Tarkin belongs to Fafnaer. #art #digitalart #dnd #paperdemon #unicorn #fantasy #dndart

Got this idea stuck in my head with one of my Paperdemon characters, they have eyes inspired by a crocodile and well...

i truly believe Generative AI is one of the most vilest modern inventions ever massed produced for a commercial market. And its only really been around for 3-4 years now. Its literally not been 5 years yet and its done so much harm to society

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

"Murica!" 😒🤦

What's up? Gotta share this again! I'm getting back to work so things are gonna be harder for me to catch up with but I promise I'm trying!

Just finished listening to Horseman by Christina Henry so I need to take a minute to lie down and have some feelings. (I really enjoyed it but OOF. RIGHT IN THE FEELS. REPEATED SHOTS TO THE FEELS.)

Me: Oh I am definitely getting some writing done today ...And then I went into the comment section on Insta (and am testing if there's a limit on blocks. There might be. I started getting errors blocking bots and nazis.) AND my computer bluescreened. Because of course it did. THANKS WINDOWS. >:c

For the first time in a while I feel like working on my damn book again. A little good thing in the world really helps