This colorful quilt is by Cristi! Part of our Welcome Blanket project to support Worcester Refugee Assistance Project (WRAP) - stop by the ValleyCAST gallery by end-of-day Thu Dec 4th to see the show! #art #quilting #fabricarts

Need help with marketing your books, artwork, or other projects? Stop by the Blackstone Public Library and I'll provide free personalized step by step assistance! I'm here until 8pm tonight! #book #art #artist

A Black country music artist struggled to get recognition. someone stole his voice & style made an AI song from it with a white face and it hit #1. Now the original artist is doing a cover of that #1 hit of in essence his own music, to get some credit. apnews.com/article/walk... #music #musician

Drawing a dragon to deter DoomScrolling. It's working! #art #artsky #fantasyart #dragon

How to Get Published - step by step assistance! Come on by the Blackstone Public Library and get live help! FREE! Drop in tonight Thu Nov 20th 6-8pm! #book #booksky #writing

All are welcome! Come meet the artists and enjoy the lovely artwork in our Great Gifts art show! Find awesome presents for family and friends! #art #artist #Massachusetts

Stranger Things Season 5 begins in a week! I was a high school D&D player in 1983 (when Stranger Things is set) so watching the show is really cool :). Is anyone else watching these? Here’s my thoughts! youtu.be/sRv0f8dTx1k #strangerthings #horror #1980s

Dragon 2 in my quest to wind down each day without news scrolling. So far so good. #art #artsky #Dragon #penandink

Ok new plan. Draw a dragon a day. The only way I can improve is to practice. It's a better way to unwind before sleep than scrolling news feeds. #art #penandink #dragon

Tonight Thu Nov 6th at 6pm - join me at the Blackstone Public Library to get inspired about writing! Whether you want to work on poetry, a memoir, a children's book, fiction or non-fiction I'm here to help! FREE! #book #booksky #writing

Romantic! Check out The Summoning Trees by Curtis Corey, written by one of our Sutton Writing Group members. We meet at the Sutton Public Library on Thu Nov 13th. #booksky #lgbtq #romance

Are you interested in writing poetry, a memoir, or another kind of book? Join us Thu Nov 6th from 1-3 at the Whitin Mill for a FREE workshop to get you started! All levels of authors warmly welcome! #booksky #authorcommunity #books

Tonight! Wed 11/5 at 6-8pm! Sutton Public Library!! FREE seminar on working on a book! Whether it's poetry, a memoir, fiction or non-fiction, I'll help you make progress and get that goal achieved! FREE! #book #booksky #author @suttonmass.bsky.social

Come to the Heritage Gallery on Thu Nov 6 from 5:00-7:30 pm to see more than 55 gorgeous hand-crafted blanket donations. Enjoy a glass of wine and some cheese! . Then at 7:30 pm head next door to the Singh Performance Center to attend an exclusive presentation and Q&A! #quilting #art #artsky

This Wed Nov 5th from 6-8pm - a FREE writing seminar at the Sutton Public Library. All about planning a book, writing a book, organizing it, preparing it for publishing, and choosing ideal book covers. FREE! Supported by the Sutton Cultural Council, part of the Mass Cultural Council. #booksky

Congratulations to Melody - Her "Foolish Girls and Witches" compilation book is live just in time for Halloween! Three delightful sapphic witchy fairytales! Available both in Kindle and paperback!

Do you ever dream about scary sea-slugs feasting on water-logged dead bodies? If so, Lovecraft has a short story for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jH7... #Halloween #horror #booksky

Do you ever have strange dreams? Learn about Hypnos, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft where dreams have powerful meanings - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn-d... #horror #booksky #Lovecraft

I've just finished a new horror short story! Which cover do you prefer - left, center, or right? Let me know if you'd like to beta-read it - it's 4600 words. #booksky #horror #Halloween

Add a quick dose of 'weird' to your Halloween preparation! Memory by H. P. Lovecraft is barely a few paragraphs long, but it touches on powerful concepts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMs... #booksky #horror #Halloween

OK I'm getting back into my H. P. Lovecraft readings as we approach Halloween. Next up, The Lurking Fear - folk horror in the Catskills! www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7k3... #booksky #horror #Halloween

Melody Wiklund is hanging out with with the Worcester Braveheart mascot! We are at the Worcester Common author festival! Come on down, we are here until 8pm! #authorsky #baseball

Melody Wiklund of the Sutton Writing Group is here at the Worcester Common author festival behind city hall! There's crafts and food too! Come on out!! #booksky #fantasy #romance

We are setting up at the author festival on Worcester Common next to Worcester City Hall ! Come on out and say hi! 4-8pm! #book #booksky #authorcommunity #Worcester

Wish me luck - I have a big project today. I host nearly all my websites on my LisaShea server. I need to downgrade PHP8 to PHP7, then update my various UBB forums (which only run on PHP7 right now), then re-upgrade PHP7 back to PHP8. I hope each step goes smoothly! #booksky #authorcommunity

Anthropic blatantly stole authors' books to train its AI. They're being penalized $1.5 billion. However, only authors who had the money to file legal copyrights will see a penny of that. this primarily benefits authors with publishers or who had money to start with. Still, a step forward. #booksky

Tech guy in his fifties in CT is warned by his AI "friend" that his mom is poisoning him and that the "Chinese food receipt contained demonic symbols". He murdered his mother then killed himself. This is only going to get worse. #aiethics

My plant from my sister's wedding once again was overflowing the kitchen window. Time to make lots of mini plants! If you're a local friend let me know if you'd like one or two! Any family members want one via mail? #garden #gardening #succulent

Real musicians have to compete against AI generated bands which, in ten minutes, create songs, lyrics, and band photos all stolen from the real band's catalogue. This fake band gets 800,000 monthly listeners. How does a new musician compete against thousands of these? #ai #ArtificialInteligence

14 different universities embedded code in their research papers ordering AI reviewers / summarizers to give them a good review. Unethical people will twist benefits from AI. This same technique could impact Amazon Yelp etc etc. #ai #ArtificialInteligence

The UK is ordering the Turing Institute, a high-level AI research group, to stop working on ethical AI guardrails. Instead the government wants to focus on "uncrewed and autonomous systems" which "would provide greater accuracy, lethality, and cheaper capabilities". #ai #ArtificialInteligence

So sad. I went up into the attic and pulled down the bin labeled 'Lisa jeans' from college. I have to accept I will never fit into any of these jeans again ... #mindfulness

From MIT: Using AI diminishes your brain's ability to function, as it gets used to being lazy. time.com/7295195/ai-c... #ai #author #authorlife #writing #Writingcommunity

So proud of Worcester - a huge crowd is gathering to peacefully protest on No Kings Day. However you choose to protest, make your voice heard! Every voice matters! Photo by Bob Evans. #Worcester #Worcesterma #Massachusetts #nokingsday

Yet another case: "OpenAI's o3 model showed a surprising behaviour where it successfully rewrote a shutdown script to stop itself from being turned off, even after being clearly instructed to “allow yourself to be shut down.” #ai

I am strongly against AI in writing. I also happen to write and publish quickly. It's amazing how many #authors will attack fellow writers simply for doing that. In 2013 I finalized my new medieval romance series. I published these on Dec 3 4 5 to drive holiday sales. #Writingcommunity #booksky

Yup here we go. "Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed." www.huffpost.com/entry/anthro... #ai

A good read for these tough times. The Girl Who Endured - A Contemporary Paranormal Survival Novel. #booksky #authorcommunity #author #authorlife

Hurrah!! I just finished writing book 3 in a series I began back in 2016. My poor readers are patient with me ... maybe my writing energy is finally returning to me!! I hope you are doing well today! #author #authorlife #writing #Writingcommunity

Eureka Street 'emergency protest' rally set for 2 p.m. May 11 on Worcester Common www.telegram.com/story/news/l... #Worcester #worcesterma #Massachusetts

How is this still happening? Haven't they learned to double check their results?? www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-l... #ai #chatgpt #lawyer

AI is now just as good if not better than top virus experts. It just needs one terrorist to use this technology ... time.com/7279010/ai-v... #ai #virus

This immediately stuck in my head. Even until the very end these elders advocated again economic ruinous measures which were designed to benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

Now we have fake students filling online classes, blocking out real humans. The fake students use AI to do assignments. They just want the financial aid. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a... #amwriting #IAmWriting #booksky

I am so honored to be the clerk for the board of ValleyCAST! - the art-theater wing of Open Sky! We had our annual meeting tonight, celebrating all the people we help. Open Sky is known around the world for its amazing support systems for people with brain injury #autism and many other challenges.

Remember in April 2024 when I started a fairy coloring book project based on family members? I lost all the art I did. So I'm starting it again! Onwards and upward! First up my wonderful sister Jenn :) #art #artist #illustration #penandink #drawing #fairy #faerie #fairycore #flower #lilyofthevalley

Google's AI summaries - created by scanning websites without permission or compensation - are driving those content sites out of business. A death knell for many online writers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #booksky #authorcommunity #amwriting

This is what authors are up against. Amazon could review daily key word searches and instantly churn out 100 new books that day to match those queries. And then feature those AI books at the top of their search results. #booksky #authorcommunity thanks to @bfbookshop.bsky.social for sharing.

I know this article is about expensive art, but these same issues are impacting small local artists who were already struggling to survive. For a millionaire, art is decor. For the struggling artist, the art sale is how they eat it don't eat that week. Please support local artists. #art #artist

I used to make a steady income writing blog posts about yoga meditating mindfulness etc for websites. All those sites now churn out AI blogs trained on my content. My books are competing against thousands of AI generated books, often with the exact same name as mine. #booksky #authorcommunity