Just something I *created* in the last half hour. No AI was used in the making of this video. (Shocker!) #FuckAI #FuckGenerativeAI

I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy

Yup. Resubscribed to physical magazines, started writing out recipes again. I do hope the intentional internet (known-quantity sites & blogs) will stick around. But “just Google” for info/recipes/instructions? Not anymore!

My new conspiracy theory is that the BBC secretly engineered the introduction of “BBC” as a porn category so that searches for “f*ck the BBC” or “BBC sucks” return a bunch of porn results rather than criticism of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

Sometimes I’m like “How can the far right hate us *so much* that they’re willing to blow up their own lives just to make us sad?” Then I see AI CEOs saying “You can’t let our AI companies fail or we will ALL suffer! Including you!” and

This was me trying to write last weekend, with my cats absolutely dismantling the room around me the whole time.

after reading the Nuzzi and Lizza pieces yesterday I don’t want to see any of you badmouthing your own writing again

Whence the bullet theoretical? 🧐

"Everyone’s got their thing. For some, it’s baking. Others, gardening. Me? I like to take a modified Honda Accord, drive over 100 mph, and swerve between cars, almost killing entire families, babies, men, women, whoever."

“Tis always an option, when fixin’ to spend time with a lady, to fuss with her nethers in a leisurely way if she’s so inclined” Amazing.

My main thing about #TheBeastInMe so far is that Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys appear to be wearing the same lip color.

Conventional wisdom: cats are excellent companions for writers, snoozing quietly while their human works ❤️ My attempts at writing: cats tearing the room apart chasing the light reflected off my pen, my watch, my glasses, my screen. Me screaming at them to stop. Zero writing accomplished, ever.

Feel Good Pancake Balls

Yesterday I decided to commit to writing something (Anything! A scene with no context! A haiku! A thank you note!) every day this month. Then I decided to mention it here to keep myself accountable. Then I did neither, so that’s how that’s going 🙃

Stopping at 3 advent calendars this year. Maybe next year I’ll officially do my “can I live exclusively off of advent calendar food and drink for a month?” experiment.

My new thing is “talking” to myself via notes and journals, with the aim of getting past my tendency to pre-dismiss literally everything I write. This morning they were playing pop music in the dentist’s waiting room and I wrote this.

"From 1974 to 1980, Duke was an active leader of a community organization he founded that championed the power of dialogue and debate."

I wrote this (EXTREMELY ROUGH) thing back in April and forgot about it. Went ahead and posted without editing to capitalize on the inevitable #7LayerBurrito craze that will be sweeping the nation any minute now. www.klarawells.com/2025/09/seve...

We got Severance s2 earlier this year and now Taco Bell has brought the #7LayerBurrito back*! AM I MAGIC?!? *albeit "for a limited time only"

Apple is launching the Ozempic Phone tomorrow

Songs I heard through the door of my niece’s tap dancing class this evening (all Alvin & the Chipmunks versions, not the originals)

*scrolling, bleary-eyed, pre-coffee* Oh wow that sounds so much like… wait… *reads title* IT IS! IT’S MY THING THAT GOT PUBLISHED IN MCSWEENEY’S! ❤️

Good God. Imagine looking at British TV comedy and thinking, “Hmmm… not American enough.” Granted his main point seemed to be that he wanted way more episodes, but IF IT AIN’T BROKE (and British TV comedy really, really ain’t broke!)

Was trying to find this to confirm it’s real. Turns out it’s from Threads and dril is killing it over there

I got one extra week and I made the best of it. Here ends an 18-year love affair (and/or here begins a new era of paying a VPN company money I would’ve PREFERRED to give the BBC). #BBCSounds

On the one hand, it’s wonderful to see at least one tech tool *not* cramming AI down our throats, and it’s great that they listen to their customers. On the other hand, I wish we could read the obscenity-laden “DON’T YOU DARE” responses they got to their survey.

My BBC Sounds app is still working, but I don’t imagine that will last much longer. I’ve listened since 2007. So incredibly sad to say goodbye 😢

As I get older my face starts to erase itself. My dark eyebrows turn pale, my beard also, my hair has disappeared, another grey fuzz. My face has lost distinction. Glasses sit on it, somehow, lending a little form. A baseball cap serves instead of hairdo. Im still here, but you might not notice.

i dont care what AI can do "better" than me. the point of me doing something isn't to be the best at it. it's for me to do it.

Can’t a girl enjoy her Saturday morning coffee without getting punched right in the psyche anymore?!? (From Twist by Colum McCann)

Good news! I've picked out an awesome new keyboard ...for myself!

Happy birthday 🎉

I have been tasked with finding a good starter keyboard for my niece. At first I was stoked, but now all my Failed Musician Angst & Baggage is getting dragged to the surface in ways I did not expect.

Just saw where an American confused Matt Berry for David Mitchell. It’s clear he only knows Matt Berry from WWDITS and only knows David Mitchell from the “Are we the baddies?” meme. As an actual American Anglophile, I am AGHAST.

A lot of things are terrible, but we finally got #Ludwig on US BritBox and it is even more delightful than I expected!

I LOVED them together in The Trouble With Maggie Cole; very excited for this!

Really enjoying #DouglasIsCancelled, but I wish the dialogue weren’t trying *quite* so hard to pretend Aaron Sorkin wrote it.

A demented white supremacist is taking a metaphorical flamethrower to my country but at least there’s a brand-new Charles Paris on BBC Sounds this week. Clinging hard to good news.

I follow so many writers and it makes me feel so motivated to write! …but right now I only have time for a maximum of 1 fun creative hobby, and I’ve opted for harp. I hate that I have to choose. Maybe someday I’ll find a way to balance work, home maintenance, and more than one way to create.

If you're not good at making art and you want art, your options are 1: make bad art 2: work with a good artist to get good art. The end. You'll notice that AI generation is not on this list. That's because it's not art, but a method of plagiarism that kills the Earth. Hope this helps.

happy new year to the haters and losers in this 2025

A new year doesn’t change anything by magic, of course. But life does have its odd rhythms and things can go up abruptly as well as down - as discussed by the Greek tragedies and Alanis Morissette. So if 2024 has been rough on you, keep the faith and good luck as we go round again.

"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

So the #DoctorWho Christmas special was every bit as lovely as everyone said ❤️ #JoyToTheWorld

I wanted a travel-friendly #harp so I could practice at my parents’. I got a sparkly, color-shifting model to entice my 4-yr old niece harp-ward. I did *not* anticipate her liking it so much that we’d spend 30 mins at a time w/her plucking random strings yelling “DO THE ROBOT! DO THE ROBOT!” at me.

I love coloring my aardvent calendar every year. Thank you @mooseallain.bsky.social!

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

The notion of AI generated kids books/media in general is so desperately fucking bleak. I mean, obviously everyone deserves authored art made with meaning, but kids especially deserve that. They need it! Giving AI slop to a kid is, imho, absolutely no different from saying "I simply do not care"

Using an AI generated image is the 2020s equivalent of pressing the "demo" button on a casio keyboard and pretending to play the keys.