Eternally trying to remind myself of this.

It is both the first birthday of Prince of Fortune AND the paperback release day so obviously, I had to make a cake #booksky

I just don't know how you see a story like this and think "yes, this is exactly the kind of technology I want in the classroom."

Well, good for DC search.app/PK45E

Prince of Fortune hits the UK on November 7, and I'm very excited!!!!! #YAfantasy

You’re welcome!

It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.

Aaaaand we have ten instances of the word Champagne. All have to go, since ... this world has no France and therefore no Champagne region. I love revising. It isn't annoying at all.

Really, really want to use the phrase "a stranger in a strange land" in this thing I'm writing but am forcing myself not to since that's decidedly biblical and this is second-world fantasy. Am I gritting my teeth? Who can say #writing

Can I please just be clear that I talked about hieroglyphs on rolling pins in THIS MONTH's newsletter: it isn't something I talk about ... every month. That would be a bit weird, I think. Also here are some cookies made with said rolling pin.

I should stop posting about politics and AI on here and post about my book, And tell people to sign up for my newsletter, huh

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

And that REALLY should be the end of this. They’ll literally never work out the bugs.

"I exist" whoa slow down why are you bringing politics into this

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

What the hell is even happening right now. Ten years ago you could not have said this in public. The Overton window hasn’t shifted, it’s broken

To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

applying for jobs again

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Looks amazing!

Immediately adding this into my lexicon.

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

My early thoughts on the Anthropic settlement: a) good, fucking pay us b) no, that’s not enough c) shouldn’t have stolen our shit to train your stupid mediocre plagiarism artbarf robot in the first place, you fuckers d) this isn’t something to celebrate; it is a Pyrrhic victory at best

I keep on having to ignore job ads claiming to be for editors but are actually for this sort of thing. Pass.

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

Government and police buildings are being set on fire after Indonesian police forces killed a protester by running him over with an armored vehicle.

Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.

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JFC, this keeps happening. So many schools and parents freak out about kids on social media, but then shuttle them toward a sociopathic yes-man robot who helps them design their own suicides.

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While we were out at WorldCon, our latest episode dropped! Check out Episode 19: Unfortunately... You Need a Suitcase Full of Skills with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social!

people out there thinking asimov's three laws of robotics are actually real

Here's a preview of Friday's episode, with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social. We chat about coming to writing from journalism, gamifying rejections, and so much more! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

My latest podcast interview is out! Many thanks to Daniel Midgley and the #BecauseLanguage podcast for welcoming me to the show to talk about conscious language and the very real challenges in using it. 📚 #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #Edibuddies #ConsciousLanguage #ConsciousStyleGuide

This has become the most viral thing I’ve ever put on the internet and I think that rules

“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.” - @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

The world is very bad, but I found a squirrel that looks like Napoleon

Just saw someone tell someone else online that they’re wrong about some law and the other person cracked it. They were from different countries. Just once again find myself begging people to remember these are global platforms. Why are people like this

I am a novice at writing comics, but it has been so striking to hear *successful* creators possess the expectation that they will forever be one health crisis away from total financial ruin. Often it’s expressed as dark humor. But that will forever define the industry for me.

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Give this person a marketing award

Australia has cancelled the visa of US rapper Kanye West over his song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. "You're going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism -- we don't need that in Australia," Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said. #AFP 📸 Jean-Baptiste Lacroix

🌈 QUEERPIT RETURNS! 🌈 Happy #PrideMonth friends! The #QueerPit Board is thrilled to share that QueerPit returns on August 15th to *both* Twitter and BlueSky. This is a pitch event for authors who identify in the LGBTQIA+ community. Follow us, and more details to come! queerpit.wordpress.com

If you see this, quote it with your favourite Star Wars scene