Just filled out (at length!) this excellent survey about how SFWA should handle LLM/GenAI use in award eligibility. It’s open to readers as well as writers so if you have serious & considered opinions plz fill it out, especially if you have edge cases to share that others may not have thought of.

Thanks to every app having a wrapped, I also wanted to make a My 2025 Writing Wrapped, so please check this out. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Art

Dear World, Wish you a year that treats you gently With kindness and grace With acceptance and warmth That we do all we can to nurture one another That we see our lights reflected in each other #HappyNewYear #Happy2026 #writingcommunity

This music discussion is the best round-table. Thought-provoking & inspiring: creativity blocks, algorithms & more. Thanks Madhubanti Bagchi, Jakes Bejoy, Shruti Haasan, Irshad Kamil & Faheem Abdullah. Don't they say, don't get to know personalities you admire? Not this time! #MusicSky #DesiWatch

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." Sarah Kendzior

Have a turtle queue! #Herps

“Stay close to people who have other things to talk about besides other people, who love the moon, music and chocolate. People that like taking slow walks and staying up late talking about real things that matter while the rest of the world is sleeping.” Good morning, loves.

Rockwell is a great example of how useful it is to simply be sensible and decent.

It hits hard, this 'conspiracy theory' scene from My Dinner with Andre, 1981, about the deliberate manipulation of the masses via media & corporates. But hasn't this phenomena always been a part of the human psyche? Sure, media is relatively new & so are corporates. But... 1/4 #moviesky #DesiWatch

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“AI prompt giving artists” are complaining about others stealing their prompts, and then adding that the one stealing is getting more eyeballs, is kinda beautiful Can you imagine hours and hours of time going into refining the prompts, the research to find the right word for the prompt, stolen?!

Free. Gay book. Free. For you. Gift, from me. Season's greetings! Both the ebook and audiobook are free, so take your pick 😘 shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/jac...

Helpful reference for doing it. It doesn't have to be lengthy, just enough for someone to get the jist in whatever situation they need alt text for. (Having your posts be readily searchable is SO HELPFUL.)

Haha! Dog: "Silly Santa hat getting in my way. Off you get. "But... you can't get away from me!"

It's never easy to walk the road not travelled. Fear is such a real thing at every juncture. And yet the effervescence of Everybody's Talking About Jamie makes these lines of Spotlight real: "And somewhere's a party, that can't start without you." #Moviesky #MusicSky

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All right I need one more commission to help me out this week! Please be nice and hit the reshare <3 p.s. I have a few more commissions on @ko-fi.com, if you'd like to check: ko-fi.com/lucidillusio... #WriterSky #KofiChallenge #AmWriting #BSNM #CommissionsOpen #KofiExclusiveChallenge #Gifts

The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us ... A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead. Barack Obama, 21st century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

I must promote myself especially during @itch.io's winter sale. I have an ebook, a collection of 23 stories, and available at 50% discount lucidillusions.itch.io/forgotten-al... #BookSky #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #WriterSky #AmWriting #WritersLift #ShamelessSelfPromo

Fantasy, Humour, Mystery, Romance, Sci-fi... 2025 was such a treasure trove in books! Here are my favourite reads of 2025. What are yours? #Booksky 1/11 Thread

The plan collapsed. We lost our home with no funds, no relocation, and no clear way forward. Please share, donate, and include us in your thoughts or prayers? gofund.me/0776eca72

The loveliness of being alone... the expanse... the endless water and sky... those colours, the time that speaks of nostalgia...

Here is my Sketchbook n°146, much of which was done while visiting Baton Rouge and Little Rock, USA this summer Sketchbook nº146 (31 May - 21 July 2025: wander far in safety) #sketchbook

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The poignance and beauty in these powerful words.

A fascinating dive into the vividness of words and the feelings they evoke. #Edusky

Words and imagination that spin an experience, a memory. Such an enduring delight.

Warm, sweet, uplifting, funny... all these describe Tourist Family, the Tamil film. Sure, it's idealistic but with its LoL moments intertwined with the poignant, this film makes you want to believe in, even as you yearn for a gentle world like this. #moviesky #DesiWatch #IndianCinema #subtitles

Love word inventions that describe elusive, inexpressible feelings so beautifully.

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Loved so many of the replies to this question in the comments. ✨

Doesn't this tug at your heart? The colours, the textures, the elements, the underlying meaning? #artsky

I've not seen it expressed more beautifully. + The song that precedes this comment... I didn't understand the lyrics... but do you really need to understand music to feel it? #musicsky

No! Et tu, Mozilla? And thus begins the hunt for alternative options that prize privacy... I'm seeing Vivaldi and LibreWolf in the comments.

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ahhh 😭 so many folks came out to support my penultimate launch event in LA and I am feeling so loved right now. Y’all even got me a cake 😭😭😭 Thank you all for a packed house at North Figueroa & my conversation partners Dahlia, Carolyn Huynh & Trinity Nguyen ❤️💖🖤

Delightful! This newly-discovered orange toadlet is only as big as a pencil tip! #Edusky

Neat! #Edusky

Mammootty Kampany (Mammootty's own production house) has released Kaathal, directed by Jeo Baby, on Youtube for free and with subtitles. #DesiWatch www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5r...

As we count down to Christmas, here's a #GiveAway I will write a custom micro fiction, for the winner (with them as the main character in it) How to go about it? Just make sure you follow me and repost this post Winner will be drawn on the 26/12/2025 #WriterSky #BookSky #ReaderSky #AmWriting

A beautiful Tamil film about the simplest of things that matter the most: 'The sweetness of water after eating gooseberries', a line from the film describes Meiyazhagan best. Another a fun Malayalam fantasy romp Padakkalam. Actor Sharaf U Dheen had a blast! #DesiWatch #MovieSky #IndianCinema

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🤣 this delivery!

This is a fun thread. Some of the replies are hilarious! I aspire to be the Patron Saint of Living Under a Rock 😆 You?

This. 🙇#GNUTerryPratchett ✨

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Why did this fill my heart up? The power of shared art & the soaring music created by so many talents? The power of community, people coming together? Can we show more of this joy to each other, share it, revel in it? Gently? Kindly? Beyond boundaries? #musicsky #ubuntu #Imagine #JohnLenon

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