i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

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I crack myself up. I just gave a 1-hr talk at the local library about a novel published 6 years ago, went into details on the research & my writing life. And forgot to explain the MAIN PREMISE of the novel (ghosts in the garden)! I’ve talked about it so much that my brain just glitched! Ha!

For those of us still pretending to be a T-rex when the mood hits, SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 explores stories about these creatures from the beginning of time and provides 2 activities to get you started writing your own! Pre-order now for the March 24 release date! linktr.ee/specficforne...

Good lord but did I get out of academia in time. I quit my full-time senior lecturer position 3 years ago in May. My burnout would’ve been EXPONENTIALLY WORSE if I’d stayed through this garbage. Oh, and we used Canvas. What an absolute shitshow. Universities pushing AI use should be *ASHAMED*!

Author copies arrived just in time to start the 30-day countdown to the publication date! Want to relive your school days on another planet or an orbiting ship? SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 gives you a whole rundown on Space Academies & provides 2 activities to get you started! linktr.ee/specficforne...

No cheating; your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

Unusually, a rhetorical question in a newspaper article to which the answer is undoubtedly yes.

@vallescurarule.bsky.social speaks the truth about Lit Fic being just another genre (like SFF/H!) in our chat with @danielwillcocks.bsky.social of The Writer's Chair podcast before SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES VOL 3 comes out from @lunapress.bsky.social on 24 March! #writing www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wcw...

New drinking game just dropped: every time the economist attempts to manufacture consent for the billionaire class, we guillotine another billionaire (and then have a drink).

In the words of a Southern lady: Oh, bless your heart. And in mine: Quit fellating the billionaires. They don't care about you and should pay their fair share of taxes. End of.

THE LAMPSHADE!

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

I just read this today on my lunch break and whooooo is it fab! Get this creepy goodness into your eyeballs stat!

In which I excitedly interrupt @vallescurarule.bsky.social (yet again) when discussing SFF/H! Check out this short clip from our interview with @danielwillcocks.bsky.social The Writer's Chair podcast. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 out from @lunapress.bsky.social 24 March! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wcw...

If you could kick yourself in the ass hard enough to fly to the moon would you do it?

Short answer: No. Long answer: Fuck no. Expanded answer: Fuck AI.

This is absolutely heroic tbh, incredible work, succinct & precise

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Back when we had to dial up the internet & it yelled at us, finding a writing group was a bit more difficult. @jaceybedford.bsky.social shares her experience of finding a group for critique, support, and celebration! And you can, too; they're out there! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/r...

Quickfire round! Learn more than you needed to know about @vallescurarule.bsky.social & me as @danielwillcocks.bsky.social asks fun, random questions on The Writer's Chair video/podcast SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 comes out from @lunapress.bsky.social! Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wcw...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Check out my report from last year for more on these book club scams and how they work. 5/ www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

Fantastic to see my Mini Switzerland idea covered by the BBC. It captures so many people’s imaginations because it’s both obvious, simple and yet - from where we are today - unspeakably radical. Please share! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great proposal this. Continues to be incredibly funny and incredibly stupid that for years we've *banned* bus and rail operators "colluding" to make their timetables integrate with each other.

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Lotta “art shouldn’t be political” takes going around (including from faculty at my art program) and I just have to say: wow fuck that

The result of this will be a total immiseration of everyone except the ruling class. Maximum extraction at all times will mean no wealth can ever accrue to the lower quartiles of society. It will be siphoned away in a dozen different places. Societal hell created by the demand for optimization.

Your favorite book? Evil question! Tune in for more of @vallescurarule.bsky.social & my interview with @danielwillcocks.bsky.social at The Writer's Chair podcast where we talk all things SFF/F before SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 comes out from @lunapress.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wcw...

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Example 8 gajillion that GenAI is absolute horseshit.

I’ve not shared any of the books I’ve been reading because all my reading time has been taken up with the Clarke Award pile before we narrow down the shortlist, BUT OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS HAVE I READ SOME BANGERS!

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

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no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:

assholes like Suleyman and the rest of the techbros salivating over how AI is going to automate all white collar jobs from lawyers to educators and make them personally trillionaires have no conception of what the jobs they claim will be automated actually involve.

A couple of years ago, I reshared (and stated) posts about defunding the (US) police. A friend I really respect who lives in NYC wasn’t pleased with that stance. I now wonder where the people who were against defunding are, bc cops aren’t going to help people fight ICE/CBP. They’re the same.

What is “speculative fiction”? Aliens, monsters, alternate worlds—or just one strange change to reality. New Writer’s Chair episode out now with @tiffaniangus.bsky.social & @vallescurarule.bsky.social exploring the genre behind sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Celebrating Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 3 📚

What is “speculative fiction”? Aliens, monsters, alternate worlds—or just one strange change to reality. New Writer’s Chair episode out now with @tiffaniangus.bsky.social & @vallescurarule.bsky.social exploring the genre behind sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Celebrating Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 3 📚

Such a blast chatting with you both! 😀

@vallescurarule.bsky.social & I got to hang out with @danielwillcocks.bsky.social The Writer's Chair pod/video cast (and Devils Rock Books) to talk about all things SFF/H and SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES Vol 3 (@lunapress.bsky.social) ! Find the full video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wcw...