Happy 2026, ya dweebs. May it be a better one than the rest of the decade.

Wild that just ten years ago it seemed like this all might be going somewhere.

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

The Luddites created & practiced what was called "collective bargaining through riot" which is probably one of the coolest phrases ever coined about any movement ever

No one looks nonbinary. Androgynous, maybe, but those are not synonyms. Nonbinary folks slant masc, femme, androgynous, or are fluid. You do not know looking at someone. Asking for preferred pronouns is a kindness this nonbinary femme appreciates. Thank you!

Crap. Just remembered a story concept I came up with in High School (a literal century ago), and it's kind of good.

#WIPSnips from MARK OF THE JESTER! Happy New Year and be safe all! @rosie-j-potter.bsky.social thank you for hosting wipsnips and creating a lovely little community 😃 Starch the rat will play a big role in Potley's arc. #writingcommunity #amwriting #darkfantasy #fantasy #horror

Every time I try to outline a new story it winds up three times larger and ten times weirder than I'd intended.

The next Gauntlet Pitch Day is coming up January 11th! For this one, I’m looking for new Embers (that’s what the playbooks in The Lands Remaining are called). www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day-em...

The problem with arepas is that I did not eat enough of them tonight.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

If you liked our playthrough of #iHunt: Dollars & Draculas, or if you just like cool horror shit made by cool creators, give this thing a vote, we did! Don't let AI slop overwhelm this genuinely good project that deserves plenty of attention.

CASTING CALL: Numinous Productions is seeking trans and queer Muslim Actual Play artists to record a few VoiceOver lines for one of our upcoming Actual Play projects. Interested? Please send us an EMAIL at [email protected] for more information.

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page. I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft. Now, to be clear, fuck this. But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.

If anyone artist wants to volunteer to draw, like, an entire graphic novel with me, let me know.

If this Christmas has taught me anything, it's that I may be approaching a curmudgeonliness event horizon.

I should start writing in composition notebooks again. Computers suck.

I found the original, hand-written draft of Lucy Kills in Her Sleep (it had a different name then)--two composition notebooks, 300 handwritten pages on the dot. I now know I finished it before 11/2008. No clue when I started.

Years of lead paint

Last two days for the ttrpg advent calendar! Grab over $100 worth of ttrpgs for $35 and support indie ttrpg creators!! itch.io/b/3400/a-ttr...

Oh my fucking god

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.

We're literally ONE member away from 2500 paid subscribers in 2025!! Will you be the one to help push us over the edge?

Oh dang, @foundryvtt.bsky.social is hiring a fully remote game designer and writer! Can’t imagine how competitive thst search will be 👀

There's no such thing as AI art. There is no reason to pretend otherwise.

This strikes me as just a way to let LLM in the door over at SFWA. You do not a survey to craft a no generative AI policy.

highly recommend @trueref.bsky.social and @adorkastock.com for reference photos!! their refs are super high quality and get very specific, AND by using them you’re supporting real people and learning & referencing *actual anatomy*!!

Found a story I wrote last year and completely forgot. It's fine. Found another thing that looks like it was going to be a story, but turned into me being depressed for three pages. It's not great.

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

New York, this moment belongs to you. Please join us for the Inauguration of a New Era on January 1, 2026.

Happy Seasonal Affected Day to those who celebrate.

A lot of companies seem to be under the impression that we only care if gAI was used in the final product and using it for concept art/placeholder art is ok. gAl is poison that should be nowhere near any creative process. Not a single asset. Not a single placeholder sign. Give no inch.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Not in a box. Not with a fox. I do not want it, Sam Am I. I do not want your gen AI.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Same! Opting *all the way* out.

The moral is we should bully anyone pushing AI garbage relentlessly because they will fold immediately

Never stop complaining.