look at these helpers.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Nice little structural ambiguity for the #linguistics feed

the live reporting we need in these times

in case you stan Pluto and you didn’t click through on my other post you really have to see this.

Look for the helpers

Nice examples of toddler overgeneralization in English past tense in this banger

I Wrote This Poem on Company Time by @isabellewrites.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social with thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social for introducing me to her work on her substack. #poetry

My laptop every time I ask it to print something on the printer that is two feet away

"What the people want is very simple--they want an America as good as its promise." Barbara Jordan, who died on this day in 1996

fascinating thread!

It's a busy time for us. Check out our newsletter to find out what's going on, including: 🌟 London workshop and salon with theme of LOVE 🌟 A return to Berlin where we will tour, write, and hear great readings 🌟 SO many online happenings Join our friendly community!

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Sunset at Sea https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/sunset-at-sea-1878

This weekend, our newsletter came out, and you can read it here. We're going to London and Berlin, and we've got loads of online events too. We'd love to meet you! We'll also be popping up all over Europe on 11 Feb for our 2nd birthday so watch this space 👀 open.substack.com/pub/european...

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

Just saw the phrase “AI journaling” and, well, allow me to suggest a walk outdoors instead.

shoutout to the time i accidentally preordered the same book THREE TIMES

The sunset https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/the-sunset-1866

I love how the man quoted at the end of this article tries to diminish any conclusions drawn about the top lent books by insisting there is so much else being consumed at the library

Today’s the day! Find your copy wherever books are sold!* * preferably an independent bookstore somewhere between Cleveland and western Nebraska www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

I’ve said this before and I’m gonna say it again: @mdbell79.bsky.social’s REFUSE TO BE DONE, specifically his second draft rewriting and weasel words, changed my life! (And I say this because I just got done cutting a disgusting amount of justs, verys, looks, and sees from this new story)

We are cooking up such fun plans for 2026! Do make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter so you know what's going on and where. europeanwriterssalon.substack.com

new poem out! one sentence poems has so kindly pubbed my piece "Sydney Harbour," and I am delighted to share it with all of you! www.onesentencepoems.com/december2025

Stormy Sea https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/stormy-sea-1868

oh gee whose attractive illustrated lyrics book has been named a vanity fair best book of the year? hmm? Could it be the man with the gentle curls and the highlights? The prince of posting? The demon of the discover tab? Yes I am that dude www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

excited for this book 👀👀

new poem out! one sentence poems has so kindly pubbed my piece "Sydney Harbour," and I am delighted to share it with all of you! www.onesentencepoems.com/december2025

The Best of the Net is now officially on BlueSky! Follow them at @bestofthenet.bsky.social!

I love Indiana. Go Hoosiers!

Poem by Sean Thomas Dougherty.

Honoured to have this essay about my grandparents and the German experience of displacement, exile and migration in the mighty @thediasporist.bsky.social. Sincere thanks to @juliabosson.bsky.social & @rmiecz.bsky.social for all the work put into it. thediasporist.de/east-prussia...

Seashore https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/seashore-1843

Qajar painting of woman doing a handstand, Iran, early 20th century, oil on canvas

Calm Sea https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/calm-sea-1879

The Island of Rhodes https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/the-island-of-rhodes-1861

It’s back 😏 Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

Sabina Nordqvist is writing romance with disability at the center and I'm here for it

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

To anyone who thinks people who pirated copies didn't have $ anyways so those aren't lost sales -- those are lost LIBRARY sales. Request books! Libraries are great.

I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me. Yes, stole it. I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME. 🖕

Figures In A Coastal Landscape At Sunset https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/figures-in-a-coastal-landscape-at-sunset

"The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free." -Charles Tart

@monikarusvai.bsky.social @aehillam.bsky.social hi both! Just sending a link to @dustpoetry.bsky.social which published Breakfast TV today - www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/breakfa... You can access the rest of the journal from there too, have a good w/end!

Hard to know how this is going to shake out! The remaining four are all killer no filler I also spoke to @danaschwartz.bsky.social, a.k.a. GuyInYourMFA, about making the quarterfinals and about Literary Twitter fame! Get in there and vote!

Sea. Sunset https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/sea-sunset-1896

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky