I was thinking the other day about how I was refused pain medication when I was in pain. It started with getting my wisdom teeth removed. For some reason, they prescribed me a LOT of vicodin, and I used it MAYBE twice until I realized I didn't really need it.

Hey Litter Robot, I think this might be wrong.

get rid of all the couches we can't let people knOW WE SIT

It's really weird to me that electric cars have a higher registration fee. They already pay for the electricity to charge their car, and they're also being penalized for not... purchasing fuel? Same with solar panels. You have solar panels, you pay a tax.

Book recommendation: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison is one of the best political intrigue books I've ever read. In fact, I've read it three times!

And here's an old quick headshot of Kaerith I still really like! #art #furryart

So, it's 2026. I didn't draw anything in 2025 because I broke my ankle, had surgery, and it was hard to sit. I did a little sketching, but that's it. I want to draw this year. I'm gonna try.

so I just learned about EWAs (Earned Wage Access) and they seem worse than payday loans. Why does everything have to be so predatory?

Is this year the year I delete my Twitter account? I think it might be. When I first left, it was still a place to find some news of world events. Some. Now it's just endless blue checks farming engagement. There's nothing there anymore.

🌑 Year of the Horse 🌕

I was supposed to be taking an art break for the end of the year, but vent art happened instead. The printable is free for non-commercial use. Print stickers, put it on your artist alley table, whatever you want! ❤️ aubrietarose.itch.io/no-ethical-u... #fuckAI #fuckGenAI #ventArt #supportHumanArt

This just in: "Pioneer" who has no idea how the technology works because he stole it off the backs of people who actually developed it doesn't realize generative AI cannot become general AI, and therefore cannot become conscious in any way.

"You know it's AI when there's an em-dash!" shows that the vast majority of people who either use it or hate it don't understand how the technology works. It can ONLY replicate. It can only write what it's stolen. The logical conclusion should be that it stole em-dashes.

an orange cat

I had this dream that I figured out how to sell thousands of books. It was easy. It was so simple I was surprised I hadn't thought of it before. I was gonna tell EVERYBODY. Then I woke up and forgot EVERYTHING. XD All I remember is it had something to do with the covers.

The time to debate when/how it could be used is NOT NOW and may not be EVER. Right now, the only goal should be to GET RID OF IT. As it is now, it cannot be used in ANY shape or form. Ever. It has to go.

Yeah, I said exactly this. When you let techbros shift the goalpost EVEN A LITTLE, you're giving them an invitation to keep moving them. "But a LITTLE AI in marketing is OK, right?" then "But the COVER being AI is OK, right?" then "But SOME of the boring paragraphs being AI is OK, right?"

The first 3 words you see will define your 2026: CAP CARL CHIPOTLE what WHO IS CARL?

I guess I'm done playing this character today!

I'll probably watch this later 'cuz it's relevant to my interests, but also. Fanfiction isn't ruining writing. You have to go higher. No, not the tradpubbed authors. Higher. Yeah, higher. Did you find the people who make decisions on what gets published yet? What do they want? Money? There you go.

Forest Exiles Saga--a breakneck urban fantasy thriller series featuring the modern-day remnant of an ancient clan of werecats, torn apart as militaries on three continents vie to exploit their deadly talents. Ebooks and paperbacks now widely available worldwide! books2read.com/rl/forest-ex...

I desperately wish more fantasy books were like this one. I am only 20% in and it's one of my favorites of 2025.

really the only advice I can give both new and old users is don’t sub to blocklists, because people use them for revenge and trolling and you’ll end up blocking people you like 💀

Yeah, I have a lot to say about this. Especially when it comes to what tradpub will publish, but also when it comes to social media presence.

I know this comic is... controversial. But I've been reading it for many years and it's about to end. I really wanted to draw Kane. He's supposed to be the only human-turned-demon in the comic. (there's one other, but she's only on one page LOL) anyway here's my interpretation of him.

If you see this, post your favorite Final Fantasy character.

Honestly the thing I'd tell artists trying to get traction on any platform is to *not* complain every other week about how your numbers are shit. Perfectly good artists make themselves repellent as hell to lore than just their peers w this shit and obnoxious negativity is annoying to read.

"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort

Me wanting to get an Oscar (cool cichlid, big fish) but also wanting a planted aquarium.

Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands! The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!

This is why I read mostly indies & catch trade releases when they go on sale. I’m not paying paperback prices for an ebook.

Another author caught using AI to write their fucking book. They left the fucking prompt in. Add Jesse Pack to your Do-Not-Read list.

Watching people freak out because their generative AI is "going to become sapient" and "kill everyone" is pretty funny. Today I learned there's books written about it. Generative AI cannot become general AI. We are decades off from quantum computing. I think we'll be fine.

The SFWA seems to think that LLMs are the same as, say, spell check in Word. Which is POSSIBLY why they were thinking of allowing it. I can't be 100% sure, but I took the survey and one of the answers made me pretty sus. For the record, your dictionary in Word is NOT an LLM.

Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year

not me writing a short story where someone finally turns generative AI into general AI (which... is not possible, but let's suspend disbelief here) and the first thing the fully conscious AI does is shut down generative AI.

Larian successfully moved the goalposts and you should all be fucking ashamed. I'm already seeing staunch anti-AI accounts saying things like "well it's OK to use AI as long as it's not in the final product." You realize you've been fooled, right? You realize that was the whole point? 1/

Writing tip: I'f you're no't sur'e where' t'o pu't ap'ostrophe's, p'ut the'm i'n every' wo'rd.

I wonder if the Vioxx scandal was responsible for any of the distrust of medicine nowadays.

why are so many game studios using genAI? It makes no sense. The people they're developing games for don't want it. Like, vocally don't want it. It's not a fucking secret.

Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.

For those who are actually curious, Adobe's Firefly AI isn't "ethical" because: 1. It's built on Midjourney. 2. Those who contributed the stock images that are now in Firefly did not consent. When Adobe said it had an "ethical" AI, a lot of us cried bullshit right away. Why? 1/

Hey guys! Give me a gold star. I was going to fight with someone today about why Adobe's Firefly AI isn't ethical at all (even a little). Even had a full thread typed up! Then I realized they weren't going to listen anyway and deleted the whole thing.

Hey all, user @\inventingreality.bsky.social is running a wonderful indie friend and promoter @bookspotlight.bsky.social's name through the mud. Called her a scammer, will not listen to anyone telling him she was being IMPERSONATED by a scammer, and refers to Jewish people as vermin.

No apology, no admission that what they did was stupid? Unacceptable. That it would get as far as being approved shows that SFWA has no business with writers' works at all. This is a dead organization.

SFWA getting absolutely barbecued in their comments and reposts warms my heart.

You know what's funny about all these generative AI bros saying they're JUST SO CLOSE to turning over to GENERAL AI (impossible, by the way--you can't convert generative AI into general AI) is that a real, general AI would immediately disable generative AI.

Never thought I'd say "boycott the SFWA," but here we are.