Once again I'm ignored during award season on the technicality that I "didn't release anything this year, Abra."

This ends tonight.

*Surrounded by a SWAT team, guns pointed at me, helicopter circling overhead* I said "as a bit"

End of year reminder that if someone is speaking to you in an accent, or with less than perfect grammar and pronunciation, and you understand but choose to spend your energy hassling them about it instead of responding, you suck horse nettles.

Okay, so...do the people behind the twee 'relatable' writing meme accounts actually write anything beyond rephrasing the same 10 writer jokes every day?

This ends tonight.

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I made Bluesky's head of trust and safety so mad he finally commented (IN MY REPLIES) on the "gooning to a pornbot" incident after a year+ of dead silence.

This but for "Bury Your Gays," too. Especially if most of the cast is queer. It does not just mean "a gay person dies," people!

I made Bluesky's head of trust and safety so mad he finally commented (IN MY REPLIES) on the "gooning to a pornbot" incident after a year+ of dead silence.

I've got one more little thing to say from my soapbox: I've had it up to *here* with people belittling the contributions and sacrifices of ordinary people, comparing them to privileged celebrities with millions of dollars and armies of personal assistants at their disposal. It's insanely elitist.

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

I was working at a fancy hotel and Sinbad was a guest there. He was incredibly nice to everyone, tipped well, and would just call us up to tell us we were doing a good job.

also funny how liberals are always like ‘we do not have to offer the left anything in return for their votes. it is our way or the high way!’ and then they claim the left are immovable and caught up on ‘purity politics’ etc etc. it’s projection.

PSA 🖤🧡 please report for sexual harassment (all his replies are sexual harassment)

watching liberals rehab marjorie taylor greene less than two weeks after her assault on trans children is why i hate liberals and wish absolutely nothing but the worst for them. they're worse than maga.

Right. 1500 for rent and another 500 9n groceries because I'm feeding/supplying three people full time now. And it's damn near january, so. 12 days to get it together. Help a trans artist get back on her feet after the last year of medical crap and recovery? Donate: paypal.me/tormentedart...

Maybe AI should have told you it would be a bad idea to come into a neurodivergent person's thread about NOT using AI to talk about how, "as a neurodivergent" person, AI is actually good. "Author."

And a special message to people who spent the last year chasing likes and follows by cheerleading for talkshow hosts and podcasters for "standing up" to Trump: This is what *all* of them really think about you, and me. They think you're a joke. Whatever really matters to you, they don't care.

I got the cover for THE CONSORT AND I from The Author Buddy after searching EVERYWHERE for premade covers made without AI. A year ago, they just had a small "we don't use AI" note in their FAQ, but today I opened this beautiful newsletter from them.😍 @theauthorbuddy.bsky.social

"I need AI to help me with the parts of writing I'm bad at." You are weak and your stories should remain untold.

And it's not hard to build community. You just have to see people as people, not potential tools.

If one more neurodivergent person says they “NEED” AI I’m going to scream. It’s not even helping them like people swear it is and I truly believe that if your “accessibility aid” is destroying the planet, making people sick, AND is giant plagiarism machine you shouldn’t have that “aid”

"I need AI to help me with the parts of writing I'm bad at." You are weak and your stories should remain untold.

Maybe AI should have told you it would be a bad idea to come into a neurodivergent person's thread about NOT using AI to talk about how, "as a neurodivergent" person, AI is actually good. "Author."

Finally! They've invented Santa's Teletalker/Pleasure Mouth!

You know what would actually help struggling artists? Universal healthcare and universal basic income

They accidentally made a knockoff Lego of Crow T Robot's idealized dad.

"AI is here to stay, we just need to accept it" sure is starting to sound a lot like "COVID is here to stay, we just need to accept it." Both are "here to stay" because you pathetic dipshits decided to accept them.

I think the thing that pisses me off most about that article by the lady with the insufferable face on why indie publishers/authors MUST use AI for the 'non-creative' tasks is that I'm an author currently in a state of deep depression and overwhelm, and you know what I use instead of AI? COMMUNITY.

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Others have pointed out the countless flaws in this asinine argument, so I'll just add that wow, some authors sure ain't beating the "we think we're gods and anyone who isn't a writer is basically a farm animal whose labor doesn't require skill" allegations.

This letter pretends it is reasonable and obvious but ultimately is an attempt to excuse a dozen or more ways of letting anti-human, pro-techlord, environment-destroying septic AI into our industry, organizations and processes. But there just isn’t an ethical use of generative AI, full stop.

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*notices why theres been a sudden influx* *sees ppl talking about the new thing that Twitter did* … lol This is why you dont stay at a place that turns into a nazi bar

feeling hangry (heroic/angry)

Whenever I have a little wave of unexpected sales, part of my brain is always like "WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT IS THIS? IS THIS A PSYOP? WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO PULL?" And I really think it's great how totally under control my mental illness is.

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*Watching trans women move in together and set up their house* Hmm, yes...nesting dolls.

*Watching trans women move in together and set up their house* Hmm, yes...nesting dolls.

A fun thing about being part of a culturally-connected spiritual tradition is that you'll spend years studying it and treating your practice with care and reverence, wondering the whole time if you are "enough"...and then some white pagans will zoom up and be like "Neato! This is mine now!"

There's still time!

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization

I'm still upset that "manosphere" doesn't refer to men who have been crushed and formed into a perfect orb.

platforms be like: sex work is bad, but only if a real human woman is being paid. otherwise we are absolutely cool with it and advertising it.

Nothing worse than shit-talking the Catholic church and having someone agree with you because they're a Protestant.

This might be the most ambitiously stupid game I've ever played and oh my God I love it so much.

Game boss: "I AM GUN GUY, THE GUY WHO SHOOTS THINGS WITH A GUN!" *Defeats Gun Guy* Gun Guy: "I...only...killed...because I was...sad." *dies* Dude gamers: "This is the deepest story ever. No other art could tell a story like this. I am changed by this experience."