Seeing the latest AI writing debacle and growing increasingly feral about how I will not cede a millimeter in changing my own style just to avoid allegedly sounding like AI. AI sounds like ME because it was trained on MY work. AI makers can eat my shit and hair.

Oh hey! I’m teaching an online pop-up class again! Sharpening Your Words: Sunday, June 7 from 1pm - 4pm eastern. We’ll work on making your words work harder & more precisely, using a series of generative practices. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sharpening...

The problem is that they’re also a little too good at MY job…

I was fortunate enough to meet Liza years ago through mutual friends, and my life has been the richer ever since. Most of all, I'll miss her kindness, humor, and level-headed advice; and I will also carry them with me for the rest of my days

April standout #3: Johnny Otha has a Problem by @spyscribe.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/johnny...

Taking notes in my first campaign was excellent training for my first writers' assistant job. Three+ years in that job killed my ability to take notes during my leisure time Sad, but true

Okay, maybe the context wasn't that complex after all

Last night at D&D: Me: Hey, we've seen something like this before. Right before that satsuma plant turned evil. Our long-suffering GM, @johnrogers.bsky.social: It's almost like this magic system is coherent and planned out-- Me: I read the crate, John! Look at me reading the crate!

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This week's Sunday @morningtransport.bsky.social short story, by @spyscribe.bsky.social , is scathingly funny and a good time: open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...

Space travel! Union busting! Thanks, @lizshannonmiller.com!

My latest story is in tomorrow's Sunday Morning Transport as a bonus free story! Subscribe now and have it waiting in your inbox tomorrow morning! share.google/2HuNJFJ7cdOy...

Sorry not sorry 🤷🏻‍♀️😜

"The contest invites young French people aged 5 to 15 to explore the themes of space and dreams through poetic writing. The winning poems will travel to the International Space Station, and some may be read by Sophie Adenot from space!"

Spectacular reporting by @wired.com

Actually, @washingtonpost.com, I'm hoping you'll reconsider the value of the necessary and import work your journalists did before you fired 300 of them.

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

As a resident of Los Angeles: NOPE

Happy "national take a photo of your odometer if you track mileage for tax purposes day" to all who observe it

We're #4! We're #4! 🎉 😆 www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...

Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”

If anyone is wondering why there were no on-camera handshakes at the end of Friday's Jeopardy game, look at this picture and realize that Youssef is a *full head taller* than I am. The crew would not let us move until I was back on terra firma. 😆 Plenty of hugs and handshakes as we left the stage

Hey, who's that on Jeopardy! tomorrow?

WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*. Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more. Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

Yes, I put things I've already done on my to do list for the satisfaction of crossing them off Furthermore, I don't even give such items serious task names like "get groceries." No, I just checked off "buy cheap flour and fruit snacks" and have zero regrets about my life choices

If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.

Okay, I need a French speaker to confirm this for me: Is the French word for "road-runner" actually "Bip Bip" or is Google translate having me on?

Go get 'em @omgkatiep.bsky.social! gofund.me/fdade21fe

They also have an online shop: shop.bookswithpictures.com I just ordered some holiday presents.

@spyscribe.bsky.social’s “Observations of a Small Object in Decaying Orbit” in @apexmag.bsky.social spotlights the impact of toxic dogmatism on the families of political elites. Humane and unadorned - a space-faring Hemingway, a child-sized Orwell. #sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction

Everyone should get to experience an arena full of people chanting your name... even if they're not talking about you 🤷🏻‍♀️

There's not a time in my life that I've regretted my humanities degrees. I use them every day, not just professionally (though they've helped me there, too), but to envision and work toward a better future.

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Our #ttrpg group has used Microscope to build our last two campaign game worlds. Great for that or any night you want a fun storytelling one off.

Okay, I want to say it again for anyone who needs to hear it right now: Yes, calling is better for getting in touch with your reps. But right now? DO IT HOWEVER YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE. I'm really concerned that the emphasis on calling right now is stopping people from getting in touch.

I uhhhh… i love Fiona Apple. Like a lot.

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

It's very surreal to be a victim of the Eaton Fire, and we are still too much in survival mode to fully process it, but it's certainly not my favorite experience. We'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer, including sharing this link. Thank you 🙏 gofund.me/cab84a3e

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

I had somebody QP this and ask "what does this accomplish" and Jesus, people, there are two parts to politics. Doing shit, and *being seen to be doing shit*. Not understanding that second bit is why Biden's sitting at home wondering why nobody noticed he dumped all that money into Red States.

I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Got confimed for 2 major surgeries this week. I will need funds & soon, but I was fired when I was diagnosed with cancer & my only income now is writing. I hate to ask because I know we're all struggling, but I'd appreciate any donation. Thank you & please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

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Just saw an ad for Liquid I.V., and two things hit me: 1: Aren’t all IVs liquid? 2: Liquid IV is a powder That’s going to bug me forever now

Ok. I keep saying this is the time to find your community abd build. And I keep getting DMs and texts of people who want to find community but say they don't know how. So here's a couple tips that I personally have found to be useful.

I send out a substack with 16 new writing prompts (8 fiction prompts and 8 journaling prompts) inspired by pop culture (movies, music) every Tues & Friday. Join me for writing inspiration: yourdailywritingprompt.substack.com It’s $5/month for access to everything or free for access to most things.

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